Crammed into this five dollar foot long Chassis is a full fat RTX 20 70 making the ghost Canyon Nook nine extreme as far as we can. Tell the smallest mass-produced desktop gaming PC or that is Mostly desktop Intel did take one shortcut here They used a core I $9.99 a thk mobile processor. So then what is this thing? Is it a slim and trim desktop or a fax laptop? brought to you by glass wire instantly see your current and past network activity detect malware unblock badly behaving apps on your PC or Android device use offer code liners to Get 25% off glass wire at the link below If you take a couple steps back the ghost Canyon nuke actually looks really similar to the original nuke Just a lot larger and with more mesh than a European nightclub to accommodate the much more Powerful internal components and the loads of airflow that they require unlike the original skull Canyon nook There's no option to switch out the skulls But I don't think they're that offensive and I don't think most people will care The IO is one notch below. Perfect the lack of onboard two-and-a-half Gigabit Ethernet is a bit of a downer for me on a machine with no PCI Express expansion, but in fairness there are cheap USB dongles to add it after the fact and Having dual Thunderbolt 3 ports means that if you've got the money you can plug basically anything you could want into this But how does it game? TLDR Darn, well we faced it off against a desktop equipped with a core I nine ninety nine hundred K and a chunky R-tx 2070 and then we also put it up against a Seuss scar three gaming laptop armed with a mobile core I $9.99 a th and an RT X 27 T as well and The Nook landed almost squarely between them it looks like the only thing holding it back from desktop grade performance is of course the mobile CPU our graphics card actually you can see it right there through the mesh stayed nice and cool only reaching 70 degrees under load and surprisingly actually even managed to outperform our Desktop GPU in the GPU portion of 3d mark x by I was ever really concerned about performance though it was the cooling that worried me and impressively the nook managed to remain relatively quiet while gaming with the only minor acoustic annoyance being that sometimes the fans will Quickly ramp up and down while doing little things like opening programs That should be fixable with a fan curve adjustment in a BIOS update though Intel outside of gaming CPU performance was initially Honestly, pretty disappointing the results in single threaded applications are as expected slightly better than the laptop worse than the desktop And then in multi-threaded workloads the Nook not only got crushed by the desktop 9900 K but it also managed to lose out to the asus strix car 3 Laptop with that said during the test. The nook was much quieter and cooler than the Strix and Intel was nice enough to provide some fun dials to twist in the BIOS So then what would happen if somebody went in there and cranked the numbers up a bit? Turns out that by simply changing the sustained package power to 90 watts the limits of this poor computer's thermal solution We were able to nearly match the I $9.99 hundred K with its 95 watt TDP So if you were to put some liquid metal in there Not that I'm recommending that it can cause problems and give it a bit more juice. You could probably beat a stock 9900 unfortunately getting inside the nook is Surprisingly easy for a small form-factor computer just like it's easy to buy a comfy. Sure. It's an L Did you sort accomplish the journey inside begins by loosening these two captive screws at the back and removing the top cover which includes? 280 millimeter cooling fans Powering the fans with plugless contacts like these isn't required but it does show the engineering that went into making this small machine Reasonably user-friendly to both take apart and put back together There were a few comments on my unboxing on our short circuit channel Asking Oh who's the poor sod who has to put it back together? It was me and it only took me about 15 20 minutes the mesh side panels then come off to reveal some very weird internals on the bottom is a 500 watt flex ATX power supply courtesy of FSP making this one of the only gaming systems this small To not rely on an external power brick then above that. Our review unit was equipped with a 197 millimeter long RTX 2070 mini from a soos that Barely fit then four screws on a bracket reveal a second. Hidden 8 pin PCI Express power connector meaning that theoretically you actually have the power leads available for an RT X 2080 super or maybe even a 20 atti if One small enough to fit in this thing was ever made behind the GPU though. We find the real star of the show All of the core components of the nook 9 extreme are on this Motherboard of sorts that intel calls the compute element to be clear It is still a motherboard like you're not able to plug a computer element into another Motherboard and you know yo dawg, I heard you like motherboards So I put a motherboard and you're you know, you get the point because the PCI Express logic is on the CPU