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hello p-people Eber here with Hardwick annex and this is intel's hades canyon nook for those of you who don't know what a nook is it stands for next unit of computing and if you're familiar with the skull canyon knock that was launched a few years back until really defined the future of modern desktop computing with those units i mean i've taken a look at countless people gaming systems in the past here on the channel and i've never seen anything as compact or innovative as the skull can enact or even this hades canyon nook and it's just it's just mind-blowing considering the amount of power intel has been able to cram inside a chassis that can comfortably fit your palms intel is offering these units as bare-bones kits so you have to populate in your own choice for a memory and storage and the sample that I have over here costs $1000 which is an expensive investment but if you're looking to save a few hundred dollars you can actually pick up the lower tier version of the hades can a nook the only thing is that it comes with a slightly less SPECT Vega GPU with 24 compute units on it slightly lower clock speed so that's something I have to keep in mind so let's take an in-depth look at Hades Canyon and put it through spaces compared to some other bare-bones pcs from the past and also come up with a unique solution that I could use or unique so you say the Hughes case scenario that it could use this for here in the office or perhaps in my living room I don't know we'll come up with something somewhere in this video and of course we will I've come to a conclusion as to whether or not it's worth a thousand dollars but also you know find out who this is really targeted towards right after this the new master keys MK 750 keyboard comes with a comfortable magnetic wrist rest beautiful RGB light bar on the perimeter and perky lighting control with a variety of Cherry MX switches and the bottom type-c connection coolermaster doing it right check it out below alright so taking a look at the physical appearance of this unit I've gotta say I'm really impressed intel has taken these stealth and minimalist approach here with the exterior design there are no fancy or aggressive Kamri elements to other chassis you will notice this cool honeycomb texture that gradually fades into a smooth matte black finish and I'm really diggin it so far and yes it's 2018 year where we expect every flagship gaming device to come with some sort of RGB lighting and intel hasn't skipped that the signature logo does light up in the subtle manner and the colors can be customized through software but what's really interesting is that if you decide to turn off the LED logo there actually no traces or signs of that logo underneath the front panel which is amazing moving on to the i/o I have to be honest here this nook has way too many ports been compared to a standard ATX motherboard or even any pre-built high-end gaming systems that I've taken a look at in the past seriously at the front you've got a high speed uhs-1 full size SD card reader 2 USB 3.1 gen2 type-c ports HDMI 2.0 type C Gen 2 port and a headphone /my combo jack switching over to the rear see that there's still more we've got another 3.5 out of Jack power in - Thunderbolt 3 ports - many display ports a couple of Ethernet ports for USB 3.0 ports and another HDMI 2.0 port ok I'm gonna take it right now realistically speaking I don't see myself taking advantage of all these ports at the same time but if you're someone who's looking for a compact system with a load of i/o look no further than the Hades Canyon because hey they've got a full size SD card reader that's just impressive to me taking a look at the specs this is where things get a little bit interesting so Intel partnered up with AMD this time to create a processor that features an Intel CPU combined with Vega graphics in this case we're looking at the core i7 8800 9g quad core eight threaded CPU that comes with a base caco3 point 1 gigahertz with a boost up to 4.2 along with 8 megabytes of cache the discrete graphics is the Radeon rx Vega mgh that comes with a base frequency of 10 63 megahertz and a boost up to 11 9024 compute units graphics memory bandwidth of 200 4.8 gigabytes per second and 4 gigabytes of HBM to memory this certainly looks a lot superior than intel's integrated solution speaking of which is still present with the i7 cpu remember this cable AG architecture features an intel cpu with integrated HD graphics with the addition of Vega and graphics all jammed into a single processing unit really can't wait to share my gaming experience with you guys but before we get into the performance results I want to briefly go over accessing the internals of this unit it's actually pretty simple and straightforward all you have to do is use the included allen key to unscrew the six top panel screws once that's done you can gently lift the panel upon which you'll find the LED lighting module carefully unplug the proprietary connector from the little PCB there's one screw holding that plate in place once you take that out you'll be greeted with two nvme m2 slots which are populated in my sample and two sodium's slots that can support up to 64 gigabytes of RAM now the lack of including a two and a half inch hard drive bracket could be a deal-breaker for some of you out there but I'm gonna give into a pass for that because they've done so much to cram all that power inside this compact chassis and of course you have to m dot two slots to work with what's really generous