In brief: Intel'south NUC eleven Extreme mini PC, aka Animate being Canyon, is now available to buy at Amazon. Whether you should or not is debatable given that even the barebones kit is very expensive. You do become some perks over its predecessors, though, including support for full-size graphics cards measuring upwardly to 12 inches.

Intel'south Next Unit of Computing (NUC) line has proved popular, especially after the introduction of last yr's Ghost Canyon model, the kickoff to support a desktop GPU. But that model limits cards to viii inches, whereas Beast Canyon supports an actress 4 inches of length, assuasive triple-fan models (that draw no more than than 350W) to fit snuggly inside.

The barebones Beast Canyon kit is priced at $i,770 on Amazon (via FanlessTech). Add in the $55 delivery, and it comes to $1,825. That toll gets you lot the Core i9 11900KB, an overclockable Tiger Lake-B flake that offers eight cores, a 3.3GHz base clock, 5.3GHz Thermal Velocity Heave (TVB), and 24MB of L3 cache.

Buyers also get two Thunderbolt four ports, a PCIe 4.0 x16 interface, 6x USB 3.i gen2 ports, two USB three.2 gen2 ports, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.two, a 2.5 Gb Intel Ethernet port, and a 650W 80Plus Golden internal power supply inside the viii-liter chassis. However, they'll need to add the retention, storage, and operating system, along with the optional graphics card.

If you want to buy a Creature Canyon NUC from Amazon that'due south prepare to use, the same seller is offering one with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a 250GB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 for $one,895 (with aircraft). There's also a version with 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB Samsung 980 SSD, and Windows 10 Pro for $two,085, or you can go ane with 64GB of memory and two Samsung 980 Pro 2TB SSDs for $ii,909.95. There are merely four units of the cheapest model left in stock at the time of writing, so others may have already sold out.

Alternatively, Simply NUC sells the Cadre i7-11700B model consummate with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of NVMe storage for $1,399, while the i9-11900KB model, which has the same extra components, is $1,599. The site too lets buyers add GPUs, which are about as expensive as you'd imagine. Unfortunately, both NUCs are on back order, so paying more on Amazon may exist your simply option if you lot desire ane quickly.