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desktop pcs are already modular you can swap out everything from the CPU

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to the flippin RGB strips so why did razer and Intel just show up to ces with

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something they're calling the first truly modular desktop system like

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yeah i have one of those right now well they're not just reinventing the

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wheel here more like polishing it because the razer tomahawk

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gaming desktop which we took a look at earlier is a kind of evolution of the

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project christine modular pc concept the company showed way back at ces 2014

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but why wait six years to bring the concept back

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so the innovation that project christine brought to the table wasn't in making

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pcs modular they were already modular it

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was in making that modularity accessible to people who don't necessarily enjoy

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things like bending their own custom water cooling pipes the original design

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had a central aluminum backbone and you could connect these discrete mineral oil

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cooled modules that either contained a CPU and RAM or a GPU or storage or io

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there was no need to route cables through three different holes in a

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chassis or awkwardly bend your wrist to tighten a screw just plug the thing in

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and you're done the whole thing was extremely ambitious and also

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just a concept it never came to market partially because in order to make it

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razer would have to have some partners completely on board with the idea well

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razer finally found one such partner Intel at ces this year they're showing

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off the nuk 9 extreme compute element a

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PCIe card that is essentially a whole computer it runs 9th gen processors up

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to a core i9 now they're h-series variants so think high-grade laptops

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with up to 64 gigs of RAM in the card sodium slots and two m.2 ports for

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storage there's a healthy amount of io too with two Thunderbolt 3 ports 4 usb

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3.1 type a ports dual Ethernet jacks and

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an HDMI port powered by the CPU's integrated graphics but this card is

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nothing more than an interesting doohickey without something to plug it

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into that is where razer comes in the

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tomahawk gaming desktop is a tiny 10 liter box with a slide out module

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holding a daughter board with two PCIe x16 slots there's also an extra m.2 slot

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for even more storage the idea is you plug your nuk compute element into one

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of those PCIe slots a full size desktop

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graphics card into the other one and slide that whole thing inside the n1

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chassis a beautiful 10 liter aluminum case with tempered glass side panels and

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dual 120 millimeter fans on the top for ventilation it's a completely tool-less

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setup you just have to release the sled with a lever on the back to remove it

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and the only actual cables you have to deal with are the plugs that connect the

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compute element and graphics card to the built-in sfx power supply the whole

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process is dare i say almost smoother than you'll look when

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you wear sick threads from lttestore.com

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and this is what razer and Intel mean when they say truly modular because if

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you have to unscrew things and wipe off thermal paste and reroute cables

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i mean that's more like rewiring your vacuum than it is clipping on the carpet

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attachment and yeah some of us like that whole process of tinkering with the guts

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of the machine stop stop stop stop stop stop stopping i'm stopping uh there's a

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really big leak but others want the ability to upgrade parts without having

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to take off an entire side panel and get in there with a screwdriver now

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obviously in exchange for that ease of use you are giving up some benefits of a

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full desktop pc the CPU and RAM as i said are high-end laptop parts and

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you'll lose some PCIe bandwidth if you choose to fully populate the three

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available m.2 slots in the system but for a certain segment of the pc gaming

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population this could be a much more accessible entry point while still

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allowing easy upgrades later on the tomahawk doesn't have a price right now

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heck the case doesn't even have a power button or front-facing i o yet razer is

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making it clear that right now this is a prototype definitely one that's closer

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to fruition than project christine was but still all they said is that they're

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targeting released sometime in the first half of 2020. we might actually get

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Intel's homegrown nuck extreme kit before then it's like a similar but less

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refined version of the tomahawk that's supposed to launch in march but if Intel

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and razer's bet pays off we might see a ton of boxes just like this one popping

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up in stores and on the desks of those less technically inclined pc enthusiasts

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