Intel NUC DN2820FYKH Bay Trail System Review
When we pulled off the bottom cover we were shocked to see that Intel put a chrome finish on the plastic. The motherboard tray that Intel is using in this NUC is similar to the one we saw in the Intel NUC KIT D54250WYKH, but there were some obvious differences when it came to wiring.
The storage drive tray supports 2.5 SATA notebook style drives that are up to 9.5mm in z height. This is the only storage drive supported by this platform as Intel didn include an internal mSATA port on the motherboard due to costs and the target market for this platform. It should be noted that this is a SATA II 3Gbps header, so going with a high end Solid State Drive (SSD) with a SATA III interface would be a bit overkill for this platform as you wouldn be using all the performance it had to offer.
The lowest priced notebook hard drive that we could find was the Seagate Momentus 5400RPM 320GB drive for $39.99 shipped. From there you can go all the way up to larger 1TB hard drives like the WD 1TB Blue SATA II 5400 RPM hard drive (WD10JPVT) that are 9.5mm in thickness and priced at $89.99 shipped. So, you are looking at between $40 to $90 for basic rotational storage drives if you are looking to build up a low cost system with a decent amount of storage space. You could also use a solid state drive and then have your mass storage on an external USB drive or on network attached storage.
The drive tray can be carefully lifted out of the chassis, but you need to remove the SATA power apatagonia baby hi-loft down sweater hoody reviewnd data cables to completely remove it. Intel includes the necessary cables to get a 2.5 inch drive installed. You don have to remove the drive to install the single DDR3L memory module, but we did to better show you this platform.
The Intel NUC DN2820FYKH comes with an Intel Wireless N 7260BN WiFi card pre installed along with the wireless antennas that are pre routed inside the small enclosure. This half length PCIe mini card features support for 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0. It should be noted that it takes up the onle PCIe slot inside the NUC, so there is no using a mSATA drive inside this version of the NUC. This wireless card retails for around $17 shipped, so it is nice that Intel included it with the NUC.
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Here is a closer look at the standard SATA II 3Gbps header used on the DN2820FYB motherboard. Notice that directly above the SATA header there is a small black power header that is used to supply power to the 2.5 storage drive that you will bepatagonia women's hoody better sweater using. Intel supplies all the cables needed to get the 2.5 drive operational.
We wanted to take the DN2820FYB motherboard out of the NUC Kit DN2820FYKH to give you a better look at it. On the bottom side of the motherboard you ll find one DDR3L SO DIMM slot for up to 8GB of 1066MHz 1.35V Low Power DDR3L memory. On the other side of the board you ll the half size mini PCI express slot for a wireless card. It should be noted that the BIOS on this board is locked down to 1066MHz, so that is the only clock speed available to run the DDR3L SO DIMM memory kit at. There aren too many DDR3L memory modules that are sold individually at that clock speed, but the board will downclock higher end modules. Oupatagonia evermore trail running shoes reviewr suggestion on memory is to get the capacity you want and start shopping around for the best price on a 4GB or 8GB module.
Some of the internal Intel glamor shots of this motherboard showed internal VGA and USB headers, but those have been removed from the retail models for some reason. The yellow jumper is for the BIOS security pins that allow you to run the BIOS in normal, lockdown and reset modes.
Onpatagonia chicago quarterly review0 tpatagonia fleece better sweater jackethe top side of the motherboard you ll find the CPU Cooler, which consists of a notebook style fan and heatsink that help keep the Intel Celeron processor N2820 nice and cool. Intel went with a SUNON MagLev GB0555PDV1 A 1.1W 4 pin blower style fan to keep temperatures at bay. Intel said this is a ;ow acoustics active cooling design, so we have to see how quiet or loud it really is ourselves. The system battery can just be seen under the right edge of the blower. It should be noted that the Intel NUC DN2820FYKH does not have a HDMI Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) header on the motherboard (Only the more expensive D54250WYB and D34010WYB models have the HDMI CEC header).
The heatink that Intel is using the the Intel Celeron Processor N2820 is very small and it looks to be entirely aluminum with 13 fairly thick cooling fins.
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Let install the memory and storage drive into the DN2820FYKH.
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Hi Guys, I am looking for HTPC for my LG TV from 2012. I have to use PLEX server for transcoding movies from my NAS. All transfers are over gigabit home network. Plex dosen support HW decoding and I need pretty strong CPU. Does this NUC transcode high bit rate 1080p 3D movies? Movies will be played by my TV set over my home network (gigabit LAN) .
If I install XBMC or simple Windows Media Player with right codecs, does this NUC is able to play high bit rate 3D movies from my home network at my TV via HDMI?
Nice review and at last we see the fan make model number. There have been a lot of complaints about the noisy fan used in the D54250WYK on the Intel NUC forum you reviewed, yet never saw the fan make/model published. Any chance of letting us know if patagonia chicago quarterly review3it is the same make and model number as on your Bay Trail one ?
Also, are you able to test the WiFi speed versus distance so we get a measure of how good the NUC dual antenae system is ?
Any chance of testing a range of Skype voice calls on it to see if free of stutter/dropouts ?
Your D54250WYK review erroniously listed a DDR3L part no. which Intel state is not compatible (and isn Do you know if the Bay Trail NUC is as fussy as to which DDR3L sticks work ?
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The fans are different models. The Bay Trail M uses a blower fan from SUNON and the Haswell NUCs use a blower fan from DELTA (model BSB05505HP).
A few things I noticed from my own unit. As this will likely be a top search hit for the system, hopefully these will get some visibility to Intel engineers.
It has hardware decode, for one. Just fire up mpc hc to verify. It is true that Youtube doesn seem to utilize it, which is probably an issue with the graphics drivers. The revamped Intel control panel alspatagonia guide jacket 16o doesn support rgb / ycbcr or full / limited range switching, another oversight. The 24p bug has been fixed, though.
I found the default 3000rpm fan setting rather loud, but that easy to change. You can also make it completely silent.
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Off the top of my head, those are the main issues. Windows 7 support is obviously a big miss at launch, but you can install an 8.1 enterprise trial until it sorted out. I still think it a solid, well built machine and a good buy overall, if you not doing anything too strenuous on it.
