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Skylake i5 NUC as a workstation

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Just wanted to ask if the Skylake i5 NUC is a viable workstation for space strapped home office?

 

Workload planned:

- Photoshop

- Lightroom

- Davinci Resolve (1080p footage from downscaled 4k source)

- Visual Studio & Android Studio

- Some occasional CSGO & Dota 2

 

Has anyone tested the feasibility of this?

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If should definitely work, although don't expect incredible performance.

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they have laptop CPU. My 2.2GHz i7 compiles about 1/10th the speed of my 3.1GHz AMD-FX 8120. That puts me off getting one; i havnt seen a proper i7 or i5 in them

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3 hours ago, SCHISCHKA said:

they have laptop CPU. My 2.2GHz i7 compiles about 1/10th the speed of my 3.1GHz AMD-FX 8120. That puts me off getting one; i havnt seen a proper i7 or i5 in them

I see, I currently have a Skylake i7 rig + GTX 1070 but I don't game that much anymore and need to clear some space.. 

I was thinking of selling my rig off for a smaller NUC and get some money back..

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1 hour ago, MT14 said:

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Why get a NUC when you can just get a Dell 7559 and use it as a workstation anyway. Since your using it with an external monitor. Better temps. No throttling, dGPU as a plus. 

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6 hours ago, MT14 said:

Just wanted to ask if the Skylake i5 NUC is a viable workstation for space strapped home office?

 

Workload planned:

- Photoshop

- Lightroom

- Davinci Resolve (1080p footage from downscaled 4k source)

- Visual Studio & Android Studio

- Some occasional CSGO & Dota 2

 

Has anyone tested the feasibility of this?

I haven't tried this before, but I have seen someone edit video on a Skull Canyon Nuc.

 

 

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1 minute ago, AlanAlan said:

I haven't tried this before, but I have seen someone edit video on a Skull Canyon Nuc.

 

 

I think to get the same performance as my current rig.. this is the only way to go.. unfortunately the price is quite tough to swallow

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1 minute ago, MT14 said:

I think to get the same performance as my current rig.. this is the only way to go.. unfortunately the price is quite tough to swallow

True, You can build a better rig for the same price.

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zotac mini & fractal node 202 are two cases i can think of that are small m-itx cases

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