Intel NUC 12th Mini PC Wall Street Canyon Core i5-1240P Processor 32G DDR RAM 512GB SSD, Pre-in Windows 11 Pro, 12C/16T, 12M Cache, up to 4.4 GHz, HDMI 2.0, USB 3.2

WHY?I suppose that my real question to myself was "why?". I've had two tower-style PC computers with 8 yearsold AMD processors in them. One has 32Gb of RAM and the other has 24Gb of RAM - and they are perfectly fine for what I needed them to do - usual office apps and programming\development. I have two so that if one got problematic, I could quickly flick over to the other and continue my work. They are connected via graphics cards to 4 monitors to make my work easier.But I noticed that these SFF computers like this Intel NUC were getting more, and more powerful.I COULD BE GREENER IN A LESS NOISY OFFICEI like to leave my computers on - so that I can just get on with my work the next day. But they are noisy. And the towers are big. And I imagine that they are a bit power hungry. They both have 750W power supplies but they aren't pushed anywhere near that level.And I decided that I wasn't really using the expansion capabilities of the tower PCs and that I could have a quieter SFF PC that would still connect to 4 screens, be near silent, be more powerful and use less power.ENTER THE ‎INTEL NUC 12 PRO 1240PDid research to find that because this is the 12th Generation of the Intel Core i5-1240, it was more powerful than the 11th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU's in most respects. So, although the Intel NUCs are a little more expensive than others like the highly regarded Geekom machines, I decided to go with the Intel NUC and the Intel i5-1240 processor.The Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P had an extra 16Gb of RAM to take me to 32Gb, and a promotion was running which reduced the price by £90, which helped to swing it for me. The total price still took it to something like £80 more than the other SFF I was looking at, but I was then able to reason that I was paying £80 more for more performance - and I pressed the Add to Basket button.REALITYThe Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P is tiny. It is quiet. It's well built in an Apple Computer kind of way. And a joy to open up and work to upgrade. 4 screws later, I was inside to upgrade the standard 512Gb NVME SSD to 1TB, and installed an additional 1TB 2.5" hard disk.This PC now also has virtual PCs that run Windows Server, replacing another old server computer of mine.And all with an external 120W power supply.I've benchmarked my Intel NUC and it is about 4 times more powerful than my old tower PC. Graphics-wise, it's about the same as my old PC. The Intel NUC is rated to be able to still play many games but I'm not really into games now.OVERALLI'd highly recommend a Small Form Factor PC like this Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P. Mine is even faster and far more responsive in general use. A friend got an SFF model from Trigkey and he's also happy. So the SFF revolution has begun largely because prices have come down and expandability options have increased. Once you have chosen an SFF, you can swap out anything in the SFF except the CPU and Graphics. And I think that there's no need to buy a tower PC unless you need to house an even more powerful CPU and graphics card because perhaps you perform demanding functions like video editing or you are a gamer!Get this Intel NUC 12 Pro 1240P if you want a high quality PC and you want to start off with the most powerful SFF available (for now..!)

My son was delighted to try this PC, he has quite an outdated system and he's been saying for ages he wanted something new for his games so he was the perfect candidate.I was amazed at how compact the PC is, it's 14cm wide, our old system was 3 times that size and much heavier, it's crazy how small they can make these things now. You just receive the PC, no keyboard or monitor etc but we already have those things. There's enough ports to plug everything into plus some extras.Speed wise, my son said this is much faster than his old system, it has Windows 11 pre-installed and he was up and running in a short time. He's experienced no glitches, crashing, or long load times so far.All in all, an excellent system, compact, lightweight but packs a punch with a decent amount of memory to handle my sons needs, recommended.

