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For what it’s worth, Jerry, I managed to get my hands on an older Shuttle PC with a second gen i5 (Sandy Bridge).  Getting rid of my NUC now and will be putting in an NVidia GTX 950 or 960 which should do the trick nicely for any near future 4K video content.

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Balls, I’m going to have to sell my NUC now.  Thanks once again, native HDMI 2(a?) is a must for any future builds.  I have space behind my TV cabinet, so the build doesn’t even have to be too small… the NUC’s form factor is great, but there are simply too many sacrifices.  Just not worth it.

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Jerry

Thanks, that was very informative indeed.  A damn shame we can’t get some of those items easily in New Zealand, ASRock motherboards are pretty hard to find (and I do like them) and we are screwed over in terms of price over here too.

I’m having to balance my wants for both a decent HTPC and the Oculus Rift / VIVE at the moment.  Not quite sure which one will win out in the end. 🙂

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Jerry, what did you end up building or buying? (or what are you planning on)
I’m getting more and more disappointed by half-fulfilled promises by Intel’s NUC team.  Some 4K content plays perfectly well, some plays like absolute crap (depending on bitrate, mostly) and Intel has done very little in terms of comms with their customers.  I’d hope that they would pull some magic graphics drivers out of a hat, but then again, my realistic nature struggles against the possibility of that happening.  So, I’m considering selling my little Skylake NUC and investing in something a little bigger and a lot better.  Any suggestions?

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Very useful info, thanks Jerry.  I see, from a link I followed there that Skylake (my NUC) appears to support HEVC decoding at UHD resolutions, I’ll copy and paste here:
Skylake’s MFX engine adds HEVC Main profile decode support (4Kp60 at up to 240 Mbps). Main10 decoding can be done with GPU acceleration. The Quick Sync PG Mode supports HEVC encoding (again, Main profile only, with support for up to 4Kp60 streams).

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Yeah, I’ve heard quite a few negative stories about the NUCs.  Intel has been pretty poor at communicating with their userbase around driver updates and issues specifically around the graphics issues that people are having.  Club3D at least communicate and answer questions – hopefully Intel will extend a welcoming hand and get these issues sorted.

My alternative is also to potentially hang on until the 7th Gen NUC comes out – which is supposed to have HDMI 2 natively.  Or I might just get an Alienware Alpha or something similar – which is really annoying since the NUC is supposed to be able to do everything that a decent HTPC should.  Grrr…

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Superb, thank you.  3 weeks is not too bad.  Running my NUC6i5SYK through my Sony KD65X8500C at 4K/30Khz and it could certainly be better. 

Thanks again Toyota4Runner. 🙂

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@RoyalKing… are there any updates regarding availability?  Any info would be appreciated…

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Hi RoyalKing – Do you perhaps have any idea when this adapter will be in stock at Amazon again?  I have ordered one, but it’s been out of stock for more than two weeks…

Cheers
Riaan

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