Read more.Bigger, more fun, but not without fault.
Read more.Bigger, more fun, but not without fault.
$1,350, really?
Honestly a beast I want, even if it devours me!
Ok so Ghost Canyon has dimensions of 357mm x 189mm x 120mm
I think I'd rather have a Coolermaster NR200P case with dimensions (L x H x W) 376 x 292 x 185 x 292mm incl. Protrusions
While it's a little bigger it does have slightly more expandability and doesn't require proprietary cooling on the cpu etc.
Best thing of all... it would come in cheaper and potentially better performing (option of using AMD).
I suppose real selling point to the nuc is that it is smaller but I'm not sure that's enough to warrant the price.
Little computers.
I have had eNUC of this folly, a man have a big old computer.
Might have been useful to show if the GPU suffered from throttling down (if at all) from the factory boost clocks due to temps in such a small case.
When this style of nuc arrived, the premise (as far as I'm aware) was that you could exchange your module for the next range of cpus. That sounded quite cool. Instead of upgrading, new thermal paste, new cpu, you just plug in a unit and you're done.
So... can you buy the module and install into the older NUC?
Now my brain is just stuck on "What's the smallest practical computer I could build?" mode, dag nammit. There's nothing wrong with the tower under my desk I never look at, nor the laptop I rarely use, and I certainly don't want a computer on my desk. But still, I miss my old Shuttle SN45GV2...
I built a PC based around this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apefSM59Ksk
jimbouk (07-10-2021)
The SN45GV2 was awesome value. I presume that heatpipe to a radiator at the back arrangement is under patent, because it was so good. Later processors seemed to need more VRM cooling than that layout could manage, but 65W APUs are quite high end now and I wish that box style would come back.
Yeah, Shuttles were great value for a while, seemed like you paid no more than you would for a case, PSU & motherboard and you got a CPU cooler thrown in. Must have been quite an investment to do custom motherboards though. General power (and cooling) requirements went up and up though so I guess that was a limit, and their later designs were overpriced commodity items rather than enthusiast/value oriented. I guess a modern alternative would need a little water cooling loop in place?
Or a 65W limit. You can get some pretty awesome CPUs in that power envelope these days. But you compare that simple Shuttle cooling layout to this, and frankly the NUC internals just look like a bunch of ugly waiting to fail.
I believe the later Shuttles were ITX motherboards, so not quite so custom. Certainly not as custom as this weird module and backplane arrangement.
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