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The Gigabyte BRIX Gaming UHD mini-PC barebone is now listed on vendors' sites for preorder and there is more info.
At 2.66 litres, I think it must be the smallest machine with a discrete GPU.
Size: 110×110 base. 220 mm height. (2.66l)
CPU: i7-6700HQ 2.6 (3.5 GHz)
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 950 with 4GB GDDR5.
Memory: 2×SO-DIMM DDR4 slots, 2133 Mhz max
Net: Gigabit Ethernet, Intel 8260 Wifi+BT card in M.2 PCIe slot.
Storage: 2×2.5" SATA, 1×M.2 PCIe only, 1×M.2 PCIe or SATA.
1×HDMI, 3×mini-DP, 3×USB 3.0, 1×USB 3.0 Type A, 1×USB 3.0 Type C, headphone, mic,
There is a i5 model also, but it does not appear to be available everywhere (and it is less interesting )
Gigabyte has a tear-down and installation tutorial
KitGuru has a review.
Airflow is vertical, from a single 80mm fan in the bottom and outlet at the top.
The motherboard is on the diagonal with CPU and heat sink on one side and with RAM and M.2 slots on the other.
The GPU appears to be in MXM format on a daughterboard with the video ports out and with tiny proprietary cables to the motherboard.
Both the CPU and GPU carry heat sinks with triangular cross-sections. M.2 drives seem to get airflow but I am afraid that 2.5" drives could get starved.
According to KitGuru's review, the 80mm fan runs fast even in idle making it heard in idle and loud under load but the thermal performance seems to be quite good both for CPU and GPU.
The GPU is unfortunately only last generation GeForce, a (relatively) slow GTX 950 but with 4GB memory.
The power is provided by a single power brick.
The nearest competitors would be ZBOX'es from Zotac, at around the same prices, but those don't seem to be as expandable and don't have GPUs in MXM format. The Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN980 is also twice as large because of its use of water-cooling. Zotac has announced models with GTX1060 and GTX1070.
According to Gigabyte reps the MXM format comes with a considerable price increase compared to cards on PCIe slots.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to some here where we have discussed alternative motherboard layouts for SFF PCs. I was interested in maybe buying one myself but I would like the GPU to be the latest generation and the machine to be more quiet -- and I would not mind it being a little larger in size.
At 2.66 litres, I think it must be the smallest machine with a discrete GPU.
Size: 110×110 base. 220 mm height. (2.66l)
CPU: i7-6700HQ 2.6 (3.5 GHz)
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 950 with 4GB GDDR5.
Memory: 2×SO-DIMM DDR4 slots, 2133 Mhz max
Net: Gigabit Ethernet, Intel 8260 Wifi+BT card in M.2 PCIe slot.
Storage: 2×2.5" SATA, 1×M.2 PCIe only, 1×M.2 PCIe or SATA.
1×HDMI, 3×mini-DP, 3×USB 3.0, 1×USB 3.0 Type A, 1×USB 3.0 Type C, headphone, mic,
There is a i5 model also, but it does not appear to be available everywhere (and it is less interesting )
Gigabyte has a tear-down and installation tutorial
KitGuru has a review.
Airflow is vertical, from a single 80mm fan in the bottom and outlet at the top.
The motherboard is on the diagonal with CPU and heat sink on one side and with RAM and M.2 slots on the other.
The GPU appears to be in MXM format on a daughterboard with the video ports out and with tiny proprietary cables to the motherboard.
Both the CPU and GPU carry heat sinks with triangular cross-sections. M.2 drives seem to get airflow but I am afraid that 2.5" drives could get starved.
According to KitGuru's review, the 80mm fan runs fast even in idle making it heard in idle and loud under load but the thermal performance seems to be quite good both for CPU and GPU.
The GPU is unfortunately only last generation GeForce, a (relatively) slow GTX 950 but with 4GB memory.
The power is provided by a single power brick.
The nearest competitors would be ZBOX'es from Zotac, at around the same prices, but those don't seem to be as expandable and don't have GPUs in MXM format. The Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN980 is also twice as large because of its use of water-cooling. Zotac has announced models with GTX1060 and GTX1070.
According to Gigabyte reps the MXM format comes with a considerable price increase compared to cards on PCIe slots.
Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to some here where we have discussed alternative motherboard layouts for SFF PCs. I was interested in maybe buying one myself but I would like the GPU to be the latest generation and the machine to be more quiet -- and I would not mind it being a little larger in size.
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