Razer Makes Tomahawk Modular Desktop With Intel NUC Element Card
Razer showed an enclosure for Intel’s NUC Element cards at CES. The company supplies the housing separately, but also comes with a pre-built variant with an Intel Core i9 CPU and an RTX 2080. The product should be released in the first half of 2020.
Razer showed an aluminum housing at CES, which the company calls the Tomahawk N1. This housing contains a backplane on which users can place a video card and a NUC Element from Intel. This is a kind of computer that is placed on a pci-e card, with a cpu and chipset on it and space for ram modules and storage. In addition, there is room in the housing for a power supply, presumably of the SFX format.
Razer supplies the N1 as a separate housing, but also comes with a fully assembled desktop. This includes an Element card with up to a Core i9-9980HK processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, 64GB of DDR4 memory and two, presumably filled, m2 slots. The card also supports WiFi 6 due to the presence of an 802.11ax radio. The Tomahawk Gaming Desktop also contains a maximum of one Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU. In addition, the company states that both the ram and ssd modules on the NUC Element are replaceable. The GPU, fans, and the Element card itself can also be replaced by users.
The Tomahawk Gaming Desktop has two Thunderbolt 3 connections, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and two HDMI 2.0a connections. In addition, Razer reports that the desktop has six USB 3.2 Gen 2 type-a connectors, although only four are visible in the renders.
Razer reports that the Tomahawk Gaming Desktop and Tomahawk N1 case will be released in the first half of 2020. The suggested retail prices are still unknown, but The Verge writes that Razer has a target price starting at $ 2000 for the desktop variant. For this price, a Core i7 CPU, 16GB RAM, a 512GB SSD and an unknown RTX GPU from the 2000 series would be delivered. The Verge also states that the product would appear on the market in June. Razer previously worked on Project Christine. This was also supposed to be a modular PC, but it was never released.