Frost Canyon NUC (i3/i5/i7) to be Launched Mid-December
Hello everyone! It’s time to revive this blog. What could be a better topic than to announce the new Frost Canyon NUC. Intel skipped the 9th generation i3, i5 and i7 CPUs for the...
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Intel Pulls Firmwares 56, 64 and 66 for NUC8 (Coffee Lake)
Intel has recently removed BIOS versions 56, 64 and 66 from their Download Center describing problems with password setup on NVMe SSDs. We discovered a potential issue related to the set up of a...
Another Fanless Bean Canyon Case from Akasa – Turing
As I mentioned earlier when writing about the Akasa Plato X8 case the company was planning to come out with another fanless Bean Canyon case as well for the latest Intel i3 / i5...
Fanless Bean Canyon Case from Akasa
Akasa has just informed me that they have a new fanless case for the Bean Canyon NUC. It is called Plato X8 and it is compatible with all Bean Canyon NUC models up to...
Crimson Canyon NUC Review (NUC8i3CYSM)
The Crimson Canyon NUC was announced and it entered the market without much fanfare. In some ways it’s pretty interesting product though – it’s the second Intel NUC that has a separate AMD Radeon...
2019/2020 Intel NUC Roadmap Leaked
A member on the PCEVA forums has published of what seems a pretty credible roadmap for consumer Intel NUCs (well, the “Core” ones) for 2019/2020. Here are some interesting points: Ghost Canyon (Hades Canyon...
Installing ESXi on a Bean Canyon NUC
There seems to be a lot of questions circling around on how to install ESXi on a Bean Canyon NUC. Especially the i5 (NUC8i5BEH) and the i7 (NUC8i7BEH) models are ideal as they both...
2018 Black Friday Intel NUC Deals
Ok, so it’s time to list the Intel NUC related deals for this coming Black Friday and why not Cyber Monday as well. I’ll add any good offers I see and I would be...
Akasa Newton JC Fanless Case for Gemini Lake NUCs
We all know Akasa makes fanless cases for Intel NUCs but how many of you have really seen one live? I certainly hadn’t and I always somehow thought that Akasa NUC cases are expensive...
Gaming on Bean Canyon NUCs – Comparison
Since I’ve now reviewed every Bean Canyon NUC model currently on the market, I wanted to do a simple comparison on how do they fare against each other in a few games. Now I’m...