Very good on the performance front, but it's much louder than my older NUC, and has that annoying fan...I tried reducing the speed of all cores in the BIOS, it gets a little quieter, but still runs hot.Also, the machine does not get "uniformly" hot: it's very hot right above the skull head, but cold on the other end...Wish this was running as cool and quiet as my previous NUC, not sure I like this one better (should have waited for next fanless iteration)