This is a product I've been excited about. so I've seen mostly all the reviews on TH-cam for it. And I gotta say yours is one of the most comprehensive. But more than that it was entertaining to watch. good review. Good job.
Aslam Bugti he said its about 1000.- 600 is only the barebone. You can get decent laptops for that. And you can play casually with cheap laptops. Depends what you play.
I tried to find the "skip ad" button, since I didn't realize it was just the start of the video! :p (I mean that in a good way) Your quality has increased so much in this last year!!! Seriously inspiring! So professional!
Your video's are really cool and I have binge watched a whole load of your videos lately. There are many tech channels, but yours s by far the best! I really like your camera work and how the information is presented!
That price, ouch. My full size desktop build is only about $1500 now. It's 8-core at 4.2ghz, 32gb ram and Geforce gtx 960. For travel I could see it being useful, otherwise, not till the price comes wayyyyy down. Liked the video, Cheers!
For gaming though, your build will be just as fast as this NUC. Since your 8 cores and 32 GB give no advantage over the 4 cores and (assumed) 8 GB you'd put in this. The GTX 960 is of course substantially faster. But not $800 faster which is the difference between your and my NUC build.
The size is amazing, but for almost the same price (after you have to add the os, the storage and the ram) you can get a m-itx with a 1060 6gb. Unless size is your priority at the cost of performance, than this is very cool.
Fucking love HardwareCanucks. I clicked on the video thinking its from LTT, then the intro started and I thought "O shit, LTT bringing their quality to the next level." Then BOOM HELLO THERE IM DMITRI FROM HARDWARECANUCKS and i understood why is the quality so good. I have to watch these videos in slow motion to fully grasp all the stuff. How did you make the shot at 3:12? A glossy table with a greenscreen behind it, or how? I honestly have no idea. Great stuff man,
I can totally see this as the Mac Mini slayer. Smaller form factor, more powerful quad-core cpu (vs. older dual-core), easily upgradeable storage and RAM, a more up-to-date and capable IO layout, and actually cheaper than a new, higher-end Mac Mini config
HardwareCanucks, thank you for the video. best review video of this product i've seen! To those complaining about this item. Portability is VERY important for people that travel (like me). If you know about traveling fees, they can go up a lot in cost. SIZE and WEIGHT matters when traveling. This would allow you to pack in additional items to your luggage. Also, $220 for additional checked in luggage/boxes. I traveled with mini itx once I traveled with laptop Intel's Skull Canyon NUC will definitely make things more convenient. I travel to Japan, so I would travel with this and a couple harddrives, and probably purchase a monitor there (used). I would use this for video production work.
What? The power button is on the front. Technically it could be for horizontal OR vertical but I assume Intel is only recommending horizontal setup because of the vents being on the sides, which would make vertical setup not so great. You'd be blocking either an intake or exhaust option. But still; what? Why do you think it's for vertical? O.o
Wow such wow,you make just great video and review,just perfect!!! and those song!!! Dmitri,please give us a name of the music. Чудные видео : > всё идеально,продолжай в том же духе!
If I were in this market I'd still go for the AsRock deskmini offerings over the NUCs (better value for $), but my, is Skylake a beast of an architecture. Well done, Intel.
I know it's not meant for heavy games but i'd love to see how all of the top end games do on it, like GTA 5 and Battlefield 4 etc, whilst changing the settings to see the framerates, this thing looks awesome, could attach it to the back of a monitor and it would be an all in one kit!
Fit an enthusiast gaming PC in that and where are golden. But for 1k you can make something way better unless you need something on the go, but you also need a monitor with this.
I *LOVE* my NUC! Mine quint-boots: 1.) Openstack Liberty (on Ubuntu 14.04) 2.) Openstack Mitaka (on Ubuntu 16.04) 3.) Debian Jessie 4.) Windows 7 Professional (for firmware and driver updates) 5.) SteamOS It's an AMAZING little kit. I bought a 10" LCD panel to go with it and a 12", flat HDMI cable. It all fits in a very small space, and I bring it to the hotels with me. I have a super-cluster in my hands and can show of a LOT of power in a very small package. If you get an NVME drive, MAKE SURE you install it in the PCI-e slot, not the SATA slot, or your drive will suffer performance.
really looking forward to a comparison of intel nuc with the alienware alpha r2. Currently, I am thinking of buying one of them as my main pc for about 4-5 years. They are really compact for students who only has a small room and travels a lot.
