GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXBT-1900 Review: A Bay Trail UCFF PC
by Ganesh T S on October 24, 2014 12:10 PM ESTFinal Words
After putting the GB-BXBT-1900 through our mini-PC evaluation routine, we are glad to obtain additional data points that reflect what can be obtained from a system targeted towards price-conscious consumers. GIGABYTE builds upon Intel's NUC ecosystem successfully by presenting a Bay Trail alternative to consumers. Our only 'complaint' is the fact that the system is not available in the North American market (where the fanless Celeron N2807-based system is marketed instead of the BXBT-1900).
Pretty much the only downside of the unit is the bundled 802.11n WLAN component. Even considering the price-point pressures, GIGABYTE could have provided a single-stream 802.11ac card. On the plus side, the BIOS effortlessly handles overclocking transparently. The SO-DIMM we configured with was auto-clocked at 1600 MHz, despite the system's official 1333 MHz specification. The cores were also able to sustain the maximum frequency of 2.41 GHz without any user configuration. On a subjective note, the fan noise is pretty much non-existent.
All in all, GIGABYTE has managed to deliver the right balance of price, power, size and thermal / acoustic design in the GB-BXBT-1900 for the sub-$300 market.
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LoneWolf15 - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - link
I would buy one of these --or another Bay Trail NUC in this price range --if they made a good faith effort to support Linux. This particular system config is tailor-made for an appliance style box. But I've read time and time again about NUC-style vendors (this particular Gigabyte model, and others) saying "We only support Windows on this unit". I'm a Windows guy and all, but the use I'd have for this is like an Asterisk server at home for VoIP or something of that type.ArushaMan - Saturday, September 19, 2015 - link
Has anyone upgraded one of these from Win7 to Win8/Win10? I made one attempt and it failed with no explanation. I suspect it has to do with the BIOS setting which requires you to set it for Win7 or Win8 at first install. I installed and activated Win7 OEM, using the Legacy setting. Is the trick to change the setting to Win8 when it re-boots during the Win10 install?BorgDog - Thursday, October 8, 2015 - link
Just got mine yesterday and installed Win7 Starter then upgraded to Win10. Basically the first time windows reboots you need to press the Delete key repeatedly until it goes into Bios then change the setting from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, then save and exit and it will go back into the Windows 10 install and finish that setup. So short answer, yes that is the trick.andwan0 - Saturday, November 4, 2017 - link
Can the 1900 play HD movie/films @ 1080 or 720 smoothly directly from the HDD or SSD?ansva - Thursday, April 23, 2020 - link
How does this compare to a Raspberry pi 4?