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title: "Intel BOXNUC7I5BNHX1 NUC Kit with 16GB Optane Memory Preinstalled Desktop Computer Barebones System"
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# 7th Gen Intel Core i5-7260U Turbo 3.4GHz 16GB Intel Optane Memory for instant responsiveness Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps) + USB 3.1 Gen2 (10Gbps) Intel BOXNUC7I5BNHX1 NUC Kit with 16GB Optane Memory Preinstalled Desktop Computer Barebones System

**Brand:** intel
**Price:** 2326 kr
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## Summary

> 🚀 Power your productivity with the ultimate compact desktop experience!

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- **What is this?** Intel BOXNUC7I5BNHX1 NUC Kit with 16GB Optane Memory Preinstalled Desktop Computer Barebones System by intel
- **How much does it cost?** 2326 kr with free shipping
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- intel enthusiasts

## Why This Product

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## Key Features

- • **Compact Powerhouse:** Small form factor (4.5 x 2 x 4.4 inches) packs desktop-level performance into a sleek, portable design perfect for office or home.
- • **Instant Responsiveness:** 16GB Intel Optane Memory learns your workflow to accelerate boot times and frequently used apps—because every second counts.
- • **Blazing Fast Performance:** 7th Gen Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz keeps your multitasking seamless and efficient.
- • **Future-Proof Connectivity:** Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 Gen2 ports deliver ultra-fast data transfer and versatile display options for your dual 4K setups.
- • **Customizable Storage & Memory:** Supports M.2 NVMe SSDs and up to 32GB DDR4 RAM—build your ideal workstation tailored to your productivity needs.

## Overview

The Intel BOXNUC7I5BNHX1 is a barebones mini PC kit featuring a 7th Gen Intel Core i5-7260U processor with Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz, preinstalled 16GB Intel Optane memory for accelerated responsiveness, and Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640. It supports high-speed M.2 NVMe SSDs, dual 4K display outputs via Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C, and up to 32GB DDR4 RAM, all packed into a compact 4.5 x 2 x 4.4 inch chassis. Ideal for professionals seeking a powerful, portable, and customizable desktop solution.

## Description

The Intel NUC Kit NUC7i5BNHX1 is built on a 7th Generation Intel Core i5 processor and comes with 16 GB Intel Optane memory preinstalled. The result is amazing responsiveness that frees you to start your computer quicker, experience faster game level-loading, and save files in less time. Plus, Intel Optane memory automatically learns your computing behaviors to accelerate frequently performed tasks. Operating system not included - Windows 10 is supported

