ASUS bought this from Intel & made it GOOD - ASUS ROG NUC 

I commend Asus for keeping an entire market segment alive.

Damn. That pricing just puts me right back into laptop territory.

this CES 2024 development is pretty substantial. The level of performance you can get in laptops and small PC's in 2024 is absolutely insane

For a "complete rig" in a tiny box like that, the price is what I expected. Wanna see this on a drag race against desktop Macs, even if the market for NUCs and Macs are diametrically opposed.

I'm just hoping that they also have the lower end barebone NUCs as well. My Home Assistant server is running on one along with a few other services and it is amazing and cost me less then $250 at the time. It's also what I used for when I set up desktop computers for my in-laws because it's all they need and far better then getting a laptop.

They should start making these in a standard 1U rack form factor

I understand the RND and overall just NUCs were always expensive but they need to cut like 200$ across the board of the prices for them to be considered, NUCs imo never took off because of their price.

The fact this has Thunderbolt 4 means eGPU. And that allows this system to go way beyond its limits.

Mad respect for Jake being so cool, on a show floor, in the asus booth saying he wouldn’t expect being able to buy a barebones one in front of their faces.

The original NUC was the small cube boxes; I have purchased 5 at different times. I didn't feel the skull Canyon has the spirit of the NUC and gave the most problems pushing the power. (one fan fail), and now this Asus model is looking even bigger. I hope they can still do a small NUC, as this portability was great for the small office desk space footprint. Let's see how Asus carry on the NUC flag in the future, as this is their first one, and I guess they wanted a gaming device. There are a lot of players in the SFF mini PC markets, so Asus will have competition at the lower end.

NUC have a lot of niche cases for my clientbase, glad to see one of my fav brands behind it.

That looks like the older (better) Intel gaming NUCs, before they went to those gigantic monstrosities. Awesome.

Honestly after building my own for 20 years now, especially whitebox 4U servers and going through multiple tower cases, etc(I have 6 systems at home right now) (mostly older Intel HEDT builds), my next personal system is just gonna be a gaming NUC or gaming laptop. I don't even really care about making my own SFF build (although lots of cool closed & open cases out there). All the hardware in 2023/2024 is powerful enough even at the mid-level for what I care about, so I'm pretty much done trying to chase some numbers or overly customizing for whatever reason. I got to remind myself I really don't need a 5090 Titan Max Supreme Edition GPU and/or newest top end 300 core Threadripper CPU to enjoy something. Heck, a cheap Intel Arc card (Asrock challenger A380) gave me enough of a boost to enjoy video editing again after I was obsessing about maybe getting a 3080 or something for my lame non-career hobby videos. It just gets in your mind all this stuff. Just gonna save 1 older system as a NAS to fit the all 3.5" HDDs I already have. Price wise it seems like a lot (and it is for a lot of people, me too) but it ends up being about the same since I spend so much on trying to perfect, or customize or optimize, tinker, need more x,y & z more and more instead of just being satisfied and using it. Like all the new fans I end up buying add up, for example. I get too obsessed with lots of hardware instead of just focusing on what I can do with what it is. Maybe that's just me though. These gaming NUCs/mini-PCs, even ones from Zotac (Magnus One), look well made enough to just plug and play and enjoy it.

As a truck driver, this sounds wicked! Space is a premium and every little bit matters. This and a decent 24" monitor and I'm set to stay on the road for months!

The small ASUS with the 4060 inside is an absolute beast and I love it. I needed something while I was in Thailand that was small and easy to move and found that. Love it.

I'd enjoy a full review whenever possible

The price is on the high end, but not completely unreasonable for what it is. Even with a custom-built, the price goes up as the size goes down and not in a necessarily linear fashion. I *do* think the product would be more competitive if the "with storage etc" price came in about $300 lower though. Maybe they'll figure out a way to cut into that price a little bit without losing performance before the product launches? Finding 15% in efficiency savings in production is a lot though...

I really want one man, mount this to the back of a 1080p 120hz monitor and you've got a sweet little portable gaming rig/ workstation

Jake computer synthesizer voice whole episode demanded!

I currently have Minisforum UM780 XTX (Nov2023) which is IMO one of the top mini PC's of 2023. I have it hooked up to a full RTX4060 via oculink. total cost was USD $950. Let's wait for the price of Minisforum UH185 (2024), if it's $1k or less, then I'd go for that. especially for its OCulink. I can just buy a $500 full RTX4070 to plug into it.

This would be great hope they also make a monitor mount in one of there monitors to make a all in one PC.

Not that I need it (just built a new full desktop) but I LOVE the small form factor builds. I would love to see that in a higher TDP package but honestly it's a very powerful system in a tiny package which is amazing and I'm happy to see them pulling this off.

I mean, I would want to see how it handles various pro workloads and compare it to equivalently performant laptops in price. If it is competent and competitive, it could be an interesting alternative for travel work computers in scenarios where you expect a display to be present at the destination. It could also be an interesting solution for space conscious deployments. It has been a hot minute since I've needed to research laptops, but it is an interesting consideration I would look at for school/work environment computer fleets.

