AkasaTuring | for Intel 8th Gen NUC (Bean Canyon) | PC Fanless Case | Pure Aluminium Heatsink | Passive CPU Cooling | Support 2.5" SATA HDD/SSD | A-NUC45-M1B

Very happy with this, my Intel NUC (an 8 series i3) was very noisy, with the fan on balanced mode it still seemed to speed up every few minutes. I had previously replace the fan and recently it started failing again. It seemed better to remove the issue and get a fanless case.The Akasa X8 is one of only two choices (I could find anyway), both Akasa and I preferred the X8's form factor. Its covers more desk space but looks pretty good and it's well made. Assembly was easy enough but the instructions are poor, go to YouTube and watch the assembly demo (just search for the name).You will need to purchase WiFi antenna and Pigtails. I used Akasa ones (Akasa Omni-Directional Tri-Band Wi-Fi Antenna and Akasa I-PEX MHF4L to RP-SMA pigtails) as they are going to fit, unlike the first pigtails I bought.During assembly ensure properly clean the CPU with Isopropyl Alcohol (nail varnish remover is a good substitute). Also, use enough of the included Thermal compound on the CPU as this is vital for the case to do it's job.Once completed it was strange not hearing any sound at all while it booted up and made we wonder why I hadn't done it the first time the fan went.I used AIDA64 to do a quick stress test on the CPU, after about 6 minutes it had only briefly maxed out at 58c, idle it's about 20c.Another bonus, with the new Akasa WiFi antenna I saw a huge gain in speed and reliably of my connection, it now hits the max speed of my Internet connection.An excellent upgrade, not cheap but worth it, Recommended.

I had a NUC10i7FNH that constantly overheated (+95 C) even when running a standard amount of applications. I bought the Akasa turning case, and now it rarely goes about 70 C, even when running the "heavy Load" App to test out the cooling. Very pleased with my purchase. The instructions are a little light, though there are some good youtube videos of others fitting the NUC to the case. Also, you need to search out instructions for removing the NUC motherboard from the case (not straightforward in my case as various connectors were sticking to the case.) But once extracted and fitted, performance is better than I had hoped.

I am having hard time to give it a fair score. I own Akasa Turing for 8th gen as well which I find absolutely perfect. This one is also dead silent, nice looking and well performing in terms of temps. My NUC10i5 reaches 85 Celsius after 1h stress test and works at 3500MHz without throttling. It idles at 30 Celsius. All good here.But... Akasa Turing for NUC8 installation is a peace of cake. I did it three times and never had any issues. For this one I needed three attempts to make it work. Firstly, I had power button issue mentioned by others. It did not move a bit and did not power my NUC after first installation attempt. After second one I had problems with LAN port - cable was loose and did not lock with characteristic click sound. After quite a lot of time I found out that NUC10 board does not fit well in mounting points. It is easy to screw it in incorrect position and this is what causes all issues. Everything worked perfectly when I firmy pushed NUC board towards rear I/O panel. Then it is perfect. So this is my advice: start mounting NUC board by screwing rear screws first while firmy pushing NUC board backwards. It really helps.All in all, case itself is perfect. I love it. But at this price tag I would expect better fit and easier installation as it was in NUC8 Akasa Turing. Also, this one is not on Intel QVL so you void warranty by dissembling NUC10iXFNK/FNH to install it in this case. I wonder why as Akasa Turing for NUC8 is on QVL. Definitely a step backwards. Finally, my unit arrived with a very tiny small scratch. It is visible only from close distance at particular angles bit again - I expect flawless product at this price tag. Due to all these cons I take one start from my score, despite the case being fantastic.

This is a really great fanless case; a well-constructed and quality item. Everything is thoughtfully included in the kit down to the thermal paste and every set of screws you might need. It even includes SATA connectors for the 2nd SSD, even though you may not be installing one. It went together really easily, everything aligns and fits first time. The instructions are simple and easy enough to follow, but if you need some extra help then there's an official Akasa build video on YouTube. The hardest part (for me) was getting the NUC motherboard out of its original case, but now I have a totally silent media server.

Purchased this to heat the corner of my room and it is working really well.The build quality is above average and the install of a NUC into it is straight forward. I would recommend a few extra things, m2 heatsink, wifi antenna and also much better thermal paste.

The case turned my very noisy 8th generation i7 NUC with a faulty, overworked fan into a cool and silent machine. The instructions are clear and the Youtube tutorials are even clearer. It feels good quality and solid and it looks nice on the shelf. There are a few disadvantages to consider: 1. I lost access to the SD card reader. 2. it is significantly heavier. 3. it is bulkier.

Great for silent work station, it is slim but takes up a lot of space, can mount behind the TV/Monitor or just lie flat on desk. After installing correctly, and applied thermal paste etc, the NUC would still overheat and restart after a couple of hours of gaming (albion online). The case also gets toasty, using an external solves this issue, but not the original issue of going silent.Maybe I did something wrong, maybe I didn't but the NUC and this case gets hot for me when i throw lots of work at it.

It took me about 20 minutes to install my NUC into this fanless case. Not complicated. There are clear instructions provided and plenty of YouTube videos if needed. Keeps the NUC well cooled.

