The Most Powerful Mini Gaming PC...#Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin this is one

seriously interesting little PC so this

is an Intel Haiti's Canyon nook and

inside no lies it's the very first time

that an Intel CPU has been paired with

an AMD GPU on the same chip but it was

also according to Intel the smallest VR

capable gaming PC that you can buy the

special sauce here is absolutely that

8th gen Core i7 processor with the

built-in Radeon rx Vega graphics now

it's hard to overstate how weird it is

to see Intel and AMD combining forces to

create a single chip now to be fair this

is sold by Intel this is an Intel nook

and you're going to be seeing this chip

and some other things mostly like

mainstream laptops

however the Nook is all about getting

you the maximum performance and a very

very small desktop form factor so Intel

sent this out for review you should keep

in mind that there are actually two

versions of this nook so this is the

higher-end 100 watt version however

there's also a 65 watt TDP Edition which

is going to be not only a couple hundred

dollars cheaper but you are going to be

cutting back on the CPU the GPU as well

as the clock speeds now at eight hundred

dollars it doesn't look too bad and this

guy at $1000 seems like a good deal on

paper however you have to keep in mind

that it's a nook so essentially you have

to supply metal your own memory but also

your own SSD as well as operating system

pop open the box and we're gonna see the

heli the awesome skull logo but also our

nook itself

wow that is legitimately really small so

while we were in San Francisco for the

launch event of this guy

we actually got to try a VR capable

backpack PC and I say backpack PC but is

literally one of these that was sewn

onto a motorcycle jacket I'm not usually

this stylish but what I've got here is a

motorcycle jacket which has not only the

Hades Canyon nook on it we also have a

mixed reality headset so with a battery

built into the jacket in theory I'll

actually be able to be totally portable

oh well yeah the trekking is not bad

it's really cool that this is a fully

untethered experience mean I I hit a

wall I guess that would not be good but

the idea is that I don't need any cables

connected no power nothing so it's

really cool about this setup is that

because the Nook is going to be so small

but we can actually really run it easily

on a battery and it allows me to be

completely and totally untethered I'm

gonna I'm gonna grab your gun grab a gun

shoot you another knife oh okay I just

got shot alright alright

yes the main idea here is that because

now I am I untethered with the PC and

the battery and I'm also using the mixed

reality headset so actually don't need

any sort of sensors around me I can kind

of freely walk around it feels pretty

good this is really cool I am

legitimately surprised with just how

good of an experience you're getting

with something that's literally in the

back of a motorcycle jacket the size of

this actually is pretty impressive so

for context I mean that's the size of my

hand so it's not really going to be all

that large but you're getting some

pretty serious power inside you can kind

of see that in the back because there

are a whole lot of heat sinks in this

guy so around front you're going to be

seeing not only an SD card reader but a

couple of USB 3.0 ports a front-facing

hdmi 2.0 USB 3.1 type c headphone jack

and then if you flip it around to the

other side you were going to be getting

a whole lot more including one more hdmi

2.0 four more USB three two gigabit

ethernet too many DisplayPort as well as

two Thunderbolt three ports inside the

box we're also getting the pretty large

power supply that is like the same size

as the Huq however that's actually going

to be pretty important with a computer

like this well let's talk it's only

going to be pulling around 100 watts or

so this is going to be fully

overclockable not on the CPU but also

the GPU as well as that HBM to memory

inside so having a little bit of extra

Headroom with the power supply is

definitely not a bad thing pop off the

six screws on the top of the knock and

inside we have access to the motherboard

so Intel sent this already pre-populated

with the memory as well as octane and a

full SSD but like I said earlier if you

pick up one of these you will have to

supply all of this yourself something

that's definitely not going to get old

is when I open Radeon settings and see

intel logos all over the place even the

whole thing is in blue but the good

thing is because we do have an T

graphics we do have full support for all

the stuff that you would expect

including free sync which this monitor

supports so right now we're running at

1080p at 144 frames per second speaking

of high frame rates we have rocket

League so here at 1080p on max settings

were easily able to get 144 frames per

second something like the Vega GPU

inside here is gonna have no problem

playing a lot of games at 1080p and as

you'll see in a second we can even crank

things up a little bit farther now as

everyone knows pub G's not exactly the

most optimized game in the world

however it actually runs pretty well

here so this is going to be a mixture

medium settings and 1080p but because we

have the high refresh rate monitor that

doesn't mean that we're getting

somewhere between 60 and 70 frames per

second in these lighter areas so it's

one of the big advantages of course I'm

playing on PC and especially with

something like this that does have that

free sync support as well as the high

refresh rate monitor is that you really

can get something that is going to be a

lot smoother than any kind of console so

she can sing that this is well smaller

than pretty much any console I think pop

G is a good example of a game that

actually runs really well here on the

Nook so no I'm not going to be blasting

4k and like crazy options or anything

but it's definitely going to be playable

with pretty much any kind of game that

you can pick up today of course no

gaming video in 2018 would be complete

without a little bit of Fortnight so

here at 1080p on epic settings we're

getting something a little bit closer to

40 to 50 frames per second but if you

really do want to get those super high

frame rates it's easy enough to just

prop the pop the settings down a little

bit and of course if you guys are

interested in a little bit more on

Fortnite I did recently do a video

talking about how it runs that

everything from like $1,000 game PC all

the way down to a two hundred dollar

laptop they're moving on to a game

that's going to be even more graphically

demanding it's Middle Earth shadow of

war now here at 1080p on medium settings

we're getting somewhere between 60 to 70

frames per second if you don't care

about the high frame rates as always you

can crank up the settings a little bit

but this is definitely going to be a

solid 1080p gaming box jump into the

benchmarks and in 3d mark the graphics

here are going to be a little bit lower

end than something like a GTX 1060

perfectly fine and obviously pretty

powerful for a system that's small but

it is going to be a little bit lower on

the CPU side it's going to split the

difference between something like a

gaming laptop which honestly is about

the same size as this as well as a full

6 core Core i5 or Core i7 on the desktop

look there's no getting around it this

thing is weird

the idea that you're getting an Intel

CPU with an D graphics inside of it and

all the drivers are sort of branded as

Intel like everything this is kind of

unusual about it however it kind of

works no yes it is going to be a bit

pricey at $1000 and of course you do

need to keep in mind that you're gonna

need to budget at least a couple hundred

dollars more for RAM as well as an SSD

and probably a Windows license however

this

something that's not really going to be

found anywhere else you're getting a ton

of power in a small package it supports

up to six video displays at the same

time you've got two Thunderbolt three

ports so in theory you can even connect

an external graphics card to this guy

and out of the box it does support

overclocking now if size doesn't matter

you can't build yourself a bigger more

powerful computer for less money but for

a lot of people I do think that the

small size is a legitimate selling point

I mean you could just stuff it behind

your monitor and never have to look at

it if you don't want so I'm curious what

do you guys think about the Haiti's

Canyon nook let me know in the comments

below and I will catch you on the next

one