this is a duck and kind of a large one
but at what point is a nuck no longer a knock well
this is the beast canyon nook and Intel has given us room for a
full-blown 12-inch GPU in here
but is it small enough to be enough or should you just have built your own
small form factor computer we'll see but not until i build a segway to our
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i've always had a soft spot for nux and this one is no exception meet the beast
canyon sure the 8 liter chassis is bigger than a4 Dan case but Intel has
used it to cram some truly impressive hardware in here the one we've got here
has an i9 11 900 kb basically a jacked
up 10 nanometer laptop CPU with eight cores and a juicy 5.3 gigahertz turbo as
well as 32 gigabytes of RAM half a terabyte of storage a teeny tiny 650
watt power supply and an rtx 3060.
that's pretty impressive but if it's
so big yeah can we call it a hook
well instead of calling the motherboard a motherboard Intel called it the
compute element and in fairness it is quite a bit different than your average
motherboard basically everything needed to run the computer so CPU RAM storage
and even cooling is taken care of by this tiny little box it plugs into the
baseboard which allows you to connect other things to a PCIe connector like
our rtx 3060. other than that this thing is basically just a small pc it's kind
of cute it's like a slightly more phallic ghost canyon with its extension
taking it from 5 liters to 8 with the goal of adding more power and bigger
graphics cards the bare bones kit doesn't come with a GPU but simply next
website has a mini 3060 ti and a full
size 3070 is add-on card options with support for up to a 3080. they've also
added a third fan for better cooling and trust me you're gonna need it just like
you're gonna need one of our reflective heatsink t-shirts to stay cool on these
summer days lttstore.com but that extra fan doesn't mean you can put this laptop
CPU under too much stress in cinebench
we were able to beat the ghost canyon neck despite it being overclocked to
within an inch of its life this thing was running at 98 degrees poor thing we
were hoping the addition of this shroud around the beast canyon's CPU cooler
would help but even on stock settings it
got up to a toasty 95 degrees although
once the turbo was done it settled in around 75 which is you know pretty good
it's an 11 900 kb versus an 11 900 hk so
we're not surprised that the new one beat it but it is still nice to see if
you want to play it safe you could go for the i7 compute element but forget
about dropping it down to an i5 because that's just not an option anymore
apparently people didn't buy it in games we see another marginal
improvement with the beast canyon the 3060 they sent us reached a high of 68
degrees during a one hour loop of f1 so it's just shy of the 70 degree mark
where it'll start throttling back on the other hand the ghost canyon's 2070
reached 70 degrees very frequently so it's got slightly better cooling and
newer hardware but why would you want a beast canyon neck
well it's cool i like it and it's cool
from the way you open it to the layout to the upgrade path if you're the sort
of person who wants a small form-factor pc but doesn't want to actually build
one let's be real that can be an absolute nightmare
then the beast canyon is well an absolute beast
and if you don't want to learn how to build one you can watch our how to build
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and i mean just look at it there's so much room for
activities the front i o is mostly unchanged from the ghost canyon it just
moved down a bit while the rear i o gets a couple more usb ports and upgrade to
two and a half gigabit Ethernet the Thunderbolt ports have been upgraded to
4.0 from three and the wi-fi has gone up from six to sixty and before i open it
up check this out
it's got underglow a young brian o'connor would
shed a tear while we're looking down here there's a
super easy to access m.2 slot bring the total and the system up to four now if
you do want to fully assemble it it's not all that
difficult we've got four screws back here they're
all captive now this should just come
right off yep easy
i think these come out
now the top peels off this one's kind of tough but you just need to give her
and this one goes up and out
you're in you can get it all of it now okay here
we go this is why we're actually in here we want to rip this GPU out rtx 3060s
they're just kind of you know
NVIDIA's one miss with rtx 3000.
i can get it out there we go so long mr 3060.
so we have a 30 80 ti here are you sure
about this yeah so in the past if you
had a power supply that was kind of marginal it was totally fine and you
could sort of just do it in this situation
the problem is that small form factor power supplies because they're small
have less capacitance so if you have something like a 3080 ti and you chuck
it in there it draws 500 watts the power supply doesn't like it it goes boom that
happened to andes and james's
and the billy billy pc i think we've killed a lot of small form factor
power supplies lately we're we're just doing a 38 yeah
yeah we're playing it safe it will fit
will it suck i guess we will find it out
that's fine nope
got it that was pretty simple
all right let's game on this thing do you think it's gonna be fine
yeah i i don't think it's gonna be fine it's only a 3080
it's but it's right up against that power supply i think it's gonna run real
fast and then just go
so idle we're looking at under 40 degrees on the GPU
CPU's already hit 95 degrees great start
all right here we go here we go it's getting toasty fast 320 watts power
consumption GPU temperature did not take long it
looks like it's going to hit 70 degrees here very soon
uh memories at a casual 88
all right we hit 70 degrees it might start pulling the clocks right now
currently at 1900 megahertz up really quite fast actually how long can it
sustain it it's hot but like in a good way it i
think it's actually working i'm honestly surprised that this 3080 is just fine
in this little computer so if i'm honest i didn't expect the founders edition
3080 to be happy in this thing but it is so
good job Intel if you do want to buy one of these and upgrade it make sure that
you pick out a two slot card and you can't go past 12 inches in length
so basically founders edition that's kind of what you get
now there is a big problem though the the
price the base model with an 11 900 kb
starts at 1600 us dollars once you upgrade the memory storage add
a GPU it'll set you back like three thousand
dollars pretty fast oh small form factor components do
usually cost a little bit more than their standard size ones
but we recently did a small form factor build in the joe that had very similar
performance for nearly half the price
that's using a standard motherboard and a really big cooler the cooling i think
was impeccable so
yeah at the end of the day the beast canyon
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well if instead of you know wasting all your money on this thing and want to
learn how to build a small form factor pc uh
well this video won't help you but it's really difficult and absolute nightmare
and quite amusing just watch it here