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hey guys this is Austin this is one seriously interesting little PC so this is an Intel Haiti's Canyon nook and inside no lies it's the very first time that an Intel CPU has been paired with an AMD GPU on the same chip but it was also according to Intel the smallest VR capable gaming PC that you can buy the special sauce here is absolutely that 8th gen Core i7 processor with the built-in Radeon rx Vega graphics now it's hard to overstate how weird it is to see Intel and AMD combining forces to create a single chip now to be fair this is sold by Intel this is an Intel nook and you're going to be seeing this chip and some other things mostly like mainstream laptops however the Nook is all about getting you the maximum performance and a very very small desktop form factor so Intel sent this out for review you should keep in mind that there are actually two versions of this nook so this is the higher-end 100 watt version however there's also a 65 watt TDP Edition which is going to be not only a couple hundred dollars cheaper but you are going to be cutting back on the CPU the GPU as well as the clock speeds now at eight hundred dollars it doesn't look too bad and this guy at $1000 seems like a good deal on paper however you have to keep in mind that it's a nook so essentially you have to supply metal your own memory but also your own SSD as well as operating system pop open the box and we're gonna see the heli the awesome skull logo but also our nook itself wow that is legitimately really small so while we were in San Francisco for the launch event of this guy we actually got to try a VR capable backpack PC and I say backpack PC but is literally one of these that was sewn onto a motorcycle jacket I'm not usually this stylish but what I've got here is a motorcycle jacket which has not only the Hades Canyon nook on it we also have a mixed reality headset so with a battery built into the jacket in theory I'll actually be able to be totally portable oh well yeah the trekking is not bad it's really cool that this is a fully untethered experience mean I I hit a wall I guess that would not be good but the idea is that I don't need any cables connected no power nothing so it's really cool about this setup is that because the Nook is going to be so small but we can actually really run it easily on a battery and it allows me to be completely and totally untethered I'm gonna I'm gonna grab your gun grab a gun shoot you another knife oh okay I just got shot alright alright yes the main idea here is that because now I am I untethered with the PC and the battery and I'm also using the mixed reality headset so actually don't need any sort of sensors around me I can kind of freely walk around it feels pretty good this is really cool I am legitimately surprised with just how good of an experience you're getting with something that's literally in the back of a motorcycle jacket the size of this actually is pretty impressive so for context I mean that's the size of my hand so it's not really going to be all that large but you're getting some pretty serious power inside you can kind of see that in the back because there are a whole lot of heat sinks in this guy so around front you're going to be seeing not only an SD card reader but a couple of USB 3.0 ports a front-facing hdmi 2.0 USB 3.1 type c headphone jack and then if you flip it around to the other side you were going to be getting a whole lot more including one more hdmi 2.0 four more USB three two gigabit ethernet too many DisplayPort as well as two Thunderbolt three ports inside the box we're also getting the pretty large power supply that is like the same size as the Huq however that's actually going to be pretty important with a computer like this well let's talk it's only going to be pulling around 100 watts or so this is going to be fully overclockable not on the CPU but also the GPU as well as that HBM to memory inside so having a little bit of extra Headroom with the power supply is definitely not a bad thing pop off the six screws on the top of the knock and inside we have access to the motherboard so Intel sent this already pre-populated with the memory as well as octane and a full SSD but like I said earlier if you pick up one of these you will have to supply all of this yourself something that's definitely not going to get old is when I open Radeon settings and see intel logos all over the place even the whole thing is in blue but the good thing is because we do have an T graphics we do have full support for all the stuff that you would expect including free sync which this monitor supports so right now we're running at 1080p at 144 frames per second speaking of high frame rates we have rocket League so here at 1080p on max settings were easily able to get 144 frames per second something like the Vega GPU inside here is gonna have no problem playing a lot of games at 1080p and as you'll see in a second we can even crank things up a little bit farther now as everyone knows pub G's not exactly the most optimized game in the world however it actually runs pretty well here so this is going to be a mixture medium settings and 1080p but because we have the high refresh rate monitor that doesn't mean that we're getting somewhere between 60 and 70 frames per second in these lighter areas so it's one of the big advantages of course I'm playing on PC and especially with something like this that does have that free sync support as well as the high refresh rate monitor is that you really can get something that is going to be a lot smoother than any kind of console so she can sing that this is well smaller than pretty much any console I think pop G is a good example of a game that actually runs really well here on the Nook so no I'm not going to be blasting 4k and like crazy options or anything but it's definitely going to be playable with pretty much any kind of game that you can pick up today of course no gaming video in 2018 would be complete without a little bit of Fortnight so here at 1080p on epic settings we're getting something a little bit closer to 40 to 50 frames per second but if you really do want to get those super high frame rates it's easy enough to just prop the pop the settings down a little bit and of course if you guys are interested in a little bit more on Fortnite I did recently do a video talking about how it runs that everything from like $1,000 game PC all the way down to a two hundred dollar laptop they're moving on to a game that's going to be even more graphically demanding it's Middle Earth shadow of war now here at 1080p on medium settings we're getting somewhere between 60 to 70 frames per second if you don't care about the high frame rates as always you can crank up the settings a little bit but this is definitely going to be a solid 1080p gaming box jump into the benchmarks and in 3d mark the graphics here are going to be a little bit lower end than something like a GTX 1060 perfectly fine and obviously pretty powerful for a system that's small but it is going to be a little bit lower on the CPU side it's going to split the difference between something like a gaming laptop which honestly is about the same size as this as well as a full 6 core Core i5 or Core i7 on the desktop look there's no getting around it this thing is weird the idea that you're getting an Intel CPU with an D graphics inside of it and all the drivers are sort of branded as Intel like everything this is kind of unusual about it however it kind of works no yes it is going to be a bit pricey at $1000 and of course you do need to keep in mind that you're gonna need to budget at least a couple hundred dollars more for RAM as well as an SSD and probably a Windows license however this something that's not really going to be found anywhere else you're getting a ton of power in a small package it supports up to six video displays at the same time you've got two Thunderbolt three ports so in theory you can even connect an external graphics card to this guy and out of the box it does support overclocking now if size doesn't matter you can't build yourself a bigger more powerful computer for less money but for a lot of people I do think that the small size is a legitimate selling point I mean you could just stuff it behind your monitor and never have to look at it if you don't want so I'm curious what do you guys think about the Haiti's Canyon nook let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one