At 28 to 36 watts, the power consumption is low without load but still significantly higher compared to the Gigabyte A7 X1. Both gaming PCs NUCX17 and NUCX15 built on the Intel NUC platform with Intel Tiger Lake-H45 mobile processors. The box opens up to reveal the NUCX gaming mini PC itself which we will show in more detail shortly.

Please NoteIn line with the policy of continued development, the manufacturer reserves the right to amend the specifications without prior notification. The NUCXi7 comes equipped with laptop hardware, which includes the i7-11800H processor, 16GB or 32GB of SODIMM RAM at 3200MHz, and an RTX 3070 mobile variant. Halo 3 was mostly at 30 FPS with some dips below, mainly when it was loading in new parts of the map.

As opposed to the desktop version of this GPU, which runs at a much higher wattage, the RTX 3070 used in this system is the scaled-down laptop version. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. If you want a small form factor gaming PC, however, then put the NUCXi7, or its smaller and cheaper NUCXi5 brother, at the top of your list. Purchased a week or so ago, have already installed a 4tb NVME into the 2nd Gen 3 slot, all works fine, it is a very quiet system, even under marginal load.

The Warranty offered by the Supplier applies solely to the Hardware/Software provided at the time of sale.The loop of the Cinebench R15 constant load test gives a good impression of the efficiency of the built-in cooling system. But thanks to its design, it stays much cooler than a gaming laptop, which helps to avoid thermal throttling, as you’ll see in a moment. Putting a gaming unit in such a small space can and will likely have thermal issues and overheating and chasing support O/S for such concerns will be a nightmare.