But we have a feeling that a small chunk is going for that full-lower-half motherboard shroud that requires every card to be pulled and for the owner to find a 2mm hex key driver every time an M.2 drive has to be swapped.Īnd then there’s the fan whine, which isn’t loud but can certainly be annoying after what seems like endless hours of use.
If $40 is the cost of supporting the newer chipset, where does the other $30 go? A chunk of it certainly goes towards the upgraded 802.11ax Wi-Fi controller, and another chunk to the upgraded voltage regulator. We’re looking at a $70 difference in list price and a $90 difference when considering current discounts on older models. The value analysis problem for the X570 Taichi is that it costs far more than the X570’s general price premium.
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Adding the GPU brings the CPU cores down to 2 GHz. With just the CPU loaded, the cores can maintain around 3 GHz sustained. The frequencies adjust to ensure that the 30W PL1 is maintained. Intel NUC10i7FNH (Frost Canyon) System Loading with the AIDA64 System Stability Test The various clocks, temperatures and power consumption numbers for the system during the above routine are presented in the graphs below. Beyond this, we leave the unit idle in order to determine how quickly the various temperatures in the system can come back to normal idling range. In the final stage, we stress all the system components (including the disks). In the third stage, we stress the GPU standalone.
In the second stage, we add the GPU to the above list. In the first stage, we stress the CPU, caches and RAM. Our thermal stress routine starts with the system at idle, followed by four stages of different system loading profiles using the AIDA64 System Stability Test (each of 30 minutes duration). The system is able to sustain 90W+ at the wall for a very brief duration only, with the power falling slightly south of 60W for sustained workloads. The usage of a PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe SSD along with a low TDP processor (25W, compared to the 28W+ processors in the other systems, other than the June Canyon NUC) manufactured in a highly-optimized and power-efficient 14nm process result in the Frost Canyon NUC having a sub-5W idle power consumption even while driving a 4K display. For load power consumption, we ran the AIDA64 System Stability Test with various stress components, and noted the maximum sustained power consumption at the wall. In the graphs below, we compare the idle and load power of the Intel NUC10i7FNH (Frost Canyon) with other low power PCs evaluated before. The power consumption at the wall was measured with a 4K display being driven through the HDMI port. Power Consumption and Thermal Performance