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Intel's new dragon Canyon Nook extreme is like nothing we've ever seen before

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but you wouldn't know it from the outside packed in this shoebox sized

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enclosure wait no this one is a

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shockingly zero compromises PC gaming at

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4K easy content creation no biggie there

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is nothing it can't do but it's also clear that Intel's Engineers had to find

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some Creative Solutions to make the whole package come together this tightly

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Mini and other single board computers Intel's Nook concept didn't start out

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like this but rather like this the kind of thing that you

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might find at your local library or gracing the desk of your friendly

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neighborhood spreadsheet Warrior these compact machines have been incredibly

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attractive to businesses for their flexibility portability and most

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importantly their cost so then how did this become this and is that even a good

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thing well Intel's ninth generation ghost Canyon saw the six to 25 watt

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power sipping cuboids like this one replaced by a larger 45 watt Powerhouse

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still no full-size GPU slot but given the form factor that makes sense and you

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can always add an external one then 11th gen came around and boom four different

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Nook models you got the performance and pro which were still on the micro PC

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format then you've got the Enthusiast rocking an RTX 2060 that made for a heck

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of a package given the size and finally the extreme this guy right here the main

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Innovation for the extreme Edition was the inclusion of a modular compute

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element that contain change the storage slots memory slots CPU and cooler all of

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which were designed to Simply slot into a backplane that was pre-installed in a

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larger chassis because there was more room to play with the extreme was

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equipped with a modular sfx power supply and space for a two slot GPU up to 10

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inches long and naturally with extreme in the name Intel decided to give it RGB

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underglow for that Too Fast Too Furious style and a modifiable backlit skull

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front plate but that was last year's model what's new for 12th gen to oh okay

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we've got the core I9 12900 equipped model and up front there's only one

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major change the dual USB a ports are now a type A and A type c that runs

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Thunderbolt 4. then around back this is where things get really interesting

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because above the two and a half gig Intel Network Port that we had already

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there's a new aquancha 10 gig Port

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having this on board makes the dragon Canyon pretty much the only player in

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town for a machine this size that can fit a full-size GPU and effortlessly

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handle high bitrate video editing off of a shared network drive then we've got

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the usual assortment of USB 310 gig ports an HDMI output over here on the

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compute element just in case you don't want a discrete GPU and two more

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Thunderbolt 4 ports each supporting up to six daisy chain devices so when it

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comes to IO this thing is absolutely packing and the most unbelievable part

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is that even with top tier Hardware inside it managed comfortable

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temperatures on both the CPU and GPU even in unrealistic synthetic workloads

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and all without sounding like a hairdryer I guess that's what full mesh

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side and top panels will do for you right now let's have a look under the

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hood just kind of clear some space here

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four captive screws on the back this pops off both side panels slide back a

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little something like that you pull this bad boy up

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and we're in now my fabulous assistant over here has done the same thanks Colin

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to the 11th gen version and side by side

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it becomes easier to start noticing a few differences here starting from the

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top the 90 millimeter Cooler Master fans have been replaced by 92 millimeter suit

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on fans fun fact in computer terms 90

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and 90 and 92 millimeter are the same thing

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they get used interchangeably who knew the other changes are shrouded in

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secrecy deep within

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let's go deeper so the first step to doing that is to remove our Intel Arc

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Alchemist GPU unfortunately it's pre-release so it's got full active camo

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so the camera won't be able to see it let me just get

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this put away over just kind of keep it clear over there

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be careful handling those stressful

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lttstore.com next we're going to pull out this little airflow ducts maneuver

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here now you might think looking at the back of these devices that they've got

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you know one slot for the compute element two slots for GPU and then a

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final slot where you could put a network card or a Wi-Fi card or Raid card who

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knows what you want to put in there but actually it's completely bare because it

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needs that extra space to pull in fresh air for the compute unit otherwise

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I mean it would be pulling in hot air off the back of the GPU this thing would

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absolutely freaking cook two more captive screws man do I ever love

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captive screws the last thing you want is to drop a screw here and have it fall

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onto this board down here short something out sucks all right let's pull

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this up and put it out there we go oh

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wow that gives us a really great look I got a couple of thermal pads for a

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couple of m.2 slots and ah this is another difference in it okay just a

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second here let's pull out this guy oh

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yes gone is one of our m.2 slots here so you

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can see here's our sodium slots here's one m.2 two m.2 3m.2 all supporting full

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size 2280 or not full size but standard

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size 2280 NVMe drives but over here we

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have just two of these along with our two sodium slots these are ddr4 by the

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way and the third one has been relocated to the back that's

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right I'm gonna pop off this right

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there it goes something that is a downgrade though is

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that the original Nook extreme had another 110 millimeter m.2 on the bottom

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here and that little trap door on the

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12th gen one opens up to reveal