Watercooling and fabric pci-e level expansion with gpus would make it killer easy to make a solid PC cafe style experience

Can't wait! Hope this can be paired with a light weight GAN power adapter.

Hopefully on the smaller ones they keep the Dual HDMI Dual Ethernet option on the latest Intel NUC Pros. Really interested to see what they. Ring out in the smaller form factor. Wouldn’t mind if they got a little larger to enable better I/O. I’d love if they did an integrated PSU design similar to MacMini.

Pricing may kill this PC (which would be a shame if they did not continue this line-up in the future). It has Laptop components, but even premium laptop with same spece, with battery, screen, keyboard and a touchpad IS cheaper. I kinda expected for ASUS to price it as a "premium" product (ROG brand, etc).... but on top of lacking battery, screen, keyboard it also lacks SSD & RAM, which makes it WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. I mean, if there are already some great mini gaming PCs like Minisforum Neptune. Asus is entering Gaming NUC market and if they price it badly, they will not sell well tbh. Anyway, for that cash, you could probably build ITX PC with way better components.

I want a full review! I like mini-PCs, especially gaming ones.

Reminds me of my NUC Hades; conked out after 18 months of light usage. Luckily I was able to claim warranty and they replaced with 2 units.

At 7:44, that's Jason from PC Builder! I think.... yea video bomb!

the tjmax on the core ultra 7 is 110 degrees C. so that is why it reached 106C on a big turbo thing then the 70-80 C is extremely nice temps for a cpu like this. most laptop run at 99C constantly under load anyway

Looking at it, I was thinking "thin client" more than a NUC. Very interesting!

Sort of the spiritual successor to the Hades Canyon NUC, I still use one after 5 years or so and it still works great.

Yes, full review of NUCs please

if you absolutely need a tiny chassis like this, i dont think the price is far off the mark. it has robust cooling, and if asus sneaks some bios tweaking options in there, i think it would be a pretty good micro box.

do full review pls and also if possible can you also mention which countries this product is going to be available in as well?

I would love to see a igpu + dual nic, maybe even sfp+ in there.

id love to see you buying the barebone higher tier system, upgrading it to the max and maybe idk, modify something about it, artsy case or sth

LTT Review with a LTT Watercool Mod cooler plus giving it more power would be really nice.

I've two intel nuc pcs, they were both amazing, I mean they still are. Cant wait what the asus will bring

The question for this product is whether a comparable laptop with the same specs would cost as much and performance similarly. The thing about Asus laptops, i can always find them for under MSRP. I wouldn't mind a NUC if the price is retail stores is significantly discounted.

For those prices, you could get a gaming laptop with similar class of specs, that also comes with a keyboard, a nice screen and a battery.

LOL at the Robotic Voice over correcting the mistake. Funny at least you guys are making the correction now!

Oh yeah I absolutely want a review. And I'd also like an analysis on the reasoning of why a laptop CPU instead of a socketable one, too.

I would prefer to see the same cooling solution on both processors (CPU and GPU) because if it has a smart power distribution, the CPU is always at a disadvantage with cooling. Intel NUC's lowest price was around $350, so I don't know how I would look at that $1800 price without everything.

I like how small it is and I also like the fact it would be great for my lounge which has a 4K normal tv which is 50hz so I could play my games on max settings with a cool system. Only problem will be the price as you can get last years razor blade laptop for similar money.

FYI - the graphic that comes on screen when you're talking about the specs says Intel Arc graphics and not the Nvidia stuff being referenced throughout the video.

If you happen to review them, please compare the two models and check with different RAM sticks

Looks a lot like the old Alienware Alpha R2. Cool to see that much horse power in a NUC.

yes please do a full review of the rog nuc i9

Hopefully this thing does well enough to where Asus will keep bringing these to market next gen as well.

Hopefully they'll release a nuc extreme with support for dedicated gpus

I bought the nuc 11 enthusiast rtx 2060 kit (barebone) back when it came out for $1100 mainly for retro gaming and its still a beast. Asus name on it explains the extra couple hundred but I bet it's gonna be a monster if the original nuc team designed it.

If it gave the same results as w6800, then it's giving RTX 3060 ti (desktop) level results😮. Wow

Shout out to the editors at 1:15. Attention to details

I still have a nuc that’s a daily driver, with Linux for me, def interested in this…

I want to see the psu integrated and am5 mobo. the new cpus will be insane for non gpu options too

Haha disassembling right there, didn't expect that! awesome!

I would love to see a full review, specifically for a comparison of this to a laptop with the same gpu yada, yada, yada. Bc it is priced about the same as an rog laptop with those same-ish specs. So the question I want answered is how much better is that thermal solution on the new nuc than a laptop's. Since the laptop is obviously much thinner.

I'm interested in this device as a PC console. I wonder if it compatible with armoury crate.

