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has anyone else had enough of the

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full-size desktop game Intel released their skull canyon nook a tiny gaming

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bare-bones all the way back in 2016 it had no dedicated graphics but it still

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ignited an arms race prompting competitors like ZOTAC and MSI to try to

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pack as much horsepower as possible into

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the smallest packages possible and Intel

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finally has a follow-up the hades canyon

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nook or nu c8 i7 h VK

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AVR and triple-a game capable pc boasting an 8th

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gen Core i7 quad-core CPU and AMD Radeon

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Vega graphics in a package about the

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same size as a Harry Potter novel

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before we get to the new one here's a skull canyon from 2016 the formula that

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Intel followed for the design of this nook was actually great solid CPU lots

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of i/o including Thunderbolt free and it was easy to upgrade it was basically

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perfect for a compact computer except

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for the lack of dedicated graphics I mean this pretty much limited it to easy

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to run games like overwatch and

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minecraft which is a pretty tough pill

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to swallow for anyone paying six hundred and fifty dollars which is a

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considerable premium over a desktop system for a bare-bones with no RAM or

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storage but in the last two years a lot of

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things have happened including evidently hell freezing over because AMD and Intel

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came together at last to create this

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which actually now that I think about it is that where the Hades the name came

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from anywho this thing is pretty o P it's 999

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dollars for the top tier bare-bones kit

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which is pricey but it includes a hyper

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threaded quad core Core i7 88 o 9g and

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Vega mgh graphics or it's $7.99 for the

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step-down one that gives up overclocking support and point 1 gigahertz of CPU

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turbo and drops from 24 to 20 compute

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units on the GPU first thing I notice

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about it is it's really really heavy for how small it is and

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that while it is still small it is not

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nearly as compact as the old ones so it

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better bring some really impressive performance to the table all panels say

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for the top are completely covered in hexagonal perforations to allow as much

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air as possible to be fed into the dual bottom mounted fans as for IO it's

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impressive starting with USB we get a total of seven including a Type C and a

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quick charger on the front and it can connect up to six displays including the

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access to HDMI for a VR headset overall

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it's got more i/o than many desktops including not one but two Thunderbolt 3

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ports cracking it open we get a look at

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the internals now Oh check that out so you can see through it

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that's where the RGB lighting comes through for the skull on the top and

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then removing this additional screw right here we can lift up this plate to

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get a look at our options for memory and

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storage so we've got two sodium slots

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with support for up to 32 gigs of DDR4

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RAM and dual full-length oops and dual

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full-length 80 millimeter m dot 2 slots

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with support for both AHCI and NVMe

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drives as well as raid 0 and raid 1 so

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we're gonna be using an Intel octane 800

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p for our boot drive and then a regular NVMe SSD for our storage drive because

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like Yolo right

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anyway while we're in here we also get a

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look at the backside of the CPU and GPU

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so it's got this odd rectangular shape to it here and that's

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for a reason that's because of the way that the RX Vega mgh so the H here is

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for high performance connects directly to the main CPU and

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they're actually installed on the same substrate so this special engineering

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trick which is basically a PCI Express 8

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X link right between them is what makes the system so powerful compact and

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power efficient compared to other small

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form-factor desktops alright time to plug it in now and oh

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that is a beefy power brick that power brick is actually almost the size of the

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old Nook anyway fun fact the eyes the skull and

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the power button are all separate RGB zones so you can make them any color you

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want or turn them off if you prefer that sort of thing

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but that's not the most important thing you guys want to know how it performs

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and isn't this hilarious this is AMD software but just like with

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an Intel skin on it like this so bizarre

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anyway let's let's get some games fired up and talk performance here we compared

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Hades Canyon with Intel's last generation skull Canyon as well as a

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similarly priced desktop excluding costs for storage RAM and operating system and

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it's performance is actually pretty surprising compared to the last gem

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Skull Canyon Nook Hades Canyon completely blows it out of the water as

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Intel integrated graphics just isn't even in the same ballpark as the Radeon

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Vega chip that the hades canyon uses as for the gap between the new nook and our

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8700 k desktop system it's pretty

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noticeable with an average overall increase of about 35% across the

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spectrum of games and synthetic tests that we used though this isn't bad if

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you consider the Knux 50% lower TDP and it's tiny form factor but does buying

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this nook make any sense well actually

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especially in light of the pricing of decent dedicated graphics cards right

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now as a compact minimal HTPC the hades

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canyon is actually pretty awesome like if you told me three years ago that this

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was running on this I'd have been looking for the hidden wires but but

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this is real and not only is the noise not a problem from like a couch distance

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or even from this distance the performance is good enough to play

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basically any game even if it's not at

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absolute maximum settings so as long as

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you're willing to give up future upgrade ability and you'll get some kind of a

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benefit from the size maybe you go to a lot of lands for example it's actually

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