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.

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).

Ordered this to set up in the garage to run my laser. Will work great for a garage computer. However, the Amazon photos are deceptive & misleading. I specifically picked this one thinking it had an audio port as shown in the production info in every picture of the unit. The picture I shared shows the picture from the Amazon product link & the top picture shows what I received. Unfortunately, the supplier will not accept returns if opened. Given all the pictures for everyone of the listing for this same model show the audio jack Im now sure I would get the correct one of I tried again. I feel deceived.

Met the need as a Roon Core.

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.

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.

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.