ASRock NUC BOX-1260P Internal Hardware Overview
The inside of the bottom cover has a 2.5″ HDD/SSD mounting point, and a power/ data cable taped to it. We do not recommend using this slot as having a drive here can prevent air from flowing nicely inside the case. We generally want to limit the heat-generating components within these small systems. This 2.5″ mount is identical to the one in the 5800U unit, and is pictured below.
Once the bottom cover is removed, you can see a very compact unit. One can also immediately see that the NUC-1260P-1U motherboard is made by ASRock Industrial. Many vendors simply re-box Intel NUC motherboards so this is different.
The top has the Intel AX211 WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 NIC for wireless communications. This is an M.2 Key E, 2230 PCIe x1 interface.
We populated the SODIMM slots with two G.Skill Ripjaws 32GB SODIMMs for a total of 64GB. This is more ram than necessary for this use case, but we had these on hand and already validated them. The M.2 SSD slot above the WiFi module is where we put our 1TB WD Blue M.2 SSD. No particular reason for this part aside from the low power consumption and that we had this on hand. This M.2 SSD slot is a PCIe Gen4 x4 slot.
One other small item we noticed is that the SSD bowed a bit when it was fixed to the mounting point. This worked OK, but it would also not be one we would try to over-tighten.
Now, let us get to the performance.
Thermal throttling when running CPU at 90+% performance sustained a few minutes?
Why the AMD version 4X4 BOX-5600U has only one 2,5 GbE ?
I think it’s worth mentioning that one of the Type-C ports supports USB4 (and maybe also Thunderbolt), I have the i5 model and am using a 10GbE Thunderbolt NIC with it.
If it lacks TB then is it NOT a competitor to the Intel NUC
I might be talking about a different device actually, I have an Asrock Industrial NUC BOX-1240P, the main difference being the different CPU and the “industrial” branding – however it looks exactly identical to the reviewed model.
The datasheet says it supports USB4 on the Type C port pending certification, so not really official. I tested with two Thunderbolt devices, one of them a “Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt 3 SFP+” as well as an external NVMe enclosure (also TB3), it works but only on one of the Type-C ports.
Nils
I have over 100 of the Sonnet TB3 to SFP+ on my Intel NUC11 Pros and NUC13 Pros – they have been flawless and faster / more stable than the Intel and Mellanox 10GbE…
So for now we need 1L pc with 5700U, 4 mem slots, 4 x i226 and pcie x 16 slot 🙂
Does the NUC BOX-1260P support Intel vPro ?
It’s said on intel ark that the i7-1260p should support vPro Essential and the nics are i225-LM, but does the Bios allow it ?
Thanks for the feedback