Akasa Newton CTN, Designed for Intel® 11th Generation NUC Core™ i3 (Tiger Canyon), Compact 1.06L Aluminium Fanless Case, Supports one M.2 SSD and VESA mounting, A-NUC75-M1B

I'll keep this brief. I have a nuc 10 i7 model that was hitting 80 - 100 degrees Celsius at 20 tdp, which is below recommended spec. I was certain that after a year of use, dust must have built up in the cpu fan. After disassembly, I found literally no dust. The stock cooler is just poorly made. I switched to the Akasa Turing FX today. I never write reviews so you gotta know that this product stood out to me. Here's a short list of why it's a worthy purchase: 1. Easy to install with YouTube guide assistance 2. Premium build materials, heavy but not too big 3. Temperature drop of 10 - 12 c at 25 TDP. Thought of pushing to 30 but decided to stay within spec. 4. Idles at 28c 5. Benchmarks after an hour hit 80 or so max 6. It looks well designed Problems with the Turing FX: 1. Power button fits fine but it could be more responsive (maybe a click noise, some feedback) 2. Some of the screws are a b**** to install 3. The SSD heatsink was awful to line up within the case 4. Accessories like wifi antanne are not included Overall it's still a 5/5 for me because Plex transcoding and subtitle generation no longer pushes my nuc to the brink. I can run multiple self-hosted apps without a hitch. If you're gonna game hardcore on it, then this review is not for you. I would suspect this case is for the crowd that hosts media applications and such. Thanks for the case, I will cherish it for years to come.

What's not to love about this case? It's beautiful to look at, the build quality is superb, and it keeps the CPU of the NUC cool. At idle my CPU temp is 31 degrees Celsius! I've used other Akasa cases and this one is pretty easy to install compared to some of their other offerings (I'm talking to you, Galactico!). As others have mentioned the installation pamphlet leaves much to be desired, primarily because it's almost entirely pictures. But for me that wasn't an issue because I've been through it before, and I've assembled my share of IKEA furniture. You can't beat the cooling, and you can't beat the cool design. One thing that was a pain was installing the wifi wires. Which ever masochist decided wifi connectors had to be that small is one evil son of a...well, let's just say I can hear them laughing when I've been trying to get the tiny wire to snap onto the tiny connector. Incidentally, for those wanting wifi, I can highly recomment this antenna/wire set: "WiFi Antenna 8dBi Omni RP-SMA Male 2.4Ghz 5.8Ghz Dual Band + 20cm U.FL IPEX MHF4 to RP SMA Female Extension Cable for M.2 NGFF Card Notebook Drone 2 Pcs" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QKF18KM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details They fit and work perfectly. So, another fantastic fanless NUC case from Akasa. Just be prepared with a magnifying glass, flashlight, and lots of patience if you're installing the wifi antennas.

My NUC10 was thermal throttling under virtually no load -- simply booting to Windows was enough -- in the original case. This caused the fan to spin up to a very loud level, and got super annoying while using it as an HTPC to watch videos. The Akasa Turing FX completely fixed that -- the NUC is now utterly silent and no longer thermal throttles no matter what video I play. I only have a few complaints, but they're both pretty minor hence the four star rating. The first is the instructions. They're really not clear. There's virtually no text to tell you what to do -- just a series of pictures. In one of them, they showed the installation of a part that didn't seem to be included with the case. Eventually I realized that part came from the original NUC case, but they could have easily added a small note to make that more clear. Once you realize what they want you to do, it's not that difficult to build... But deciphering the instructions was a bit of a pain. The second has to do with the 2.5" SSD mount. I don't really have any use for the 2.5" SSD at the moment, so I wanted to install it and just leave it in there for the future. However, this would leave a part flopping around on the inside of the case, where it could end up hitting the motherboard and damaging it. Ultimately, since I wasn't going to use a 2.5" SSD I simply left this out of the case entirely. It would have been great to see something set up where the connector could have been installed and tucked away for future use.

BTW - if your external wireless don't fit your NUC, which is what happened to me, there are open venting within the fins that you can't see on any pictures when you buy it. So if you pull apart the 2 wireless antenna's out of the NUC carefully, you can recycle the NUC's built in wireless antennas with the wonderful sticky fold that Intel used in the original case. Stick the small antennas to the walls of an external fins without anyone even noticing them. The one with the longer cables can go on the opposite side of the case fins and the short will fit the closest wall. So thank goodness for the extra ventilation that this case was designed with. I have been waiting to own a fanless case for more than 20 years and I am happy to finally own one, well worth my effort. Only complaint is the shipping cost but was at least shipped properly unlike so many other packages I saw this winter that were damaged and or stolen and that's just not funny.

Works well, designed well. I have the Nuc 8 i5 and it suits it well

Very nice case. Finally no fan noise, which is pretty loud now and then on the NUC. Core temperature averages between 47 and 65 degrees celcius. Installing the board was pretty easy.

Passt alles, sieht toll aus und kühlt besser ohne Lüfter als der laute Lüfter im original Gehäuse vom Intel Nuc.

Un case che è in realtà un dissipatore fanless pronto ad accogliere la scheda del NUC + le unità disco. Ha un suo fascino nella fattura appena un po' grezza. Funziona perfettamente allo scopo, con temperature inferiori alla situazione precedente di 20-30 gradi. Il montaggio si è rivelato più facile del previsto, i tutorial su YouTube aiutano. Non ho riscontrato il problema del pulsante di accensione, si avverte senza problemi un "click" come nel case originale. Sarebbe perfetto, se non fosse che le viti in dotazione sembrano fatte di burro, e se per qualche motivo dovete aprirle e chiuderle un paio di volte di più rispetto al minimo sindacale per montarlo, rischiate di rovinare irrimediabilmente la testa e di non riuscire più a estrarle. Arriverei a consigliare di comprare un set di viti migliori archiviando completamente quelle contenute nella confezione.