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a tooling cost savings where they reused

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the trapdoor but don't actually have anything there anymore

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the good news is that while we go from four m.2s to three all three of them run

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at Gen 4 speed now so at least they're all fast if you want to take the whole

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compute element out you'll want to be extremely careful with these antenna

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connectors we accidentally broke the other one during testing

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okay and the reason that I wanted to take this out

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here we go was to show you the Wi-Fi m.2 in the

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back here but the back plate appears to

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come off with screws from the other side which means we need to go deeper oh well

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there we go that was relatively straightforward just those four around the edges

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and that gets us a perfect look at actual actually both the Wi-Fi chip

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which is Wi-Fi 6E so that was an upgrade

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over last gen which is just Wi-Fi six as well as our PCH

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whoa this thing is heavier than it

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looked I guess that's what all copper fins will do for you that explains how

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it manages to cool this darn thing and look at the size of that Vapor chamber

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it covers both the CPU and the vrms oh

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right and we haven't even gotten to the best part yet unlike its predecessor it

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has a desktop socket so even though it comes with a 12 900 conceivably we could

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put a 12900k in it and see if it would run it

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there you go oh no problem there's still

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time for me to break something today

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I think this is the only one of these in the building our TX 3080 TI baby

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we're going big or going home okay

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you know with it pulled apart you can really see how they pulled off those excellent thermals because the CPU is

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sucking fresh air in straight from outside of the case and then the GPU

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same thing is going to be sucking fresh air in

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right through the mesh freaking awesome I love it okay we've got the 12900k all

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fired up and getting it to work was not easy it appears there's some sort of

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weird current limit for the chip at one amp and when you're running something at

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like 1.2 volts that's like a watt and a

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bit basically 400 megahertz is how fast it was going we were unable to get into

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Windows 11 at first due to a BIOS feature that we couldn't enable halting

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the boot sequence but it turns out Windows 10 did work we then used the

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Intel extreme tuning utility to uncork the current limit and boom there's

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plenty of performance actually but not all of it we are still falling way short

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of our prior cinebench runs that were in Windows 11. by nearly 6 000 points we

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added in tech power ups throttle stop and after some fiddling around we

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unlocked most of the potential of this thing it appears that we're very

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thermally limited not very surprising and we were able to get within margin of

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error of our original cinebench multi-core run like a few hundred points

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well until right now so we were at 16

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000 before but with just a little bit of undervolting we were able to get it to

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19 000. which is freaking Wicked Let's uh just drop the voltage more basically

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less voltage means less temperature which means higher scores until it

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crashes which am I right now yeah because before these were

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immediately jumping to 100 degrees now it's like in the 90s for a bit it's

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probably going to Thermal throttle here but we're drawing 130 watts and because

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of the lower voltage it's not immediately killing itself oh and it was

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slower so I guess we picked about the sweet spot for undervolting before

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negative 0.1 volts that seems to be

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where it's happiest that's a 4770k worth of performance right there that's

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mangled uh it crashed with a little bit of

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tuning it is clear with an unlocked processor you can get a lot more

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performance out of this but I wouldn't you know trust it it's very clear that

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the 12900 that Intel had in here from the factory was the right call like

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Colin how mad we've been if they had this 12900k in here and you just

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couldn't use most of it it kind of defeats the purpose you spend 300 more

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on an unlocked chip and you can only eat like 18 more power out of it so like

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really what's the the point there one thing I do find really interesting

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between the old Nook and the new one is that on the old knock I was able to get

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way more performance out of it by increasing the TDP of the chip to around

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90 95 watts and it survived it like it

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was hot but it could do it whereas in the new one probably because of the IHS

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and just the space that takes up

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we can only get about 65 Watts out of

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this chip for a long period of time just more between your chip and the cooler

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higher temps as for the dragon Canyon Nook as a whole it's a very compelling

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package there's more connectivity more CPU performance 10 gig networking and

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PCIe Gen 5 to pair with Intel's upcoming Arc Alchemist gpus well in this tiny

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little football of a case there's really nothing else quite like

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it but the cost while the i7 variant

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comes in at 1150 while the I9 we have

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here will separate you from 1450 US Dollars and that's before you

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buy the storage a graphics card and the

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memory but don't run away at the price just yet we benched a couple of systems

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to see what it would take to get all these features and in that context the

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pricing's kind of same obviously we can make some compromises to Save A Buck

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maybe we don't need to have a bunch of MDOT 2 slots or 10 gig networking but if

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we want to maintain feature parity we're getting dangerously close to the retail

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price of the Dragon Canyon Nook and we weren't even able to match it for its

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size so with a three year warranty and this

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level of build quality I can see the appeal I could see a gamer on the go

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picking one up or a traveling video editor or vlogger heck I could even see

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someone using this as a professional you could just Chuck like a Quadro in it

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