Sure space isn't in abundance in my room, but a mini itx computer with say a Intel 6700k, 1060, psu, ram, case, mobo hdd and os I feel would come to about 1,000. Making it def a novelty as you stated. I feel like this has more potential in commercial applications like running those interactive touch screen menus at fast food joints or hospitals.
Seems like this would make a great HTPC for those that want a minimal space impact in their living room, as long as they have no budget restraints! Can't wait for NUCs with CPU/iGPU that are 2 generations away, the performance per watt is going to be even sicker. Or... it'd be nice to see an AMD Zen competitor in the future, but who knows about that :(
Looks like a perfect HTPC. Have you tried putting XBMC on it? (Kodi in linux) I know you could run Kodi on top of windows at any rate, but that doesn't seem ideal to me.
been considering getting a Mac Mini for years, but with the drop in the Aussie dollar and the lack of innovation from Apple and even worse, things like soldered RAM make it a deal breaker. This thing, is fucking awesome. I'm not a gamer, but want a very small PC with POWER and this thing delivers imo. Better value than laptops with similar specs and choose any size monitor or TV to go. Santa & Y2J Chris Jericho, put it on "The List"
Does it work pretty seamlessly with the razer core? That would make it a nicer option for my setup than a laptop and the core would. Thanks for testing it on photoshop. I think it would work great for someone doing photo editing primarily.
I'm curious how this NUC + external graphics stacks up versus a similarly spec'd system in an NCASE M1. Total footprint, total cost, total performance.
Quick question... Wouldn't the premium price make the Blade Stealth a similar option in both performance and price, but with the added bonus of being it's own full system (laptop) to make use of the "portable" part of the whole deal?
Qualifier: It's been way too long since I've built my last rig and I've been wondering if a more "mobile" solution with an external GPU enclosure would be a more "perfect fit" for my needs at the moment.
Do you have an eGPU set up that you can try with this?I am very interested in how it runs with a 1070 or 1080. It could make for a compelling high end living room pc if you could tuck the GPU enclosure away and only have the NUC showing.
Pretty sure you can't do 4k netflix from any windows machine. Just found out about that one last night... Only available through platforms like amazon fire stick, and smart TV apps etc.
That one transition to look at the back side was the slickest i've ever seen. Well done editing right there.
Dimitri, it´s such a pleasure to watch your videos, beautiful work man!
Glad you enjoyed :D
This is a product I've been excited about. so I've seen mostly all the reviews on TH-cam for it. And I gotta say yours is one of the most comprehensive. But more than that it was entertaining to watch. good review. Good job.
Perfect for a TV and a sofa, maybe gaming on the go while traveling. Not much use cases after that.
Ricardo Escobar gaming on the go with umm what screen?
luis _ have fun finding good wifi thay doesnt cost 20$ a day. And i dont see a reason to play games while traveling anyway.
why not buy a decent gaming laptop ...in the price range of 600$ .
Aslam Bugti he said its about 1000.- 600 is only the barebone. You can get decent laptops for that. And you can play casually with cheap laptops. Depends what you play.
Does the laptops of 600$ has (211 x 116 x 28 mm) dimension and weight less then 1 pound?
I tried to find the "skip ad" button, since I didn't realize it was just the start of the video! :p
(I mean that in a good way)
Your quality has increased so much in this last year!!! Seriously inspiring! So professional!
I really liked the flashing lights transition from front to back I/O, it looked like a magic trick haha. Great cinematography as always!
i'm glad you compared it to a tomato, otherwise i'd have no clue about the NUCs size.
whos is this new guy?
