This is my 2nd NUC, the first one I bought over a year ago was the NUC5i7RYH and I set it up for my mother as her main computer and it's still working great for her. She always shows it off to friends that come over, she can't believe how fast it is for the size. Your average budget desktop computer you buy at Costco/Walmart/Best Buy are loaded with crap and don't even have a SSD. If you buy a computer nowadays you need to have a SSD, everything is so much more responsive with one. It's a night and day difference compared to the old hard drives with platters and moving parts. The NUC5i7RYH works great but the fan can be annoying, it will just start blowing full blast out of nowhere and I hate fan noise. My mother doesn't seem to care at all but that was one downside to that model I didn't like.So moving on to this new model, I was going to buy the NUC7I7 model instead of the NUC7I5 but a review of the i7 model on nucblog.net mentioned the fan noise can get up there again so I decided to just go for the i5 model this time. This computer was for my brother, his computer is 9 years old and was on its last legs, he liked my mother's older NUC model a lot so that is why I got him this one. He is a college student and didn't want a laptop at all, he uses a 32" HP OMEN 2560 x 1440 HDMI monitor with this NUC and it works great. He doesn't game at all, just productivity software and internet browsing so this NUC works great for that.Hardware I bought with this NUC:-Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW)-Kingston Technology HyperX Impact 16GB RAM DDR4 2133 HX421S13IBK2/16I loaded up this NUC with 16GB of memory and a 250GB Samsung 960 EVO SSD. Installation is always extremely easy, the user guide just has pictures with not a lot of detailed explanations so if you need a better guide, just search on YouTube for NUC install videos and you will find plenty. I’d follow these steps below to make sure you have the best experience with this computer.1. Install SSD and memory into NUC.2. Turn on the NUC and before you install any OS, update the BIOS to the latest version. Mine was one version behind so I went onto the Intel website and downloaded the latest BIOS file and flashed it. After you flash to the latest BIOS I’d go exploring in the BIOS settings to make sure it’s detecting your memory and SSD.3. Once your BIOS is on the latest version then install the OS. I installed a copy of Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. I have an .iso image file of Windows 10 so I just used RUFUS (rufus.com) to copy it onto a USB 3.0 stick to make it bootable.4. Insert your USB stick into a port on the NUC and turn on or restart the NUC. It should boot from it so you can install Windows 10.5. After Windows 10 is installed, go to the Intel website for this NUC so you can download and install all the drivers for it. I usually start by installing the most important drivers first like chipset driver/video card driver/wireless card driver and so on. After you install a driver, I always restart the computer even if it doesn’t tell me to, better to be safe than sorry.6. After all the drivers are installed, hit up Windows Update to see what it wants. Once Windows is fully updated and all the drivers are installed then I would start installing software like MS office and whatever else you need.7. Once everything is configured and setup the exact way you want it, an extra step you might want to do is to create a system image of everything. Windows 10 has a built in tool that will let you do this but I'd avoid it. If you perform a Google search for “Macrium Reflect” you’ll see a free version of the software on their website. This software will create a system image which is a copy of everything so if Windows 10 crashes or has some other strange unrecoverable issue you’ll at least be able to reflash the image and not have to worry about installing all the drivers and programs again.So far this computer has been what I expected from it, fast and pretty quiet. The fan inside this NUC doesn’t get loud at all, nowhere near as loud as the old NUC model I mentioned. As long as you follow most of the steps above that I mentioned, you should NOT run into many issues. My brother has only been using the computer for a few days now and so far so good!**Edit on April 6th 2018, this computer is still running smoothly. Not a single issue and it's used every day. You can't beat a NUC for a general usage computer if you want a desktop computer and don't game.