Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Product Line Forward

Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by adrian_b on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:54AM (#36782253)

I have used many kinds of NUCs from various generations and a pair of NUC8 (i.e. with Coffee Lake U CPUs) are much quieter than both the earlier and the later NUCs.

Most of the time they are completely inaudible. I have one that works 24/7 as a server in the room where I sleep. You can hear them only at full load, which in these NUCs means 50 W power for the first half minute, and then 30 W forever.

Unfortunately later Intel reverted to the use of cheaper, noisier fans. I have not used the last two generations of NUCs, so I do not know how they compare in noise.

So the various models of NUCs can differ a lot in noise.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by treprinum on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:40AM (#36783959)

NUC8 was great, the first time their CPUs could match desktop CPUs in raw performance, yet they were quiet. I have another NUC11Pro and that is much louder.

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Re:Intel and ASUS Agree to Term Sheet to Take NUC Systems Pr... by ourmandave on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @07:13AM (#36784572)

I have one that works 24/7 as a server in the room where I sleep.

Used to keep all the server and network stuff in my room, but couldn't sleep.

All the leds were like a blinking Christmas display.

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