ASRock Industrial NUC-225H Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NUC Board with Quad Display and Dual 2.5GbE

Signage players and light industrial equipment rarely need the top processor in a range, but they do benefit from current display outputs, fast networking and a choice of storage. The ASRock Industrial NUC-225H is the Core Ultra 5 board in the NUC Ultra 200 Motherboard Series series, sharing the NUC board design, I/O and Intel vPro support of its sibling with a lower-core processor.

The Intel Core Ultra 5 225H is an Arrow Lake-H processor with 14 cores (four performance and eight efficient) rated at 28 W, with Intel Arc 130T graphics and an Intel NPU rated at 13 TOPS. In practice, that gives the NUC-225H headroom for multi-screen playback and light AI inference next to application code. Two SO-DIMM sockets take up to 96 GB of DDR5 6400, and Intel PTT firmware TPM and a watchdog timer are built in.

Networking is two Intel 2.5GbE ports, an I226LM on LAN1 and an I226V on LAN2, and ASRock Industrial lists Intel vPro support. Up to four displays can run at once from two HDMI 2.1 outputs, DisplayPort 2.1 through a USB4 port with Thunderbolt 4 support and DisplayPort 1.4a through a USB 3.2 Type-C port. Three USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A ports, a combo audio jack, two internal USB 2.0 and one internal RS-232/422/485 header cover peripherals. Two M.2 Key M sockets on PCIe Gen4 take NVMe SSDs with Intel VMD RAID 0 or 1, a SATA 6 Gb/s port takes a further drive, and an M.2 Key E socket with CNVi takes an optional Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module.

Power is 12 to 24 V DC through a DC jack, with AT and ATX power-on modes. The NUC-225H is rated from -20 °C to 70 °C and stores from -40 °C to 85 °C. We supply it configured and tested, with memory, storage and the OS image fitted. The NUC-255H moves to a 16-core Core Ultra 7 255H with Arc 140T graphics, and the NUC BOX-225H puts the Core Ultra 5 225H in a complete NUC mini PC.