The only NUC that I've heard that's loud under load is the new skull canyon which has the IRIS 580 and looks like a black plastic GPU, and sometimes sounds like

The only NUC that I've heard that's loud under load is the new skull canyon which has the IRIS 580 and looks like a black plastic GPU, and sometimes sounds like a GPU. The "normal" NUCs that are approximately mac mini in size seem quite in a wide range of use cases.