Raptor Canyon; Triple Extensive, But Nonetheless Small Type Issue
The newly introduced NUC 13 Excessive, also referred to as Raptor Canyon isn’t fairly a mini-ITX system, although it may be bigger than some. The newly introduced field is 13.9 L in quantity, which could not be fairly as massive as a few of Cooler Grasp’s mini-ITX packing containers however actually outsizes another choices by different firms. You’ll nonetheless pay a premium as you’re shopping for extra than simply an empty field.
There have been some photographs of the NUC 13 Compute Ingredient discovered inside this breadbox sized system, which appears considerably like a video card. It consists of a mainboard with a thirteenth Gen CPU, from i5 to i9 relying in your selection, in addition to reminiscence, all connected and hidden beneath customized cooling. As with different NUC Excessive fashions, the reminiscence and CPU are the identical as in a desktop system and might be changed or upgraded by the proprietor.
As you possibly can see from the image, the PSU, mainboard, elements and cooling altogether are roughly the identical dimension because the triple slot GPU put in within the NUC 13 Excessive case. The present RTX 4090 FE may be a bit a lot to suit inside this case, however nearly any earlier era NVIDIA card or present era AMD triple slot card ought to match is as nicely. There’s additionally good purpose to imagine that it’ll match most Arc A7 playing cards.
It will likely be very fascinating to see what the worth distinction between a NUC Excessive 13 and the equal elements in a mini-ITX case might be.
