Hey guys,
In case anyone is interested, I just got the latest Gigabyte BRIX Gaming w/ the Nvidia DGPU today (next day shipping from Newegg). Just thought I'd post some details about it since I haven't seen any reviews out on this at all.
It's bigger than a regular NUC/BRIX, although still tiny: 0.88L (59.6 x 128 x 115.4 mm)
I'm doing some power/heat/performance testing here:
https://randomfoo.hackpad.com/GB-BXi5G-760-Testing-OILOc5jPsEn
Happy to answer any questions or run tests for those interested, although I'm not running Windows, only Linux (Ubuntu 14.04LTS) on it.
Some notes:
* Idles at about 30W (compare to the fanless Bay Trail NUC I'm testing that idles at 8W)
* It has 2 small fans (50mm?) on one side, air flows straight to the other side. In the default "Normal" mode, it's pretty quiet - never gets very loud. I didn't do much testing on it in Normal mode.
* In Turbo mode the fans spin up as it's stressed. No dB measurements, but it sort of sounds like a little dustbuster. You'll want closed/IEM headphones... I've gotten it up to 160W power consumption. The external power supply is about half the volume of the BRIX and rated for 180W.
* One interesting thing. The box says "Intel Core i5-4200H/GeForceGTX 760" as does nvidia-smi, but lspci output is: NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 870M] (rev a1) - this makes more sense. TDP is about right (100W for the 870M + the i5 TDP is 47W, adds up)
* I'm running the xorg-edgers 340 drivers (340.24), FurMark score seems low? http://www.ozone3d.net/gpudb/score.php?which=21543 I haven't done benchmarking in years (or honestly used 3D w/ Linux much) so open to any thoughts/suggestions there.
I'll be primarily using this as a portable dev box for Oculus Rift DK2 development while I'm traveling.
In case anyone is interested, I just got the latest Gigabyte BRIX Gaming w/ the Nvidia DGPU today (next day shipping from Newegg). Just thought I'd post some details about it since I haven't seen any reviews out on this at all.
It's bigger than a regular NUC/BRIX, although still tiny: 0.88L (59.6 x 128 x 115.4 mm)
I'm doing some power/heat/performance testing here:
https://randomfoo.hackpad.com/GB-BXi5G-760-Testing-OILOc5jPsEn
Happy to answer any questions or run tests for those interested, although I'm not running Windows, only Linux (Ubuntu 14.04LTS) on it.
Some notes:
* Idles at about 30W (compare to the fanless Bay Trail NUC I'm testing that idles at 8W)
* It has 2 small fans (50mm?) on one side, air flows straight to the other side. In the default "Normal" mode, it's pretty quiet - never gets very loud. I didn't do much testing on it in Normal mode.
* In Turbo mode the fans spin up as it's stressed. No dB measurements, but it sort of sounds like a little dustbuster. You'll want closed/IEM headphones... I've gotten it up to 160W power consumption. The external power supply is about half the volume of the BRIX and rated for 180W.
* One interesting thing. The box says "Intel Core i5-4200H/GeForceGTX 760" as does nvidia-smi, but lspci output is: NVIDIA Corporation GK104M [GeForce GTX 870M] (rev a1) - this makes more sense. TDP is about right (100W for the 870M + the i5 TDP is 47W, adds up)
* I'm running the xorg-edgers 340 drivers (340.24), FurMark score seems low? http://www.ozone3d.net/gpudb/score.php?which=21543 I haven't done benchmarking in years (or honestly used 3D w/ Linux much) so open to any thoughts/suggestions there.
I'll be primarily using this as a portable dev box for Oculus Rift DK2 development while I'm traveling.
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