Intel NUC 10 NUC10I5FNHN Frost Canyon Mini Computer 10th Gen Core i5-10210U, 4 Cores, 8 Threads, 6MB Smart Cache, Iris Xe Graphics (NUC10I5FNHN 16GB+512GB)

This tiny unit is really amazing, barebone buy is the best option for person who knows how to build one by watching many videos available on social media. one important thing to remember is to download all drivers from intel support page for this unit as its barebones no drivers are installed, so on first boot you will not have Bluetooth, Audio or Wifi capabilities even they are activated in BIOS. Once you do install all driver this little machine is fast quiet and just amazing.

II have a normal sized desktop for years with several virtual machines, but realized recently that I need a smaller one for mobility, after searching for several options, I picked up this one, and purchased a 32GB RAM and a 500G PCIe SSD, added another 2.5 SATA SSD. now have Ubuntu20.04 as the base OS and couple of Windows 10 and Linux VM running as the KVM guests. it works great, so far no compliant. The only thing is it can only install two SSDs, But is okay with me for now. If anyone wants more storage, probably need to invest and buy big storage with this box.

Very Easy to install Memory and M.2 Drive. Operating system Win 10 Home installed without any issues. Drivers installed without any issues. The NUC is very fast and works great as a general purpose computer and for watching 4k videos.

Late to the party, but just fyi to fellow IT people: avoid these unless youll be running Linux or are using WSUS to block drivers. Literally with fresh installs of the latest--and I mean latest, Jan 2023, builds from my VS Pro subscription--Win10 Pro *and* Win11 Pro, and literally minutes after I allow windows update to kick in and start installing driver updates it becomes unbootable. And not just that, you cant reinstall windows via bootable USB without--I kid you not--reformatting the hard drive. Because either Windows Setup screws up or the BIOS screws up or... honestly, who knows.

This NUC is an approximately lateral upgrade from an AMD FX-8370-based system in terms of CPU, yet uses only a fraction of the power. Its tremendously quieter than a mid-tower with several fans, and uses (relative to my old case) only1.4% of the volume of the mid-tower case I had. This is small enough to set on my monitors base for easy access to I/O. If I had no needs for that, Id look into using the VESA mount instead.

Purchased to build a Roon Core. Threw in a 256gb SSD, 16GB RAM, 2TB HHD. BAM!!! Running a rock solid R.O.C.K. that saved me $2000 off Roon’s NUCleus Plus (which is the EXACT same thing).

GREAT VALUE ON POWERFUL, HIGH QUALITY COMPUTER!

All that capacity in such a small package. Fabulous upgrade.

Upgraded these bad boys to its full 64GB ram supported and added 1x SATA SSD + 1x NVMe. They boot off using a USB stick with VMware so I can leverage the full SSD + NVMe drives for the storage database.

Its a small and quiet Windows machine. It has 32gb memory and 1tb ssd and connects to 3 27 monitors. My main computer for development. The one on the right is an Intel NUC 8 running Linux.