I'm a real fan of these mini-PCs. OK so you don't get any of the essential peripherals - like a keyboard or mouse but you can pick these up really cheaply (I have a few knocking around anyway) and, of course, you will need a decent sized monitor to make this outfit viable - but luckily I likewise have a 27" curved monitor which was just waiting for a little outfit like this to turn up - so hurrah!It's quite a serious bit of kit with 32GB of RAM, an intel i5-1240 P Processor and a 512 GB solid state Hard drive (plus a space for another hard drive - or like me add a 4TB HD you already have via a USB slot). It also comes with Windows 11 pre-installed - which is great and allowed me to get up and running in minutes - and then I attached an external DVD drive and uploaded MS Office and was away. I will say it again it's a nice bit of kit and hums away happily doing pretty much everything you need as fast as you need.I hooked it up to the internet and browsed a few things, played music via Youtube (with some external speakers), copied lots of my Doc and xls files across no problem, played a few resource hungry games just to put it through its paces and, so far , it's working really well. Faster than my existing All-in-One Dell desktop. I can't really find any faults in it - yes the £869 price tag is a little heavy as you still need to get all these peripherals to get it up and running but then it IS a serious bit of kit. Hence the full 5 stars from me.

This pc is great. It's got plenty of ports and a powerful cpu, ample ram and a nice fast ssd. Windows 11 takes 5 minutes to set up and it's a lean version with no crapware anywhere. So far I have been using it for weeks for general office tasks - emails, spreadsheets, word, internet. A little photo editing and vector drawing and nothing slowed it down so far. Even some gaming could be possible but this is where this machine would lack - not that it's intended to be used that way anyway. Even if it manages to run some games I would think throttling would occur as the little case would not be able to get rid of the excess heat. But it's got everything for work and studying in a seriously small form factor and realitvely quiet case. Recommended

This is a brilliant compact piece of kit. Comes with windows 11 installed. It runs windows 11 with no problems so far.It's so versatile can drop it into my backpack and have it as an everyday carry to the office and just a simple HDMI connection to a monitor. Intel NUC has a great spec for that home office use case. A Core i5-1240P Processor combined with a healthy 32G DDR RAM and a 512GB SSD works amazingly well. I mostly use it with my adobe premier editing and no complain so far. It does everything I want it to do. I can really recommend this to anyone looking for an absolutely tiny mini PC.

Ok, I'm not a gamer (anymore) and only do web surfing, email, 'Office products'... I had a massive 'I Buy Power' gaming workstation under my desk for many a year (think it's on 8 years now) and the poor desk started to fall apart (those 'quick locks' just break after so many moves) and with a desk replacement I started thinking I don't need something sitting on the floor taking up space...The Intel NUC Mini PC appears to be the answer! It's got 32GB of RAM (same as my old workstation) and processing power is a few years ahead of the old system. Graphics power "probably" could be better IF I was doing graphics or gaming but I'm not and didn't use 70% of the old workstation graphics abilities.PRO:1) Cost, it's much cheaper than many systems with this power2) Footprint, I'm going to mount this on the wall behind my wall mounted dual monitors. No more floor space (or desk space) taken up.3) Hey, it's a computer and nowadays everything is plug n play and setup is EASY.CON (well, IF I had to come up with something):1) Well, my old workstation had 1 TB HDD, this has 512 GB. Ok, this REALLY isn't a problem as I use Synology NAS for storage, home drive and shared drives and just really need to put stuff there instead of locally.2) (I'm REALLY reaching here...) I originally mounted the Mini PC on the back of a monitor so it was off my desk and really cleaned up the look. Now that my monitors are on a wall mount, I had to put the Mini PC back on my desk. But just maybe I'll mount it to the wall behind a monitor?BOTTOM LINE: Overall very good for the price, performance is everything I need (web, Microsoft Office products, video's) and having the small footprint is a win no mater how you look at it. The availability of add in HDDs (and low cost) is plus, IF I ever decide I actually need more disk space.Highly suggested for someone who is NOT a gamer and wants a good computer.

