Review Intel NUC 9 Extreme Kit (Ghost Canyon) Review: In Its Compute Element

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The Intel NUC 9 Extreme Kit (Ghost Canyon) is a pricey barebones PC that fits a discrete GPU. The Compute Element with mobile Intel CPU makes for an exciting new form factor, though.

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[JayNor]

There are leaks about a NUC 11 box for a couple of Tiger Lake implementations... Panther Canyon and Phantom Canyon.

https://hothardware.com/news/intels-panther-canyon-phantom-canyon-tiger-lake-nucs-leak

 

[ShattaAD]

There are leaks about a NUC 11 box for a couple of Tiger Lake implementations... Panther Canyon and Phantom Canyon.

https://hothardware.com/news/intels-panther-canyon-phantom-canyon-tiger-lake-nucs-leak

Isn't Tiger Lake intended to be 28W max? Unless, they release 45W, 8-core parts in late 2020/early 2021 but by then they'll have Rocket Lake and Alder Lake which looks more like the contender in the same TDP class.

 

[ShattaAD]

I wonder if AMD will enter into the NUC/CE equivalent market with their super efficient Ryzen 4000 series + PCIe 4.0 support before Intel's own PCIe 4.0 CPUs get released into the wild, just to undercut Intel's market share. Maybe they'll partner with Zotac again to do it knowing Zotac's experience in designing miniature main-boards.

 

[Gurg]

The cost of this unit was bloated by:
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Storage	Intel Optane 905p 380GB SSD (PCIe NVMe)	$504.66
	Kingston KC2000 1TB SSD (PCIe NVMe)

vs: faster Samsung 970 Evo+ 500gb $120 and/or 1gb for $220.

The Hyper X 3200 memory at $114 is overpriced compared to $84 Gskill 3600 Cl16 2x8gb .

 

[excalibur1814]

" far past its base $1,639.99 price tag !"

No. Instant no. It's tempting, but no. There's just too much choice to splash down that amount of cash on something like this. Plus, as we know, will intel release further modules and at what inflated price?

 

[cyrusfox]

The cost of this unit was bloated by:
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Storage	Intel Optane 905p 380GB SSD (PCIe NVMe)	$504.66
	Kingston KC2000 1TB SSD (PCIe NVMe)

vs: faster Samsung 970 Evo+ 500gb $120 and/or 1gb for $220.

The Hyper X 3200 memory at $114 is overpriced compared to $84 Gskill 3600 Cl16 2x8gb .

You really think the EVO 970 is faster than optane? Maybe in sequential speeds, When is that going to be relevant as both have sequential speeds in excess of 1.5 GB/s? How are you going to feed the storage that much data so that will will actually be a bottleneck?

In all the other metrics that matter, Optane is far faster than the Evo 970, Pity the cost per gigabyte is 6x+, here is a link showing the 280GB of optane vs the 970 evo 1TB