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A somewhat quieter fan would also be pleasing when used in the living room, even if the one installed is not noticed adversely. Stutters might turn up only in games because the CPU cores throttle. The performance of the installed components is, as expected, good. The small desktop is very suitable for office and video (mainly 1080p). The components are easy to access and to maintain. The little dwarf scores with its compact casing, appealing design, and good build. Like in the previous test of the Core i5 NUC, we can draw a positive conclusion for the Core i3 version in the smaller casing (RYK). However, the temperatures always remained uncritical at 71 - 73 ☌ (CPU and GPU cores). The GPU also throttled from its initial 900 MHz to 700 MHz. The CPU's clock dropped permanently to 1.4 GHz when running Furmark and Prime95.
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Throttling as seen in FIFA15 set in when the graphics card was added. The results of the multi-core tests remained stable, and the NUC even managed its best rates toward the end (45 minutes runtime). Cinebench 15 ran in a loop also confirmed this impression. The core clock remained stable at 2.1 GHz, and the fan only sped up marginally to 3330 rpm. The CPU's temperatures only climbed to 55 ☌ (Aida64) and 62 ☌ (Prime95) when solely the processor was loaded. We checked the temperatures and permanent performance in the stress test. The SoC's maximum of 73 ☌ is no issue since Intel specifies it with 105 ☌. The internal temperatures recorded with HWInfo 64 are not disconcerting, either. The small cube mostly remained cool, and the hot spot of 47 ☌ on the upper side during maximum load was also no problem. The surface temperatures of the NUC based on i3 Broadwell were always uncritical in the test.