Intel June Canyon NUC

[VirtualLarry]

The only reason why I'm interested in June Canyon because it's cheap and supposed to be as good as Core2 era cpu (which is not too shabby for a word processing and browsing cpu).

Yeah, yeah it is... unless you have some good ad-blockers.

I had some Gigabyte Brix J1900 quad-cores. They were HORRIBLY slow, in retrospect, for web browsing.

DON'T buy your parents an Atom-based system. No matter how well Intel claims it performs.

Get something with Ryzen, or an Ivy Bridge or newer refurb PC with a real quad-core and at least 8GB of RAM.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yeah, yeah it is... unless you have some good ad-blockers.

I had some Gigabyte Brix J1900 quad-cores. They were HORRIBLY slow, in retrospect, for web browsing.

DON'T buy your parents an Atom-based system. No matter how well Intel claims it performs.

Get something with Ryzen, or an Ivy Bridge or newer refurb PC with a real quad-core and at least 8GB of RAM.

This. Also, ignore everything VirtualLarry posted between 2012 and 2016 on this exact topic. 😛

 

[ao_ika_red]

I'll look for June Canyon (J5005) review first and other amazon or newegg buyers review before I pull the trigger. But, again, thanks to you, I also see some used Haswell i5 online. I'm not in a rush as their current PC doesn't have any issue, just very old components which I'm afraid sooner or later they will give up.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This. Also, ignore everything VirtualLarry posted between 2012 and 2016 on this exact topic. 😛

Yeah, that. 🙂

 

[IntelUser2000]

With only J4005? That will be a no-go for me.

https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/126434/JUNE-CANYON

If you click June Canyon, it shows four listings, one of which includes J5005.

Two sites already list them.

https://www.compsource.com/searches/search.asp?keyword=NUC7PJYH
http://www.shopblt.com/search/order_id=128545482&s_max=25&t_all=1&s_all=NUC7PJYH&search=Search

 

[Brunnis]

I guess this post from the CPU sub-forum is relevant here: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/the-intel-atom-thread.2341969/page-197#post-39312424

Looking good for June Canyon. 🙂

 

[VirtualLarry]

Looking good for June Canyon. 🙂

I hate to be a downer, but saying that June Canyon is as good as a Q6600 - in THIS day and age - isn't saying that much. My FM1 APUs had better single-threaded speed, and those are still, comparatively-speaking, SLOW.

A G4560 dual-core w/HT is the lowest you should aim for, these days, IMHO.

Unless you have a hard requirement for low-power devices. (Living off-grid, living in a submarine, etc.)

 

[Brunnis]

I hate to be a downer, but saying that June Canyon is as good as a Q6600 - in THIS day and age - isn't saying that much. My FM1 APUs had better single-threaded speed, and those are still, comparatively-speaking, SLOW.

A G4560 dual-core w/HT is the lowest you should aim for, these days, IMHO.

Unless you have a hard requirement for low-power devices. (Living off-grid, living in a submarine, etc.)

Yeah, I would only use it for specific use cases and probably not for generic computing, unless size was somehow really important. Still, combining the form factor with the price and performance, it’s not terrible.

 

[ao_ika_red]

Bad news for the pricing. NUC7PJYH (the one with J5005 quad core in it) will cost about $189. Meanwhile, Ryzen 2200G with Asrock A320M-HDV board only costs $140 at newegg. If space is not any issue, better off with the apu.