TINY Intel PC Comes With RTX Muscle

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[@Flytrap]

I always find myself holding my breath, hoping he doesn't irrevocably break something during the teardown.

[@joeyyung911]

Is he related to Linus?

[@Mu7eD-Stream]

You know he gets a lot of this stuff for free and as such probably doesn't overly care if he breaks it.

[@geetarguy777]

I have faith 😂 if I can do it, Dawid certainly can

[@MurphysTactical]

As long as there are no ribbon cables, David is probably fine....maybe....

[@I_Evo]

I suspect the video is usually out of order with the test portion filmed prior to the teardown just in case.

[@syrconcrete6399]

The NUCs have been pretty cool, especially the higher end ones

[@harryshuman9637]

Yeah but price wise the higher ones don't justify their price.

[@bootchoo96]

The are very good, but the price is what's makes them not popular

[@MandoMTL]

They're shit value.

[@mikeymaiku]

@@bootchoo96 yes, being able to build a 3080 system with a i7/ryzen7 for the same cost kinda killed it for many lol

[@vailpcs4040]

I grabbed a 4th gen one a few years back and mounted it on a cheap LCD panel in my garage to run Ubuntu and Spotify while out there working on projects / whatever and the thing has been a champ.

[@ConRHD]

Whenever Linode sponsors someone who isn't Dawid I get confused.

[@LumaControl]

It has to be either Dawid or Craft Computing

[@tbray]

I typically skip all sponsor-based ads because they're dull - but not Dawid's - they're their own event.

[@TheSykoRC]

Yeah. When other KZbinrs say just linode… it sounds so weak and underwhelming.

[@insurgencybuffoonery8065]

I think there’s an alternate universe where Dawid is the Linode CEO

[@kirbstomp9380]

linooode

[@hepi_34]

The fps dropped after turning DLSS on 💀

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Dlss and fsr doesn't help cpu bottlenecks, if anything it adds more burden to the cpu, hence worse fps

[@Deus-X]

He was in a different area in the game tho so maybe that's why

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Deus-X That does play a role, but yeah, not even DLSS can over come a weak CPU.

[@mercmaniac666]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff i guess some people cant read/understand afterburner

[@intraspec]

Got to love the creative and painstaking ways mini PCs are constructed. Always a fun to deconstruct. Even better when a tutorial effortless does it while nothing comes apart for you.

[@raven4k998]

do you have some RTX inside you?

[@DrMuFFinMan]

One thing I've learned about watching an online teardown, is the first time something is taken apart is always the hardest. Most teardown tutorials are being done on a product that has already been broken down at least once before.

[@mauronunez2541]

This is the way I like to start a Saturday...watching a new video of Dawid! Thanks man

[@brianrussell7369]

"This is the way."

[@jamesirwin-mcconnell4669]

Honestly that little guy held up much better than I thought it would 😂

[@djnjoy]

Why not? It is essentially a mid-tier gaming laptop from 2 years ago without the screen and keyboard. Otherwise, with this thing being from Intel, I find it ironic it comes with Nvidia and not some variant of the Arc

[@retrynot12]

i have the same cpu on my laptop. In this it has a beefy cooler and now imagine it on a super thin laptop...

[@Fay7666]

@@djnjoy This is the last generation one (which is the most boring of the dGPU ones), the current one is the ARC model. The interesting one is the first one, which had _AMD Vega graphics built into/alongside the CPU._

[@bleepbloop4221]

That’s what she said

[@eduardopatricio]

And it can perform much better if the TDP is increased ("Power" tab in the bios). He completely missed that.

[@KNLLMH]

just ordered parts for a new pc and just watching this makes me think about it and with the parts being better it makes me feel so giddy like a child at christmas, exited for the build and the great performance

[@josiahmoorhouse8036]

This is the only channel whose ad spots are so entertaining that I don't skip them.

[@Alex96194]

Dawid, you could try using throttlestop to bump up the CPU performance by a bit, its got many useful settings in there such as voltage control, TDP control and even freq control if your CPU allows it

[@dilutedoxygen]

Intel mobile cpus don't allow any of that, only k skew desktop cpus do when it comes to intel

[@Alex96194]

@@dilutedoxygenit depends on the CPU. I have a 1235U laptop which allows some control.

