we're at the ASUS Booth here at CES 2024 to see something that I really wasn't
expecting this soon we're used to seeing nucks in has been making them for a long
time they're really awesome small computers with a lot of horsepower
generally relative to their size but having ASUS before that is a new thing
see back last year ASUS acquired the nuck everything apparently even
employees which is kind of crazy fast forward like a couple of months and
there's now an Rog knock I don't think it's going to be
cheap but it looks cool and I imagine it's going to go pretty fast now
unfortunately I don't have a box so the unboxing is going to have to be taking
the thing apart which when I asked about it they were a little skittish we'll see
what happens there for iio on the back we've got another two 10 gig USB ports
these ones curiously are labeled as 10 gig but you can see that they're little
black ports these are just going to be USB 2.0 they just have to fix the silk
screen for the mass production version we've got 2.5 gig Intel Ethernet a 40 GB
Thunderbolt Port that does do USB power delivery they would expect if the system
is you know not running like a gaming lad that this can put out around 90
watts and then during gaming about 65 if it needs to so it's kind of a dynamic
power delivery got HDMI 2.1 DP 1.4a and
then they power in for the big power brake that means you can run four 4K
displays off of this machine I kind of doubt that most people will do that but
if you wanted to you could and there's also a keny lock which is a nice thing
to see around front we have those other two us ports an SD card reader and a
combo mic headphone jack and then the power button so why don't we turn it on
hey it works NVIDIA confidential what the heck show it get ASUS in trouble as
configured this is the core 7 155h configuration so this is the lower
end model but still testing pretty good like 32,000 in CPU Mark is pretty
respectable for the 3D mark this is what I'm more curious about 360 TI scores
like 20,000 half during the pass Mark
run the highest we got on the GPU was
103 watts and the highest we got on the
CPU was also 103 watt that being said
any sort of like temperature or performance numbers are kind of to be
taken with a grain of salt um this is a pre-production unit it's still still
scoring pretty well but could be different than what you end up with and
also this is the lower-end model um maybe we run like cine bench just for
funsies the CPU is at 106 degrees but it
is drawing 100 Watts technically Intel only rates this CPU to stay sustained at
65 WS anything higher than that is Turbo so it is still turboing it really
doesn't feel like the fans are going that hard maybe it's cuz it's an engineering
sample maybe it's cuz they just want it to be a quiet system there's definitely
heat coming off there though I mean sure
it's not a cin bench content creation machine but it's still scoring
well above a 5800 X desktop chip in
cinebench and this is the lower end skew this is hilarious tread rer 2990 WX 32
core it's 1,200 points this is 1,000 points this is 32 cores from several
years ago is only 20% faster than the 16
cores I've never run cinam bench GPU I didn't even know that this was a thing
wow it scores the same as a Radeon Pro W
6800 which I have zero Conta
for 1440p right now um I get 200 FPS I
mean performing pretty well I don't know I honestly don't have that much context
for CS2 as to what this would be but you guys can make your own judgment based on
that 1440p maxed out the settings we tried to update the NVIDIA drivers and
it didn't work it's pre-release Hardware so probably some NVIDIA lock but in the
game our GPU was drawing
between and 90 Watts pretty consistently
sitting at around 70° CPU temp is high I have a sneaking
suspicion that maybe there is something going on with the CPU Cooler given that
it's a pre-release it wasn't drawing much power seemingly in the 30 to 45
watt range theyed reasonably quiet although the noise floor in here is
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it will work for storage right now it's
a Samsung kind of OEM looking SSD uh
they have not confirmed this yet uh or the capacities even but they said they
probably expect maybe a 512 and a 1 TB
skew but the interesting thing is you will be able to buy this as a Bare Bones
which is pretty cool not something I would expect from
but welcome nonetheless regardless of what spec you were to buy there is three
m.2 slots they are all PCIe Gen 4 by4
you could load this thing up with like 24 tabt of Sab 8 tab drives if you
wanted it's soim slots which is great I would kind of expect a system like this
to have soldered memory which is a sad State of Affairs but this one does not
uh they expect the actual configurations to be a 1632 probably but you can also
get a bare bones and put whatever you want in it I asked if if in the BIOS you'll be able to screw around with like
memory timings and the answer I got was TBD um but at the very least it will
work with 5600 which is reasonably fast for a system like this I got
confirmation there won't be any sort of XMP settings it's because Intel meteor
Lake doesn't support it so they're they're taking the easy route and saying
well Intel said I can't do it I've seen
motherboard computer manufacturers go around stuff like that before just
saying just saying all of the m.2 slots
have a toolless mechanism to kind of go along with the tooless theme this one is
an Intel killer ax 1690 I it's a 2x2
Wi-Fi 60 chip so we can do a60 wide 60
okay so there's the Wi-Fi antenna that's cool that's a good place to put them on
the front so even if you slide this into your like Media Console or whatever
still has the antennas exposed they don't have a backup of this so if I
break it it's the demo is broken and
ooo hey look at that woo the CPU looks
so baby compared to the GPU speaking of
CPU there's going to be two options for this chassi a core Ultra 9 185h and a
core Ultra 7 155h they're both 16 core
chips they both have the same performance efficiency low power efficiency configuration the main
difference boost clocks and base clocks are going to be higher on the ultra 9
and then you're also going to see a lower base power on the ultra 7 and the
GPU will be a little bit slower that being said the TDP of both is
technically the same 45 watts and the max assured power which is what Intel
rates in optimal circumstances it should be able to run consistently at is the
same on both and uh ASUS is saying that they should be able to run at that 65
wat TDP consistently with this thermal solution that being said when you move
over to the GPU there is some kind of funky power stuff going on there this
can either be an RTX 4060 or 4070 obviously the mobile skew uh so you're
looking at 115 W TDP on both of those
chips but they have Dynamic boost which
means it can kind of intelligently steal power from the CPU and allocate it to
the GPU if it thinks that that will give you a better gaming experience which a
lot of the time uh it can so it can go all the way up to 140 WS which again
ASUS says they're targeting to make sure it can do sustain consistently uh and
handle that full load which is great cuz sometimes you see like a 4060 or 4 7 in
a laptop and you're like oh that's great and then it's a 35 wat capped 470 and
you're like okay that's not really what I was
wanting to buy there is a vapor chamber over the GPU which is pretty baller and
then the CPU just has these two gargantuan heat pipes overall it seems
like a relatively serviceable relatively tooless at least as far as uh normies
would go let's say you can buy it as a barebones which I like but there is
still kind of one C avat which is the price if you look at other kind of big
Brands similar systems it's not entirely out to lunch I was told you're looking
around $14 to $1,500 for the Bare Bones with the 4060 and the lower-end core7
and probably around $1,800 for the barebones of the higher end 470 skew if
you were going to purchase a complete system with RAM and storage you're looking around 17 to 1800 for the lower
tier 4060 model or around 21 to 22 for
the higher end 470 model which is not
nothing it's a fair bit of money I don't know what else I would compare it to it
obviously if you compare to a custom built system which is going to be a lot
larger you have to build it all these things obviously the price to
Performance is not going to be the same
but if you need something that's small seemingly quiet and seemingly tooless
this could be a serious option to look at you'll see in a few months I guess
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