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Intel Previews NUC 13 Extreme With Space for a Triple Slot GPU

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We've been aware of Intel's upcoming NUC 13 Extreme—codenamed Raptor Canyon—since July this year, with the compute element module having leaked back in August. Now Intel has previewed the NUC 13 Extreme at TwitchCon and we have a better idea what the biggest NUC to date will look like. The chassis has a volume of no less than 13.9 litres, which is bigger than many Mini-ITX cases. The main reason for this is that the NUC 13 Extreme has enough space for a triple slot GPU, although if you're hoping to put a GeForce RTX 4090 inside, then you're out of luck, as it seems to be limited to the length of an RTX 3080 or thereabout. The compute modul appears to have changed somewhat from the early leak, or it's possible it just wasn't a very good render.

As we've known, Intel will be kitting out the NUC 13 Extreme with a range of CPU options and it was confirmed during the stream that it'll handle a "full" Core i9K without specifying which model. The Intel rep mentioned a highly optimised heatsink, which appears to be something along the lines of a modified GPU cooler with a blower cooler. This is because the compute module is largely the same shape and size as a graphics card. The chassis itself looks like a bit of a nightmare to deal with, as it has a lot of removable parts to allow access to the innards of the NUC 13 Extreme. The compute module has to be installed at an angle, or it won't fit inside the chassis, whereas the graphics card looks relatively easy to install. You can find the full video in the link below and it starts just past the four hour mark.



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P4-630 said:
If you read this in the Forums news section, the intel link below isn't there.....
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That's because the links are posted on the front page of the site, as always.
 
TheLostSwede said:
That's because the links are posted on the front page of the site, as always.
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I know, but it would be easy and nice if those links could be in the news forum as well if you read it there wouldn't it?
 
P4-630 said:
I know, but it would be easy and nice if those links could be in the news forum as well if you read it there wouldn't it?
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Again, it's not my call.
We've had this discussion and mentioning on my posts over and over, isn't going to change anything.
If you have an issue, take it up with management.
 
Hummm,,,,,, looks like yet ANUTHA intel-based clusterf*ck in the making :(

Also, whoever took those crappy pics needz to go back to hack-it slack it photog school :)
 
wth are these picture qualities
 
Low quality post by HairyLobsters
Well at least they didn't put an Arc in it.
 
Good luck fitting an RTX 4090 in that thing :D
 
The original idea was very appealing to me, but it seems like they abandoned it. Can you replace the CPU+Mobo unit of the previous one with this one? Wasn't that the whole point of the thing, being replaceable?
 
After several iterations Intel has finally figured out how to make a mini-ITX computer.

Originally I thought the purpose of NUC was to fill the VESA-mounted niche space, but over the years I've grown more and more confused as to what the design goal was/is, at this point, I don't think Intel even knows.
 
Meh.
The point of NUC was density. Getting an entire system (using an IGP) into a half-litre brick was both useful and impressive:
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This? No. It's just an expensive SFF that looks to be somewhere in the 7.5L-10L range. Unlike almost every other SFF at this size, the NUC 13 Extreme is almost assuredly fully proprietary, immensely expensive and probably has a woeful BIOS that lacks any kind of serious fan curve or CPU frequency/volume tuning. I've bought a bunch of regular, tiny NUCs based on the U-series chips, and a small handful of the NUC extremes just out of morbid curiousity with our research budget, so I'm familiar both with the mediocrity of Intel's in-house motherboards/BIOSes and also their downright abysmal software support for the lower-volume NUC Extremes.

You buy it only if you're a die-hard Intel fanboy who has to collect all the NUCs, IMO. It's functionally useless in the market given just how many alternatives exist without any of the downsides...
 
NUC used to be
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What they did
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What Now
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Chrispy_ said:
Meh.
The point of NUC was density. Getting an entire system (using an IGP) into a half-litre brick was both useful and impressive:
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This? No. It's just an expensive SFF that looks to be somewhere in the 7.5L-10L range. Unlike almost every other SFF at this size, the NUC 13 Extreme is almost assuredly fully proprietary, immensely expensive and probably has a woeful BIOS that lacks any kind of serious fan curve or CPU frequency/volume tuning. I've bought a bunch of regular, tiny NUCs based on the U-series chips, and a small handful of the NUC extremes just out of morbid curiousity with our research budget, so I'm familiar both with the mediocrity of Intel's in-house motherboards/BIOSes and also their downright abysmal software support for the lower-volume NUC Extremes.

You buy it only if you're a die-hard Intel fanboy who has to collect all the NUCs, IMO. It's functionally useless in the market given just how many alternatives exist without any of the downsides...
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it's 14 liters actually :D bigger than a DAN A4-H2O, and around the same as a meshilicious
 
The "core" (the part with the cpu) uses a new format so I guess they're bringing their mobo socket/chipset bs to the the nuc devices

The "pcie" format of the previous one was kind of interesting, recently there were even dual systems built that way (used for marketing at least). This is just a more expensive and bigger sff now :(
 
So they made a NUC that's almost as big as my Meshlicious, has worse cooling compatibility, notably worse GPU compatibility, a much larger desk footprint, and seems notably more difficult to work in outside of the fact that the motherboard comes with the CPU and cooler already installed. ...good job?
 
dyonoctis said:
it's 14 liters actually :D bigger than a DAN A4-H2O, and around the same as a meshilicious
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Jesus, that's woeful.
Why did they even bother?
 
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