I currently run my Sandstorm.io server on an 7th Gen i5 NUC. I recently picked up some old budget Gigabyte BRIXs that will take on some other fun roles. (A 6th

I currently run my Sandstorm.io server on an 7th Gen i5 NUC. I recently picked up some old budget Gigabyte BRIXs that will take on some other fun roles. (A 6th Gen Celeron and a 4th Gen i5.) I have wanted to run an AD domain for managing my gaming PCs, but I had some difficulty with ESXi IIRC (probably also NIC issues, like in the article), and Intel has decided to be a complete tool about network drivers for "consumer" chipsets being installable on Windows Server. One of the perks of the old 4th Gen BRIX unit: A Realtek LAN NIC. One of the things I'm sad about on newer NUCs is the removal of the LED ring. 7th gen NUCs in particular have a neat multicolor LED ring around the front panel that can be programmatically controlled... pretty neat for server status like uses. But I suspect they found it rarely used and so left it out for cost or something.