Reliability of Nucleus or suggestions for alternatives?

[Geoff_Coupe]

BTW, I’ve been running a ROCK/NUC system in a fanless Akasa case 24/7 since June 2017 - no hardware failures as yet.

NUC 7i7BNH fan speed

The transplant operation went well, I think. The NUC7i5BNH motherboard is now in the Akasa Newton S7 case. It all seemed straightforward. I used the thermal transfer pads supplied in the Akasa kit - in the video that Marius posted, the guy said that he eventually used thermal paste for better heat transfer properties. That may well be more efficient. The CPU in my Akasa is running warm @ 50 degrees C, but it’s well within operational limits I believe, so I will probably keep it this way. I us…