Why One New NUC is WAY Better - Intel NUC 13 Pro

We test the new Intel NUC 13 Pro (NUC13ANKi7) and ASRock Industrial NUCS BOX-1360P/D4 head-to-head to see which one we would recommend. We thought our opinion between the two would be closer than it was after testing.

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Timestamps
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00:00 Introduction
02:00 External Hardware Overview
04:07 Internal Hardware Overview
05:50 Performance
07:10 Power Consumption and Noise
11:14 Key Lessons Learned
13:58 Wrap-up

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[DavidM]

My Wish list : Give us the prices right at the beginning. I watch and consider if I should buy one just for the hell of it to mess around with but this creates a bit more price sensitivity for me. Have you ever watched NASCompares do product comparisons ? Robbie does a great job of putting the price and features of both units on screen through a large part of his videos and that is a huge help. Just my $0.02 .

[germancaperarojas]

Patrick, you are my goto, favorite tech channel. The latest and greatest from home to datacenter are here, with metrics, use cases and key lessons learned. Wish I have had some class that boldly resembled the topic of this channel back in my grad school days. 🏴‍☠👍

[astcal]

much appreciate all your reviews on the mini PC's.

[jannegrey]

I love the small of the NUCS in the morning.

[ShowXTech]

Interesting would also be the models with the i7-1370P (NUC13ANKv7, -ANHv7, -L3Hv7, -L3Kv7)

[neilquinn]

Good content. Have you seen any decent fanless options appear yet? Was looking at the Asus PL64 but it's still not out and already a bit outdated (DDR4, USB 3.2 only, etc).

[videoeventjakarta]

Hi, thanks for the review.

Do you have comparison video between NUC vs Mac Mini M2? For performance.

Thanks again

[jeffg]

Hi, thanks for your nice video. Did you compare the bios parameters ? Maybe different power profiles would explain the performance gap.

[mikemarkong]

TBH I love these videos because I dream of making an HTPC with a NUC or a mini PC. But sadly, the prices in my region/country for NUCs and Mini PC are wild. So i'd probably just watch you tinker with them.

[AndrewFrink]

supershort rewind was the least bad way to do that so far. I agree with the other comments about the spec/price compare on screen at the same time.

[timotmon]

I have a 10th gen Nuc i5 connected to my TV and I absolutely love it. I also happen to have a Razr Core X that I used for 3D rendering, but once in a while I plug into my NUC and play some games.. it works great.

[HuntaKiller]

I plan to buy the ryzen 7600
Considering it's 65w will it be good to use riser and game

[georgeti]

Really like NUC design and form factor. I just wish 13 Pro had a microSD slot. There are 1TB microSD cards now. It's a great way to expand storage for less important files

[accesser]

I want a new NUC like this but with out of band management, it would make a great ESXI/Proxmox home lab
I have the Gen8 now running ESXI, I just wish it could be a true headless unit

[aflury]

I wish more of these had dual 2.5gb nics like the ASRock 1260P. Makes a great (if slightly overpowered) router.

[jaffarbh]

Tough one! I guess the support, drivers, etc. would matter more than the hardware in this case

[malthus]

How much does the Nuc13 weigh? (with a 1TB SSD and 2 ram cards) and what about the power brick? thanks!

[DGao-zzvq]

For some people the vPro i7 version of NUC 13 (NUC13L3*v7) might be worth looking into, those have the i7-1370P, which has 2 more P cores vs the 1360P. Otherwise I find the rest of the NUC 13 Pro lineup rather disappointing, they don’t offer much more than last year’s Wall Street Canyon, especially because Intel went with DDR4 again.

p.s. Intel makes an I-225 NIC module for “tall” NUCs, fits in the M.2 2242 slot. I got one for my NUC, using it as a pfSense box.

[shephusted]

dual network connections would make clustering these much easier - you should think about benching 3 at a time when the time comes which is now with usb4 - addin a couple usb10gbe would be a good addition for builders/after mkt #line card

[nick-dogg]

I’m excited to see what the meteor lake NUCs can do.