So I had an Azule Byte3 as my HTPC to run videos to a plasma HDTV.  I recently upgraded to a 4K OLED TV (which then made me decide to upgrade my surround system to 7.1.4 3-D surround).  While the Byte3 was a good priced HD video player, it doesn't have 2.0a HDMI and doesn't have the hardware for playing all 4K HDR content.  I then debated about what Intel NUC to get.  At first I was contemplating getting a preconfigured NUC8i5.  Then I priced out getting this NUC8i7BEH base with 16GB RAM, 250GB M.2 SSD, and Windows 10 Pro.  Then I read some forums where people complained that this computer doesn't have true HDMI 2.0a (the interface itself is 2.0a, but it's being converted from Display port).  I've now run some 4K content on this computer, and I've had no issues: it's probably overkill for any 4K video content.  I assume the nay sayers are referring to playing intensive games at 4K HDR...but I always thought serious gamers don't set games to max settings in order to get high frame rates.  I can say that after getting everything set up with Windows "HD settings" (available from the Fall Creator's upgrade), Netflix, Vudu, and my UHD files all look as good as from my Roku Ultra or Apple 4K TV.  The only caveate I've found is that there's no Dolby Vision support yet.  Dolby is only advertising some Lenovo notebooks for having Dolby Vision (and I see that one series, the Yoga C, has hardware that's less robust).  So I assume at some point this system will be umbrella'ed into Dolby Vision. The only knock I have right now with the setup is installing Windows.  It has been a few years since I setup a computer: my most recent computers have been preconfigured laptops or the Byte3.  I bought the regular USB Windows Pro from Amazon, so I assumed it would at least have the drivers for network access.  It didn't, so I could only setup my local user folder.  The setup itself did go pretty quickly (but another word of caution is that the USB drive is not very good...it was pretty hard to get it in a USB port: you'd think that paying $140+ on the Software, Microsoft could supply a better USB stick).  So once I found out Windows didn't have the drivers, I figured most the time would be driver installs and Windows updates.  Intel does have a full driver pack that you can download.  I thought I'd be able to install all drivers and that would be it.  But the graphics driver wound up taking awhile: it kept giving error messages that my computer wasn't the right processor type.  It wound up being that I had to keep on installing Windows updates until I had installed the latest Fall Creator's Windows update.  That update also gives you HDR options in the display options.  For video use, this NUC is very quiet.  My everyday Lenovo laptop is much noisier (I've looked inside it and have seen fairly small fans and the ventilation isn't as great).  The most intensive tasks I'll do is 3D animation.  This NUC does have specs that make it good enough to be some more cores for a network render (since rendering is most about just number of cores you can throw in).  The renderer will also push all cores to 100%...so I'm sure by that point I'd hear fan noise (but I'm also sure it won't nearly be as loud as a dedicated server or workstation).