[@TibiAltF4]

@@dilutedoxygen Throttlestop is different to general overlocking tbh, Throttlestop allowed me to undervolt my i7-8750H and force consistent 3.4GHz clocks when running benchmarks and such, compared to the stock 2 cores at 4.2 or whatever 2 cores at 4.0 or whatever and another 2 cores at 3.8 or whatever. Yes you can't "overclock" these laptop chips but I know that undervolting can help with reducing temperatures, changing turbo freuqency times like you can in XTU and performing undervolts to get a stable clock speed and better performance. I don't have that i7-8750H anymore as the GPU fried to death so haven't used it for a couple of months. Maybe I'm wrong and hey that's ok. Btw you are correct that overclocking is usually only limited to desktop K CPU's like my i7-9700K but I think the original commentor was trying to get across a different point?

[@stevencarter7999]

Always been amazed by those little powerhouse PCs

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Maybe pushing to 1440p would help the cpu bottleneck

[@dylanallen7720]

i was wondering why he didnt test that lol

[@catch22frubert]

It would absolutely help the CPU bottleneck, but only if the 2060 could actually play games at 1440p over 60fps. I guess DLSS could help balance things out, but I think I'd just rather look for a version of the Nuc with a 12th gen and a 3060ti inside or something.

[@volvo09]

That is a nice power brick with complementary PC.

[@darrenskjoelsvold]

When this NUC came out it was seriously interesting and at the time even a bit compelling. Frankly with all the shortages at the time being able to buy something was great. These kinds of computers are underappreciated. Small form factor computers can make great office computers and one that's capable of doing more than basic word processing is a luxury. Yeah the processor just having 4 cores is a bit odd but it's enough as well.

[@koliheroyash6776]

"that's so small" that's what- My lawyer suggested me to not complete the sentence

[@jagadishk4513]

That's what she said

[@EddieOtool]

@@jagadishk4513 There is no evidence for those words ever having been spoken, thus it is as well they had not. That's what his lawyer confirmed.

[@milessmith2362]

Ok I watch the tutorial that Dawid watched and I can safely say I have never seen someone tear down a small form factory pc with such ease in my life.

[@Jay_the_Caffeinator]

Awesomesauce video, Dawid! Those NUCs sure are power hungry. Idea for ya, see how long you can drain a cheap UPS battery on the MSI PC you got.

[@ZaPirate]

you're one of the few channels where I don't skip the ads. Linooooooooooode

[@ste6000]

i feel the size of the psu might be due to keeping it cooler for long term usage where a laptop charger wouldn't be used for long term sessions all the time. should take them apart and see the inside of the PSUs and how they are built.

[@EhEhEhEINSTEIN]

I got a 6i7KYB a few years ago and while I've never tried to game on it, it runs this YT video like a champ and is also my remote access/home media server machine. $250 and it came with 32GB of ddr4 2400 and a 1tb sata m.2, been an absolutely fantastic little machine.

[@jds6014]

Shocked how well that performed

[@JaySee5]

You can try to overclock with ThrottleStop, but I doubt it because my old i7 1065G7 would only allow underclocking and undervolting. However it did allow unlocking the turbo boost timers.

[@eduardopatricio]

The TDP can be upped using the "power" tab in the Bios. Crazy he missed that.

[@stevenhawkins179]

Nice. I wasn't expecting that level of VD on the installation.

[@mitch7525]

That's just windows 11 version of instant apps. They each take up 8Kb and aren't really installed until you try to open them. I tried to do a clean install without any of that stuff by using the "N" package install. It ended up taking me a lot more time to and was much more of a headache to install all the missing directX and other drivers than simply removing those shortcuts from the start menu.

[@STORMFIRE07]

@@mitch7525 ya tried tiny11? (A custom, completely unbloated version of windows)

[@Weaselszone]

@@STORMFIRE07 Tiny 11 seriously lacks security-wise and is not recommended for someone using it as a main OS.

[@STORMFIRE07]

@@Weaselszone interesting, didn’t knew that, thanks for info

[@mitchellpintaric2336]

Love it when he does anything small form factor.