Jon Stepanenkov I think its Dmitry's little brother
Hello my name is Dimitri from hardwarecanuck
Husky Husky maybe his son cuz he looks young
Oh him? He's the new guy, Aiden.
Dmitry's shaved twin brother.
please do a comparison between this and the asrock desk mini. would be a good comparison.
I agree comparison between this and an asrock desk mini with say a ryzen 4650g would be very interesting.
Nice editing! Especially moment with flashing light!
last time I was this early, Dmitri had hair on his face
enough of this last time bs.
I always like, how +HardwareCanucks videos being edited. it is pretty darn cool.
Your video's are really cool and I have binge watched a whole load of your videos lately. There are many tech channels, but yours s by far the best! I really like your camera work and how the information is presented!
thanks :D
Good To See you Man!
The video looks so damn clean.
Love your aesthetics in your video
i F*cking LOVE the way you edit your videos!, so enjoyable to watch
I like this video especially for it's production value. Good work man!
What about the content? haha we want everyone be satisfied with content just as much as the production stuff :p
I really like the way you make these videos. Keep it up! Good luck!
You look so much younger now, not sure how I feel about it yet...
Pexarz ahhh I see what you did there 😏
Good thing the beard is back though haha... regular face programming to resume in the next video :D
Back to the Future!
That price, ouch. My full size desktop build is only about $1500 now. It's 8-core at 4.2ghz, 32gb ram and Geforce gtx 960. For travel I could see it being useful, otherwise, not till the price comes wayyyyy down. Liked the video, Cheers!
The price is steep compared to what you can build yourself but it will never be as small haha :p
HardwareCanucks
I agree!
HardwareCanucks
If you bored enough, I posted my build a couple days ago. It's a parts list, not a build tutorial, so it's not long.
link :D
For gaming though, your build will be just as fast as this NUC. Since your 8 cores and 32 GB give no advantage over the 4 cores and (assumed) 8 GB you'd put in this.
The GTX 960 is of course substantially faster. But not $800 faster which is the difference between your and my NUC build.
The size is amazing, but for almost the same price (after you have to add the os, the storage and the ram) you can get a m-itx with a 1060 6gb. Unless size is your priority at the cost of performance, than this is very cool.
I have one, I love it. So very nice. Just waiting for the AkiTio Node to be released, but it can still manage the games I want for now.
As Always, I love your videography. Keep it up please!
Fucking love HardwareCanucks. I clicked on the video thinking its from LTT, then the intro started and I thought "O shit, LTT bringing their quality to the next level." Then BOOM HELLO THERE IM DMITRI FROM HARDWARECANUCKS and i understood why is the quality so good. I have to watch these videos in slow motion to fully grasp all the stuff.
How did you make the shot at 3:12? A glossy table with a greenscreen behind it, or how? I honestly have no idea.
Great stuff man,
I like the Thunderbolt 3 feature on this NUC. I would like to see a video of an external graphics card hooked up to this NUC.
Can't wait just ordered one.
Yo, Dimitri, you gotta review the Thermaltake View 27 case. You always give the best case reviews.
Want to see video of NUC with RAZOR CORE!
Super pointless combo. Size of a node 304 for double the price and half the performance.
Despite being a sponsored video, it felt like a fair review. Well done.
i love your presentations man, they are great, good job keep it up, liked and subscribed
It's not cheap... but i can see why someone would choose thise over a fullsize PC.
Looks great for a HTPC. I'd love to build one out of an mITX enclosure but the Intel Nuc's, AsRock's mini pc's, etc. would work be perfect.
progste true. If I can afford one, I'll buy one.
Would love some more game benchmarks.
I can totally see this as the Mac Mini slayer. Smaller form factor, more powerful quad-core cpu (vs. older dual-core), easily upgradeable storage and RAM, a more up-to-date and capable IO layout, and actually cheaper than a new, higher-end Mac Mini config
Congrats on 500k subs
HardwareCanucks, thank you for the video. best review video of this product i've seen!