Review: Absolutely Perfect - Update after few months: this device is one of the fantastic products ever built. I just cant believe how convenient it was to me. I work in an office where I want to have my personal computer available and it is not convenient at all to have a laptop. So I bought backup power adapter for it. I disconnect it from my office then go to my house and connect it over there again. I have added Samsung NVME along with 32 GB; things are amazing.I use the same keyboard that I use for my work laptop and the same monitors that I use for my laptop work so super convenient. I just wish if Intel can add a modular graphics card to it but I will be testing an external GPU to that soon. I bought this as I want to use it in the office and at home and I didn't need a screen. I entered the firmware page and with a single click it updated automatically everything without needing to worry about it. I installed Samsung VME drive with 16 GB RAM and it was blazing fast; Faster than any laptop I have seen including Surface book. Pros: Very fast and solid. No issues. Compact and portable Cons: The price increases frequently. It needs to be a reasonable price so people can buy it.
Review: Impressive little NUC - I'm very impressed with this nifty little NUC. Just got it today along with 2x8GB of ram for testing. I got the short version that only has room for a NVMe card. Testing DragonFlyBSD on it and everything works, which means that it will also work well with Linux and FreeBSD (though I don't know about video accel in FreeBSD). And Windows too, obviously, but who cares about Windows :-). Here's the official CPU identification: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7260U CPU @ 2.20GHz (2208.06-MHz K8-class CPU) This cpu is a 2-core/4-thread Kabylake 'U' mobile cpu. I verified that it Turbo's to 3.4 GHz on both cores (all four threads), and will stay there when I load them all down. Performance is roughly equivalent to an older Haswell i3-4130 desktop system (which was a 2-core/4-thread @ 3.4 GHz), though of course with NVMe based storage the filesystem is a hundred times more responsive than a hard drive. I tested: network booting with PXE, usb booting (EFI), and NVMe booting (also EFI). The ethernet works (if_em or if_emx in BSD-land probes the Intel I219-V4). The Wifi works (if_iwm and iwm8265fw firmware). USB works. Sound works, X works fine on a 4K screen. I didn't have a usb-c cable to test a second screen (got one, see note at end). AHCI not tested but looks standard so would certainly work too. Primary screen is via HDMI. xrandr output: DP1 connected 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 610mm x 350mm 3840x2160 60.00*+ 30.00 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98 I am very impressed with the performance. It has no trouble running X on a 4K display, no trouble running chrome, no trouble running YouTube full-screen on the 4K display. Very responsive to the UI. I couldn't test a 2160P stream due to network bandwidth limitations but 1440P on a 4K screen looks wonderful. Power consumption is equally impressive. Here are the numbers at the plug with a kill-o-watt, and keep in mind this is WITH a NVMe card plugged in and Wifi operational: 14W - BIOS 11W - During kernel boot 10.5W - Idle, VGA console (C1) 10.3W - idle, frequency management only (C1) 10.0W - idle, C-state management (C7) 12.0W - typical downloading over the ethernet 10.0W - chrome idle 20.0W - chrome loading YouTube page 10.0W - chrome idle w/YouTube page loaded 13.0W - Video playing, embedded (1/4 screen) 15-17W - Video playing, full screen (4K screen, 1080P stream) 11.3W - Video paused, full screen 13.5W - YouTube music (1/4 screen, very little video action), over Wifi 23.2W - YouTube music + 32-process 8KB block size random read test from NVMe storage. All cpus fully loaded. 1.4 GBytes/sec read rate. Temperature tests: 48-50C - Typical idle 54C - youTube music playing, low load 62-70C - fully loaded test (as described above) Note that both cores (all four threads) stay at 3.4 GHz turbo during the fully loaded test. Temperature increased rapidly to 62C, then fan came on (which I can't really hear), and temperature slowly increased after that to 70C and then stabilized there. Frequency remained fully Turbo'd. This fully loaded test is not using the FP unit heavily... its mostly integer, plus whatever chrome is using (probably mostly GPU video accel and not cpu FP). So its not the absolute maximum load I can put on the system, but its already well over what most people would run it at even doing lots of stuff. Unloading the cpu but leaving YouTube up playing music, temperature instantly dropped to 65C and then headed down to 56C from there. I have to say, I am very impressed with this little guy. Being able to get Haswell i3 desktop performance from a few years ago packed into such a small form factor is amazing. I've tested many NUC's and BRIX's (as well as many other systems), and this is really the first NUC/BRIX form factor that I would be happy to use as a workstation. Mind you, I have servers to do major compile jobs on and such... I'm talking mainly for X windows driving two 4K displays with lots of xterms and chrome windows up. Video, music, etc. Not heavy processing. Addendum: I got a USB-C to HDMI cable and after a bit of scraping I got it working. The second display ran at 4K@30hz so now I have a USB-C to DP1.2 cable ordered to see if I can get them both running at 60hz. I'm still going to give the NUC 5 starts, but I will note that the NUC's USB-C port is deeper than spec, so the cable wouldn't plug in solidly or connect at first. After a bit of shaving of the cable housing I was able to push it in deep enough to connect. Insofar as I can tell, this is a problem with the NUC usb-c port being a bit too deep inside the case. I also noticed that the motherboard in the NUC wasn't properly seated, and corrected that, but the usb-c port issue looks unfixable (other than by shaving the housing of the cable I plugged into it). Addendum2: Sound output on the stereo plug has serious hum. Tried everything... grounded speakers, ungrounded speakers, even found a three prong power supply for the NUC. So I gave up on using the stereo output plug. The HDMI sound output works fine, no issues at all, so I used that. Not going to dock Intel a star for messing up the stereo output since an alternative is available. Addendum3: Still can't test with a DP1.2 cable (snafu trying to order it on desertcart, package was returned for reasons unknown), but I have two 4K monitors running at 30Hz no problem (which is fine for a workstation). Have been using this NUC as my X workstation for a while now and it works great. I'll note here that if you are having problems running 4K@60Hz, its probably that your cable isn't rated for it. In BSD/Linux you can just use xrandr to set the vertical refresh to 30hz to work with older cables. I would also like to note very specifically here that I am using a *real* NVMe SSD and not the Intel Optane junk. *NOBODY* should ever buy Intel's Optane junk. It's a rip-off and it makes zero sense to waste the NVMe slot on it. Buy a real NVMe SSD card, like a Samsung 950/951/960 series NVMe card (e.g. like a 250GB+), and install the system directly onto it. Remember that this NUC is bare-bones. So you need to also purchase the ram (DDR4 laptop memory, I recommend 8GBx2) and the SSD (I recommend a Samsung NVMe SSD of some sort). If you need tons and tons of storage, get the taller version of the NUC and install a secondary SATA SSD or HDD drive in addition to the NVMe system drive. I would still recommend a SSD as the secondary SATA drive but with a little work you could probably fit one of those fat 4TB 2.5" Seagate HDDs in the tall NUC (I have the short NUC so I can't test whether a fat 2.5" Seagate would actually fit in the tall NUC form factor). As I said, I am still going to give the NUC 5 stars even with these deficiencies. Buyers are warned :-). Get a USB-C to DP1.2 ('Club' brand adapters are what Intel seems to recommend), have an xacto knife or box cutter handy just in case you have to shave the housing to get it to plug in solidly (remember, you can also shave the NUC case housing instead, if you don't want to shave the cable), and connect your audio through the HDMI port rather than the stereo plug. -Matt

