ASRock Industrial NUC-325 Intel Core Ultra 5 325 NUC Motherboard with ECC, Quad Display and Dual 2.5GbE

Not every embedded design needs the fastest processor in a range. Signage players, light industrial equipment and smaller edge AI jobs often benefit more from current I/O, ECC support and a lower bill of materials. The ASRock Industrial NUC-325 is the Core Ultra 5 board in the NUC Ultra 300 Motherboard Series series, sharing the same NUC board design, memory and I/O as its higher-core sibling.

The Intel Core Ultra 5 325 is a Panther Lake-H processor with eight cores (four performance and four low-power efficient) rated at 25 W, with Intel Xe3 graphics and an Intel NPU rated at 47 TOPS. That gives the NUC-325 room for AI inference alongside application code without moving to the larger processor. Two SO-DIMM sockets take up to 128 GB of DDR5 6400, and Intel In-Band ECC is supported to help protect data on long-running tasks. 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. 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, one at PCIe Gen5 and one at Gen4, take NVMe SSDs with Intel VMD RAID 0 or 1, 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-325 is rated from -20 °C to 70 °C, stores from -40 °C to 85 °C and carries CE and FCC marks. We supply it configured and tested, with memory, NVMe storage and the OS image fitted. The NUC-358H moves to a 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H with Arc B390 graphics, and the NUC BOX-325 puts the Core Ultra 5 325 in a complete NUC mini PC.