wtf are "nucs"

[Snow Joe]

Can you do any gaming at all on a nuc. I am not talking about like bf4 on ultra. Im just thinking casual n stuff, cause if it could, mabey its good for lan parties if you are lazy and do not want to move huge towers.

[Flying flan]

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-d54250wyk.html I know it's rude to post google results, but come on... it was literally the first one... @marat569

You don't tell sauron he's rude

[vanman69]

A small PC that has an Intel CPU and is made by Intel.

[Brenz]

Do people buy them? I know linus mentions them for $$ (I would advertise Jenkem for $$), but who would really spend thier money on a "nuc"? Get a server blade for a server and put it in a drawer (what I do).

 

We have a few of them at work tucked away behind wall mounted TV's. We then use them to display status information from our data centres and Nagios alerts.

[marat569]

Basically powerful raspberry pi's; for monitor/display use like @Brenz it makes sense; but no main driver user. Maybe a XBMC/media driver for your living room; but a Raspberry Pi can run XBMC for 25$. 

 

The business approach seems useful. Thanks guys!

[spwath]

Can you do any gaming at all on a nuc. I am not talking about like bf4 on ultra. Im just thinking casual n stuff, cause if it could, mabey its good for lan parties if you are lazy and do not want to move huge towers.

No. You could on gigabyte brix

[marat569]

No. You could on gigabyte brix

 

I'm sure some light gaming like Minecraft, terraria, runescape, some wow on low, league of legends on low; something indie games -- no triple A titles; but some fun popular games why not.

[Padunkadunk]

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20is%20a%20nuc