so those slots on the base board that it plugs into are are dumb in the sense that Removing the compute element would render them completely useless now. There is some logic on the base board, though it can operate in two modes either delivering 16 PCI Express gen3 lanes directly to the GPU or Cutting that down to 8 lanes and splitting off for each for a 4 by PCI Express slot and a 10.2 s SD slot Intel provided a large 110 millimeter octane boot drive for our review unit But I suspect that most people would actually end up using the other 2 m dot 2 slots that are on the compute elements itself So that their graphics card will get its full bandwidth The main idea behind the computer element aside from making the system super small is to make upgrades basically plug and play now on the surface that looks like just more a waste because then you're Throwing away your motherboard every time you want to change your CPU But the thing is in many cases a meaningful CPU upgrade requires a motherboard swap anyway So as long as memory and storage aren't soldered so they can be carried forward which they're not It's basically the same thing I do find the ease of upgrade ability a bit more convincing on razors Tomahawk chassis though since access to the computer element doesn't require any tools like it does on this one With that said if you've ever worked on a laptop swapping storage and RAM on the Nook is going to be a cakewalk Now that we're in here, we've got a good look at the cooler Which is basically a little aluminum thin stack attached to a vapor chamber it's really impressive that this tiny heatsink allows our CPU to hit 5 gigahertz turbo if this was a desktop chip I don't think it would have a chance but the ghost Canyon nuke has two big things going for it First of all mobile views are generally Bend more selectively for power efficiency than their desktop counterparts That's because increasing the power consumption of a laptop by even 5 watts could be catastrophic Whereas on a desktop it probably doesn't matter Second the nuke CPU cooler is in direct Contact with the CPU died because it's a mobile chip So that lack of an integrated heat spreader helps bring temps down It does require higher precision during manufacturing of the cooler itself though. So as good as all of that is Thing is hyebin's chips and precision manufacturing Both come at a cost and that cost has certainly been passed right along to the consumer Let's discuss the inconvenient truths if you were to build a similarly small Form-factor gaming PC for instance in a doctor's a verse entry and case or a den case or something like that That is assuming you can find any of them in stock. The total is gonna be about $1,800 with the ghost Canyon Nook with the I $9.99 a thk version you're looking at $1,800 one small problem That's for the bare-bones kit after adding some nice-to-haves like ram storage and a graphics card the total for our configuration comes to $2,700 woof. I mean sure you're always gonna have to pay a premium for a small form-factor machine, but the thing is Even compared to a similarly Specht laptop. This is a not insignificant premium The gigabyte a RS 15 G that we looked at a little while ago performs as well as the NIC in games thanks to its 2070 super GPU while costing five hundred dollars less and like It's got a screen attached to it guys unfortunately, the value proposition doesn't improve much if you move down to an i5 or an i7 configuration because it's Even harder to recommend shelling out for a premium machine like this If you aren't equipping it with the very best components as for the easy upgrade bit Well, there are two problems with that one is that it history is anything to go on? Initiatives like this rarely survive longer than a generation or two Am I really gonna get a 12th grade module down the line? How much is that gonna cost and second B? Well you were gonna have to upgrade and throw away everything anyway argument might be more defensible in a world where only Intel exists, but the thing is AMD has done an excellent job of enabling multiple generations of CPU upgrades Across existing motherboards over the last couple of years All of this leaves me in quite an awkward position here then I think that the ghost canyon nook is one of the coolest computers to come out in a very long time and unlike some of the boutique DIY small form-factor stuff like the Actually, it's even smaller than this Belk a three case that we built a system in a little while back. This is mass-produced Which has a cost and like I want Intel to keep building really cool stuff like this So people out there are gonna need to buy it, but on the other hand, I really can't recommend in good conscience that someone go out and buy a 5-liter chassis gaming machine when they could settle for building one themselves in like a you know, an 8 9 or 10 liter chassis and save anywhere from 900 to $1,000 Speaking of saving $1,000. That's not what we're about to do. 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The answer is no. They did not. CPU fan pulls directly from the GPU.