The world’s most fascinating mini-PC would be available soon for gaming. This could be the modular desktop PC ever built by Intel.
The Hades Canyon NUC, aka the NUC 8 is the most diminutive yet capable gaming PCs ever made as a result of Intel’s short-lived experiment that put AMD graphics inside an Intel processor. That was not the actual computer you could meaningfully upgrade, though. That’s the reason its successor, the NUC 9 Extreme “Ghost Canyon,” may outshine and let you switch out the “Compute Element” CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and ports with least effort.
Intel provided a sneak peek at the “Ghost Canyon” at CES 2020 in Las Vegas, tonight, confirming a leak that we’ve been wondering about for months. It is all about the presence of an entire gaming PC built around Intel’s NUC Compute Element initiative to turn it’s CPUs into swappable cartridges for easily upgradable computers. The information outflows also added that the computer would be just 5 liters in volume, practically as small as a game console.
Though Intel is not revealing everything completely yet, only official details are what being said as above. However, the company says it will support up to Intel’s H-series (powerful laptop-grade, but not desktop) Core i9 processors, and that it has partners on board that’ll be customizing the system as well. Conventionally, Intel sells its NUC computers as barebones systems in which you need to provide your own memory, storage, operating system, and graphic card. So, it’s possible that partners will add those peripheral parts for you, accordingly.
If the truly extensive leak at the Chinese Koolshare forums is precise then this amazing product from Intel could be quite the captivating mini-PC. We’re hoping to look for this as early as possible.
