Just to clear up these potential doubts from you: these devices worked fine on my previous (dead) NUC11. It's just this NUC12 with Windows 11 that have these issues, in my experience. It's not an issue on the cables and whatnot (considering I even installed Windows 11 with the NVMe Thunderbolt enclosure). Looking at the benchmark scores for the NUC 12 Pro, a very clear pattern emerges: Aside from the workstation HP Z2 Mini G9, the Intel NUC 12 Pro is the most powerful mini PC of the bunch. While some of this lead may be influenced by variables such as memory and storage—which aren't going to be standard in a bare-bones kit, since you provide those yourself—the CPU performance is a huge improvement over little NUC-likes. As well it should be, with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7 inside. We test Windows PCs' graphics with two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark: Night Raid (more modest, suitable for laptops with integrated graphics), and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs).

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