Intel NUC - upgrade options

xrapidx said:
About to order the upgrades, how do I get windows up and running on the new harddrive? (i.e. serial number, etc) - I think the last version of Windows I installed myself was XP :D (sort of goes with the last time I built a PC)
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You might need to use the windows 10 creation tool to make a bootable windows 10 flashdrive.

www.techspot.com

Media Creation Tool

The media creation tool can be used to upgrade your current PC to Windows 10 or to create a USB or DVD and install Windows 10 on a different PC.
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Anyone know what would an ideal NUC spec would be for use as a 16 channel DVR? I'm not really that interested in object detection.

I have about 12 active cams - most are currently recording at H265 - but can go down to H264 if its less resource intensive, and write directly to the NAS

I just bought a TP-Link Vigi cam - and it doesn't seem to have a great onvif implementation, so not working with my current NVR
 
garyc said:
Got the 12th gen i5 NUC Pro, the one immediately after yours. Fitted 32GB of this RAM https://www.wootware.co.za/g-skill-...00mhz-cl22-1-20v-so-dimm-notebook-memory.html which looks very similar to what you are considering. The drive was this one: https://www.wootware.co.za/mushkin-...e-4-0-x4-nvme-m-2-2280-solid-state-drive.html, which was about all that was available in PCIe 4 in that capacity at the time.

Tried it under Clear Linux, which is Intel's own distro and optimized for this type of hardware. It really flew under this OS and Phoronix found it to be the fastest OS of those they tested in general. It is orientated to dev and AI work, and probably not as suited to general desktop use as something like Ubuntu.
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Ordered this exact kit - this thing flies now - even on the gaming side. War Thunder is now running at 1080p at 50-60fps on High detail.
 
The barebones version which usually cost less, goes for $541.90 on Amazon. How the seller sold these for R3599 I have no idea.

Anyways I now have an Amazon version and one from the seller.
My first one have 2x Samsung 32GB DDR4 2666MHz RAM Memory Module for Laptop Computers (260 Pin SODIMM, 1.2V) M471A4G43MB1
and 1x SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 500GB NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive, MZ-V7S500B/AM

Absolutely flies too. Don't play games on it though.
 
Yeh, don't play games either - was just curious to see how it performs - doesn't hanlde Blue Iris though - even with motion detecion off.
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh, don't play games either - was just curious to see how it performs - doesn't hanlde Blue Iris though - even with motion detecion off.
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How many cameras? I run blue iris on it, but I only have 2 cameras.

Also, did you configure blue iris to use the additional hardware acceleration?
(Hardware accelerated decode: Intel+VPP)
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh, don't play games either - was just curious to see how it performs - doesn't hanlde Blue Iris though - even with motion detecion off.
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Even with direct to disk recording? Wonder if the CPU has Quicksync... This helps a lot with BI
 
Mzezman said:
Even with direct to disk recording? Wonder if the CPU has Quicksync... This helps a lot with BI
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Tinuva said:
How many cameras? I run blue iris on it, but I only have 2 cameras.

Also, did you configure blue iris to use the additional hardware acceleration?
(Hardware accelerated decode: Intel+VPP)
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Googled and tried a few things, hardware acceleration helped - but - BI kept crashing with it on.

I have quite a few camera's though - 12x 5MP H.265 - but - it seems like six was max and then the CPU maxed out.

Not a major issue though, I returned the TP-Link Vigi - it was really crappy, non-standard ports, ONVIF didn't work - even in home-assistant. Kept disconnecting.
 
That NUC would go crazy as a Plex server, you'd be able to do about 11 4K transcodes and that will just top out gigabit but it comes with a 2.5GbE port, if you use that I don't even know how many you'd get before you hit the actual hardware limit.
 
Soul Assassin said:
That NUC would go crazy as a Plex server, you'd be able to do about 11 4K transcodes and that will just top out gigabit but it comes with a 2.5GbE port, if you use that I don't even know how many you'd get before you hit the actual hardware limit.
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I'm actually going to look for an older gen for just that - kodi isn't quite cutting it anymore for me.
 
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