Minisforum Announces NUCX17 & NUCX15 Mini PCs Featuring Tiger Lake CPUs & NVIDIA Graphics

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Minisforum is going to launch two new Intel chip mini PCs which are named NUCXI5 and NUCXI7. Both of them will share the same case design, equipped with a discrete graphics card, and will come with a thunderbolt port to perform ultimate gaming performance. The Minisforum NUCXI5 is equipped with Intel Core i5-11400H CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU. The Intel Core i5-11400H is a high-end Hexa-core SoC that was announced in mid-2021. It belongs to the Tiger Lake H45 family. It has 6 cores and 12 threads and can be boosted up to 4.5 GHz. The CPU offers a 12 MB L3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile is an Ampere graphics card that was announced in 2021. It is based on the GA106 Ampere chip and offers 6 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory.

The other one, Minisforum NUCXI7, uses an even more powerful CPU and GPU which is Intel Core i7-11800H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. The Intel Core i7-11800H is a high-end Octa-core SoC that was also announced in mid-2021. It has 8 cores, and 16 threads that can be boosted up to 4.6 GHz. The CPU offers 24 MB of Level 3 cache and supports DDR4-3200 memory. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile was also announced in 2021. It offers 8 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory with a 256 Bit memory bus.





Both computer sizes are only 80 mm x 260 mm x 394 mm. They support totally up to 64 GB of DDR4 dual channel memory. They have two M.2 2280 PCIe slots for storage expansion and can be connected to 2 monitors at the same time using 1 HDMI and 1 thunderbolt 4 port. If bought with storage, they will come with Windows 11 pro-pre-installed.

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[Chaitanya]

IO is quite sparse but that is one good looking Mini PC/NUC.

 

[MarsM4N]

It's really looking quite good. But it's so dam thin, it's going to tip over all the time on a shaky table.

Also by the dimensions, did they just stuff a notebook board in that case?

 

[SN2716057]

Oh nice but I won't ask the price.

pro-pre-installed

lol

 

[Shou Miko]

IO is quite sparse but that is one good looking Mini PC/NUC.

True, but Thunderbolt can help with this, but it's a shame it's hella expensive

 

[SN2716057]

True, but Thunderbolt can help with this, but it's a shame it's hella expensive

Did I miss the price listing?

 

[Shou Miko]

Did I miss the price listing?

I mean the thunderbolt devices are hella expensive, sorry for not clarify this.

 

[Chaitanya]

True, but Thunderbolt can help with this, but it's a shame it's hella expensive

Expansion dock adds another layer unnecessary clutter to desk which wont look neat.

 

[Nyek]

Looks noisy with a bit of thermal throttling in it

 

[watzupken]

This is basically a laptop without the keyboard and display. Unless the price is fantastic, no reason to get this over a laptop. Cooling is still going to be very limited looking at the slimness of the chassis.

 

[dj-electric]

The use of TGL and not ADL hurts my bones a bit here, but I know development takes time...

 

[ZoneDymo]

sooo a laptop without keyboard mouse and monitor...got it

 

[chodaboy19]

I like this form factor, I can just install it under my desk and call it a day.

 

[bonehead123]

I like this form factor, I can just install it under my desk and call it a day.

I like it too (except for that damned stupid-ass skull graphic) and I would just hang it on the wall like a picture........but I am sure with those specs, it is way above my price range

 

[ZetZet]

I like it too (except for that damned stupid-ass skull graphic) and I would just hang it on the wall like a picture........but I am sure with those specs, it is way above my price range

You could order Intel NUCs with or without a skull so I don't see why this one would be different.
But like others said it makes no sense to buy this anyway considering it's just a laptop without a screen and it's using last gen tech, you can get one of the laptops that are now going on sale all over since 12th gen came in.

 

[R0H1T]

This is basically a laptop without the keyboard and display.

That's the case with most NUC these days, in fact AIO's are also going that route!

 

[TechLurker]

Really wish there were more NUC-like options from the AMD side; moreso since they could leverage their all in-house design to pull off similar abilities like smart power boosting that the "ALL AMD" laptops can do, but in a thin desktop format that permits more power when needed, then idle back to barely anything when not.

 

[Crackong]

These are re-purposed laptop boards that Intel can't sell as basically nobody wants their NUC laptop line

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

I like it too (except for that damned stupid-ass skull graphic) and I would just hang it on the wall like a picture........but I am sure with those specs, it is way above my price range

IMHO that's a good thing. That's an intel IP. There was going to be a version of the alderlake nuc with RTX 3070 but that go pushed away to showcase intel arc. I wonder if this is the missing one. In which case it wasn't really scrapped.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Ugh, Tiger Lake really! I'd like to see the thermals for this. Looks like a laptop standing on its side. Why was it necessary to make it so thin? Style over substance I'd say.