Intel Shows Off Hades Canyon Guts

[rgMekanic]

Intel announced the Hades Canyon NUCs back in January, and now they are giving us a peek under the hood at the motherboard and goodies. The Hades Canyon is being called "The World's Smallest VR Gaming Rig" by intel, and features an 8th generation i7 processor in either locked or unlocked flavors, coupled with Radeon Vega M graphics.

Looks fantastic, and the way component prices have been, depending on the cost of the Hades Canyon NUCs, they could be a viable option. I'm impressed seeing the amount IO that little thing has on it! Earlier this month we posted about leaked benchmarks of the Hades Canyon, but who knows if those are final numbers.

Intel NUCs are tiny but powerful mini-PCs. Their popularity has rapidly increased since Intel introduced them in 2012. People use the Intel NUC - an acronym for Next Unit of Computing, and pronounced like the first syllable in “knuckle” - in millions of systems worldwide from home entertainment to gaming to digital security to airport signs.

 

[RC-Heli-3D]

Not distracted, I want to know Intel's hit job on AMD!

 

[WhoMe]

Now just bring on the world's smallest (well lightest) headset (with 4k) to go along with it and I'm in for one or two.

 

[Poseur]

I've been pronouncing it as "nook". Luckily people don't listen to me.

 

[kirbyrj]

Preorder the i7-8809g NUC at $999?!? No thanks.

 

[WhoMe]

NUC - an acronym for Next Unit of Computing

That's disappointing I though it was short for nunchaku and Intel was just being bad ass.

 

[mullet]

Every time I see Intel my eyes glaze over.

 

[vegeta535]

Preorder the i7-8809g NUC at $999?!? No thanks.

and you still have to add your own memory and storage!

 

[Stoly]

I've been pronouncing it as "nook". Luckily people don't listen to me.

Me too

 

[Master_shake_]

Preorder the i7-8809g NUC at $999?!? No thanks.

intel is nucked.

 

[blkt]

Hades Canyon you say?

I pronounce NUC as Curly would from The Three Stooges.

 

[NeoNemesis]

I like the concept and would definitely use it as an HTPC if I was given one, but at that price point I'd rather just make my own. It's basically just a laptop with the screen cut off and the battery removed.

 

[Putz]

looking forward to seeing these cpus with vega in laptops... intel video is still such garbage

 

[bigdogchris]

Neat little device to tear down and work on.

 

[BloodyIron]

Dat mobo has some tasty IO.

 

[Powerage]

I like the concept and would definitely use it as an HTPC if I was given one, but at that price point I'd rather just make my own. It's basically just a laptop with the screen cut off and the battery removed.

Sounds awesome. Screens, batteries, keyboards and trackpads are pretty obviously the worst parts of a laptop.