When Asus rescued Intel's NUC model of compact PCs from the dumpster, we hoped the corporate would possibly additionally reinvigorates Intel's bold miniature gaming PCs. It did, however put together for a bit sticker shock—these techniques can price as a lot or greater than a comparable gaming laptop computer.
The corporate's web site at the moment lists two fashions of the ROG NUC, with what Asus tells us are tentative costs of $1,629 and $2,199. The entry-level mannequin has an Intel Core Extremely 7 155H graphics card, Nvidia RTX 4060, 16GB of 5600MHz DDR5 RAM and 512GB of NVMe SSD storage, whereas the superior configuration goes as much as a Core Extremely 9 185H, RTX 4070 GB / and 1 TB of RAM and storage respectively.
As you’ll be able to simply discover the favored Asus Zephyrus G14 and G16 laptops with comparable specs for that value or much less – regardless of additionally getting a battery and display – these aren't fairly the funds gaming selections they might have been typically a gaming Intel is NOT the previous.
However you get respectable connectivity in a field that's solely two inches thick. There are six USB-A ports, 4 of them at 10Gbps speeds, an SD Specific eight.zero card reader, a Thunderbolt four port with as much as 12V quick charging for USB-C PD units, three.5mm headphones and a couple of.5 Gbps Ethernet, along with two DisplayPort 1.4a sockets and an HDMI 2.1 port. Wirelessly, there's an Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E AX1690i and Bluetooth 5.three.
Me, I might have appreciated extra USB-C ports – and also you'll discover it makes use of an exterior 330-watt DC energy brick. It additionally comes with the vertical stand you see within the picture above this story.
We haven't seen what the within seems to be like but, however there's a single button on the again to open the panel so you’ll be able to change RAM and add SSDs on the naked minimal. It comes with three M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 slots, so including loads of space for storing shortly needs to be straightforward.