To those complaining about this item. Portability is VERY important for people that travel (like me). If you know about traveling fees, they can go up a lot in cost. SIZE and WEIGHT matters when traveling. This would allow you to pack in additional items to your luggage. Also, $220 for additional checked in luggage/boxes.
I traveled with mini itx once
I traveled with laptop
Intel's Skull Canyon NUC will definitely make things more convenient. I travel to Japan, so I would travel with this and a couple harddrives, and probably purchase a monitor there (used). I would use this for video production work.
Was hoping for a dollar shave club ad placement...
Haha, yeah would have been fitting for sure!
You didn't mention noise. I imagine it's pretty noisy, but would love to hear about it.
A great looking video as usual...
if its supposed to lay horisontaly ways why is the power button mounted for vertical mounting
What? The power button is on the front. Technically it could be for horizontal OR vertical but I assume Intel is only recommending horizontal setup because of the vents being on the sides, which would make vertical setup not so great. You'd be blocking either an intake or exhaust option. But still; what? Why do you think it's for vertical? O.o
Damn, this tiny PC is more powerful than my desktop.
Any benchmarks with this machine? I would seriously consider it as a mini video editing rig for portability but with video rendering power.
Oh yay, a video talking about IO! AMAZING.
quality as always
Wow such wow,you make just great video and review,just perfect!!! and those song!!!
Dmitri,please give us a name of the music.
Чудные видео : > всё идеально,продолжай в том же духе!
If I were in this market I'd still go for the AsRock deskmini offerings over the NUCs (better value for $), but my, is Skylake a beast of an architecture. Well done, Intel.
I know it's not meant for heavy games but i'd love to see how all of the top end games do on it, like GTA 5 and Battlefield 4 etc, whilst changing the settings to see the framerates, this thing looks awesome, could attach it to the back of a monitor and it would be an all in one kit!
if this adds official support for an external PCI-E dock this could be a pretty good setup for someone with limited space and doesn't want a laptop
Fit an enthusiast gaming PC in that and where are golden.
But for 1k you can make something way better unless you need something on the go, but you also need a monitor with this.
What keyboard are you using, if I may ask? It looks gorgeous!
just bring this NUC to every hotel with 1 hdmi cable, so you are good to go with gaming everywhere haha
Love it so much hungry for more
I *LOVE* my NUC! Mine quint-boots:
1.) Openstack Liberty (on Ubuntu 14.04)
2.) Openstack Mitaka (on Ubuntu 16.04)
3.) Debian Jessie
4.) Windows 7 Professional (for firmware and driver updates)
5.) SteamOS
It's an AMAZING little kit. I bought a 10" LCD panel to go with it and a 12", flat HDMI cable. It all fits in a very small space, and I bring it to the hotels with me. I have a super-cluster in my hands and can show of a LOT of power in a very small package.
If you get an NVME drive, MAKE SURE you install it in the PCI-e slot, not the SATA slot, or your drive will suffer performance.
really looking forward to a comparison of intel nuc with the alienware alpha r2. Currently, I am thinking of buying one of them as my main pc for about 4-5 years. They are really compact for students who only has a small room and travels a lot.
Very cool little computer.
Better shaved.
I really love what they have done with the NUC, and if I had the budget, I could see myself snagging one for my home office.
Techwise, Dmitry is literally one of the best videographers out there, together with Brandon
как раз искал обзор этого девайса, спасибо за обзор Дмитрий.
He's back!!!
Sure space isn't in abundance in my room, but a mini itx computer with say a Intel 6700k, 1060, psu, ram, case, mobo hdd and os I feel would come to about 1,000. Making it def a novelty as you stated. I feel like this has more potential in commercial applications like running those interactive touch screen menus at fast food joints or hospitals.
looking forward to your review of the new steelseries headphones!
"White LED"
"Orange USB Port"
Are you colorblind? XD
Probably due to the camera or some other variable not able to produce pure white.
Most video producers will usually colour correct during editing
Cool white LEDs definitely look blue on camera
Yeah that could be the case for the power button, white/blue. However, the USB port is always yellow, never orange.
