Gigabyte Intel Celeron GB-BXBT-N2807 BWUP Mini PC Barebones

I'm using this to watch films and Ms apps . Does what is expected. I run windows 8 in it with 4gb ram. Update, I'm still using it without any problem! Update: it's 4 years since using it. It's worth every penny. The HDD got issues so had to reset it 2 times. No other issue yet. I'm planning to use a SDD and see what happens. Update Sept 2019: Still works good. SSD made a difference. Excel sheets open in 2 seconds! Click 'helpful' if you want more details.

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Als Mini-PC, in den man eine separate Festplatte (SSD) und RAM einbauen kann. Für mich in dieser Preisklasse bisher noch nicht entdeckt. Daher musste ich einfach zu schlagen. Zwar ist das Mainboard für Windows7 & Windows 8 konfiguriert, aber WX OS sollte auch darauf laufen. Jedoch habe ich auf Windows 10 verzichtet und stattdessen es mit einigen Linux OS ausprobiert. Mit Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu und Xubuntu wurde ddas Gehäuse sehr warm und die USB-Anschlüsse sogar heiß und beeinträchtigen dabei sogar Maus wie Tastatur. Als sehr zu empfehlendes und einzig komfortabel nutzbares Linux OS kann ich nur zu Lubuntu raten. Denn das läuft äußerst resourcenschonend. Damit überhitzt auch der Mini-PC nicht mehr und mit Lubuntu kann man sogar sehr performant einiges gleichzeitig machen, ohne Überhitzung oder Systemüberforderung. Dabei habe ich mal einen Browser mit mehreren Taps offen gehabt, ein Programm, mit dem ich im Hintergrund minimiert einen Fernsehsender im Stream laufen lies und im Vordergrund habe ich mit einem 3D-Programm gearbeitet. Das hätte ich diesem Mini-PC, selbst in meinen kühnsten Vorstellungen unter Lubuntu nicht zugetraut. Aber offenbar spielt hier der RAM (bei mir nur 4GB) und eine SSD (120GB von Kingston) wohl auch eine entscheidende Rolle. Für mich genau das R!CHT!GE & genau was ich gesucht und gebraucht habe, um mit wenig Stromverbrauch, aber mit offenbar sehr guter Leistung im Wohnzimmer am TV zwischendurch zu chatten, surfen und für private Zwecke damit zu arbeiten. Und noch ein T!PP zu WX OS: Windows 10 nutze ich auf stärkeren PC's nur noch offline. Seit dem WX offline ist bei mir, gibt es keine Systemfehler mehr. Also wer sich über Windows 10 ärgert, sollte WX offline nutzen und sich für private Onlinenutzung diesen Mini-PC gönnen. Verbraucht laut meiner Messung zwischen 4 bis 10 Watt bei der oben beschriebenen vollen Systemlast.

exactly what i needed.

put 4 gb of memory a 250gb ssd into it, very easy to do, you only need a good small phillips. put an win 7 OS on it.. have loaded circuit analysis programs, math programs and office programs on it, no problem... not as fast as my I7 machines.... but this thing is 4"x4"x2.5" with no fan... I am old enough that i worked on PDP8 and PDP9s... In my lifetime to see this shrinkage wow..runs on 12vdc. i will be taking on a camping trip next week... i use and invertor to get 110, this with my ATT phones mobile hotspot great combination... 33Mb/sec reading from a 128gb HP usb3 flash drive, copied about 4Gb. no noise, that's weird.. running a VGA monitor with it now... The WIFI works great, downloaded big hunks of data from my NAS... It is not the fastest computer I have but it sure is cute and works great.. Have not tried the Bluetooth yet.. memory was $17/4gb and Samsung 250gb evo ssd was $70.... All I can say is this will not be my last NUC.... Update... took this with me to Nevada around Vegas no fan outside temp pushing 100 and it was running just a sweet as ever... Bluetooth worked WIFI reception was as good as I have seen.. it streamed from slingbox very nicely, good picture and sound.... Even have a copy of Mathematica on it, while not the fastest computer I have it still present a very useable capability. I liked it soo much I bought 2 more for a total of 3.. one will be dedicated to my big screen Vizio and the other to a smaller screen Seiki... the third will be my traveler. The performance of this cube, to me anyway is astounding for its size. It appears to be as fast as my old Lenovo T420 portable.. I have looked at the other NUCs no doubt there are many that will out perform it... no fan, good wifi, good Bluetooth, HDMI,VGA, audio in/out, USB3, USB2...I am running win 7 ultimate on this one will put Win 10 on the next...

***UPDATE 2017 - I own 2 of these and upgraded loaded Windows on the second one to make my multimedia life in the house easier. When the time came to update to Windows 10 I didn't know what to expect but I've been running Windows 10 on both machines flawlessly with no crashes. This machine is completely quiet and and I leave it on 24/7 and rarely shut it down. I have both machines wired to Ethernet so I can't comment on the built in wireless that I don't use. This box had trouble playing a BR MKV file over the network but regular DVDs play just fine. May update to a faster processor someday. For day to day operations (email, Office suite, social media, photos, movies, music, and web surfing) this box is perfect. ******** I bought this because it was inexpensive and I had an old 2.5 hard drive laying around so I figured I would give it a shot. I want to use it as a multimedia PC to play MKV movies and music. The device is well build and has a high quality feel. As far as operating systems go I set the BIOs for Windows 7 and loaded Vista 64 Ultimate. I could not find the drivers for the internal WIFI card so I used an external. Everything worked fine. Video defaulted to a VGA driver. The driver disk included supports Windows 7 and 8 only. Unfortunately this copy of Vista is also running on my Shuttle PC so Microsoft won't let me register it twice. So rather than load one of my old 32 bit O/Ss I downloaded Ubuntu 64, the latest version. Ubuntu loaded flawlessly, recognized all the devices immediately, including the internal WiFi and Bluetooth. I downloaded VLC Media Player and I'm all set. I used the Kingston Technology 4GB 1600MHz DDR3L PC3-12800 1.35V Non-ECC CL11 SODIMM Intel Laptop Memory KVR16LS11/4. It works great. I would give this box 5 stars if it had an S/PDIF audio out. It does push digital audio via the HDMI port.

Working great!