Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realizes the SFF Dream

Re:Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realiz... by kup0 on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:15AM (#22899134)

Pricing on this is ridiculous. Build your own SFF system using MiniITX and save the money.

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Re:Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realiz... by gowld on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:53PM (#22929739)

What if I don't want to build my own?

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Re:Intel Ghost Canyon NUC9i9QNX Review: NUC 9 Extreme Realiz... by kup0 on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:23AM (#22945865)

Actually, you know, I'm going to pull back on my original post a bit. I didn't realize they were using a $500+ Optane drive in here and not in some of the other systems they compared to... that does inflate the price quite a bit.

Still, it seems even the barebones being $1500 is a lot. Not sure where the majority of the cost is coming from otherwise without the Optane and GPU. Still seems like a decent premium, but not as exorbitant as I originally thought. Especially since there are some trade-offs (like the x8 PCI-e, etc).

If you don't feel like building one and money is not a concern- then this machine is likely perfect for you. No problem with that at all. In fact, if this machine was more affordable barebones, I'd be interested myself.

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