After a decade of pumping out mini PCs under the NUC (short for Next Unit of Computing… catchy!) label, Intel officially downed tools on the whole project in 2023. Shortly after, Intel announced a partnership with Asus, who would continue producing NUC PCs under license, and the ROG NUC is the company's first gaming-focused offering.
It's a neat, compact, matte-black package, and comes in two flavours: the ROG NUC 760 (Core Ultra 7 155H, RTX 4060 mobile, 16 GB DDR5-5600, 512 GB M.2 drive) and the ROG NUC 970 (Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070 mobile, 32 GB DDR5-5600, 1 TB M.2 drive). Both specs are also available as barebones units called the NUC Extreme, and come without the RAM, M.2 storage or Windows 11 installation, in a plain black version of the chassis.