Already needed to update the BIOS. I was checking on warrantee for peace of mind. The intel site said it was out of warrantee. I contacted amazon[which stated they would stand behind the stated warrantee], but I never did hear from the builder about the warrantee. Disconcerting.... since I re-did the BIOS it has been working ok. It still has some glitches, but I'm still learning how it operates. Fingers crossed!

This is the perfect PC for gaming. I would say the best quality about it is it’s speed. This is what you need if if you need your picture to be on point and. If lagging is a big no-no for you. This PC does everything it advertises.

Wow! Where to begin with this thing? For some background, I'm a PC enthusiast and regularly build my own rigs. I hadn't seen these Intel NUC PCs before so I jumped on the chance to try one out.Form Factor:There's so much to like here! First off, the form factor is TINY. I included a picture; this basically sits in the palm of my hand, and I don't have very big hands. From a power perspective, this means you're going to get an external power brick with the device, which probably adds 25% more to the size of the package all-in, but this can be stored away under your desk.Hardware:From the headline, you can see you get a Core i5, 32GB of RAM, and a 512 GB SSD.This has Bluetooth and WiFi built in (there's a very small antenna you screw in to enhance reception.), so no need for a CAT3 cable (though it has a port for wired network connections). The WiFi performance was excellent; I was able to reach the full 400Mbps that internet plan allows for.In addition to the power cord, you get what appears to be a 2" HDMI cable. You also get a mounting plate which you can use to mount this thing in an array of other NUC PCs. That's it - you need to supply all other peripherals, such as the keyboard and mouse.Since these are kit computers in a sense, I opened one up to see inside. From the included picture you can see everything that can be swapped, specifically the new series of NVm.2 style SSDs. I didn't realize it at first, but there's an entire tray at the bottom for a SATA SSD, and there's actually a removable slot that allows you to run a SATA cord from an external device IN to this device, so you don't actually physically need to put the drive in. Very clean and straightforward insides here, they didn't try to cram everything in so there's airflow.Performance:This isn't going to be a performance review - I don't have the testing equipment and such to run any meaningful side-by-side comparisons.However, the Intel iRISx graphics card is decent - to give you a sense of what it has, the Nvidia RTX 3080 with 8GB I have in my gaming rig has about 3x the double precision processing power (among other things). But that card cost more than this entire computer.From a gaming perspective the performance here is what I would consider to be "nominal." I downloaded the Steam client on this and benchmarked Steel Division 2, which is the sort of game where you can really crank the settings depending on your hardware. Again on my 3080, I can run the highest settings in every category on an ultrawide 49" 1440p monitor. With this PC, I had to run almost all the lowest settings, with several off, to play the same game at 1080p - but it was still completely playable.So if you're looking for a gaming rig, you're probably better off getting an XBox or a PS5. But those two aren't computers, like this is.Other:Sound-wise, this is quiet but not silent. My current gaming build - a NZXT 510 Elite with 4 fans and a PSU are actually quieter, but this is just a low-level whir, similar to what you'd get out of a laptop (except with better internal airflow).This PC does generate heat - even with good cool airflow nearby and the fans whirring, you can feel the ports in the back getting hot (indicative of internal temperatures).Overall:I continue to be amazed by the offerings out there these days. When I was younger, you had to have a huge tower to get this level of performance. This is just like a big Alexa puck. The form factor gives it all sorts of use potential beyond a simple desktop, while still allowing for plenty of expansion.From a price perspective, you really end up getting a lot (right now this item is listed at $780). Considering you're getting an i5, plus 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, the only thing separating this from a higher end gaming rig is a discrete graphics card. You also get a paid-up version of Windows 11.Very happy overall I was able to snag this product - I hope you find this review to be helpful!

Pretty good hardware performance but poor way of implementation. It has 3 different types of ssd slots such as m.2 nvme Gen 4. 2280, m.2 nvme Gen 3. 2242, and 2.5" sata 3 ssd. In practice you will have 3 different types of ssd with 3 different capacities and with different speed. What is the point of this implementation, make your life "easier"?