of Intel is actually included thermal pads on the top panels so you don't have to invest on that and that would obviously dissipate some of the heat that's coming out at those two drives now just like every other bare-bones PC it is important to factor in the rest of the cost that you would need to investigate a fully functioning system so in this case if you're deciding to pick up the $1,000 Hades Canyon in valence PC you would have to spend somewhere between $1,300 to $1,400 to get a fully functioning system with the inclusion of a Windows 10 operating system and the breakdown for those is basically you know $8,250 on storage and of course the rest is memory and given the current state of memory pricing it's it's not feasible to invest on a 32 gigabyte kid or even a 16 gigabyte kid I mean if you can find those kits for a relatively cheaper price by all means it's a better option but it is unfortunate that we're at a state of market right now what component prices are definitely a lot more expensive than they used to be so if you see yourself spending I mean if you think you know $1,400 is a max that you'd like to spend on something like this I don't know let me know in the comments down below would you actually spend that much to get a fully functioning system and now to the million dollar question is actually worth spending that much on the Hades canon or are you much better off building yourself PC well let's take a look at the performance results but before that I have a little bit of a surprise here because I did decide to do something unique in terms of you know finding a better use case scenario here in the studio so let's check that out okay so I decided to do something different for the eighties Canyon testing so essentially I want to build myself and all-in-one system featuring the Hades Canyon because if you think about it the size of this guy is pretty compact it comes with a with base amounts so you can basically just attach it to a monitor I provided that it comes with the base mounting support system so that's what we're looking at right now this is the pick CEO a px 277 gaming monitor it's a 144 Hertz 1440p display for the price I think it's it's a really good solid panel the bezels are super thin or your problem is that the stand is absolutely terrible and it doesn't come with it the adjustment is not that great because you can you can't adjust the height nor tilt or do any sort of thing it just it's just it's just what it is so this is what I'll be working with let's mount that haiti's Canyon to this guy and see what we come up with ok so I did run into a little bit of an issue here so the included screws that Intel provides for the base amount in bracket is a little too long for this monitor because the thread mounts or the thread the thread holds for that that are inside the panel are pretty short in length so it doesn't actually go in the screws don't go in completely so you do get a little bit of this wiggle with the with the base amount so that's something to keep in mind but I think you know from a positive standpoint this could actually give us some more airspace for the for the system to breathe properly so it could come in as an advantage or a disadvantage I don't know but that's something to keep in mind all right so we finally have our DIY all-in-one desktop PC and as you can see it's a work in progress I think I'm pretty sure that our room for improvements here but let's kick things off with the haiti's Canon by itself so I did attach four just fine I didn't run into any clearance issues or not but just be keep in mind that you know given that we have that incompatibility with the vase the mounting bracket to the monitor there is a little bit of wiggle in there but I did manage to put just managed to just put a little bit of cables in between so that it's just it stays intact of course as you can see I've done a pretty I mean I've done a pretty good job with with cable management here basically taped some of them on the monitor obviously it does look a little disgusting but whatever but yeah I think it looks pretty good of course we have all these cables coming out so definitely I think from an aesthetics perspective it's probably not gonna look as great but let's actually plug this in and and see if it actually works so we put it into Windows without a problem one thing to keep in mind is that this particular monitor has two HDMI ports where one of them can only support freesync up to 144 Hertz whereas the other port can going only go as far as 75 Hertz and so you have to make sure that you've plugged HDMI port or the cable to the right port to take advantage of 144 hurts at 1440p of course with free sync enabled which I've already done so let's test out this guy alright so how did the haiti's Canon perform with my DIY all-in-one setup pretty darn impressive guys I ran a few benchmarks just to ensure stability and kicking things off with Cinebench r15 we got a score of 866 and to put this in perspective I did compare these results to the azrog decimate GTX featuring an i5 7600 K and a GTX 1060 along with a gaming laptop from your comp featuring an i7 7700 HQ CPU with a gtx 1070 max-q and as you can see hades canyon takes the lead here in terms of Rho CP performance ee primer the multi-core test once again proves how fast the new a generation cpus are so from a multitasking standpoint the i7 88 a 9g wouldn't break a sweat now I did run some real-world tests like rendering this one-minute 4k video using Adobe Media encoder and interestingly enough the Hades Canyon took