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Razer revealed its Tomahawk Gaming Desktop at CES 2020, the corporate’s first foray into promoting desktop PCs along with its line of laptops. Now, almost a year later, its PC with a modular, 10 liter eGPU-like design will lastly ship — or no less than start preorders in the present day — with costs beginning at $2,400.
As concepts go, it is fairly ingenious. It’s mainly a pull-out circuit board with two PCI slots: one for a graphics card and one for an Intel NUC 9 Extreme Compute Element module which slides into a bay and has an Intel Core i9-9980HK processor, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and a 2TB onerous drive. It can accommodate a GPU as much as the scale and energy necessities of an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 (it makes use of a 750 watt energy provide), which ought to cowl most wants. You can go for a GPU-free mannequin; preconfigured ones will embrace the RTX 3080.
It’s built much like Razer’s Core eGPUs, out of matte black milled aluminum, with the same handle in the back to pull out the tray. On the back are four USB-A ports, two USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and a 3.5mm analog/optical audio jack.
I do have a couple of reservations about it, though, including the module’s mobile-class processor and that upgrading anything on the Compute Element card — memory and SSD — may not be straightforward or cheap. I’ll know better once I have one in my hands.
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