ASUS NUC 14 Pro Slim Barebone with Intel 14th Gen Core Ultra 5 125H (NPU Support), Up to 96GB DDR5 RAM, Dual Storage Design, Thunderbolt™ 4, Wi-Fi 6E & Bluetooth 5.3, with VESA Mount

3 years ago I started exploring NUCs. The problem with a lot of NUCs seems to be the noise from the cooling fan once you put a load on the system. My old beelink core i5 handled loads 'ok' for about a year until some micro dust got into the fan. Then the noise started.After manually cleaning the fan twice, it became obvious that (for my needs), I needed a unit with more airspace and ASUS has the extended box. It's been used now for many weeks and only vary rarely do I ever hear the fan with excel & word open, a browser and other applications. If you can swing it, core i7 or better plus extra RAM is the way to go.

These were worth the wait! I've been building NUCs for years. This Asus variant does not disappoint because still has the compact form factor, good speed for its size and it is relatively quiet. These are perfect for an office atmosphere where you need to have some speed under the hood. I'm talking about users with 25 Chrome tabs open, writing MS Word docs and using AI. These NUC's provide all the function you need.This is a kit so you need to have some know-how to setup. They do sell complete systems and they do very well.

Any reviews less that 5 stars are crazy. I added an 8tb ssd, using the pre-installed 1tb for program installs only. It handled the extra storage flawlessly. I have multiple windows open all the time. I'm a graphic designer. From the beginning I bought a small fan that it sits on, the same dimensions as this pc, so that I never worry about overheating. I plugged in my bose speakers via USB-c, and away we went! People giving this a poor rating because they're heavy gaming just isn't right. Those games require graphics cards. They need to get a separate graphics card and a docking station. This pc would run that flawlessly! Windows 11, well, meh, the jury is still out. But that's not this pc's fault.

Great item small and has a lot of ports pc supports 96gb of ram i have 32 in there ddr 5 memory cpu runs fine sometimes it struggles with multiple windows open to the point i end up closing them you can hear the fan spin up and device gets hot it actullay shut down one time had to let it cool down.

It is very fast.

Crashes alot in DX12 games, crashes when Bluetooth headphones disconnects automatically, thunderbolt ports in the back the right one stopped working in less than a month, definitely do not get any Asus product that doesn't have ROG alongside it from now on... But it still "works" so not a 1 star

Arrived safe and well packed, booted to windows and old computer transferred acceptably using laplink. Real fast also!

There’s no 3.5 speaker jacks can’t hook up mic or speakers