- Azure Cloud
How to Optimise Azure VM Performance
6 Jan, 2026
£1051.90 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At **£867.85 ex‑VAT for a bare “NUC/14 Pro” board**, this is a fairly niche purchase. The ASUS NUC/14 Pro board makes sense only if you already know you want that exact small form factor and you’ve got the rest of the build sorted (case, power/thermal solution, storage, RAM, and deployment requirements). If you *don’t* have those pieces, the “bare bones” angle quietly turns into extra spend and effort—so the value only really shows up when you’re doing this as part of a repeatable standard build for the business.
Who should buy: teams standardising compact compute for places like reception/office management kiosks, meeting-room PCs, lightweight VDI/citrix endpoints, or consistent dev/test lab nodes—especially where you care about power efficiency and space more than raw expansion. Who should **not**: anyone expecting a bargain “turnkey” PC, or anyone needing lots of expansion/ports without planning the full platform around this board. If you’re buying one-off units, it’s often cheaper (and easier to support) to go for a fully built mini PC or a proper small workstation—at least until you’re confident you’ll benefit from running a controlled, repeatable bare-bones configuration.

Asus
ASUS NUC 12 Pro Kit RNUC12WSHI700000I - Barebone - mini PC 1 x Core i7 1260P / up to 4.7 GHz - RAM 0 GB - Intel Iris Xe Graphics - Gigabit Ethernet, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth 5.2, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E) - black

Asus
ASUS NUC 13 Pro Slim Kit RNUC13L3KV500000I - Barebone - mini PC 1 x Core i5 1350P / up to 4.7 GHz - vPro - RAM 0 GB - Intel Iris Xe Graphics - Bluetooth 5.3, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E), Gigabit Ethernet, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet - black

Asus
ASUS NUC 15 Pro Tall Kit RNUC15CRHC500000 - Barebone - mini PC 1 x Core 5 210H / up to 4.8 GHz - RAM 0 GB - Intel Graphics - IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7), Bluetooth 5.4, 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet - black

Asus
PN54-S1-S50083AL/R5 220 : 6C/12T 28W/M
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