My Intel NUC Mini PC Setup

33 thoughts on “My Intel NUC Mini PC Setup”

1. Thanks for the review. How do you like it for 4k video editing? Slightly concerned about the 4 core cpu

2. I bought this particular NUC about a fortnight ago, complete with two 16GB RAM stick and 1TB SSD storage alongside Windows 11 Pro and still under warranty for the next two years, for the equivalent of $1,200. What got me hooked with this NUC is the VESA mount – it can easily fit behind my late dad's cheap generic HP monitor with a TN panel without a problem. At the time I write this comment, I only tried playing NFS Undercover via Steam and the embedded RTX 2060 with Balanced Power Level preset and Cool fan have no trouble staying around 57 to 60 degree Celcius. Even the i7-1165G7 CPU stays around 75 to 85 degree Celcius, which is not too bad for me.

   At this point, I don't see the need to make myself a custom PC gaming rig for the next two or three or even four years time.

3. Hello Chris , little off topic but are there any good uses for the HP t510 thin client? I have some available to me. Thanks for all your videos

4. cool kit…but the cost ….

5. Hi Chris, I'm about to buy a late version of Intel NUC but someone said that it has a lot of trouble. From your experience and perspective, what is the downside of this little guy and have you encounter some error or trouble while use it? I love your video btw

6. 5k (all intel cpus too) ryzen has just faster cache then 3k

7. Can u game with this thing where the gaming ??????????¿???¿

8. I think for the money rtx 3060 should of been for the price

9. Howabout a multi amd core nuc 😉 with the same upgrade options

10. 07:11 | Ryzen 5800x | 3090 FE | 2560×1440 | Max Settings
    381.44 FPS
    I might be doing something wrong. I'm not sure why its lower than some other with similar setups.

11. Ryzen 5 3600, TUF B-550, RTX 3070 FE and I got 287.40 avg FPS at 4K. Close!

12. Nice B-Roll. How you doing it? Maybe a 2022 studio tour?

13. test result
    everything max 599 avg fps
    everything low 770 avg fps

    12900k
    3090
    crappy ddr5

14. After owning an Intel Skull Canyon that ate itself alive, will never buy this form factor again. The plastic dried out so much from heat, no matter how much I pulled it apart to clean out the plastic that disintegrated, eventually the fan swallowed a shard of plastic and then died. Never again.

15. how about running on Linux plz ?!!

16. $1300 for that? No.

17. I love those systems! I currently use one on my TV in my college apartment (8th gen i5), controlling it with the Steam controller mostly. I have all my hotkeys mapped (over 50, and using AutoHotkey), so I can do pretty much everything on the computer with the controller alone, which is pretty nice! I can also either hook up the keyboard and mouse, or remote into it in those rare instances. I also like using it to offload rendering videos or as a capture PC for my main system.

    I literally got it because I thought we would be a building a system for a class, but I was wrong. Regardless, getting that is one of the best decisions I've ever made! I can't believe how many ways it can be used! I like to use it for my XCPNG labs and a lot of the home labs I plan on doing in the future. I think I might also use it to bridge the transition to Linux this year. Will keep this one in mind if I want to get another gaming system!

18. As requested 🙂
    – Test Results Below:

    Average framerate: 481.97
    CPU R5 5600X
    GPU RX5700XT

19. A pity its a BGA socket.

20. I really wanna see emulation on this thing. PS3 or Wii U maybe?

21. Beautiful 😮

22. Hi Cris: what about noise? is anoying? thank you

23. I had one of these in the past and it did not do well in linux, but I see they've really upgraded everything quite alot.

24. The thing you missed? Install Linux in that box!!!

25. I'm a Linux user, full time open source developer, and only use Intel NUCs. I've got maybe ~6x of them in the house, used by the whole family. They're great because the only menace is blowing out dust with a squirt of canned air once in a while. Linux support is top notch because a bunch of Linux kernel developers use these as their desktop rig, and so you can imagine kennel patches are accepted quickly. One thing, you might not have mentioned the NIC is running at 2.5 gig, and it's very efficient. Many people don't get to experience full theoretical speed of their 1gigabit Ethernet, but somehow Intel made a 2.5 gigabit NIC where I was benchmarking full theoretical speed like within 1% Max. It's especially noteworthy, just saying.

26. I've got a RTX 3070 with a 1st gen Ryzen 1700 8c/16t @ 3.9GHz with 48GB RAM @ 2933MHz 2×8 & 2×16 all on a X370 mobo and 1250W PSU. But I've only played PUBG PC for now cause I recently upgraded to the RTX 3070 from an AMD R9 290X 8GB. And in PUBG PC I get between 100 – 200 FPS at 1080p all on Ultra graphics . Sometimes it goes down to 75 – 80 FPS but not often. And I know my CPU is old and bottlenecks severely. But I'm happy with the upgrade to the RTX 3070. There is definitely a big difference and improvement from the R9 290X.

27. but the price though 😥😣

28. 1:44

29. CS:GO has a built-in FPS counter "net_graph 3" in the console

30. HP Omen R7 5800H RX6600M 16Gb
    Ubuntu 20.04.4
    1080p
    Auto Graphics Setting
    OpenGL: 109 FPS
    Vulkan: 198 FPS

31. For comparison,
    My specs: 11700K, 3060 Ti, 32GB 3600MHz RAM with tuned timings
    Linux Mint 20.1
    All low settings at 1080p; Average: 626 fps

32. NUCs are what PCs should have been. But companies would rather have an extra 10% performance at the cost of a huge form factor and a 500% higher power consumption.

33. I wonder why modern pc makers still have so many USB A ports. The minimum would be 2 usb 2.0 and 1 usb 3.1 port for the odd hard drive etc. Most higher end accessories come with USB C cables anyway and are likely to move to it 5 years from now. Given the upgradability of PC’s, it seems like a bad decision to make 90% of the high performance ports being USB A.

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