A Closer Look - Inside

Dismantling the NC02U is easy; however, you should be careful not to damage the connecting pin of its WiFi antenna.


The half-sized mini-PCIE slot is occupied by a WLAN card.


The tiny mainboard houses all essential controllers and components to allow for a small but fully featured system. You will only need to install RAM and storage and will be good to go.


The cooling solution is dead silent because of the low TDP CPU.


You had better install an SSD since it isn't only faster but more resilient to operating at increased system temperatures over the long run.


There are two DDR3 RAM slots. These only take 1.35 V SO-DIMMs.


The monitoring IC is an ITE IT8772E.


We found an Intel WGI211AT Ethernet controller on the mainboard. A single GST5009 magnetic module isolates the Ethernet ports.


A MAX3243C IC handles the RS232 port.


The SD-card reader is controlled by a Realtek RT5170 IC.


An Asmedia ASM1442K controls the HDMI port.


All polymer caps on the mainboard are by CapΧon. This is not our favourite brand, but polymer caps last for a very long time, which means these CapXons most likely won't cause any problems over the long run.


We find a number of MagnaChip MDU1512 FETs on the motherboard's solder side. These FETs are used by the mainboard's voltage regulation circuits.