[@oliverrivera-pessi]

Great video! I just noticed I enjoyed previously when they were a bit longer (15 minutes plus)

[@frostilver]

*In fact those CPUs are only supported by older versions of XTU*

[@xanderwusky3001]

Some real thought put into the making of this one it seems. Really cool to see! Super compact little pc and somehow they still get it to be super easy to upgrade (where the heat pipes where you can’t change anything anyway). And add some aesthetic stuff as well with the light. Does seem though that they forgot about the power brick and some random poor intern made that one 😅. Would be nice if that was a lot smaller. Especially with how small they are getting lately. Have a 140 watt brick that fits in my hand easily. This one could kill a rinoh xd

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

The smaller the power brick the more heat and stress on the components. While a larger size power brick does not necessarily translate to it being more reliable, I'd be more inclined to expect it to last longer and/or not try to burn me if I needed to move it shortly after heavy use.

[@xanderwusky3001]

@@benjaminmiddaugh2729 the 140 watt one i have is from apple. Their macbook pro chargers come with very small bricks for the power they provide. They dont get crazy hot either. Not more then id expect at least. And there is ones from anker for example that are even smaller. They are all good quality. Ofc though be more sceptical if its a sketchy brand.

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

@@xanderwusky3001 I didn't say that smaller power bricks couldn't be relatively cool to the touch or high quality. But making them that way usually requires much more expensive components and more clever design, neither of which are cheap. And I suspect that the NUC market is significantly smaller than that served by Macbooks or third-party power brick suppliers, so the justification for making the power brick more expensive is correspondingly smaller.

[@chrisgraal7319]

I'm still using a 2060 and to be honest, it's a pretty good card. It seems to play everything reasonably well.

[@ivandksd]

Yhea, I'm pretty sure this one had a mobile rtx 2060.

[@kishirisu1268]

I still use RX470 and it plays Cyberpank well (anyway I have no other options)

[@sterkriger2572]

I’m using a 1070 and still runs everything

[@neurokinetik]

There should have been a NUC-specific tuning application preinstalled that would allow you to set it into a higher performance mode. I have the same one, only with Windows 10.

[@moleyboy9650]

I am never sure when Dawid is being serious or sarcastic. Haha, it's always guess work!! This is such a cool pc.

[@Thalassora]

I wish dawid could voice over LTT segues whenever linode has a sponsor.

[@floridamangonwild]

Linode is a household name at this point, if i had something that needed something like it id defenitely use it

[@themaxster_]

While overclocking is out you might be able to get that little cpu boosting higher with some undervolting

[@malcotheblerd5268]

I wonder if putting a different SSD would help somewhat, I always have stutters and such on my intel SSDs, just something to ponder lol great video as usual

[@arcticowl1091]

The video clearly shows the cpu is the problem. 4 cores just doesn't cut it anymore.

[@jamesmackinlay4477]

For its size I think it does a pretty good job.

[@guesswho2778]

it looks like its the clockspeed that is the problem. with how it was sitting close to 30 watts the entire time, i suspect its being done via a power limit to reduce temperatures, which can also be slightly increased using throttlestop. the cooling on this is good enough that i believe you could give the cpu another 10 watts and it should be able to cool it fine. ive increased the power limit on my 15 watt i5-8250u to 22 watts, tricked the cpu into "reducing" the power limit after the turbo time has finished down to 22 watts and done some undervolting to allow the cpu to do more in that power limit and drastically improve performance in games (with the igpu), i even gained a thousand points in cinebench r23 over the stock voltages, power limit and turbo time limit.

[@sir.fender6034]

In my past, I have worked as a consultant on big IT projects and I once bought 150 of these NUCs for one of my clients. They are good reliable products

[@emillempea834]

i have the same one i mostly use it for streaming on twitch and fallout nv and witcher 3 runs really good on it skyrim runs great too even with almost 300 gigs of mods mostly texture mods

[@roleynoley6410]

I still have my 4th gen nuc from 2014, still serves me well

[@Zerbey]

I'd buy one of these, I can see plenty of uses for it.

[@philjtephenson41]

This is the only channel that i watch and dont skip the sponsor section......

[@lastinline1958]

You had me with the box.

[@tofu_bro.]

Bro that looks like a drone more to me

[@MarkOffski]

It looks exactly the same as my NUC Hades Canyon, (which incidentally has a strange Intel/AMD collaboration GPU), which was light years ahead of any SFF gpu at the time, and still is very good and will play AAA games. The only real difference i can see is the 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports i have in the Hades Canyon have been replaced with T4, the bios and power brick even looks the same. The internals look different, and mine is far more easy to access. Mine came as a barebones unit which i put 32gb of ram and a 1tb nvme, the processor is an i7-8075g and the GPU is a Radeon RX Vega M GL, its still great to use and i intend to keep it.

