The Intel NUC 11 Beast Canyon breaks the mold with a socketed desktop CPU

Most NUCs use soldered mobile processors, but the Beast Canyon is different — it runs a standard LGA 1200 socket with 11th Gen Intel desktop CPUs up to 65W. You can drop in a Core i5, i7, or even the i9-11900KB, which makes this one of the few truly upgradeable NUCs Intel ever made. It’s the closest Intel came to a socketed SFF enthusiast box.