Intel

Use it

Throw it out

Nuck if you Buck

I love my nuc and use it for the following:

1. Plex server
2. Chia farmer with open external HDD space - helps supplement cost of electricity
3. Emulator (have it hooked up to my basement tv) play old school game with kiddo.
4. Old video game server. I host a server on an old game I played a bit when I was younger.
5. Network drives for family files

How powerful are these?

Nuc it

Nuc if you buck.

Use it as a home server

Throw it at a moving car

Server or retro games emulator or kodi or idk

I have a similar unit, NUC6. I use it as kitchen computer displaying slideshows of photos of my family.

Try installing Windows 7 on it, yes there is a way to install with UEFI and USB 3 + NVME

Get your grubby hands off of it

I use my nuc for a Plex server, with a giant multi bay usb 3.5" HDD tower running raid 5. Super useful!

Nucthing

Give it to me? 👉👈

Piehole

Torrent box? A seed box.

Open the box

Pornhub.local

Pi-hole

Block ads on your entire home network.

Trade it for a Beelink SER5 max

Run cyberpunk on it

If you want to make a home server, but you are new to it, use Umbrel to make a simple server. The NUC is low powered, so it's perfect for use as a home server

I love these little machines. Personally I plan to use my mini PC as a media PC for me and my significant others TV when I move in.

Also, if you run servers that are configured using a web UI(this is a super niche use case) small and low power PC's like this are awesome to use as terminals/controllers. It's super niche and even I can admit there's not a ton of reasons to do it that way, but I've done it before and especially for specific network setups it can be super awesome.

Plex/Jellyfin setups are also good use cases since they require very little computing power.

Storage nas server, dns server to block things , plex server , image gallery server.

Bathroom client

sell it

MULTI MEDIA/BATOCERA EMULATOR OS FOR ALL RETRO CONSOLE NEEDS ALL THE WAY :)

If you are using your computer remotely often and dont want to leave it on all the time. You can use it to send wake on lan packets to your main computer.

Plex Servers!!!

Put it behind your TV and enjoy YouTube how it was ment to be.

Use the M.2 PCIE to connect an external GPU (or thunderbolt)

Karaoke machine

Install an IDE and hack or code away.

Home Assistant

Time to buy it some weird hats.

Have you tried plugging it in?

Water cool it

Nuc if you buc

How much?

What is it? I might be dumb but like i just see a couple of ports

Buy memory and an SSD since they don't come with it.

Use it to watch porn. Duh!

Plex server.