Razer Tomahawk Modular Gaming Desktop Arrives

[AleksandarK]

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.


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[Sybaris_Caesar]

During the CES 2020, way back in January of this year, Razer has shown off

Should be had, no?

 

[Cheeseball]

Looks really good for an advanced NUC, but way too overpriced for the components it has.

 

[dyonoctis]

Looks really good for an advanced NUC, but way too overpriced for the components it has.

And it's not even that small compared to some itx case... it's going to be a bust unless they find a way to make it more accessible

 

[Caring1]

They've basically stuffed a NUC in an e-GPU.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

How can a case be modular if it stays the same size?

 

[bonehead123]

Mini pc... gargantuan price...

Uhmmmm....

not no,

not hell no,

but F*CK NO

yet ANUTHA epyc fail IMHO

 

[Valantar]

Massively overpriced and oversized compared to something like the Dan A4, but ... that's what you get when mainstream brands try SFF. Still nice to see these NUCs gain some traction though, as the concept is decent enough.

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?

 

[Caring1]

How can a case be modular if it stays the same size?

I was expecting truly modular, where individual components are housed and connected via cables.
As an example a mainstream NUC connected to an eGPU and possibly an external storage.

 

[apamise]

Looks like my 6.2 liters case is smaller. And I can use actual components to build in it, not this NUC crap.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

I was expecting truly modular, where individual components are housed and connected via cables.
As an example a mainstream NUC connected to an eGPU and possibly an external storage.

I was trying to imply that without actually trying thinking of it, yea thats what i meant, really I did!

 

[Valantar]

Looks like my 6.2 liters case is smaller. And I can use actual components to build in it, not this NUC crap.

6.2 liters? This thing is >10 liters. It's nearly the size of an Ncase M1, just far less flexible.

 

[apamise]

6.2 liters? This thing is >10 liters. It's nearly the size of an Ncase M1, just far less flexible.

That's the thing. This new Razer Tomahawk is getting outclassed by other PCs in every possible way. With NUC, you'd thought size would be their strongest point, but no...

 

[Valantar]

That's the thing. This new Razer Tomahawk is getting outclassed by other PCs in every possible way. With NUC, you'd thought size would be their strongest point, but no...

It's Razer. I wouldn't expect anything else. Frankly, I wouldn't expect anything else from any mainstream manufacturer. Space optimization doesn't seem to be an easy thing to understand, for some reason.

 

[TheUn4seen]

Mini pc... gargantuan price...

Well, at 12 liters I wouldn't call it tiny. I'll probably buy one and stick a 3080 in in. And, in the end, I'll pay around 1100USD for everything - beauty of running a company from home, tax write-offs and such. But yes, at the MSRP it's very expensive for what it is - NUC and power supply in a fancy case.