Was that TV really vibrating weirdly at 5:12 due to some reason or is it just some video issue??
Yeah video artifact.
Can you RAID two m.2 drives on this?
Yup --> www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/boards-and-kits/000021493.html
Thank you! :D
a lot cheaper raiding a stack of spinning disc hard drives, rather have a dual boot set up, one ssd running windows and the 2nd linux
congrats for 500k subs
+TEK GAMING thanks :)
yours welcome
This video is on the next level! Techporn!
i just noticed that "includes paid promotion" text that's not actually in the video.
Nice review on this intel skull canyon nuc, by the way, what is the model of your pocket camera in 1:59?
Seems like this would make a great HTPC for those that want a minimal space impact in their living room, as long as they have no budget restraints! Can't wait for NUCs with CPU/iGPU that are 2 generations away, the performance per watt is going to be even sicker. Or... it'd be nice to see an AMD Zen competitor in the future, but who knows about that :(
What's the name of the music in the beginning?
Would be cool if the second gen gets an option to be powered by that tunderbolt 3.0 that way you would need only 1 cable from your pc.
tnx. very good and informatiive review. i do appreciate
You caught me off guard without your beard. Hope I don't get backstabbed
Great review
Babyface Dimitri! Also I'd really love to see a comparison with a similarly powerfull/priced itx build.
damn!! great review
this is the coolest pc ive ever seen
Looks like a perfect HTPC. Have you tried putting XBMC on it? (Kodi in linux) I know you could run Kodi on top of windows at any rate, but that doesn't seem ideal to me.
Great review Dimitri! Just wondering, how much power does it draw at idle? Looking at making a little server that's permanently on :)
Pretty cool NUC! but I'd like to see at least a basic laptop GPU for that price.
wow dimitri, no temperature and noise review?
For a sec there I thought I was watching an ad and was looking for the skip button lol.
been considering getting a Mac Mini for years, but with the drop in the Aussie dollar and the lack of innovation from Apple and even worse, things like soldered RAM make it a deal breaker. This thing, is fucking awesome. I'm not a gamer, but want a very small PC with POWER and this thing delivers imo. Better value than laptops with similar specs and choose any size monitor or TV to go. Santa & Y2J Chris Jericho, put it on "The List"
Dat baby face tho XD keep up the awesome vids mate
Does it work pretty seamlessly with the razer core? That would make it a nicer option for my setup than a laptop and the core would. Thanks for testing it on photoshop. I think it would work great for someone doing photo editing primarily.
Dimitry looks so much like a kid without his beard. lol
#BabyFace for sure!
Hwc, your broll makes me cry...
song at the beginning ?
Not the time for the question.. But can somebody tell me which one to get?
Gtx 1070 Zotac Amp Extreme or EVGA FTW
What is the ITX case at 2:06? Thanks
I'm curious how this NUC + external graphics stacks up versus a similarly spec'd system in an NCASE M1. Total footprint, total cost, total performance.
Let me give you feedback on your voice quality
there is eco in the room so I suggest you buy those sound absorbing foams.
BTW all the other stuff is really good
That face slap though.
I like to see someone turn this into a handheld gaming console. it seems
small enough to work.
Quick question... Wouldn't the premium price make the Blade Stealth a similar option in both performance and price, but with the added bonus of being it's own full system (laptop) to make use of the "portable" part of the whole deal?
Qualifier: It's been way too long since I've built my last rig and I've been wondering if a more "mobile" solution with an external GPU enclosure would be a more "perfect fit" for my needs at the moment.
Putting the specs in the description would be nice...
Do you have an eGPU set up that you can try with this?I am very interested in how it runs with a 1070 or 1080. It could make for a compelling high end living room pc if you could tuck the GPU enclosure away and only have the NUC showing.
Pretty sure you can't do 4k netflix from any windows machine. Just found out about that one last night... Only available through platforms like amazon fire stick, and smart TV apps etc.
Does that thing go throttling under the full load and is the perfomance penalty noticeble? What is the temperature during that load?
you know your gonna have to do the s340 elite right? ;)