Intel continues to quietly expand the NUC family, its lineup of barebones mini PCs. Today we noticed two new low-end boxes, based on Intel's low-end 14nm Braswell chips instead of the Ultrabook-class Broadwell CPUs in the more expensive models.

There are two new boxes to look at, each with decidedly unmemorable product numbers instead of names: the NUC5CPYH includes a 1.6GHz (2.16GHz Turbo) dual-core Celeron N3050, and it will supposedly be available this month. The NUC5PPYH uses a 1.6GHz (2.4GHz Turbo) quad-core Pentium N3700 instead, and it's coming out at some point in July.

A quick refresher on Braswell: it uses the same "Airmont" CPU cores and cut-down Broadwell GPU as the recent Cherry Trail Atom processors, but the Celeron and Pentium parts run at a higher TDP (6W versus 2W for the Atoms), which lets them run at higher speeds for longer. They also support technologies like SATA, which makes them better suited for use in low-end desktops and laptops than their Atom counterparts. They also improve over older Bay Trail-D Celeron and Pentium chips by supporting more USB 3.0 ports and faster DDR3 1600 RAM.

Features imported from the more expensive Broadwell NUCs include the yellow USB charging port on the front and the interchangeable lids that let you customize the look of your NUC or add extra features like NFC or wireless charging.

Both NUCs have the same port layout, and they appear to use the same system board. They include two USB 3.0 ports on the front and two on the back, a headphone jack, a VGA port, an HDMI 1.4a port (which appears to be able to output 4K video at 24Hz), an SD card slot, a single gigabit Ethernet port, and an Intel 3165 Wi-Fi adapter that supports 433Mbps 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0. The board appears to support a single DDR3L SODIMM and a 2.5-inch SATA III HDD or SSD, but not an mSATA or M.2 SSD. The computers also use a fan—sometimes these low-end computers are fanless, but that's not the case here.

The Celeron version of the NUC is listed on Amazon for $129, though it currently has a two- to four-week shipping window. We've asked Intel for pricing information about the Pentium version and will update this post if we hear back. Like other NUCs, you'll need to add the cost of your drive, RAM, and operating system license to the cost of the basic box before you get the final price.