Monday, March 19th 2018
Intel "Hades Canyon" NUC Motherboard Pictured
Intel launched its "Hades Canyon" NUC way back in January 2018, but in the run up to its availability slated for Spring (very soon); the company shared a picture of its motherboard. The non-rectangular board is curved to the shape of the chassis, and is designed to utilize every square cm of precious PCB real-estate. The board has components soldered on both sides. The top side has the various slots (memory and M.2), ports, and headers; while the bottom side has the main Core i7-8709G MCM, the chipset, and some VRM components powering the two. Intel made sure some of the rear I/O ports utilize cutouts in the PCB, so they don't add a precious few millimeters. The NUC's main cooling system, inspired by gaming notebooks, takes up most of the bottom side of the chassis, making contact with the MCM, the PCH, and VRM.
8 Comments on Intel "Hades Canyon" NUC Motherboard Pictured
I would like to see what kind of experiments can be done with this board
And it's more affordable than its predecessor ($570 for a base model w/o OS).It's VR-capable, so I'm pretty sure you can make a portable VR/AR backpack w/ a couple of 12V UPS batteries and a 120W inverter :laugh:
Nvidia would require just as much for the same job.
Vega isn't that bad.
Vega64\56 isn't good hardware, do not let those classify vega.
It's like saying gtx1050ti is weak and not very efficient so the 1060 has to be.
1060 is very efficient and quite fast.
on another note; this package is SEXY!