[eBay Plus] Intel NUC 9 Extreme Barebone Kit i7-9750 $584.22 Delivered @ Computer Alliance eBay

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On sale is this Intel NUC extreme barebones mini PC that's a bit larger than your typical Intel NUC and not a bad option if you're after something in this form factor. There's a PCIe slot in this one that can fit small video cards like the RTX 3060 Mini and it has the Intel i7-9750 CPU that's still very capable despite its age.

Like other NUCs you need to supply your own storage and RAM. There's dual channel DDR4 SODIMMs, 2x M.2 NVMe/SATA SSD slots, 2x Thunderbolt 3 ports, HDMI 2.0a, Ethernet and multiple USB ports including USB 3.1 Gen2.

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  davlloyd on 26/05/2023 - 10:37

  Only concern I would have is the fact it is a 9th gen NUC, where is the current release is 12 gen with significant performance jumps across all areas of the machine.

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    shabaka on 26/05/2023 - 10:50

    gen12 runs hot AF as well

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  Fergy1987 on 26/05/2023 - 10:41

  I get the appeal of the form factor but when you can get something from techfast for like 800 all inclusive. Hard sell

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    maxall on 26/05/2023 - 10:52

    +1

    Agree with barebones kit, the price needs to adjust accordingly. 400ish mark may consider.

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  Skullytor on 26/05/2023 - 10:49

  Thats actually not too bad. I wonder if I should have gone for this instead of the Phantom Canyon:
  https://simplynuc.com/phantom-canyon/

  i7-9750h vs i7-1165g7
  How is the older 9th Gen so much better than the 11th Gen?
  https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-9750H-vs…
  Laptop grade vs desktop I assume?

  But then this shows the 11th Gen is better:
  https://versus.com/en/intel-core-i7-1165g7-vs-intel-core-i7-…

  CONFUSED!?!?!?!

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    Stinger au on 26/05/2023 - 11:03

    +2

    FWIW userbenchmark is often regarded as complete trash.

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      Skullytor on 26/05/2023 - 11:19

      I see - ta

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        BoredMartian on 28/05/2023 - 20:55

        Makes for very interesting reading/watching if you have time :D

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    Orrelljet on 26/05/2023 - 11:04

    +1

    I was eyeing this one myself but plumped for the Nuc 11 Extreme (best canyon) for $899 instead, from the centredom deal. Had this one been on sale at the same time (was $699) I may have been tempted but the performance jump to the Nuc 11 is quite large (i7-9750H vs i7-11700B) and I wanted as many m.2 slots as I could get (4 vs 3 here).

    FYI, my use case is a home server so I don’t care what size GPU fits in the case.

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      netsurfer on 26/05/2023 - 11:14

      Did you get the NUC 11 Extreme for $899? If yes, how do you like it so far?

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        Skullytor on 26/05/2023 - 11:21

        I've got the NUC 11 and been using it for about 1.5 years+. Alas I paid the pandemic WFH premium.

        I love it! Its compact and powerful. Only neg is that fans do often ramp up, even on idel. Its not overly intrusive noise, but if you want something super quite, its not. It does have 4 fans standard plus whatever the GPU has when you chuck one in. So 6 for me.

        I would buy it again. I love the size. My wife has the Enthusiastic NUC 11. That ones real value is pretty much the size, and thats the premium you pay for - cant remove the GPU and a laptop Gen11 processor vs desktop spec.

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        Orrelljet on 26/05/2023 - 12:30

        I’ll tell you when I get back from Hawaii 😎

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        Orrelljet on 08/06/2023 - 16:10

        I have the Nuc installed and working now. Lighter than I expected it to be but looks to be well put together. Running W11 Pro which I swapped in from another intel machine (as is) and Windows remained activated and everything worked fine. The only driver that has a problem is the USB connection manager - USM-UCSI - but this is a not uncommon problem and is likely fixable with a firmware update. I did install the latest firmware so this may have introduced the problem, can't say for sure, but it doesn't appear to be causing any issues so far.

        Using a KC2500 1TB as the system drive (not a gaming machine for my use case) and have a Team MP34 4TB plus a Silicon Power XS70 4TB and a Lexar NM790 2TB to fill the remaining slots. I did install the Intel support software so have disabled the front skull LED. I know you can make your own replacement logo but haven't looked into how hard it is.

        As I won't be adding a discrete GPU, the remaining PCIe slots can be used for storage, should I need it.

        To sum up, very impressed so far.

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    netsurfer on 26/05/2023 - 11:06

    +1

    H series is normally laptop with higher TDP (even for some desktop replacement type laptop), but still not desktop processor.

    The two links do match up reasonably well in terms of results. The first one does show 11th gen CPU has faster single core, dual core and quad core performances. Only when up to 8 cores (or 8 virtual cores) are used, i7-9750h gets the lead. A lot of benchmarks won't use all 8 cores. With CPU user benchmark, look at the individual results, not the overall result (which has a weird wighting system).

    Anyway, that's why this i9 is not selling well. It has a dated CPU in today's standard. While it has most of the goodies, there are bits and pieces which can deter people. The included GPU doesn't have the latest hardware encoding support (i.e. no hardware accelerated AV1 support), Wifi 6 (which is still decent, but some people might prefer 6E). DDR4-2666 SODIMM. On the other hand, for people looking for cheap secondary PC or home server, the price isn't very attractive.

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      shabaka on 26/05/2023 - 11:46

      i9 variant runs fine with ddr4-3200 CL16 using XMP in my setup

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  shabaka on 26/05/2023 - 11:45

  I recently posted a deal for Razer Tomahawk Desktop which runs same NUC extreme element, but i9 version of it

  65W TDP, and cooling is good in that Razer case, fits a 320mm long card no issue

  this setup does look a bit constrained for cooling.

  also it runs DDR4-3200 ram at CL16 using XMP no problem

  also doesn't get constrained feeding into a Radeon RX 6800, so still a good setup for gaming

  once again, go for this only for sff form factor, any gaming PC build with GPU included will be more powerful

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  fastnet on 26/05/2023 - 14:05

  +2

  Computer Alliance also has the Asus Dual RTX 3060 Ti V2 Mini GPU for $545.22 that's been purpose built for the NUC 9 chassis.

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  BangfortheBuck on 26/05/2023 - 14:13

  This CPU is 14 lithography process product. I own two Thinkpads of Intel CPU (8750H, 45w , 6 cores) and AMD (5650U, 15w, 8 cores). The AMD thinkpad is quieter but more powerful.
  https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3425vs4341/Intel-i7-975…
  Unless you want this partucular form factor, you should avoid this old NUC.