[@kurtisrinker1202]

You're right, that's really the only difference between the phantom canyon and the hades canyon. Having owned both, however, I can confirm the phantom canyon is significantly more quiet at full load then the hades canyon model.

[@NC7491]

@@kurtisrinker1202 Thank you both for your comments. I didn't know that the phantom canyon looks exactly the same as the hades canyon. It's good to know that the phantom canyon is quieter as weighs heavily on my calculus when buying those things. Do you guys think that this can be easily transported? I am looking for a lightweight yet powerful pc to use when going on longer trips and those nucs seem to fit the bill.

[@mattparker9726]

0:01 GET IN THEM GUTS DAWID!

[@Compscott8]

Would have been cool to have a link to the unit that you bought and a comment about the price.

[@adabujiki]

Cool stuff :] Impressive performance.

[@jlgroovetek]

The CPU bottleneck is strange there imo esp in Cyberpunk. The 11th gen CPU was still clocked at 3.9ghz the whole time there...

[@peterilling1627]

Love your content Dawid.

[@ogrejd]

Given that about the heaviest game I play is Skyrim or Fallout 4, I'd love to have a mini-PC like these (or the Beelinks or whatever) in place of the mid-tower (an ancient Antec Three Hundred) on my desk...

[@1337Ox]

Don't know if this is the case, but I couldn't install Intel XTU on my laptop, until I tried to install old release of it, then it worked perfectly fine.

[@E54OW]

very nice, have been looking at getting these Dawid, why dont you try out the old alienware steam machines? would love to see how those hold up

[@MarginalSC]

I think a Steam Deck would outperform those at this point.

[@E54OW]

@@MarginalSC maybe would still be cool to see

[@MarginalSC]

@Kaneeso Yeah. Most were just pretty average new tho. So I don't expect much.

[@E54OW]

@@MarginalSC yeah i had the gtx 960 variant i rememebr it being great for minecraft and csgo which was pretty much all i played at the time

[@iradhill81]

I use my nuc phantom as an emulation arcade machine with the small form factor. I even use sinden light guns

[@buffcowboy5201]

It's so small...but it gets the job done.

[@jasonfullerton7763]

Those "gamer dots" are hexagons which, as we know, are the bestagons.

[@MultiSciGeek]

This is like the perfect midpoint between a laptop and an actual PC.

[@ethandabold7622]

Linode needs a desktop app where it has Dawid saying “Linooooode” as the startup sound

[@Sonic_1000]

Love how you end your vids. “So anyway the overclock don’t work KTHX BYE” 😸😸

[@UnveiledShadows]

Dawid finally got me with his sarcasm for a quick second with that ESPN "idunnowhatitis" remark

[@zetectic7968]

This has to be a better option than most laptops. As no price was mentioned I guess what you save on electricity you lose & then some in the premium price for the NUC.

[@Amber57499]

I like your music choice, gives it some men's DIY home improvement vibes.

[@PokeMyBalls]

*Playing Dawid flicking that tassle in slow motion!*

[@StaelTek]

Perhaps some undervolting on the CPU could help getting a little less GPU bottleneck by using Throttlestop? Because it seems to be power limited.

[@Akotski-ys9rr]

I love a product that is packaged in an interesting way. It makes me much more excited to use it

[@theelcamino105]

Came for Linode stayed for Dawid

[@MarcoZolezzi]

I use one of that Nuc with a RTX 3080Ti Razer Core X Chroma eGPU, works flawlessly

[@jaysdood]

Looking at the I/O gave Dawid a woody

[@christheprotogen6447]

using a app called universal x86 tuning utility you can turn up how many watts the cpu can draw.

[@cult-ur-fit]

It's crazy we're at a point with YT where descriptions are just filled with links to ads. Nothing about the video or the content/product.

[@saebyeok8772]

don't we just love linode its in about 90% of his videos

[@Rockport1911]

NUC´s are great for small form factor builds. I read you can have new ones with a 13900, but it probably needs a seperate case for the RTX4090 and another case for the custom watercooling/ radiators :) 2:06 Like my new laptop, advertised as thinner and lighter but it comes with a massive 330W powerbrick you could hurt people with :)

[@DenverStarkey]

the higher end NUC's are a bit bigger , still smaller than a tower PC.

