What a BEAST - Beast Canyon NUC

[Plouffe]

At what point is a NUC no longer a NUC? We tested the new Beast Canyon from Intel and the amount of power you can fit in this thing might surprise you.

 

Check out the Beat Canyon Nuc - https://lmg.gg/ErbFW

 

Check out the Phantom Canyon Nuc - https://lmg.gg/QPkhW

 

Check out the Ghost Canyon Nuc - https://lmg.gg/fEOC2

 

[da na]

At this point might as well call it Beast Canyon Sorta ITX

[IkeaGnome]

I'm curious what their plan is for the WiFi antennas. The one on the right seems to have been routed differently. Was that Intel that made that change, or was that how Steve set it back up after his tear down?

[Quackers101]

founder edition in this one? oh no, was recommended against?

[WhitetailAni]

This is not a NUC. NUCs are smaller than this; this is an mITX build.

[Luscious]

So at the end of the day because this is so expensive we should just go the DIY route and spend whatever we saved on shoes and LTT merch???

 

You guys really don't care how our money gets taken, just as long as it gets taken. That's not exactly what I would consider sound financial advice. I would be careful as well telling people not to buy tech citing the price when you unashamedly plug your own store and then add sponsors into the mix. It makes figuring out what your priorities are somewhat confusing.

 

Maybe instead of focusing just on price you should have looked at what else this impacts. Upgradeability of the fans if they are proprietary, the ability to swap the CPU out if it dies and adding more storage. The BIGGEST thing you missed though is how these systems perform in a hot summer room under high ambient temperatures - it's simply not enough telling people the silicon hits 98C when you are doing your testing in a 19C air conditioned environment. Come to where I am where I run a quad GPU rig at full tilt 24/7 in temperatures that regularly hit (and exceed) 30C indoors this time of the year.