a lengthy 4 second search reveals this has an intel 3150 CPU
http://ca.gigabyte.com/Mini-PcBarebone/GB-BACE-3150-rev-10#ov

I think some people are missing the point about hot deals, if you keep slagging people off about how good something is then we wont have any hot deals, this is for a guy that wants a brix, not some guy that wants an old laptop, or a lame android chromebook with a windup on the back.

Yes no drive or ram!

Has now been reduced further to £112.32 for those with it as a pre-order

Tempted tp get this as a plex server, since i managed to drop the laptop I was using for it last night. CPU would just about transcode a 720p stream. Hmmm

For their NUC's though, which might not work on other boxes.

HD audio passthrough has been available for a while now on these Braswell machines. Whilst originally only enabled in Windows using a beta driver, Intel have now included in latest official release

Don't take the Atmos etc passthrough as a given though.

The hardware itself is certainly capable but it will require the right Intel drivers, if they exist, which may well not be the case.

So check before you buy to make sure if this is a requirement.

Of course AC3/DTS will be standard.

Yes but just 8 bit.

I got a further £5 off by topping up £100 on Amazon and then using the credit to purchase this (with a £29.85 payment as the price has increased by 0.70p).
Cheers OP.

I wish I had a use for it, as think it's cool and is a terrific price. But I'm always sat at my desktop or using my tablet. Nothing in between.

That money would buy a used laptop with those specs ( With an OS) . it will do everything that box can and also be immune from crashing in a power cut

If you ever wanted to use it as a laptop then , guess what?, it's a laptop too

Now that ROKU/sky have invalidated PLEX on nowtv .. this looks like quite a compelling alternative.
having the ram and disk included for that price is great ....

this is cheaper than the barebones version
good find
not useful to me but I can see how it could be a basic htpc

The older version 3000 costs £8 less, is there a noticeable improvement from Celeron 3000 to 3150?

If this had an SSD in it, would it be completely silent, or is there a fan somewhere?

ANy reason this wouldnt give me ATMOS sound over the HDMI in kodi ?

3150 is like 6w , AES NI too.. it's a shame it doesn't have dual LAN ports.

It's cute. :-)

Thanks for confirming.
Not bad deal but too under powered to meet my needs. Voted hot for deal as it comes with HDD and RAM which is around 50 quid already.

Hi, will this decode x265?

Cheers.

It has HDMI 1.4, which means 4K is limited to 30.

However it will still play 60fps content (at least from local files) at the maximum of 30.

Looking at the specs this box only has one SO-DIMM slot.

I've been using a Beebox N3150 for a while, which is essentially the same as this.

Use it principally as a video box but quite capable as a basic Windows PC.

For video it is excellent but if you want smooth 4K then you have to use 2 sticks of RAM as dual channel is required.

Anything else it just eats for breakfast, within the limits of the SOC, so no 10 bit playback.

Links please!

I think some people are missing the point about hot deals, if you keep slagging people off about how good something is then we wont have any hot deals, this is for a guy that wants a brix, not some guy that wants an old laptop, or a lame android chromebook with a windup on the back.

Ah okay, I presume flash storge? I guess this is good if you were after the hdd and for just htpc purposes/home nas but not really home lab.

I think the point is it could be a gateway. AES-NI would be great for accelerating VPNs, dual NICs on PCI-E would make for a more reliable setup than USB 3.

There are similar boxes coming out of china that are geared for that, 4-port NICs attached to a J1900 with storage and RAM on board for ~£100. I am tempted but the Espressobin looks like a better deal on power consumption and price grounds.

Shame it's not the projector version

An OS is free, windows 10 works just the same without a license key or there is 101 different linux distros.Most uses for this would be HTPC or nas, where you might be using something like freenas any way.
Why a used laptop? This is fit for purpose, consume a lot less power, fits discreetly anywhere and is new not a cruddy old laptop so has warranty.

Nice little PC to stick under a tv or something similar - heat!

I think that because it's a low end CPU they don't want to make a big deal out of it... they don't even call it a Celeron N3150 on the Gigabyte's site as Celeron is usually assoicated as crap even though that's not always the case.

It's not terrible for what it's intended to do but it won't be any better than a 8 year old Core2duo CPU on many tasks... but probably fine for video playback and simple chores and it's very low power consumption,.

You fixed up your wording and the joke doesnt make sense now. ;-)
BTW might it do doubleduty as a nas server.
I better look at specs.

I'd have thought it's rather an important spec to mention.

112 on eBuyer

so no CPU??

Pardon me, I am curious why would you want your dad to go under the tv?
Great deal.
:-)