Friday, December 4th 2020
Razer Tomahawk Modular Gaming Desktop Arrives
During CES 2020, way back in January of this year, Razer had shown off a quite interesting concept. Called a modular gaming desktop, the concept has a goal to allow users to just swap-out parts on the fly and have no trouble doing so. Today, the company has officially decided to launch the Tomahawk gaming desktop. Designed for small-form-factor computing, the case of the Tomahawk PC is coming in at just 10L volume, with measurements of 210 mm x 365 mm x 150 mm. The case is an all-black aluminium silhouette with the signature Razer logo and Chroma lighting around the base. That gives it a simple look that can blend in with any environment.
When it comes to the insides, the PC features a power supply of 750 Watts that powers one of Intel's NUC Element boards that is a house for a 45 W Core i9-9980HK Coffee Lake processor with eight cores and 16 threads. When it comes to memory, it has 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD storage, paired with a 2 TB hard drive. Razer offers users to upgrade memory and storage, while the CPU is soldered to the board. You can pre-order the Razer Tomahawk PC at a price starting at $2,399.99, while if you want to equip it with something like NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, you will be paying $3,199.99. If you already have a GPU to install, then you should just order the base.
When it comes to the insides, the PC features a power supply of 750 Watts that powers one of Intel's NUC Element boards that is a house for a 45 W Core i9-9980HK Coffee Lake processor with eight cores and 16 threads. When it comes to memory, it has 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD storage, paired with a 2 TB hard drive. Razer offers users to upgrade memory and storage, while the CPU is soldered to the board. You can pre-order the Razer Tomahawk PC at a price starting at $2,399.99, while if you want to equip it with something like NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 GPU, you will be paying $3,199.99. If you already have a GPU to install, then you should just order the base.
14 Comments on Razer Tomahawk Modular Gaming Desktop Arrives
Uhmmmm....
not no,
not hell no,
but F*CK NO :(
yet ANUTHA epyc fail IMHO :)
That being said, I still think Intel made a massively boneheaded mistake by designing the motherboard for these with the traditional PCIe orientation (i.e. components on the same side as a GPU would have them). This massively limits cooling, and forces them to use those stupid blower heatsinks. Given that the cards are proprietary anyhow, why not just install the components on the back of the board? This would cut down PCIe trace lengths and allow for smaller interconnect PCBs, would allow for CPU cooling through the side panel with a small downdraft cooler like the Intel stock cooler or an NH-L9, and would make cleaning the cooler far easier. I literally can't fathom why Intel designed those boards that way. Does it bring even a single advantage to the table?
As an example a mainstream NUC connected to an eGPU and possibly an external storage.