some more time to complete that task compared to the ass rock and the yurikano book which kind of makes sense in a way because CUDA acceleration with NVIDIA GPUs placed some roll faster rendering that being said I did manage to test both hardware and software encoding with Indy encoding settings and I didn't notice a significant difference between the two because on both optimizations are in both settings I did notice the CPU usage and the integrated Intel graphics utilized to its fullest but I think this also has to do with lack of optimization because this is a new SOC so perhaps we could expect a newer update with infamy apparel to support these new Intel CPUs with Vega graphics alright so moving on to the best part gaming performance here's a look at 3d mark time spy as well as fire strike and as you can see the RX Vega and GPU is not that far behind when you compared to the GTX 960 and the gtx 1070 max q I did one all of my gaming tests at 1080p since pushing this GPU to 1440p really wouldn't make any sense starting with battlefield 1 at 1080p said too high Hades Canyon averaged around 72 frames per second which is completely playable and it's again not too far behind the other two systems featuring faster graphics cards overwatch a 1080p set to epic give us around 70 frames per second doom again a 1080p set to ultra using the Vulkan API dished out around 89 frames per second and finally Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon violence which is a demanding title did push the Vega GPU to its limits averaging around 47 frames per second at the very high preset the integrated cooling solution did a pretty good job keeping the i7 88 or 9g under control even under my 15 minute I 264 stress test I saw CP temps hitting as far as 87 degrees Celsius and I didn't notice any major throttling which is great because during idle CPU frequencies did run and it's rated for to 4.2 gigahertz which is actually above its specs because the base clock is 2.1 gigahertz and boost all the way up to 4.2 power consumption was also very impressive during idle scenarios like browsing the web or watching YouTube video the system drew roughly 50 watts whereas with gaming so for example under full load on the DeBakey GPU as well as a cpu the system drew roughly a hundred and thirty watts the GPU ran around 65 degrees Celsius while gaming and maximum core clock that I was able to achieve was around eleven ninety megahertz which is just right on par with the specs and this is just impressive considering the form factor and the system was also relatively quiet during my testing here's how it sounds so to conclude I'm really impressed with Intel's hades cannon nut this thing is an absolute monster when it comes to 1080p gaming you wouldn't have a problem hanging frame rates above 70 frames per second depending on titles at Ultra settings and what's even impressive is its thermal solution it's relatively quiet it stays relatively quiet so you don't have to put in headphones or whatnot to isolate the noise again it's just it's just considering its considering the compact nature I'm just genuinely impressed not to mention the amount of ports intel has been able to cram inside the chassis is once again mind-blowing I don't think I've ever seen a prebuilt system with this many ports and also my experience appearing this up with a facing monitor was amazing I didn't experience any screen tearing it was just overall a smoother gaming experience and what's even impressive is that the monitor itself by itself is not that expensive it is $3.99 on sale right now and when you pair that up with something with Hades Canon featuring an AMD PS GPU that can support for you sync I think you're looking at a pretty cool awesome compact gaming setup another thing to keep note of is if you decide to mount this behind a monitor just make sure that that monitor comes with a separate veissy mounting system and of course a separate stand because if your monitor is held up buying a base amount if the stand itself is attached to the base amount then attaching this at the bottom wouldn't make any sense or I don't think it's probably possible so that's one of the town sights with this fix your monitor the stand the included stand was pretty terrible there were limited adjustments with that I'm probably gonna end up picking up the monitor stand and just so I can easily access the ports at the bottom the last thing to discuss here is the price isn't really targeted towards gamers out there in a way yes it depends on who you really are if you're someone who's valuing a lot of performance for the money you're much better off building a gaming system I mean depending on the component prices and if they're relatively reasonable then you're much better off building in system and then getting slightly extra better performance compared to Hades Canyon but if you were someone who's looking for a compact system that can comfortably pushed any to be gaming I don't think there's anything in the market right now that can do anything better or perform any better than Hades Canyon because I'm genuinely like I said from the beginning till the end I'm just really impressed with what Intel has done here so that concludes this video let me know what you guys think about Intel's hades can you knock are you impressed by its performance especially the thermal results and of course just a way how it looks let me know what you guys think about it in the comments down below i'm Ebro booth harbor connects thank you so much for watching and we'll see you in the next one