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Oh, well that's a first for H170. So why didn't Anandtech run one?
Someone needs to make a two GPU Thunderbolt 3 enclosure with PCIe bifurcation IMO
I spent a few minutes tweaking the fan controls and was able to get it near inaudible at idle, with an audible ramp in fan noise when cpu loaded. Really not too bad, all things considered.
Fanlesstech just mentioned that the fanless case they hinted at earlier is coming sometime in June. judging by the size of the last gen broadwell i7 fanless cases its going to be huge, which defeats the purpose of this machine imo. Would be great to get some more efficient active cooling on these NUCs, maybe mini-STX will be the answer for that.
FanlessTech: Skull Canyon Review RoundupWhere did you see the info on Fanless tech? I don't see anything in particular that looks like it fits this use case.
Thinking about getting one, but i'm picky about noise especially at idle or web-browsing/youtube watching.. hows the noise at low load and does it suddenly ramp up like the older NUC's did?
Thinking about getting one, but i'm picky about noise especially at idle or web-browsing/youtube watching.. hows the noise at low load and does it suddenly ramp up like the older NUC's did?
Here's a teardown video if anyone is keen to see the internals and board layout.
that "article" is two weeks old and still says nothing but "we're hearing that a third-party fanless chassis is coming in June". so you got another link?Looks like they will be releasing a third party case tomorrow.... or at least info.
that "article" is two weeks old and still says nothing but "we're hearing that a third-party fanless chassis is coming in June". so you got another link?
Not gonna lie, it can get a little noisy, but there are specific cooling profiles for low noise modes. I have not played with these. Remember though, this CPU is beefier than anything else in such a small profile. Also, there will be third party cases made to improve the cooling, and lowering the noise.
you can get it pretty quiet at idle.
the bios provides really good fan controls... you can control minimum speed and amount to increase speed per unit of temperature. it will allow you to turn the fans so low that you idle at 80C... or even hotter up to throttling probably, i never went that low but it will let you! i played with it for a little bit and was able to find a sweet spot where idle temps stayed reasonable and fan idled just under 2000 rpm which is pretty quiet... approaching inaudible, especially in a room with higher noise floor (daytime, open windows, etc). All in all not bad for such a tiny and powerful machine. You will NOT under any circumstances get a quiet machine under load though :-P. It will ramp up under load, but that will rarely happen for browsing etc.
that "article" is two weeks old and still says nothing but "we're hearing that a third-party fanless chassis is coming in June". so you got another link?
ok, not much there except a pic. that site is pretty useless. it just pics, award stickers, quotes and links to amazon...
got anything else, more info?
no offence intended but that site is kinda useless. here's a pic now go find what it is....
It's either this or the Gigabyte Brix Gaming UHD (shown at Computex.)
That rep did also write that the GPU would have been on a MXM card.It's either this or the Gigabyte Brix Gaming UHD (shown at Computex.)
Swedish GB rep. said it'll be available in the end of this month and it's got a i7 quad core (don't know much more than that) and a better gpu than the one shown at computex.(which was 950m i think).
I really hope that what the rep said is true.
The sites i saw reporting on it from Computex said its still in prototype phase and that they are taking feedback on the case design, which is still bare metal in the pics i saw... so i doubt it would be coming to market as soon as he says.
Has anyone tested Skull Canyon with a FSB OC and DDR4-3000? That should net a ~30% bandwidth improvement over 2133. I'd like to know if it has an impact on the IGP.
I spoke with one person who ran 2800Mhz and reported FPS decreases. Which I found very hard to believe. You can run up to 2400 without OCing the FSB. Above that yes, but I haven't been concerned about thermals in this regard due to them being hot enough that, it will be an issue of a larger effect overtaking a smaller effect.Until thermals can be brought more into line, I wouldn't be doing much OC on this little guy.
Update: The case will be a whopping 273 x 205 x 93mm to cope with the thermals of the 45W Skylake i7. No 2.5" storage option since the Skull Canyon NUC relies on M.2 SSDs only.
I still like the looks.
Except that picture isn't the looks as its the wrong board. Its a dead giveaway on the usb ports as the front ports on skull are one blue and one yellow for charging.
I figured out a niche for this. I posted that I might want to buy an i5 5675C because I am on Linux, mostly coding, rarely playing older engine games (Heroes of the Storm, these days, mostly). Turns out Skull Canyon has even faster Intel graphics, significantly so. So if you are under Linux and don't want to bother with nVidia and ATI drivers this is the fastest machine on the market. It's about as fast as an old GTX 660 which is not too bad at all for an iGPU. Check The Intel Skull Canyon NUC6i7KYK mini-PC Review which compares it to a Gigabyte machine with GTX 760 / 870M in it and http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-870M-vs-Nvidia-GTX-660/m10421vs2162 that chip is roughly the same in performance as the GTX 660.
So if you are Linux only you might want to consider this one. The i5 5675C is $300 and a motherboard is at least $100, plus chassis plus PSU will run another $100 if not $150 which puts you at $500-550 vs $650 for the Skull Canyon. Even in this small niche, the price is a bit of a stretch. But, the Akasa case FanlessTech: FIRST LOOK: Akasa's Skull Canyon case is coming for it which is certainly very yummy...
I've held off on my own because I'm waiting for the 1TB 950 Pro. At this rate, I may as well wait for Kabylake Skull Canyon.