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some people will go to any length to make their gaming pc smaller but only a

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select few of them have the engineering expertise to ensure that the system will

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still work fortunately Intel is one of those few

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and i'm really excited to take a look at their newest enthusiast nook phantom

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canyon featuring an 11th gen tiger lake processor and discreet rtx 2060 graphics

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cause here's the thing guys normally a high performance nook like

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this comes at such a hefty price premium that most people would rather just have

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a full-size computer except look at this

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an rtx 2060 is going to cost you as much as 600 today

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okay then nook let's see what you can do ridge wallet

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is celebrating the 8th anniversary of their successful kickstarter campaign

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off site wide at ridgewallet.com

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Intel has been selling nooks or next unit of computing since 2013 and this

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tiger lake variant is interesting to gamers for a couple of reasons first and

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foremost is that you can actually buy the bloody thing

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now as jared's tech pointed out in this excellent comparison we'll have it

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linked below an rtx 2060 mobile GPU

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isn't quite as performant as one of these

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but it's also not that far off meaning that we can expect a solid gaming

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experience at up to 1440p resolution even in aaa games

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well that's reason number two the first nooks were small but they came

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with a significant performance penalty by contrast our unit here is equipped

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with a 10 nanometer core i7 1165 g7 now

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that's only a quad core and it turbos to a mere 4.7 gigahertz but architecturally

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it's more advanced than Intel's 10th generation desktop processors meaning

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that in moderately multi-threaded workloads like games it shouldn't be a

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performance bottleneck to test this we started with shadow of the tomb raider

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now we know most people aren't playing this game every day but what we also

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know is that if a machine can deliver a smooth 1440p experience in shadow it'll

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handle most pretty recent aaa games as

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long as you don't try to flip on rtx i mean it's nice to have the option to

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turn it on and admire the eye candy but the truth is the 2060 was never really

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fast enough for smooth ray traced lighting

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cs go though is a game that runs well on just about anything but needs a fast CPU

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to run at extremely high frame rates for the best competitive experience

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our phantom canyon nook kept up well enough that no casual player would

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complain but given the general rule that you want two frames per second for every

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one hertz of your monitor competitive players with high refresh rate displays

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might find it a little lacking finally f1 2020 drives home the point

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that you gotta be realistic okay it's a 2060 you won't be cranking everything to

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max at 4k resolution but when you consider that the size of this thing is

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not that different from just an rtx 2060

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for the whole system there's not a lot to complain about here

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even thermals stayed well within reason we both benchmarked the enthusiast nook

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in our studio and took it home for some extended gaming sessions and the GPU

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never passed 70 degrees as long as we kept the vents unobstructed

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the CPU though is a more complicated story it's clear that Intel has done

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some careful tuning to squeeze as much as possible out of this machine so

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curiously during a long blender render we were hovering in the 80 degree range

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but at relatively low clock speeds and then we fired up cyberpunk 2077 saw

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turbo speeds in the 4.6 gigahertz range and then even though the CPU wasn't

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fully utilized we saw temps as high as the low 90s

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thankfully though even while the whole machine is being hit hard like that it

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never gets intrusively loud on the subject of cooling by the way we're

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going to be stripping a playstation 5 and water cooling it so make sure you're

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subscribed so you don't miss it of course the last big compromise for

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anyone looking at a nook is what they give up in terms of expansion and i o

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but this one is looking pretty good

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we've got plenty of usb 10 gigabit ports HDMI 2.0 and mini DisplayPort 1.4 an sd

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card reader wi-fi six and this is really

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nice two and a half gigabit Ethernet that's fast almost as fast as you can

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cable manage your home setups with the help of lttstore.com cable ties

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and if that footprint is still too big for your minimalist lifestyle you can

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also mount it to the back of any vasa compatible monitor with the included

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hardware for a nearly cable free experience so that's already enough

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connectivity that most people won't feel limited by it and for a compact device

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it's pretty upgradeable too the CPU and GPU are soldered no swapping out those

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but you get two m.2 slots for ssds and two sodum slots if you want to add more

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memory and the dual 40 gigabit Thunderbolt 4

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ports mean that anything from external capture devices to high speed fiber

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optic networking to even a graphics card upgrade is in play if you're willing to

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pay the premium for an external enclosure bringing us to the question of what kind

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of premium will you be paying this guy starts at 1339 but 128 gigs of

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storage and 8 gigs of ddr4 3200 memory is less than a decent phone these days

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so realistically you're gonna be spending around sixteen hundred dollars

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by the time you've got enough NVMe storage for warzone and another game or

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two now normally the premium that comes with

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using mobile hardware in a desktop has made nooks extremely difficult for us to

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recommend but as we alluded to before the current

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landscape makes it look a lot more competitive

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especially considering the quality of life benefits of having a super compact

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and quiet machine for your work or play

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now one use case that we can imagine for these is actually classrooms or other

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large scale institutions all you got to do is swap out the flashy skull logo put

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it on the included stand for optimal airflow and boom you've got a discreet

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looking little workstation with a great balance of CPU speed and GPU grunt

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for those who don't need GPU power we also got our hands on the new 11th gen

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performance nook it is louder than the enthusiast model and it doesn't have

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quite as much connectivity but it's also less expensive uses Intel's new xe

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graphics if you only plan on light gaming and it even has an included phone

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or even a full-sized atx build let us know in the comments below and if you

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like small form factor gaming stuff like this make sure to watch our smallest

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