Hey Evan,

If you are doing a lot of multimedia editing NUC form factor might not be the best as the CPU may run into cooling issues and thermal throttle under load.

About a year ago I've built this Ryzen 5-based system on which I run the latest Debian and I'm pretty happy with it.

Description and photos

https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-April/006154.html

Discussion

https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2018-February/005948.html

There was some initial instability with it, but updating BIOS fixed that.

The biggest limitation of this build that the system is limited to 32GB of RAM, as chip supports 64GB. It can also be build for much cheaper if you forgo small form-factor (miniITX) and use microATX or ATX cases -- the motherboard would cost about half as much.

Alex.

On 2019-05-17 5:05 a.m., Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote:

Hi all,

I'm looking to upgrade my PC that's served me well for about 8 years, but it's starting to be unreliable and I can't upgrade the RAM beyond 4GB. So I'm looking at a new desktop system that will be used mainly for many-tabs-open browsing and multimedia editing using openshot, audacity, etc. Of course must run Linux well.

I am currently looking at two NUC-form-factor barebones systems that use the 8th gen Intel i7, an Intel model available through CC and a Zotac model available from Amazon. Both are about the same price. I would be installing 16GB RAM, an SSD and two screens.

Can anyone offer any advice whether to go with one, the other, or neither? Are there better places to buy?

Thanks for all suggestions.

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Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada

@evanleibovitch or @el56
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