## Features

- 7th Generation Intel Core i5-7260U
- Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
- 17 GB Intel Optane memory preinstalled
- M.2 22x42/80 (key M) slot for SATA3 or PCIe X4 Gen3 NVMe or AHCI SSD
- 2.5" SSD/HDD bay. Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gbps), USB 3.1 Gen2 (10 Gbps) and DisplayPort 1.2 via USB-C

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B071HG3D4K |
| Batteries | 1 Product Specific batteries required. (included) |
| Best Sellers Rank | #37,146 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) #1,067 in Mini Computers |
| Brand | Intel |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Color | Black |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR4 SDRAM |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars (667) |
| Date First Available | April 21, 2017 |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 |
| Hard Drive | HDD |
| Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.1 |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 4.5 x 2 x 4.4 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.1 pounds |
| Item model number | BOXNUC7I5BNHX1 |
| Memory Speed | 8000 MHz |
| Number of Processors | 2 |
| Operating System | Windows 10 |
| Processor | 3.9 core_i5 |
| Processor Brand | Intel |
| Product Dimensions | 4.5 x 2 x 4.4 inches |
| RAM | 32 GB DDR4 |
| Series | INTEL CORPORATION |
| Voltage | 1.2 Volts |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Intel
- **CPU Model:** Core i5
- **CPU Speed:** 3.9
- **Cache Size:** 4
- **Graphics Card Description:** Dedicated
- **Graphics Coprocessor:** Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640
- **Memory Storage Capacity:** 16 MB
- **Operating System:** Windows 10
- **Ram Memory Installed Size:** 16 GB
- **Specific Uses For Product:** personal, gaming, business

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Absolutely Perfect
*by O***C on November 12, 2017*

Update after few months: this device is one of the fantastic products ever built. I just cant believe how convenient it was to me. I work in an office where I want to have my personal computer available and it is not convenient at all to have a laptop. So I bought backup power adapter for it. I disconnect it from my office then go to my house and connect it over there again. I have added Samsung NVME along with 32 GB; things are amazing.I use the same keyboard that I use for my work laptop and the same monitors that I use for my laptop work so super convenient. I just wish if Intel can add a modular graphics card to it but I will be testing an external GPU to that soon. I bought this as I want to use it in the office and at home and I didn't need a screen. I entered the firmware page and with a single click it updated automatically everything without needing to worry about it. I installed Samsung VME drive with 16 GB RAM and it was blazing fast; Faster than any laptop I have seen including Surface book. Pros: Very fast and solid. No issues. Compact and portable Cons: The price increases frequently. It needs to be a reasonable price so people can buy it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive little NUC
*by M***N on August 31, 2017*

