Raspberry Pis are one part. You take it out of the box and put a memory card in. Have you ever put one together? There is no mismatching. You can buy the offi

Raspberry Pis are one part. You take it out of the box and put a memory card in. Have you ever put one together? There is no mismatching. You can buy the official power supply or an unofficial one, but 5v with 3a is not exactly IRQ configuration. Have you ever used a NUC? Thermals are a big concern. They usually throttle heavily out of the box and need a lot of configuration in the bios to stop Intel's "turbo boost" as well as get them to throttle at a higher temperature. Even then they will usually run much better with their case off. I think both are cool devices, but the things you are saying about the pi are bizarre and makes me think you haven't actually put one together.