Tranquil PC Reveals Passively Cooled Intel NUC Enclosure
Another passively cooled case.
Yesterday we showed you Silverstone's prototype of its NUC enclosure. Today we're showing you Tranquil PC passively cooled Intel NUC enclosure. From Tranquil PC we will see two different enclosures. Both are based on the same structure, the only difference being the cutout on the rear end for either a Thunderbolt port or a Gigabit Ethernet port.
Like the Silverstone NUC enclosure we saw yesterday, Tranquil PC's case also acts as a giant heatsink. Interestingly, according to Tranquil PC, its passively cooled NUC enclosure is supposed to leave its internals running 5 to 15 °C cooler than Intel's reference design with a fan.
The chassis will measure 110 x 164 x 47mm, and while this is a tad bigger than Intel's reference design, it's still minuscule compared to today's desktops, and a small price to pay for losing the fan.
Pricing is set at £99.-, which converts to $155 by today's exchange rates. Tranquil didn't offer details on US pricing, nor did it mention availability.
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The Zbox from zotac is pretty good and small.
I'm also unsure why the case costs so much. It's literally a lump of metal worth maybe $5-10 at MOST?
Because NUC is an Intel standard similar to the Ultrabook. AMD will probably have something very similar, but under a different name.
I could give you the same argument for tablets and $600 smartphones, but then the PC is dead and they're the future.....
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Probably why it costs so much...it's a giant heatsink...remember the price of high end coolers? I'm not sure what it's made of, though.
It isn't cheap by any means, but then it'll make a dead quiet HTPC, and i guess that's worth it...
There are only two versions of the Intel NUC - neither has USB3.0 headers, so why would you expect the case to have them?