Asus has been selling their version of nuc for years in other countries it's just now they'll be adopting the name too + more markets

That Asus Rep nervous laughter look 😊

If they do it right this could be amazing they can put laptop cpus with desktop class gpus and get amazing performance in a tiny package for people who travel or need something small with tons of power it could be great like double or triple Xbox series performance in a package a third of the price and with the new integrated intel graphics being pretty insane they could make some super custom chips in a insanely small package like better than rog ally performance in the size of an external hard drive

I’ve had hands on a lot of mini PCs and every time I hold a Mac mini I think “why aren’t mini PC manufacturers integrating the power supply in the unit”? Also smart of ASUS to take a page out of Macbook modding and add thermal pads to make thermal contact with the fans. Since you’re doing it on a desktop you don’t need to worry about higher surface temps as you would with a laptop; the price though, at that point you’re getting in similar-spec gaming laptop territory

For clean desk style , you can easily hide it behind your screen

Jake is the only reason I sometimes watch lmg.

From the official (EU) announcement, the pricing of the ROG thing places it well above an entry-level gaming laptop with the same specs. Which makes it more of a niche than I would've liked to have seen.

Full review please !!🤓

The pricing isnt completely out to lunch but at this pricing you could easily get a better base rig from minisforum with a destop gpu and enclosure for less while still having better performance across the board. Unless you're just that space constrained, this doesnt really make any sense.

Imagine a tiny pc half the size of this one with a powerful laptop cpu storage and ram paired with asus external graphics card like a 4090 that would be absolutely insane power in a tiny setup

Price seems a tad high for what's basically a gaming laptop in a chassis with less features - no screen, keyboard, track pad, or battery - with the only real advantages likely being higher total power and better(ish) thermal solutions. Would be curious how this performs against ROG laptops of a similar price point.

I am hoping for ASUS to provide an affordable NUC. I am using an 8th gen Intel NUC for my plex server, and I am looking to replace it for something stronger but still very power efficient and low TDP.

Its cool, butit feels like you could buy a laptop with similar specs/performance for about the same if not slightly less money and get a screen, keyboard (and ofc the ability to take it with you). I guess economy of scale and competition comes more into play with laptops

Props to Asus for offering a barebones option hope they actually end up doing it

First time I've noticed it but glad that LMG really paid attention to criticism from Gamers Nexus and dubbed over mistakes when talking about product specs instead of just visually correcting it like before.

suped up mac mini wit a gpu and windows 11. this looks compact, and reasonable. id prefer it over a laptop. it sure would be nice if apple let you upgrade a devices hardware.

My 2990WX scores a 1478 in MT with 32-cores, and if I want to I could stretch the performance so the Threadripper CPU is more multi-thread focused and it will pull 1689 on 32-cores.

heck yeah, bring on the review.

So they made a Steam Machine? Sick, I’m here for it

As someone who always has his gaming laptop plugged into a monitor, I think I will upgrade to this. And get a rog Ally for mobility.

Do they have CIR(Consumer infrared ) on the front like Intel NUCs had? I need one with CIR so I can use a universal remote control for HTPC like my current 11th gen NUC.

would be sicc if it had ir in the front like the good nucs back in the day used to

It needs two Ethernet ports ... This isn't going to be the main machine it either will be a streaming/transcoding device or a mini server or like an encoding machine for live video game streaming or what not so it needs a direct fast connection to a main device and an other (even slow e.g 1gbs) to the rest of the Network

This mini pcs are great for divorced parents kids, still remember bringing my nuc in school on friday becuz my dad will pick me up and will stay with him every weekend

I have always only dreamer of an ROG NUC! 🤤

Full review! Full review!

115 Watt TDP! Gosh no wonder you felt heat coming out from the fans. I had mentioned before to a friend of mine that you don't have to game with mega amounts of cores you can game with a Quad Core CPU and I suggest a Six Core CPU would be sweet on the spot and will be cooler and never overheat. 16 cores is an overkill and basically calling for a fire to start inside of the tiny compact case. NUC PCs should be cooler not faster. Also since it will be compact just like a laptop, the CPU doesn't need to be Overclocked as it will create heat. It needs to run at base speeds. Can you please tell us if ASUS will be selling these NUCs with dual lan ports? Thanks.

It can be compared to minisfoum new motherboard lineup 😊

Considering it's size Close to 90c at 100w still decent, imo

Bro I had my Twitch stream paused at this time, and when 1:14 had that TTS played, i'm like "WTH I thought I paused my Twitch stream". Totally caught me off guard.

I would like a full review :)

asus please make this upgradable, i need this when travelling but really need an upgradable without mobile gpu chipset.

Would love to buy one if it’s priced a bit lower

I want to see a full review for this device

I wonder if they will also continue and hopefully improve the Extreme line. If they keep them small, don't overprice them, don't make them as ugly as most Asus products, and don't skimp on Ports, meaning TB4 is a must and no more slow sub USB 3.2 Gen 2 insults, then they could be quite interesting.

They should first fix the issues on current NUC12SNKi7 and then focus on the new one.

With Asus now owning the NUC lineup will you finally make a mini PC build/buy guide on the main channel?????????

Duuuuddddeeee I'd buy an ROG NUC to use as a NAS or just video streaming box. Deadass

Proxmox cluster would be crazzzzzzzy

I'm so going to buy 1 of these.