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Intel NUC6CAYH

Jim Carter, 2018-01-16
Intel NUC6CAYH, Front
Intel NUC6CAYH, Front
Intel NUC6CAYH, Rear
Intel NUC6CAYH, Rear
Intel NUC6CAYH in its Niche
Intel NUC6CAYH in is Niche
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The machines on my home network are getting old, and starting in late 2017 I began to have hardware problems with them. See the Hardware Upgrade Roadmap for plans to deal with the older machines, and in particular, selection criteria and machine specifications that led to the choice of this Intel NUC6CAYH.

Initially the new machine was going to take over the home theater role, video and audio playback. That machine, called Iris, has video capture devices attached that botch suspension to S3 (RAM) or S4 (disc, hibernation), and so it has to be running 24/7. The old Iris, a NUC5i5RYH, consumes more power than I would like and the NUC6CAYH was a welcome improvement. However, there is one big fly in the ointment: sound.

So the NUC6CAYH is not going to be satisfactory in the home theater role.

The original plan was to put a NUC6CAYH in the home theater role, see if it was going to work out, and then buy another to replace Jacinth, the main router. The first NUC6CAYH did OK as Iris except for the sound, but meanwhile Jacinth went into a decline, so before the whole network collapsed I did a brain transplant, turning the NUC6CAYH into Jacinth. So far (cross fingers) this has been successful.

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