Intel NUC cooling mod

Add extra air cooling to the Intel NUC to avoid CPU throttling and extend the life of components.

In this video I explore different options for improving the cooling of the intel NUC. Although ultimately none of them worked that well.

I tried to force air into the sides, from the bottom and against the top CPU cooler/fan. My idea was to 3D print a fan holder that would clip onto the side of the NUC and force fresh air into the side vent. After making a cardboard prototype, I realized that it didn't seem to make much difference.

My ambient room temperature is around 25-30C and the NUC sits at around 45-50C when the system is idle. During video editing I often hit 80C; the fan then kicks into turbo mode and tries to balance the CPU frequency to maintain 80C or less.

It's the Intel NUC5i7RYH. Inside you'll find a 5th generation i7 CPU, intel iris 6100 Graphics, 16GB (1600 MHz DDR3) Crucial RAM, Samsung 250GB 850 EVO M.2 SATA SSD (Boot), 120GB SATA 3 Corsair SSD. It's running Mac OS X Yosemite.

Under normal use, it only consumes around 15-40 watts, much less than a typical desktop computer.

Despite its tiny size and low power usage, it still manages to keep up with my video editing and export rendered videos from Final Cut Pro in a very quick time. It also performs well with multiple virtual machines running inside Mac, for example Windows XP, Windows 10 and Ubuntu.

I was originally using this Intel NUC as a ESXI machine to run many virtual machines but my main desktop computer has been extremely unreliable so I decided to make the NUC as my full time desktop computer instead.

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