I'm very impressed with this nifty little NUC. Just got it today along with 2x8GB of ram for testing. I got the short version that only has room for a NVMe card. Testing DragonFlyBSD on it and everything works, which means that it will also work well with Linux and FreeBSD (though I don't know about video accel in FreeBSD). And Windows too, obviously, but who cares about Windows :-). Here's the official CPU identification: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7260U CPU @ 2.20GHz (2208.06-MHz K8-class CPU) This cpu is a 2-core/4-thread Kabylake 'U' mobile cpu. I verified that it Turbo's to 3.4 GHz on both cores (all four threads), and will stay there when I load them all down. Performance is roughly equivalent to an older Haswell i3-4130 desktop system (which was a 2-core/4-thread @ 3.4 GHz), though of course with NVMe based storage the filesystem is a hundred times more responsive than a hard drive. I tested: network booting with PXE, usb booting (EFI), and NVMe booting (also EFI). The ethernet works (if_em or if_emx in BSD-land probes the Intel I219-V4). The Wifi works (if_iwm and iwm8265fw firmware). USB works. Sound works, X works fine on a 4K screen. I didn't have a usb-c cable to test a second screen (got one, see note at end). AHCI not tested but looks standard so would certainly work too. Primary screen is via HDMI. xrandr output: DP1 connected 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 610mm x 350mm 3840x2160 60.00*+ 30.00 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98 I am very impressed with the performance. It has no trouble running X on a 4K display, no trouble running chrome, no trouble running YouTube full-screen on the 4K display. Very responsive to the UI. I couldn't test a 2160P stream due to network bandwidth limitations but 1440P on a 4K screen looks wonderful. Power consumption is equally impressive. Here are the numbers at the plug with a kill-o-watt, and keep in mind this is WITH a NVMe card plugged in and Wifi operational: 14W - BIOS 11W - During kernel boot 10.5W - Idle, VGA console (C1) 10.3W - idle, frequency management only (C1) 10.0W - idle, C-state management (C7) 12.0W - typical downloading over the ethernet 10.0W - chrome idle 20.0W - chrome loading YouTube page 10.0W - chrome idle w/YouTube page loaded 13.0W - Video playing, embedded (1/4 screen) 15-17W - Video playing, full screen (4K screen, 1080P stream) 11.3W - Video paused, full screen 13.5W - YouTube music (1/4 screen, very little video action), over Wifi 23.2W - YouTube music + 32-process 8KB block size random read test from NVMe storage. All cpus fully loaded. 1.4 GBytes/sec read rate. Temperature tests: 48-50C - Typical idle 54C - youTube music playing, low load 62-70C - fully loaded test (as described above) Note that both cores (all four threads) stay at 3.4 GHz turbo during the fully loaded test. Temperature increased rapidly to 62C, then fan came on (which I can't really hear), and temperature slowly increased after that to 70C and then stabilized there. Frequency remained fully Turbo'd. This fully loaded test is not using the FP unit heavily... its mostly integer, plus whatever chrome is using (probably mostly GPU video accel and not cpu FP). So its not the absolute maximum load I can put on the system, but its already well over what most people would run it at even doing lots of stuff. Unloading the cpu but leaving YouTube up playing music, temperature instantly dropped to 65C and then headed down to 56C from there. I have to say, I am very impressed with this little guy. Being able to get Haswell i3 desktop performance from a few years ago packed into such a small form factor is amazing. I've tested many NUC's and BRIX's (as well as many other systems), and this is really the first NUC/BRIX form factor that I would be happy to use as a workstation. Mind you, I have servers to do major compile jobs on and such... I'm talking mainly for X windows driving two 4K displays with lots of xterms and chrome windows up. Video, music, etc. Not heavy processing. Addendum: I got a USB-C to HDMI cable and after a bit of scraping I got it working. The second display ran at 4K@30hz so now I have a USB-C to DP1.2 cable ordered to see if I can get them both running at 60hz. I'm still going to give the NUC 5 starts, but I will note that the NUC's USB-C port is deeper than spec, so the cable wouldn't plug in solidly or connect at first. After a bit of shaving of the cable housing I was able to push it in deep enough to connect. Insofar as I can tell, this is a problem with the NUC usb-c port being a bit too deep inside the case. I also noticed that the motherboard in the NUC wasn't properly seated, and corrected that, but the usb-c port issue looks unfixable (other than by shaving the housing of the cable I plugged into it). Addendum2: Sound output on the stereo plug has serious hum. Tried everything... grounded speakers, ungrounded speakers, even found a three prong power supply for the NUC. So I gave up on using the stereo output plug. The HDMI sound output works fine, no issues at all, so I used that. Not going to dock Intel a star for messing up the stereo output since an alternative is available. Addendum3: Still can't test with a DP1.2 cable (snafu trying to order it on Amazon, package was returned for reasons unknown), but I have two 4K monitors running at 30Hz no problem (which is fine for a workstation). Have been using this NUC as my X workstation for a while now and it works great. I'll note here that if you are having problems running 4K@60Hz, its probably that your cable isn't rated for it. In BSD/Linux you can just use xrandr to set the vertical refresh to 30hz to work with older cables. I would also like to note very specifically here that I am using a *real* NVMe SSD and not the Intel Optane junk. *NOBODY* should ever buy Intel's Optane junk. It's a rip-off and it makes zero sense to waste the NVMe slot on it. Buy a real NVMe SSD card, like a Samsung 950/951/960 series NVMe card (e.g. like a 250GB+), and install the system directly onto it. Remember that this NUC is bare-bones. So you need to also purchase the ram (DDR4 laptop memory, I recommend 8GBx2) and the SSD (I recommend a Samsung NVMe SSD of some sort). If you need tons and tons of storage, get the taller version of the NUC and install a secondary SATA SSD or HDD drive in addition to the NVMe system drive. I would still recommend a SSD as the secondary SATA drive but with a little work you could probably fit one of those fat 4TB 2.5" Seagate HDDs in the tall NUC (I have the short NUC so I can't test whether a fat 2.5" Seagate would actually fit in the tall NUC form factor). As I said, I am still going to give the NUC 5 stars even with these deficiencies. Buyers are warned :-). Get a USB-C to DP1.2 ('Club' brand adapters are what Intel seems to recommend), have an xacto knife or box cutter handy just in case you have to shave the housing to get it to plug in solidly (remember, you can also shave the NUC case housing instead, if you don't want to shave the cable), and connect your audio through the HDMI port rather than the stereo plug. -Matt

