I know D54250WYK isnt really a gaming plattform but its a great solution to get yourself decent desktop performance which is absolutely quiet (using a passively cooled chassi).
Then when steamboxes hopefully arrives during 2015 I can have one workstation (NUC) and one gaming station (Steambox) where the gaming station doesnt matter if it have fans and is noisy because that will only be turned on while gaming.
So I installed 2x8GB Kingston Hyperx Impact memories (to get 16GB in total) and a 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD in this NUC which I then installed Ubuntu 14.10 on.
After installing Steam and let it download CS:Source I noticed that the NUC can actually run this game fairly good at medium settings.
However everytime I fire a weapon (or someone else fires something that produce a lightning effect on the screen) the game starts to stutter. And this doesnt matter if im just facing a wall or have plenty of objects in front of me (like looking out at the landscape).
It seems that this is related to the lighting effect being rendered because as soon as the light effect is gone on the screen the game is as smooth as before.
So I simply wonder if any other NUCers out there have experienced the same and perhaps have a suggestion on how to fix this (is there a setting I should apply in Steam or perhaps something in the NUC bios or for that matter within Ubuntu 14.10?).