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pint-sized PCS smaller than even typical mini ITX rigs have become something of a

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trend the last few years as manufacturers like Zotac and Gigabyte

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have learned to do more with less space but today we've got a PC that's

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literally not much bigger than a pint and features high-end components and

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expandability that will make even some midtower systems blush it's Intel's new

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skull Canyon knck the latest in their line of small form factor computers but

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is this little machine decorated with a skull just an attempt at voodoo magic or

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can it really trade blows with an expensive desktop rig let's find

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out cooler Masters master case maker 5

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features their free four modular system allowing you to customize adjust and

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upgrade make it yours through the link in the video description down below so

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what surprised me the most right off the bat is how light this thing is despite

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its laundry list of Primo components by my guesstimation this thing is roughly

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about the same weight as a Chipotle burrito so it's pretty freaking portable

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that way volume wise it takes up just about the same amount of space as a

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couple of soda cans or a fifth of vodka if that's your kind of thing but please

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don't try to figure that out yourself if you're underage anyways despite how

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small and light this thing is there's no shortage of goodies under the hood you

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get a Skylake core i767 70 HQ with a 2.6

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GHz base clock and a 3.5 GHz Turbo with

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Iris Pro 580 Graphics which is Intel's current topend integrated GPU a pair of

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ddr4 so dim slots that support 32 gigs of memory two m.2 slots that support 80

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mm ssds and our fullspeed PCI Express

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capable slots dualband Wireless AC an NFC header bluetooth support do keep in

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mind this is a barebones kit however so you'll need to provide your own storage

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and RAM that's why we didn't say specs for those in particular moving to the

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outside there's a power button which is you know always useful an SDXC card

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reader a pair of USB 3.0 ports including one optimized for charging a headphone

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jack and an IR sensor you can use if you

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have a you know compatible device or whatever around the back there's a power

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connector for the included 120 W power brick an interesting combo 3.5 mm audio

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and toss link Jack so if you can get an adapter you can output Digital 5.1

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signal to a surround system and gigb Ethernet then there's two more USB 3.0

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ports a mini DisplayPort Thunderbolt 3.0 for high-speed external storage or

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an external GPU enclosure like the Razer core and HDMI 2.0 for 4K at 60 HZ

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although I wouldn't try to push those kind of frame rates while gaming on the

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igpu however it is kind of useful for a feature if you're doing other things at

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4K and want your general experience to look much smoother the exterior design

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Fe features Intel's trademark skull keeping with the skull Canyon overall

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theme but if having bones all over your electronics isn't really your bag Intel

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does thoughtfully include a top plate that's otherwise the same but Sans the

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skull the screws that hold it on are captive which is a nice touch since

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they're quite small and would be otherwise easy to lose if you're lucky

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enough to own your own 3D printer Intel also provides files on their website

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that allow you to create a custom cover for the knck will fit correctly and you

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also get vase am mounting hardware if you want to screw the knck to your

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monitor and create an our sets allinone

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Once you turn it on you can get to the more comprehensive than expected Intel

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visual BIOS which features a modern guey and lots of interesting options even

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including adjustable settings for overclocking but more on that in a

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minute but is this little guy worthy of the extreme sounding skull Canyon name

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let's turn to our benchmarking results to find out starting with the CPU bound

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7zip and Center bench R15 or the N core

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i7 6770hq didn't quite touch our full

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fat desktop 6700k but still managed some very solid scores and beat out our razor

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blade stealth 15 which contains the slightly lower performing but still very

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high-end 6700 HQ so intensive multi-threaded applications should be no

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problem for the knok but what about gaming although there's some serious

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potential here if you hook up an external graphics card via Thunderbolt

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we unfortunately didn't have a razor core at the time we tested the knck but

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that did give us a chance to see if the integrated Iris Pro 580 Graphics

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solution could tread water both Star Wars Battlefront and the notoriously

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punishing Crisis 3 ran at 31 FPS at 1080p on medium settings yeah seriously

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totally playable frame weight with decent settings on a graphics processor

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strapped into a CPU Wicked Grand Theft

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Auto 5 was also a positive experience coming in at 32 FPS at 1080p using the

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default settings on FXAA although we saw some dips into the low 20s at times the

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game is still perfectly playable rise of the Tomb Raider was a little bit of a

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different story as we had to turn it down to hit even 25 SPS at 720p but

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overall as long as you keep your expectations reasonable you can still

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enjoy modern titles in a pinch at respectable frame rates but given that

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the knck is such a small package could it manage heat adequately when putting

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such a load on the CPU and its integrated GPU well sort of the CPU

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heated up to 87° C during our 7zip

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Benchmark and 79 on our Crisis 3 Skybox test and a whopping 100 throttling it

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down right when we stress test with Ida 64 so trying to overclock probably isn't

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a good idea even though the BIOS does let you Tinker with clock speeds the

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id64 test caused the system through throttle like I mentioned but no such

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throttling was observed in our other benchmarks so you probably won't have to

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worry about it too much when gaming or putting a reasonable load on the CPU not

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like a benchmark stress test thing despite the slightly too hot for Comfort

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temperatures another positive is that even with said temperatures the top

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bezel only got to 42° C at its warmest

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spot so there won't be any painful surprises if you need to handle the knck

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during heavy use of course this kind of performance in a small Factor comes at a

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cost 650 us to be exact we went on PC

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part picker to see what a similarly configured miniitx bebone system would

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cost and we came up with an estimate of about $465 so a total difference of $185 and

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that's minus the card reader Thunderbolt support and Iris Pro Graphics so like

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not on the same level at all really but despite the knck giving you these

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add-ons you are paying a premium to get everything shrunk down into an

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attractive lightweight device but this also means you're getting mostly

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uncompromised performance in the smallest package we've seen yet even on

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the igpu and with the capability to pair the knck with an external graphics card

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to have possibly the ultimate tiny gaming setup speaking of which I'll be

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doing just that in an upcoming video so stay tuned tiny little computer tons of

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performance including a skull Canyon knck awesome Razer core

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