You Might Be Better Off Building A SFF PC.
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Date: 2022-03-15
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Daryl
I would prefer this to a gaming laptop if I want to play games in a motel. Recently I played on an MSI laptop with a 27- monitor, BT keyboard and corded mouse.
I wanted a larger monitor than a 17- laptop monitor.
I don-t care about batteries and paying a lot for bespoke solutions in a laptop. In summary something like a NUC is better for me than a 17- gaming laptop that makes too many sacrifices for portability that I don-t need.
I don-t mind carrying a monitor, keyboard and mouse with me in the car.
The laptop is better if you are taking the plane. I haven-t thought about the price but an Alienware can cost around $5000 or more. I already have the monitor so that is not a factor, so far I carry it in it-s own box but I might consider a small case for it.
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I would prefer this to a gaming laptop if I want to play games in a motel. Recently I played on an MSI laptop with a 27- monitor, BT keyboard and corded mouse.
I wanted a larger monitor than a 17- laptop monitor.
I don-t care about batteries and paying a lot for bespoke solutions in a laptop. In summary something like a NUC is better for me than a 17- gaming laptop that makes too many sacrifices for portability that I don-t need.
I don-t mind carrying a monitor, keyboard and mouse with me in the car.
The laptop is better if you are taking the plane. I haven-t thought about the price but an Alienware can cost around $5000 or more. I already have the monitor so that is not a factor, so far I carry it in it-s own box but I might consider a small case for it.
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itech
I have a NUC8ithvk and thinking about buying one of these to upgrade. I've been loving the possibility of connecting my older NUC to my beloved Apple Thunderbolt Display via the 2 Thunderbolt3 ports. I see this computer also has two Thunderbolt4 ports. but will it let me connect my Apple monitor? And mostly, if it does, will I be able to use the dedicated gfx rtx with the display or it will only utilize the integrated intel graphics, since the thuinderbolt4 ports are behind the compute element and not the rtx (which only mounts HDMI and DP ports? Thanks in advance
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I have a NUC8ithvk and thinking about buying one of these to upgrade. I've been loving the possibility of connecting my older NUC to my beloved Apple Thunderbolt Display via the 2 Thunderbolt3 ports. I see this computer also has two Thunderbolt4 ports. but will it let me connect my Apple monitor? And mostly, if it does, will I be able to use the dedicated gfx rtx with the display or it will only utilize the integrated intel graphics, since the thuinderbolt4 ports are behind the compute element and not the rtx (which only mounts HDMI and DP ports? Thanks in advance
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War
I recently considered buying a small yet powerful PC for CPU video editing. However, with the glut of -new-in-box- prebuilt towers on eBay which had their GPU's removed, even the cheapest small PC's directly from China could neither compete on price nor performance. Though I am confident Intel's design, engineering, materials and build quality are all top notch, spending more money for less processing power is hard to justify. That said, in a post-mining world, NUC's will make a lot more sense in terms of price for performance.
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I recently considered buying a small yet powerful PC for CPU video editing. However, with the glut of -new-in-box- prebuilt towers on eBay which had their GPU's removed, even the cheapest small PC's directly from China could neither compete on price nor performance. Though I am confident Intel's design, engineering, materials and build quality are all top notch, spending more money for less processing power is hard to justify. That said, in a post-mining world, NUC's will make a lot more sense in terms of price for performance.
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Pillokun
All I want is a nuc/brix sized motherboard, with a full size pci-e for the gpu and naturally at least one nvme. Would be nice if it supported socketed cpus they can have a daughter board for some surface components if the size limitation would be too constrained, but if you have seen a brix/nux mobos then you know that it looks like it would be possible to do so, at least for 65W cpus. I mean m-itx is too large(been using it since 2011 so not that long): P
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All I want is a nuc/brix sized motherboard, with a full size pci-e for the gpu and naturally at least one nvme. Would be nice if it supported socketed cpus they can have a daughter board for some surface components if the size limitation would be too constrained, but if you have seen a brix/nux mobos then you know that it looks like it would be possible to do so, at least for 65W cpus. I mean m-itx is too large(been using it since 2011 so not that long): P
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KraziAgentAdam
-7: 49, the blower fan ther with the rear io shroud will or should be puling air in and then out the top of the compute module. blower fans do not blow out the hole there that is intake im 101% sure on that. the exhaust is on the top where th 3x fans are. nice to see if a RTX 3090 would fit in this thing DO IT or RX 6900XT
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-7: 49, the blower fan ther with the rear io shroud will or should be puling air in and then out the top of the compute module. blower fans do not blow out the hole there that is intake im 101% sure on that. the exhaust is on the top where th 3x fans are. nice to see if a RTX 3090 would fit in this thing DO IT or RX 6900XT
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MrMalchore
NUC's have really changed. I remember a couple generations ago they were just a tiny case with a motherboard. You bought (and installed) the cpu/ram/storage yourself. No room for a video card. No video card meant they were not targeted at gamers. But they were plenty powerful for everything except games.
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NUC's have really changed. I remember a couple generations ago they were just a tiny case with a motherboard. You bought (and installed) the cpu/ram/storage yourself. No room for a video card. No video card meant they were not targeted at gamers. But they were plenty powerful for everything except games.
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Mike
I thought Gordon was going to say, -Blow it out its butt, - because that's what that fan shroud does. Interesting little PC, for sure. No surprise that it doesn't use an AMD video card, although I was sort of expecting one of Intel's new graphics cards.
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I thought Gordon was going to say, -Blow it out its butt, - because that's what that fan shroud does. Interesting little PC, for sure. No surprise that it doesn't use an AMD video card, although I was sort of expecting one of Intel's new graphics cards.
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Lorevet
Great video
A cool desing for sure, but at this size it's competing with the various Louqe Ghost etc. and you can fit a R9 5950X plus GPU in there. and upgrade it. and go crazy with whater cooling. honestly I don't get who this is for.
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Great video
A cool desing for sure, but at this size it's competing with the various Louqe Ghost etc. and you can fit a R9 5950X plus GPU in there. and upgrade it. and go crazy with whater cooling. honestly I don't get who this is for.
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The
As a SFF enthusiast and someone who has only used AMD I am very interested in the form factor of the cpu and the pcie cards The possibilities for small case design using those two components is a very interesting proposition.
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As a SFF enthusiast and someone who has only used AMD I am very interested in the form factor of the cpu and the pcie cards The possibilities for small case design using those two components is a very interesting proposition.
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Drifter4Training
i know this sounds silly wouldn't the mini pc itx card be affected significantly by the pcie bandwidth compared to the mini itx mobo?
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i know this sounds silly wouldn't the mini pc itx card be affected significantly by the pcie bandwidth compared to the mini itx mobo?
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