News Asus' first gaming NUC uses Intel Core Ultra, up to RTX 4070 in a 2.5-liter chassis

[Admin]

Asus launched its first ROG gaming PC under the NUC brand at CES 2024. It uses Intel Core Ultra processors and up to an NVidia GeForce RTX 4070.

Asus' first gaming NUC uses Intel Core Ultra, up to RTX 4070 in a 2.5-liter chassis : Read more

 

[ThomasKinsley]

You can get a 13th gen Intel laptop with a 4070 and a 240hz 1600p screen for $1,999. The NUC is missing the screen and battery, so I'm not quite sure the value proposition is there.

 

[thestryker]

The NUC line has never been a value proposition when it comes to the higher end ones. They've almost always ended up being at least $200-300 more than you could build or get something relatively equivalent. The form factor taxes have been very real, and it sounds like Asus isn't changing that (though maybe the pricing will be lower than the guesstimate).

 

[Amdlova]

at size of graphics today better place the cpu on that and a 19v power

 

[Neilbob]

At least it can hold more than the recommended daily water intake.

(Since when were PC cases sized using a fluid volume measurement? Is that a thing I somehow missed?)

 

[Notton]

You can get a 13th gen Intel laptop with a 4070 and a 240hz 1600p screen for $1,999. The NUC is missing the screen and battery, so I'm not quite sure the value proposition is there.

It most likely has better thermals and power envelope. For instance, instead of 100W shared TDP, it could allow max TDP on both CPU and GPU.

3x 2280 NVMe slots is something you can only find on >17 laptops, and even those tend to max out at something like 250W TDP.

With that said, 4060/4070 mobile would not be my first choice, as that means there's no PCIe slot.

At least it can hold more than the recommended daily water intake.

(Since when were PC cases sized using a fluid volume measurement? Is that a thing I somehow missed?)

It's been a thing for at least 15 years.
If I had to guess, probably around 2001, back when mITX was first introduced, and Shuttle shoe box style PCs were a thing.
It's more of a thing with mITX and mATX. No one cares how much volume a full ATX case occupies, and the concern is more towards "will this fit?"

 

[Neilbob]

It's been a thing for at least 15 years.

Wow. Well, it somehow passed me by completely. Or I just wasn't paying enough attention. That's far more likely

 

[salgado18]

I can't swallow no-upgradeability on notebooks anymore, and this has the same problem. After a few years it will be obsolete, and you'll either have to purchase a brand new one (recycling the old), or build/buy a larger system, because there are no gaming NUCs available at the time (unlikely, but possible). Give me a new tiny form factor specification, and make parts of that spec, so I can build my own, and upgrade on the way.