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we're at the ASUS Booth here at CES 2024 to see something that I really wasn't

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expecting this soon we're used to seeing nucks in has been making them for a long

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time they're really awesome small computers with a lot of horsepower

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generally relative to their size but having ASUS before that is a new thing

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see back last year ASUS acquired the nuck everything apparently even

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employees which is kind of crazy fast forward like a couple of months and

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there's now an Rog knock I don't think it's going to be

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cheap but it looks cool and I imagine it's going to go pretty fast now

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unfortunately I don't have a box so the unboxing is going to have to be taking

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the thing apart which when I asked about it they were a little skittish we'll see

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what happens there for iio on the back we've got another two 10 gig USB ports

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these ones curiously are labeled as 10 gig but you can see that they're little

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black ports these are just going to be USB 2.0 they just have to fix the silk

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screen for the mass production version we've got 2.5 gig Intel Ethernet a 40 GB

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Thunderbolt Port that does do USB power delivery they would expect if the system

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is you know not running like a gaming lad that this can put out around 90

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watts and then during gaming about 65 if it needs to so it's kind of a dynamic

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power delivery got HDMI 2.1 DP 1.4a and

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then they power in for the big power brake that means you can run four 4K

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displays off of this machine I kind of doubt that most people will do that but

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if you wanted to you could and there's also a keny lock which is a nice thing

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to see around front we have those other two us ports an SD card reader and a

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combo mic headphone jack and then the power button so why don't we turn it on

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hey it works NVIDIA confidential what the heck show it get ASUS in trouble as

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configured this is the core 7 155h configuration so this is the lower

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end model but still testing pretty good like 32,000 in CPU Mark is pretty

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respectable for the 3D mark this is what I'm more curious about 360 TI scores

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like 20,000 half during the pass Mark

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run the highest we got on the GPU was

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103 watts and the highest we got on the

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CPU was also 103 watt that being said

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any sort of like temperature or performance numbers are kind of to be

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taken with a grain of salt um this is a pre-production unit it's still still

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scoring pretty well but could be different than what you end up with and

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also this is the lower-end model um maybe we run like cine bench just for

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funsies the CPU is at 106 degrees but it

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is drawing 100 Watts technically Intel only rates this CPU to stay sustained at

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65 WS anything higher than that is Turbo so it is still turboing it really

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doesn't feel like the fans are going that hard maybe it's cuz it's an engineering

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sample maybe it's cuz they just want it to be a quiet system there's definitely

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heat coming off there though I mean sure

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it's not a cin bench content creation machine but it's still scoring

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well above a 5800 X desktop chip in

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cinebench and this is the lower end skew this is hilarious tread rer 2990 WX 32

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core it's 1,200 points this is 1,000 points this is 32 cores from several

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years ago is only 20% faster than the 16

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cores I've never run cinam bench GPU I didn't even know that this was a thing

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wow it scores the same as a Radeon Pro W

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6800 which I have zero Conta

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for 1440p right now um I get 200 FPS I

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mean performing pretty well I don't know I honestly don't have that much context

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for CS2 as to what this would be but you guys can make your own judgment based on

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that 1440p maxed out the settings we tried to update the NVIDIA drivers and

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it didn't work it's pre-release Hardware so probably some NVIDIA lock but in the

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game our GPU was drawing

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between and 90 Watts pretty consistently

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sitting at around 70° CPU temp is high I have a sneaking

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suspicion that maybe there is something going on with the CPU Cooler given that

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it's a pre-release it wasn't drawing much power seemingly in the 30 to 45

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watt range theyed reasonably quiet although the noise floor in here is

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super high cool let's take it apart but

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that's some big fans it looks like this whole section here

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is just one big old heat sink and then you've got two discret blower style

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fans I give you my word it will go back together I'm not giving you my word that

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it will work for storage right now it's

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a Samsung kind of OEM looking SSD uh

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they have not confirmed this yet uh or the capacities even but they said they

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probably expect maybe a 512 and a 1 TB

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skew but the interesting thing is you will be able to buy this as a Bare Bones

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which is pretty cool not something I would expect from

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but welcome nonetheless regardless of what spec you were to buy there is three

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m.2 slots they are all PCIe Gen 4 by4

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you could load this thing up with like 24 tabt of Sab 8 tab drives if you

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wanted it's soim slots which is great I would kind of expect a system like this

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to have soldered memory which is a sad State of Affairs but this one does not

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uh they expect the actual configurations to be a 1632 probably but you can also

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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

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memory timings and the answer I got was TBD um but at the very least it will

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work with 5600 which is reasonably fast for a system like this I got

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confirmation there won't be any sort of XMP settings it's because Intel meteor

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Lake doesn't support it so they're they're taking the easy route and saying

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well Intel said I can't do it I've seen

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motherboard computer manufacturers go around stuff like that before just

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saying just saying all of the m.2 slots

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have a toolless mechanism to kind of go along with the tooless theme this one is

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an Intel killer ax 1690 I it's a 2x2

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Wi-Fi 60 chip so we can do a60 wide 60

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okay so there's the Wi-Fi antenna that's cool that's a good place to put them on

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the front so even if you slide this into your like Media Console or whatever

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still has the antennas exposed they don't have a backup of this so if I

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break it it's the demo is broken and

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ooo hey look at that woo the CPU looks

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so baby compared to the GPU speaking of

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CPU there's going to be two options for this chassi a core Ultra 9 185h and a

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core Ultra 7 155h they're both 16 core

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chips they both have the same performance efficiency low power efficiency configuration the main

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difference boost clocks and base clocks are going to be higher on the ultra 9

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and then you're also going to see a lower base power on the ultra 7 and the

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GPU will be a little bit slower that being said the TDP of both is

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technically the same 45 watts and the max assured power which is what Intel

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rates in optimal circumstances it should be able to run consistently at is the

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same on both and uh ASUS is saying that they should be able to run at that 65

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wat TDP consistently with this thermal solution that being said when you move

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over to the GPU there is some kind of funky power stuff going on there this

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can either be an RTX 4060 or 4070 obviously the mobile skew uh so you're

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looking at 115 W TDP on both of those

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chips but they have Dynamic boost which

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means it can kind of intelligently steal power from the CPU and allocate it to

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the GPU if it thinks that that will give you a better gaming experience which a

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lot of the time uh it can so it can go all the way up to 140 WS which again

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ASUS says they're targeting to make sure it can do sustain consistently uh and

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handle that full load which is great cuz sometimes you see like a 4060 or 4 7 in

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a laptop and you're like oh that's great and then it's a 35 wat capped 470 and

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you're like okay that's not really what I was

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wanting to buy there is a vapor chamber over the GPU which is pretty baller and

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then the CPU just has these two gargantuan heat pipes overall it seems

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like a relatively serviceable relatively tooless at least as far as uh normies

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would go let's say you can buy it as a barebones which I like but there is

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still kind of one C avat which is the price if you look at other kind of big

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Brands similar systems it's not entirely out to lunch I was told you're looking

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around $14 to $1,500 for the Bare Bones with the 4060 and the lower-end core7

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and probably around $1,800 for the barebones of the higher end 470 skew if

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you were going to purchase a complete system with RAM and storage you're looking around 17 to 1800 for the lower

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tier 4060 model or around 21 to 22 for

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the higher end 470 model which is not

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nothing it's a fair bit of money I don't know what else I would compare it to it

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obviously if you compare to a custom built system which is going to be a lot

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larger you have to build it all these things obviously the price to

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Performance is not going to be the same

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but if you need something that's small seemingly quiet and seemingly tooless

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this could be a serious option to look at you'll see in a few months I guess

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