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)

Its great. I use it for a Roon ROCK music device. Works like a charm, but boy the BIOS settings I needed to use to get it to boot from a USB and update the BIOS were a TOTAL pain. Legacy boot, yipes. But this is a solid machine - would happily make it my desktop - very powerful, chassis is a delight.

I called both companies tech support about the hard drive light staying on constantly. The system loaded fine and ran fine but the hard drive light stays on...constantly. Crucials response was the system loaded fine with no errors after running their drive check software so it must be the others hardware. I switched out the Crucial drive with a Samsung and the light works correctly, which I told Crucial this when I called them but that didnt seem to make much of a difference to them. I tried the same Crucial drive/s in a NUC8i3BEH1 with the same result. So even though Intel didnt have a fix, it isnt their fault really, I will continue to buy them though I was a little disappointed with the support but these are trying times. The NUC10i7FNH1 is very very fast. Oh and I had updated the BIOS on both NUCs but still no happy ending.

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.

UPDATE 1/3/2022: This machine seems to have developed problems starting up after being off overnight. If I re-try the startup, it works, and then there are no errors for the rest of the day. I suspect issues with the CMOS battery. Intel support for individuals/hobbyists is terribly lacking; I want to talk to someone but I cant find a phone number. Knocked off 2 stars because of this, and the next problem.

Amazing

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.