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)

I bought this NUC to run audio software called Roon. It is working perfectly. It was easy to assemble and configure. It runs cool.

Finally figured out how to install the solid state drive and memory. Intels online support with bios and driver downloads is excellent. I think it will be an excellent replacement for my 5-year-old 5i3 NUC. YouTube is also a huge resource.

Perfect for Roon ROCK

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.

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.

I really wanted to love this NUC - its small, powerful, has all the necessary connections.. But it has a problem which taints all the benefits. Once the NUC turns off the monitor when idle, half the times it never turns it back on when you wake it up. I can see that the NUC woke up as it starts blinking the lights, but monitor never comes back to life. Ive tried two different monitors, both never had this issue before, and its pretty consistent on both. There is no pattern - sometimes it can sleep for hours and then turn on, and sometimes it just turned off and you try to wake it, and it wakes but never turns the monitor back on. Sadly, I will have to return it.

I needed a mini PC to run Kbuntu Linux and this unit fit the bill. It is mostly for applications and a bit of light gaming. I have 2 x Samsung 32GB DDR4 2666MHz SODIMMS, a Sabrent 2TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD and a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD installed. All is working well so far. Note this is the 3rd NUC I have purchased and I really like them.

Finally, I have been looking for a small pc to use as a tv media/gaming pc. I tried an hp elitedesk with a ryzen 5 pro with vega 11, and a 9th gen i7 zotac magnus pc nvidia 2070 (wifi/hangup issues) . This is how I have mine set up.

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.

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