It's a neat little package with a couple of fatal flaws.  I'm sure in its intended desktop role, this box will do just fine.  I wanted it as a space- and power-efficient compute node for my home lab.  I have plans to test this one and, if successful, add 5 more.  unfortunately my little experiment discovered that in the role I wanted it to fill, it is not good.I encountered insurmountable heat-related issues that caused the computer to lock up (not kernel panic) regularly when given a constant ~30Mb/s flow of video data to process.  While I did not do any testing that approached scientific, I'm relatively certain that these heat issues were due to the onboard NIC overheating.  It is a gigabit NICl I would expect it to be able to handle this level of traffic, but it cannot.  The heat builds up and with an SSD and NVMe both installed, there just isn't sufficient airflow to cool everything.  Sadly, I returned my NUC and my dreams were dashed against the rocks.