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Hey All,

Has anyone use of these "NUC" extremely small form factor PCs? They come in i3,i5 and i7 flavors.
They are fanless. I've seen one of our vendors deploy these in the factory. The top of the case is a fin style heatsink, which explains why these devices are fanless.

Question - so, how exactly this giant fin 'heat sink' connects to the CPU to keep it cool? I looked at a couple of pics from a mfg. but couldn't figure that out.

If you have a need for 24/7 operation, extremely small form factor, this could meet your need, but for a very pretty penny.
 
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Overpriced and underpowered... A complete waste of money.
 
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They're a clever design but not sure they're suited to an always-on CCTV system

I considered buying one for my caravan (think travel trailer in US/Canada) but was put off by the excessive price £300/£350

Decided instead on a SFF Dell with additional 2Gb graphics card, 2nd hand on eBay for £50
 
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LOL - thanks guys.
One of the many things I’ve learned here is to use/get an eBay optiplex for BI.

Regarding NUC, It was just an out of curiosity question of how it is configured, internally. It is deployed at our factories where they do a lot of product scanning at our Texas facility. Just wondered how that NUC unit continues to operate without an internal fan, especially during the hot TX summer weather where there is no AC in the warehouse, only large ceiling fans



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xmfan said:
Hey All,

Has anyone use of these "NUC" extremely small form factor PCs? They come in i3,i5 and i7 flavors.
They are fanless. I've seen one of our vendors deploy these in the factory. The top of the case is a fin style heatsink, which explains why these devices are fanless.
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Not sure what model you are seeing but I'm pretty sure most NUCs are not fanless. If yours has a heatsink, that may be a custom lid.
 
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xmfan said:
LOL - thanks guys.
One of the many things I’ve learned here is to use/get an eBay optiplex for BI.

Regarding NUC, It was just an out of curiosity question of how it is configured, internally. It is deployed at our factories where they do a lot of product scanning at our Texas facility. Just wondered how that NUC unit continues to operate without an internal fan, especially during the hot TX summer weather where there is no AC in the warehouse, only large ceiling fans



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Also consider hp elitedesk and prodesk more room but larger.
 
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I got both of them i5. so far so good with 16G ram.
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agreed. most dell, hp, Lenovo, etc. SFF desktops with a reasonably aged i5 makes a great BI machine.
I have access to microcenter PC store and time to time see their sales of refurb machines that range from $185 - $225 which includes windows 10 with i5 cpu.
 
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I've got a NUC that has a fan. I find the fan to be a bit shrill. The unit was bought for size constraints, a year or two before I found out about the magic of SFF off lease ebay sales. As Fenderman says, NUCs are overpriced.
 
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