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing small footprint computer
*by C***F on September 20, 2018*

This computer provided me with everything I needed for a small home multimedia computer as part of my entertainment system and to allow me to work at home. I purchased the unit with the optane memory installed but that was a mistake since the hard drive I purchased was an M.2 SSD drive and I didn't realize the Optane memory took up the only available M.2 slot on the motherboard... no big deal, I just spent about 60$ more than I needed to. After installing the Samsung SSD 1 TB drive and two Crucial 16 GB memory modules, connecting to my LAN switch, setting up a wireless keyboard and connecting to a Samsung 55" HD tv, I installed Windows 10 Pro using a thumb drive and I was up and running. So far, so good.... extremely small footprint (honestly wouldn't even realize it was a computer until you see the two USB connections and power switch on the front), no heat issues so far and very fast (more than likely a combination of the motherboard and the 32 GB RAM). Total of four USB 3.0 connections (two on back, two on front one of which is powered) and a (I believe) Thunderbolt connection gives you plenty of options (e.g. external disc or media reader). The video card seems quite good, allowing me to use the large TV as a monitor at HD resolution (By default, the screen size was at 300%, a little big for my taste so I dropped it down a bit for a little bit more desktop real estate) All told, with this unit, the hard drive, the memory and the keyboard (all purchased through Amazon and reviewed separately) I spent less than a $1000 which I feel is a very good price for what seems like a very fast computer. I'll update if necessary but so far, so good.

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