This is a great little NUC. 8th gen is becoming a little long in the tooth, but for general light usage this i3 will serve 99% of people fine. For my usage, it's a dedicated PLEX server, Ubiquiti Unifi controller, and a few other light server loads. The GPU is powerful enough for transcoding work on the media server, making me wonder why I ran a giant server for so many years.I put an nvme SSD in mine with 16 gigs of ram and I think it's even faster than the server it replaced. While not officially supported on Server 2019, I was able to do some driver modifications to get it working great.For CPU intensive tasks, this 8th gen starts to show its age in 2021, but paired with good RAM and storage it's no slouch. This machine will be fine for modern operating systems, servers, and the web for a few years to come.Noise levels even under load are great, but in full disclosure I run it in a network rack anyway. This thing barely sips power, too.