Intel recently released their new Skull Canyon NUC. It's impossibly small, and powerful.
Of note is Thunderbolt 3 enabled USB-3 port on the back. That port enables this PC to be paired with an external GPU (eGPU) chassis to become on nasty NUC. We are seeing a few commercial Thunderbolt 3 eGPU chassis coming to market. The Razer Core being a pricey early entrant. Gigabyte is also readying their GP-T3GFx. Another manufacturer AKiTiO also has several external PCIe chassis. Releasing this August 2016 is the
Thunder3 PCIe Box.
Unlike the Core, this product is much smaller, and intended for HALF length double slot cards. Does this mean we could potentially pair a Mini GTX 1070 with the Skull Canyon NUC?
Update: Nope, the bump of the Gigabyte GTX 1070 prevents it from fitting. Tried it, images here. A Zotac GTX 1060 does fit, but power supply remain external. Benjaminslr has a working prototype later in thread.
Internally the AKiTiO enclosure only supplies 25W of power, but perhaps one of our enterprising forum members could imbue it with some HD PLEX 250W power and net a modular, 3.5L, "Nasty NUC" ? What do you guys think?
Of note is Thunderbolt 3 enabled USB-3 port on the back. That port enables this PC to be paired with an external GPU (eGPU) chassis to become on nasty NUC. We are seeing a few commercial Thunderbolt 3 eGPU chassis coming to market. The Razer Core being a pricey early entrant. Gigabyte is also readying their GP-T3GFx. Another manufacturer AKiTiO also has several external PCIe chassis. Releasing this August 2016 is the
Thunder3 PCIe Box.
Unlike the Core, this product is much smaller, and intended for HALF length double slot cards. Does this mean we could potentially pair a Mini GTX 1070 with the Skull Canyon NUC?
Update: Nope, the bump of the Gigabyte GTX 1070 prevents it from fitting. Tried it, images here. A Zotac GTX 1060 does fit, but power supply remain external. Benjaminslr has a working prototype later in thread.
Internally the AKiTiO enclosure only supplies 25W of power, but perhaps one of our enterprising forum members could imbue it with some HD PLEX 250W power and net a modular, 3.5L, "Nasty NUC" ? What do you guys think?
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