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Review on πŸ’ͺ Enhanced Performance with Intel NUC 10 Performance Kit - Intel Core i7 Processor (Tall Chassis) by Carlos King

Revainrating 4 out of 5

I really like the NUC 10 what performance

fast and quiet just what I need. Building a home lab with a type 1 hypervisor I have an ESXi 6.7 key so I'll probably go that route. I bought a second one to play around with an insecure OS, but I installed Ubuntu 19.10 on it, so far it was up and running in less than an hour. I went this route for ease of use and was not disappointed. 12 threads so it looks like 12 cores at 1.8MHz. 64GB 32X2 Samsung 2666, 1 NVME 1TB Samsung 970 evo+ m.2 are all listed as approved providers so there are no compatibility issues. This looks to be a solid platform for practical virtualization in the real world. I wanted to build a threadripper server but decided to make it more modular. Update 5/2020 delivered ESXi 7 with 64 GB RAM and 1 TB nvme. Let's just say you won't have enough CPU to ever put together 32GB of RAM, so I would make dual channel 16GB sticks and not use dual 32GB flash drives. Also, 500GB is enough for most lab applications since you only get a little over 9GB of CPU processing power. You'll burn out CPU cores long before you run out of RAM, even with 32GB. I've seen nuc 9 and I don't understand at all why 10 came out almost a year before 9. I would like to try Xeon 9 but for 2K idk.

Pros
  • it's clear even the old
Cons
  • can be damaged