There are excellent passively cooled cases for the HTPC crowd, that work very well for regular desktop use. Some can cool the real deal desktop Intel processors.
The performance is something else entirely from the super low power NUC stuff. Video editing and processing is suddenly not a problem.
I got the H1 from HD-Plex.com myself. It's specified to cool 55W but I run the 65W version of the i7 (so it's semi-low power) without any problems, not even at full load for extended periods of time.
It takes mini-ITX motherboards and stuffing it with 16 GB RAM was not a problem. It was a bit fiddly to everything together but the build quality is great.
The performance is something else entirely from the super low power NUC stuff. Video editing and processing is suddenly not a problem.
I got the H1 from HD-Plex.com myself. It's specified to cool 55W but I run the 65W version of the i7 (so it's semi-low power) without any problems, not even at full load for extended periods of time.
It takes mini-ITX motherboards and stuffing it with 16 GB RAM was not a problem. It was a bit fiddly to everything together but the build quality is great.
No relation, just a satisfied customer.