ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-J6412 Intel Celeron J6412 Elkhart Lake NUC PC with Dual GbE LAN

Not every kiosk, data logger or point-of-sale terminal needs a Core processor, and in many of them low power draw and a modest price matter more than peak speed. The ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-J6412 is an industrial mini PC for those jobs, built around an Intel Elkhart Lake SoC with two GbE ports and two display outputs in a 110 x 117.5 x 47.85 mm case.

The NUC BOX-J6412 uses an Intel Celeron J6412, a quad-core Elkhart Lake SoC with a maximum speed of 2.6 GHz and a 10 W rating, with Intel Gen 11 graphics on chip. That is enough for browser kiosks, thin-client sessions, signage playback and data collection. Two SO-DIMM sockets take dual-channel DDR4-3200 up to 32 GB. Storage is an M.2 Key M slot that accepts PCIe x1 or SATA3 SSDs in 2242 to 2280 length, plus a SATA3 port, and TPM 2.0 is on board.

Two GbE ports on Realtek RTL8111 controllers sit on the rear, with HDMI 2.0b, DP 1.4, a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A port and a USB 2.0 port. The front carries a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A port, two USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C ports and an audio jack. HDMI and DP each reach 4096 x 2160 at 60 Hz for a dual-display setup. An M.2 Key E slot holds an 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2 module, and a 19 V, 65 W adapter powers the unit, with AT or ATX modes for automatic start-up.

The NUC BOX-J6412 is fan-cooled and rated for 0 °C to 40 °C, so this industrial mini PC suits shops, offices and reception areas rather than unheated sites. ASRock Industrial lists CE and FCC Class A compliance and Windows 10 support, with a watchdog timer and a VESA bracket included. For more compute in the same case, the NUC BOX-1220P steps up to a 12th Gen Core i3 with dual 2.5GbE.