Tiny PC that runs on voodoo magic!? - Intel Skull Canyon NUC, PAX East 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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991 words · ~4 min read
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thank you to Logitech and Discord for bringing us to paxi 2016 this year if
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you want to see all of their stuff click their Link in the video description down
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below so we are the Intel Booth checking out the skull Canyon the last time they
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released something with the name of skull in it it was the skull Trail and
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that was freaking badass and so is this
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we've talked about on the W show before but now I finally get to see it in real
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life let's check it out the main awesome thing about the skull Canyon is its size
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and what it's able to do within the restrictions of its size this thing is 0
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74 L of total volume Which is less than
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two popcs for more exact dimensions it's
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211 X 116 by 28 millime not inches or
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centimet millimeters this thing is Tiny in terms of an internal Hardware which
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is I know what you all want to hear about it has an i7 6770 HQ processor
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running at 2.6 GHz at the like TDP all
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day rating which is where it's able to comfortably sit all the time or when it
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boosts up it can go up to 3 3.4 GHz for
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expandability it has two so DM slots it can go up to 32 GB and currently
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supports 2133 MHz for total speed for
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drive expandability you have two m.2 slots which are able to fully support
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the full speed of a 950 Pro so you don't really have to worry about storage
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speeds either in terms of IO on the front you have an SD card slot a power
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button two USB 3.0 ports one of which is a charging port so while it's off it can
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still charge one of your devices a head Jack and an IR receiver on the back you
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have power in a headphone SL Optical microphone Jack an RJ45 Ethernet gigabit
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Port two USB 3.0 ports a DisplayPort a
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USB 3.1 type-c connector and HDMI 2.0
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for full 4K 60 HZ on the right hand side
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you have a metal reinforced Kensington lock which is awesome because if it was
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just plain plastic someone would just be able to rip it off the Kensington lock
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which kind of defeats the purpose on the bottom for when you're taking apart
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there's captive screws so you unscrew them and they actually stay connected to
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the plate which is great because losing little tiny screws is super frustrating
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and you have replaceable face plates on the top so you can have the awesome face
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plate with the skull on it which I highly recommend you use or if you
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needed more like a business application where you don't want to have skulls on
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things you do have the mat plate which does still feature the hexagon pattern
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on the left hand side which is super awesome and if you take that plate off
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of the top you have more expanded IO for if you want to put this thing in your
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own custom chassis or you just don't need the top cover for whatever reason
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that IO is a USB 3.0 header which is not the standard one you'd find in a desktop
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so you might have to go looking for a custom part for that a common IO header
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which supports USB 2.0 lights switches all that kind of stuff and possibly an
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NFC header but that's not necessarily finalized at this point for wireless you
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have Intel Wireless AC which is probably what you expected and for power you have
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120 W power from the wall wall which is running at 19 volts and 6.3 amps it
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actually usually only pulls like 60 to 65 Watts but that extra expanded wattage
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is there for things that might need to be powered over Thunderbolt speaking of
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Thunderbolt you can do some pretty awesome stuff so that's nice and small
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but if you want to expand it with a dedicated graphics card you can get
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something like the Razer core run that Thunderbolt connection to it and run
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what they're currently running which is an R9 Nano you can fit fullsize graphics
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cards in here but they're running a nano Nanos are great I love Nanos that's
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completely fine and you can do stuff like run Just Cause 3 completely fine
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it's not even that easy of a game to run and they're running it no problemo so
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that sounds pretty sick but when can you get your hands on one well they have
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pre-orders right now on new EG but they won't be shipping until sometime in May
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not entirely sure when during that month but it's May that's probably fine it's
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about $650 suggested retail price not entirely
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sure exactly how much it's going to cost and that is the barebone system so
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without any memory and without without any storage space so if you are
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interested check out newegg.com they have them for pre-order right now just search up skull Canyon like you to
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Logitech and Discord for sending us a px e 2016 this year to check out all of
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logitech's Hardware like mice keyboards headphones racing wheels whatever
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they're all in the video description down below and discord's awesome they
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have free voice and chat servers you can set one up you can join someone else's
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do whatever you want check them out in the video description down below as well
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see all the rest of our terribly voiced back 2016 content subscribe I'm going to
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try to get some cough drops I'll see you guys next time