Intel's Skull Canyon NUC is Official: $650, Shipping In May

[Tribalinius]

 

A nice little package by Intel. I could see myself bringing that with me in a LAN party in a really near future!

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Back in January, Intel had provided us with information about the Skull Canyon NUC based on a Skylake H-Series CPU (with Iris Pro Graphics). Today, at GDC 2016, Intel made the specifications official. Pricing and availability information was also provided.

The Skull Canyon NUC (NUC6i7KYK) will come in at 216mm x 116mm x 23mm, with the volume coming in at just 0.69L.

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From a gaming perspective, the availability of Thunderbolt 3 enables users to add an external graphics dock like the recently announced Razer Core eGFX module.

I like the expandibility options that we can get from Thunderbolt.

 

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Intel Brochure

[IMPERIUS]

as a csgo player, I am interested how this does in csgo, I know that iris pro graphics are pretty capable and csgo isnt a really heavy game. Definitely something I would look into, since transporting my full tower case to crammed lan events isnt fun

[Tribalinius]

1 minute ago, IMPERIUS said:

as a csgo player, I am interested how this does in csgo, I know that iris pro graphics are pretty capable and csgo isnt a really heavy game. Definitely something I would look into, since transporting my full tower case to crammed lan events isnt fun

Even then, if you are trully motivated, you could strap a GPU through thunderbolt and boom, you are good to go for a while. It would start to cost a lot of money but that option is there if you ever got a good video card laying around and a thunderbolt housing :).

P.S.: Let's all agree that the skull design looks tacky

[Aytex]

The design looks sick

 

though i'd rather get a i5 and a 380 slap it in a cardboard box and go to lans

[IMPERIUS]

38 minutes ago, Tribalinius said:

Even then, if you are trully motivated, you could strap a GPU through thunderbolt and boom, you are good to go for a while. It would start to cost a lot of money but that option is there if you ever got a good video card laying around and a thunderbolt housing :).

P.S.: Let's all agree that the skull design looks tacky

yee. tho i wonder how much of a performance and price difference there would be if you built an itx rig with like an i3 and a 750ti, gotta research that first and then i can make up my mind

[potoooooooo]

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[multifrag]

3 hours ago, IMPERIUS said:

as a csgo player, I am interested how this does in csgo, I know that iris pro graphics are pretty capable and csgo isnt a really heavy game. Definitely something I would look into, since transporting my full tower case to crammed lan events isnt fun

Csgo for lan can be played on a laptop..