Intel Drivers Internet

The most important thing about this is that it uses an Intel Chipset and therefore does not need any custom drivers. It'll just work out of the box with Windows 11. The one surprise to me was that you do need a USB 2.0 header free on your motherboard to enable bluetooth, but that's not this card's fault, just something to remember! Tested it in an RF-noisy lab environment the Bluetooth was a little crackly at times, and the antennas are a little difficult to tighten so they don't fall out, but overall I would recommend this. TPLink is now a solid brand in wireless and I have no doubt this will work for the remainder of my PC's lifetime.

Among several NUC's at home, I replaced a 5th gen NUC with this 13th gen model. It serves as a media center for my music and photo collection, hence the 1 TB SSD and 16 GB memory. For those unfamiliar with the Intel NUC product line, they are small (4x4), very quiet, well-engineered and supported by a three-year warranty. Over the years, I have installed dozens for customers and not a single one has failed so far. The performance is impressive. The clip that keeps the power cord from inadvertently being yanked out is a fairly recent and useful addition. Intel has excellent documentation (assembly instructions, product specs) that I recommend. During installation of Windows 11, neither the wired Ethernet nor the Wi-Fi adapter were recognized which required an Ethernet-to-USB adapter. Others may add the network drivers during installation. Installing the Intel Driver & Support Assistant gets the optimal BIOS, firmware and drivers in place. Now that Intel has sold the NUC line to Asus, I hope that they will continue the development and support of this great product.

Only complaint is it didn’t have any drivers for internet when I set it up otherwise I had no issues

Great board! No issues with it. I did have to install drivers on it at first set up in order to get internet but runs great!

Nice n cheap. Drivers included on disk of no internet access, so that's handy. Pretty plug and play and nice speed

I love this motherboard, it's got amazing features and was pretty simple to set up. The biggest downside is that for Windows 10/11 to be able to install the drivers for the wifi card to work, you need an internet connection. But you can't get an internet connection over wifi since Windows can't use the wifi card by default. Maybe this isn't a problem if you have a working windows installation with the latest updates but I was doing a complete clean install from the official Windows 11 USB Drive and I needed to plug the computer into ethernet to be able to set up the wifi. This was pretty inconvenient as my router was on a different floor of my house... Also the audio drivers that are by default installed comes with some bloatware software that is really difficult to fully remove. It also has some way to automatically restart itself and stay in your system tray (as a shortcut to re-download the software suite) even if you uninstall it and remove it from startup applications. This type of behavior from software rubs me the wrong way and really makes me reconsider buying ASUS motherboards in the future if this type of software is necessary to use them. This all being said, once I got everything set up and installed, it's worked flawlessly for me.

Intel the best

you have to install the drivers for this to work...

Plug it in, install the drivers and off you go.

Well, it's Intel and that says it all