Intel’s processor announcements at the CES 2021 virtual fair ignored many smaller releases. One of these was the company’s next-generation Phantom Canyon NUC computer.

Phantom Canyon’s official name is NUC 11 Enthusiast Mini PC that follows more traditional lines as a ready-made configuration instead of the NUC 9 Extreme’s modular design. As expected, the minicomputer is equipped with the company’s latest generation of iron.

NUC 10 At the heart of the Enthusiast is a 4-core Core i7 based on Intel’s Tiger Lake architecture – 1165 With the G7 Xe graphics driver. The company has chosen NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 2060 as a separate video card. The computer will be available as well as the so-called. Barebone putty that fully equipped 11 with GB memory (2x 8 GB DDR4 – 3200), Optane Mem H 11 hybrid SSD drive (32 Gt Optane + 512 Gt SSD) and Windows 10 Home license. GeForce RTX 2060 is also part of the Barebone version.

Intel has also made slightly more special solutions in its new minicomputer. Although the video card chosen by the company only supports the PCI Express 3.0 standard, it is connected to the processor’s PCIe 4.0 lines, making only PCIe 3.0 lines available for M.2 drives. The computer has two M.2 ports, the first supporting only NVMe drives and the second supporting both NVMe and SATA drives.

On the interface side, there are two Thunderbolt 4 connectors, which are also the only USB Type-C connectors in the configuration. In addition to Thunderbolt, the computer has two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A connectors on the front panel and four on the back panel and an SDXC UHS-II card reader. One of the front panel USB connectors supports fast charging. Intel 2.5 Gbps 512 – LM network controller and Wi-Fi 6 AX 3200 is responsible for network connections , which supports both Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1. There are two or four display connections, depending on the calculation method. One mini-DP 1.4 connector and an HDMI 2.0b connector are connected to the separate video card, but the Thunderbolt 4 connectors connected to the integrated Xe graphics driver also support the DisplayPort 1.4a standard.

Intel NUC 10 The strategic dimensions of the Enthusiast Mini PC are 221 x 142 x 42 mm and 1.3 liters. The housing cover is equipped with RGB lighting and is replaceable. Price information is not yet official, but according to AnandTech, SimplyNUC sells a partially customized configuration 128 on a GB NVMe SSD and 16 with GB memory 1349 for a dollar pre-order price and another anonymous store Barebone version 1130 for the dollar price. Deliveries of SimplyNUC pre-orders will begin in March

.Sources: Intel, AnandTech