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hey how's it going Dave 2d here this is the Hades Canyon nook this is Intel's latest super small computer that's running that KB Lake G CPU so if you don't know what this thing is it's like Intel always makes these small computers called the Knux they're these like tiny little boxes like this and they kind of get faster and better every year but this year they took it up an extra notch this is running that new 8th gen chip that combines an Intel Core i7 with a Radeon Vega M GPU it's like this collaboration with Intel and AMD to make this extremely efficient CPU and that's what we have powering this whole device ok so the thing that makes this thing special is its size this thing is 1.2 litres it's a little bit bigger than the previous generation but it's still super super small you don't get cases like this very often like you've seen my videos where I build into I Jax cases the smallest one I've ever done was like I think six or seven litres 1.2 litres it's small there's an external AC adapter which you obviously plug up to this but the unit itself can leave it out as like a media center unit or leave it on your table if you really want small devices but I use this thing as I didn't use it as a as a laptop but I basically brought this thing back and forth from work for a couple months last year not this one but a nook and those like two AC adapters wouldn't work where at home these things are just so small so portable that you can do a lot with them very versatile devices now this is a bare-bones unit so it doesn't come with RAM storage or even an operating system you have to pop it open and put it in yourself there's two nvme drive slots and two RAM slot so you can pack up to 32 gigs of ram and it's actually really easy to build into the system like very few screws you have to deal with and every time I open one of these things up it surprises me as to how they can fit everything everything into something so small while still retaining all the functionality so this thing actually has a crazy number of ports there's two Thunderbolt threes a bunch of UCAS this is completely riddled with ports but despite that despite being nothing but ports and grills all over it still looks really clean and the top lights up so when I was at CES and I first saw this thing it looked like the skull only lit up in blue and red and it kind of made sense because of the blue was supposed to represent Intel and the red for GPU but it's actually full RGB action you can change the colors of basically every single light in here plus the skull and the eye socket and if you want to you can kill all the lights and just make it look super stealth and the interesting thing is that when you remove all the lights like when you don't light it up at all you can't see any trace of that skull on the surface if you want to keep it really muted you can just by turning off the lights okay performance on this thing is quite good it's running the highest-end KB Lake G chip so the 88 0-9 G and it's a quad-core CPU with hyper-threading I ran a bunch of benchmarks and it put out strong but kind of expected numbers for the clock speed because remember this is a KB Lake architecture not the coffee like architecture but more interesting to me was the GPU performance so that radeon vega mgh it's close and performance to a gtx 1060 not quite as powerful more similar to the 1060 max-q a very capable card so you'll be able to hit 60 frames per second on most triple-a titles you might have to finesse the graphics quality a bit but overall I'm impressed and it's running some earlier drivers right there's always room for improvement over time but the thing that makes this thing like so cool is that the CPU and the GPU all fit into here on one chip it's a 100 watt TDP package and I'm getting 85 frames per second in Doom on ultra graphics at 1080p in a box that's 1.2 litres like that's do you see how crazy that is this is this has never been done before this is a super tiny machine with really good game performs and VR is actually capable on this it's not like a VR monster you won't be able to keep up with the higher resolution of the new 5 pro but it can handle the regular HTC vive thermally it's also quite good the default settings won't have any kind of throttling you can overclock it with Intel X to you but I wasn't able to get any substantial gains in the short amount of time I played with it one of the first things I noticed when I booted this thing up was how quiet it was so the skull canyon neck from last year was pretty quiet but it was audible still even on idle this one was essentially silent when I first turn it on on light load the fans spin up a little bit but even on maximum load this is still a very quiet PC so right now if you're trying to build a PC and you're looking for like a smaller one you can build something into an ITX case and it'll cost you around 800 bucks for something that's similar in performance this is a thousand at the top and there's a lower specs model the link goes for 800 so depending on what you need or what you want you can swap that around but I do that the premium that you pay for the something this small and this compact but this kind of performance is not that huge I think it's very reasonable considering what this thing is capable of it does have limited upgrade capability because I don't think you're popping out that CPU too easily but if you're looking for something that's small and light and relatively powerful check this thing out it's like a really cool small PC okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time