I have the NUC85iBEH model. It has been a faithful performer, but it could heat a small house under heavy load, and the fan noise was starting to bother me. The design of the NUC made it impossible to get to the fan without removing the entire motherboard, so I saw the Akasa Plato X8 as an opportunity to permenantly resolve my heat and fan issues by eliminating the fan altogether. You remove the motherboard from the original case, and place it in the Plato X8.First of all, the pictures of the Akasa should tell you that your resulting case is going to take up significantly more space in your rack or cabinet. You are replacing the small NUC case with a hunk of aluminum that is a giant heat sink which will absorb and spread the heat from your CPU to obviate the need for a fan and the noise that comes with it.In my eyes, this hefty aluminum hunk of heat sink is beautiful, and it abolutely works. All of the front and rear jacks on your original NUC case are duplicated. In fact, the rear panel has two extra openings for Wifi antennas, which are not included with the case. And the wifi antennas which would work with this case are the kind that use two of the vertical black sticks which have wires that plug into the Wifi card on your computer. The original NUC case uses wires that run along the inside of the box. That arrangement does not work with the replacement solid aluminium Plato X8. The aluminum case would block the wifi signal from a wire antenna inside the enclosure. The antenna kits are readily available on Amazon. For my NUC85iBEH, the wifi card required an antenna array with MHF4 connections. Connecting and disconnecting the tiny antenna leads was the most challenging part of the assembly.For all the rest of the connections, the Plato X8 kit supplied the cables to connect to the motherboard. The instructions are not verbose and use diagrams to describe the various parts and how to install them. When you get the motherboard out of the original case, You have to remove the thermal compound underneath the CPU and wipe the exposed area with alcohol gently to fully clean it. You use the supplied thermal compound to fully coat the bottom of the CPU which touches an aluminum block underneath it in the new case. Once you have screwed the motherboard down, connect the cables, and you are ready to power up. I was slow and cautious, and it took me about an hour to remove the motherboard from the original case, clean the CPU contact points, screw the motherboard down, and connect all the cables.With my NUC85iBEH, I lost none of the controls or connections on the front and back panels of the original case. My original case did have a micro SD card slot on the side of the case, so that is lost with the new case, but it is the only feature lost for me. That did not bother me, as I had never used it.When I pressed the front button to boot up, the comptuter booted up in total silence. There is no fan noise, ever. I have had the computer on for two solid days, and the top of the alumimum case is a little warm - nothing more. Using the CAM software to monitor CPU temperature after running for two days, I show a temperature of 37 degrees Celcius. Of course, this computer is used as an HTPC to listen to music and watch videos, so it is really never fully taxed in my usage. Nonethess, the fan used to come on all the time, and was distracting in a small room. And if I ever waited too long to clean the fan, the computer could get hot enough to occasionally have a thermal shutdown. Now there is no more fan to clean, and the motherboard assembly is in a fully enclosed case which should make it invulnerable to dust.I have attached a picture of the finished case in operation as well as my old NUC case and fan in its disassembled state. I did not take a picture of the motherboard installed in either case, but now that the project is finished, I did not want to open the new case back up.The Akasa Plato X8 is beautiful and practical, and I love it.

Like most people leaving ratings, I found the fan to the NUC (NUC8i3) to be terribly loud to the point of turning the NUC off when not in use instead of letting it idle.Finding Akasa's fanless option seemed like the best (albeit expensive) option. However, once getting the case delivered you can see the price is well worth it.Not only do you get the case but also:* Thermal compound* SATA SSD cables (for additional SATA SSD)* SATA SSD mounting kit* VESA backets* M.2 SSD cooling components (thermal pads and aluminum block)Assembly was easy once checking out the video.The NUC is now silent and hovering around 30c, this is probably due to me not adding enough compound, but will rectify this shortly.Additional, the SATA power cable was smashed during delivery, after alerting Akasa about it, their team did a really good job in getting me a new cable as they followed up on almost a daily basis until the cable was in my hands.The only downsides I encountered are* The IR redirector (plastic rod) isn't lining up with the receiver on the NUC, haven't tested yet* The power LED is incredibly bright (had to add a bit of tape to mute the shine)5/5 would definitely buy again

Il manque toutes pièces détachée. C'est à dire les supports SSD, toutes les vis, la pâte thermique. Ce boîtier est inutisable en l'état. Je l'ai commandé 2 fois et dans les deux cas il manquait toutes les pièces détachées.

BTW - if your external wireless don't fit your NUC, which is what happened to me, there are open venting within the fins that you can't see on any pictures when you buy it. So if you pull apart the 2 wireless antenna's out of the NUC carefully, you can recycle the NUC's built in wireless antennas with the wonderful sticky fold that Intel used in the original case. Stick the small antennas to the walls of an external fins without anyone even noticing them. The one with the longer cables can go on the opposite side of the case fins and the short will fit the closest wall. So thank goodness for the extra ventilation that this case was designed with.I have been waiting to own a fanless case for more than 20 years and I am happy to finally own one, well worth my effort.Only complaint is the shipping cost but was at least shipped properly unlike so many other packages I saw this winter that were damaged and or stolen and that's just not funny.

Passt alles, sieht toll aus und kühlt besser ohne Lüfter als der laute Lüfter im originalGehäuse vom Intel Nuc.