Cirrus7 fanless i7, will it work?

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Hi James

Yes the NUC7i7DN** is supported.

The Best NUC for ROCK?

Yes, the NUC7i7DN* is supported. It’s what I’ve been using for my personal system for the past few months, too, and it has been trouble-free. Intel did a great job–4 cores/8 threads, but also great single-threaded performance (up to 4.2GHz IIRC), and all of that in a 15W TDP for the CPU. Incredible performance/watt.

I’m not in the UK but from a quick and dirty Google search it looks like it may be BLKNUC7I7DNH3E for the UK?

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel-nuc-7-kit-nuc7i7dnhe-i7-8650u-vpro-ddr4-so-dimm-m2-pcie-25-sata3-bay-intel-uhd-620-2x-hdmi-20

I’m not 100% sure so please do a look around at other authorised UK sellers to confirm.

Did you transplant the motherboard from the original case into the Akasa?

Yes that’s really all that’s involved. Taking the motherboard out of the original NUC case and putting it into the Akasa case, and just connecting the plugs etc. Instructions of what to connect to what come with the Akasa case.

By the way, Quiet PC UK (where I bought the Akasa case from) can build the entire thing for you, with the correct NUC… Just contact them. You would just need to do the software (ROCK) install yourself.

Hope that helps.