We’re reviewing the largest Intel NUC yet the Beast Canyon NUC. It has some good engineering and some bad engineering, and ultimately, the value risks tanking the product.
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This review of the Intel Beast Canyon NUC 11 Extreme (NUC11BTMi9) tests its performance in a similar price class to some $2000 (ish) prebuilts. We look at thermals, noise, fan curve, BIOS settings, case and mechanical design, gaming benchmarks, and more for the NUC 11 Extreme. The fan curve has some really screwy behavior and Intel has complicated it in ways that don't panout well, the top cuts wireless cables (but Intel has told us it is working on fixing this), but the overall design is actually very good. Mechanically, the engineers have done good work on the box, and we're impressed with that. Value is suspect at best, however, which is maybe the nature of a low production volume product with highly custom parts.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 Intel Beast Canyon NUC Review
02:00 Brief Teardown Recap
06:06 CPU Specs (i911900KB vs. 11900K)
06:46 Rainbow Six: Siege Beast Canyon NUC Benchmarks
08:42 Cyberpunk 2077 Beast Canyon vs. PreBuilt PCs
09:15 Red Dead Redemption 2 PreBuilt Gaming Benchmarks
09:29 Hitman 3 CPU & RAM Gaming Benchmarks
09:51 CPU Frequency Drops & Validation
10:20 Intel Beast Canyon Thermals (CPU & GPU)
11:40 Fan RPM & Weird Fan Curve Settings
14:34 Noise Levels
15:24 Intel NUC BIOS Overview
15:59 Production Benchmarks Blender
16:37 Chromium Code Compile
16:54 Physical Hardware
18:46 Conclusion

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