ASUS NUC 14 Pro+ Full System Mini PC with Intel 14th Gen Core Ultra 5 125H, 16GB DDR5 RAM, 512GB PCIe G4x4 NVMe SSD, Thunderbolt 4, Win 11 Home, Silver Aluminum Chassis, VESA Mount Included

I've owned several ASUS computers over the years and have always been appreciate of their overall quality. Not so here. Most notably, in basic Windows navigation, the CPU fan on this is kicking in constantly and is noisy beyond belief for me. Additionally, it is constantly changing speeds and reminds me of many years of old when using laptops was a constant adventure in fan noise.

I am a Sr systems engineer. This was to be a replacement for my old Dell desktop. For an i9 Ultra processor with 32GB of ram, it runs slower than the old EOL dell that am replacing. Whether Asus has put together a solid desktop - I would not recommend. It has terrible performance. I will be replacing it again with something other than an Asus model. It’s horrible.

The ASUS NUC 14 is a nice replacement to an HUGE HP Tower desktop that can no longer be supported. This was a Christmas present for my husband - took a few hours to set it up and get through all the patches and updates (as you would expect for a new PC), but it's working, and SO much faster than the old HP! And the size is perfect! It's smaller than an Apple Mac Mini (for comparison)!

I bought the 14 NUC Pro+ (Intel Ultra 9) and the Pro (Intel Ultra 7) to compare them. I’m ultimately returning the Pro+ and going with the Pro because for my purposes (running occasional LLM inference) it is less noisy and performs almost identically.

mouse and keyboard locks up Bluetooth does the same not happy with performance