Mini-PCs are almost always geared towards office use or as a media player next to a TV. While some manufacturers like Zotac offer solutions capable of running games, none offer the possibility of updating the machine (in addition to memory and storage). But Intel is going a step further with its NUC 9 Extreme, a machine that is at the same time compact, modular and whose performance should be excellent. Let’s take a closer look!
Intel NUC 9 Extreme (NUC9i9QNX) | |
CPU | Intel Core i9-9980HK |
Memory | 2 x 8 Go DDR4 DO-DIMM 2666 MHz Kingston |
Graphic card | Asus Dual RTX 2070 Mini |
SSD | Intel Optane 905p 380 Go Kingston KC2000 1 To |
Housing | Intel Ghost Canyon |
Food | FSP Flex 500 Watts 80Plus Platinum |
Dimensions | 23,8 (P) x 21,6 (H) x 9,6 (l) cm |
First of all, you should know that like any barebone, the NUC 9 Extreme is delivered without storage, without memory and without graphics card. With the purchase, you have the Ghost Canyon chassis, a power supply as well as a Compute Element (which we will see later) which integrates the CPU, two M.2 memory slots. Intel sent us a complete setup for the purposes of this test, and that’s what we’re presenting to you.
Our version therefore comes with the founder’s largest legacy mobile CPU, the Core i9-9980HK. Based on the DIE of a Core i9-9900K, it is an octocore CPU clocked from 2.4 GHz base at 5 GHz in turbo mode on one thread, all for a TDP of 45 Watts (set at 65 Watts in the NUC). Suffice to say that we are far from the feverish little CPU that we find in a large majority of mini-PCs on the market.
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