[@pierregonzalez580]

Gotta love how to power brick is basically the size of the PC itself. That's honestly quite impressive.

[@bradhaines3142]

power bricks are super behind on tech. they need to move to GaN for everyones benefit, smaller and more efficient

[@GewelReal]

@@bradhaines3142 money

[@duncyy7471]

have you tried to increase the p1 power limit with throttlestop?

[@NitrousXProductions]

One thing that came to mind, before you benchmarked the GPU. Did you turn on maximum performance in Nvidia Control panel? As this is a NUC the GPU maybe a mobile version of the RTX 2060 instead of the desktop version. You might find that you may get a uplift in GPU utilization

[@samoerai6807]

Relatable. I have a laptop with 16GB ram, GTX 1070 and i7700HQ (4 cores, 8 threads @2.8GHz base clock up to 3.8GHz boost clock) and the i7 seems to struggle a bit in cpu intensive titles like cyberpunk. Wish I could overlock it, but even if it was capable of doing so, it gets hottt and I mean like 80-90C°

[@ganzano]

The power brick is larger to better handle continued use @ full output/duty cycle. Maybe ask questions if you don't understand engineering.

[@maxxlr8tion578]

Maybe I missed something but it looked to me like the CPU was hard-locked to

[@Eymbr]

I have this pc and oh my God do I love it. Powerful, smoll and customizable.

[@rubindublone5932]

1:57 So when I attach my NUC on the back of my monitor, I'll lean the monitor against a wall because I don't have a stand anymore?

[@brianr987]

I did development on a NUC. Nice machine. I’d buy one, except I have too many computers.

[@realChubbyanime]

very interesting that's remind me of mini pc

[@DJ1eye28]

EDPN is a sports app

[@fireloop69]

try using throttlestop it has many features such as removing power limit whic may help the poor cpu

[@benedictm]

Hi, enjoyed the video. Which Intel NUC is this? thanks!

[@bluenexus1212]

THAT POWER BRICK IS LIKE 75% THE SIZE OF THE MINI PC WHAAAAT

[@DaDwizarsnoob]

Finally I can play on a good minecraft server

[@swirrllfolfsky9803]

With windows 11 gaming, 16gb of ram will definitely hurt your performance. 24-32gb is what I'd personally recommend for gaming on windows 11. When I upgraded my ram from 16 to 32gb, at the same speed, I got another 25fps, running a Ryzen 5 3600, and rx 6600

[@PresidentKony]

reminds me of the "Fragbox" PC from 20 years ago

[@Marley11st]

I'm STILL daily driving the Hades Canyon NUC, never had a problem with it

[@user-dt6xj7so3b]

Can you replace the CPU and GPU of this? wondering if mini PCs are upgradable just like desktops. I only own a laptop so these things are new to me.

[@patrickfinn7437]

How well do you think the NUC would do for 4k media streaming? No gaming just streaming UFC, netflix, things of that sort

[@justinvanhorne9958]

castles thingys gamergons we have evolved people !

[@I_am_Allan]

3:15 May I please have my key back? I need to get into my apartment. 😜🤣

[@plasticelephant1969]

I really love these mini PCs, they have to have efficient compact cooling solutions and it looks good. It also makes me feel better about Desktop PCs, because you see, these GPUs and CPUs work fine even at high temperatures, now imagine how good 50 C load on a CPU on desktop is compared to that, really nice. (I still despise laptops)

[@jt3000o]

Man I didn't know we could host things on a truck bed liner Line-X

[@yomurita]

You can use ThrottleStop to overclock laptop SKUs!

[@dy7296]

I also have the i7 1165g7. I kinda wanted to undervolt it a bit so that my puny singular laptop fan doesn't struggle too much. I tried using the latest drivers and anything but xtu just didn't work. Pretty disappointed that a literal i7 doesn't want to be tweaked whatsoever. Unlike its previous gens.

[@nukeclears]

The entire reason the temperatures are good is only because the TDP is kneecapped. Any laptop CPU from the last few years NOT hitting 100c means you're wasting performance, this system would be so much faster if the CPU it's TDP was something like 60w instead of the pitiful 30w. Most gaming laptops will run the CPU between 45-80w.

[@SithLordLerg]

I was wincing watching the opening, thought we ain't gonna see no gaming on this 😂😂 to be honest i was pleasantly surprised with it's performance. No idea on the price tag but packs a punch for such a little machine