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Separate Advertising Campaign and Special Offer rules, discount and/or gift items could vary for Bargain (Refurbished) goods, if described as so. In terms of gaming performance, it outperforms every other Intel NUC on the market as well as other gaming laptops equipped with the very same RTX 3070 mobile GPU. Cyberpunk 2077, for example, did great with ray tracing and DLSS on at 1080p and medium to high settings. In games, I found that the boosted performance mode increased frame rates by 10% on average, so I recommend leaving it enabled. On the other hand, considering the target user group, the storage space turns out very low at only 512 GB.
The NUCXi7 is designed for gaming, with its 11th-generation Intel Core i7 processor and RTX 3070 graphics card. I am drawn to the small form factor and low power consumption of a mini PC but I have heard that some super-small units, like the HX99G struggle with various issues relating to overheating or just plain going wrong. If you did want to enable Ray Tracing then you will need to drop to 1440P resolution to get a solid 60 FPS. Consider that your keyboard and mouse will take up two of those three and you’ll see why I’m disappointed. Coupled with an Nvidia RTX 3070 GPU, you have a well-equipped gaming system capable of handling the most popular titles at 1440p resolution.PCMark is a series of more natural tests covering day to day tasks from web browsing to image processing. It’s easy to access the internals by simply unscrewing three screws and sliding off the bottom panel. At 4K on the Highest graphics settings we get average FPS of 39 and 87 on the NUCXi5 and NUCXi7 models respectively. While an aluminum base would probably be heavier, the device would gain significantly in terms of the quality impression.
You also have to live with some small compromises in terms of the variety of connections, since the USB-A ports that are usually used for the mouse and keyboard are placed in the front of the device. While the model used is fast, it isn't quite able to keep up with the performance of our comparison devices. While most gaming laptops have powerful components, they are often tuned down for thermal design and energy efficiency. for these small systems (which im only really thinking about as it will be a loungeroom pc, once i finally save up enough for a bigger better gaming PC approx 5k mark). Both mini PCs will share the same case design, equip with a discrete graphics card and will come with a thunderbolt port to perform ultimate gaming performance.You may see some minor shading caching lags now and again but definitely nothing that will spoil playing the game. The Minisforum NUCXi7 isn't designed for horizontal operation, since this would probably also be to the clear detriment of the cooling characteristics.
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