 Intel's been trying to build small gaming PCs for a while, but this is one of the smallest yet most full-featured I've ever seen. This 5-liter box is a full desktop gaming PC and one of the most easiest to upgrade computers I've seen in quite a while. In fact, it's easier to upgrade than today's desktop computers. That's because inside this 5-liter chassis, you won't just find a traditional CPU with a heatsink and fan or a GPU board. This is called the Intel NUC 9 Extreme, and I'm going to show you exactly what's inside it and how it might change how you build your next gaming computer. There is a brain inside this computer that contains its own CPU, memory, and storage that you can plug into this PC just like you'd plug in that graphics card. So to pull out most of the main system components of this computer, I'm just going to disconnect a few cables, attach the main brain module up here, which they're calling the NUC Element Compute Module. Still have a lot of headers on there, but this is the Element NUC Module. And inside of here, I'm going to show you even a little bit more how modular the system is. So as you can see inside here, not only is the entire CPU brain of this computer modular, but inside here, you can replace the memory modules and the storage modules as well with new laptop memory sticks or solid state drives as well. It's got support for three NVMe solid state drives in total, two of them right in this module. So maybe a couple of years down the road, you're thinking of replacing this Core i9-9980HK with something faster and newer. When you do that, you can also replace all of your ports as well. You've got dual gigabit ethernet here, a pair of Thunderbolt 3 USB C jacks that are multi-purpose, HDMI and four USB 3.1 ports right on this card. And you can imagine as newer and better port technologies come out, you just swap out this one module and it's like replacing your entire motherboard of your computer. That's because this computer doesn't really have another motherboard. All it has connecting the rest of the computer together is this single baseboard with a couple of PCIe X16 slots and an X4 over there if you want to add something extra like a video capture card instead of dedicating all 16 lanes to your graphics. So you can see there's not a lot going on here. This is just there to connect these main pieces of the computer together, all the rest of the I.O., all the rest of the processing power, it's all here in this modular replaceable card. Theoretically, this all makes for one of the smallest future-proof gaming PCs we've ever seen. And if you're worried about that future-proofing, Intel says it's planning to ship at least a couple generations of this NUC Element CPU brain. The company also says its 500-watt power supply is designed to handle any graphics card on the market for the next couple of years as long as it fits into this frame, which means it needs to be under eight inches and fits into a dual slot chassis. In addition to that, it says that you shouldn't see any kind of performance detriment from the fact that all of this is happening over an X16 PCIe slot. And if you don't like this exact five-liter design with its prominent skull, there will be some other options on the market. Intel is planning to ship this as a bare-bones kit, meaning you need your own storage, your own memory, operating system, and graphics card if you want to make it a gaming system, for between $1,300 and $1,700 in i5, i7, and i9 configurations. But there will be other manufacturers building their own chassis around the NUC Element as well, including Razer and some other companies I can't talk about quite yet. Those will be shipping this year with the bare-bones system from Intel shipping in March. I've been a fan of Intel's tiny NUC computers for a while, but I've never seen enough graphical oomph in there for me to buy one myself. And it looks like that's changing here. I'm also a big fan of small modular computers. I've tried to build them, but I've never been able to make them this small. So if this works out, I'm going to be a customer for this actual box. For now, I'm going to wait and see how it plays out. We're in Las Vegas all this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, so you can check out our other interesting videos of intriguing gadgets as well, including laptops, foldables, and more.
 Intel's been trying to build small gaming PCs for a while, but this is one of the smallest
 yet most full-featured I've ever seen.
 This 5-liter box is a full desktop gaming PC and one of the most easiest to upgrade
 computers I've seen in quite a while.
 In fact, it's easier to upgrade than today's desktop computers.
 That's because inside this 5-liter chassis, you won't just find a traditional CPU with
 a heatsink and fan or a GPU board.
 This is called the Intel NUC 9 Extreme, and I'm going to show you exactly what's inside
 it and how it might change how you build your next gaming computer.
 There is a brain inside this computer that contains its own CPU, memory, and storage
 that you can plug into this PC just like you'd plug in that graphics card.
 So to pull out most of the main system components of this computer, I'm just going to disconnect
 a few cables, attach the main brain module up here, which they're calling the NUC Element
 Compute Module.
 Still have a lot of headers on there, but this is the Element NUC Module.
 And inside of here, I'm going to show you even a little bit more how modular the system
 is.
 So as you can see inside here, not only is the entire CPU brain of this computer modular,
 but inside here, you can replace the memory modules and the storage modules as well with
 new laptop memory sticks or solid state drives as well.
 It's got support for three NVMe solid state drives in total, two of them right in this
 module.
 So maybe a couple of years down the road, you're thinking of replacing this Core i9-9980HK
 with something faster and newer.
 When you do that, you can also replace all of your ports as well.
 You've got dual gigabit ethernet here, a pair of Thunderbolt 3 USB C jacks that are multi-purpose,
 HDMI and four USB 3.1 ports right on this card.
 And you can imagine as newer and better port technologies come out, you just swap out this
 one module and it's like replacing your entire motherboard of your computer.
 That's because this computer doesn't really have another motherboard.
 All it has connecting the rest of the computer together is this single baseboard with a couple
 of PCIe X16 slots and an X4 over there if you want to add something extra like a video
 capture card instead of dedicating all 16 lanes to your graphics.
 So you can see there's not a lot going on here.
 This is just there to connect these main pieces of the computer together, all the rest of
 the I.O., all the rest of the processing power, it's all here in this modular replaceable
 card.
 Theoretically, this all makes for one of the smallest future-proof gaming PCs we've ever
 seen.
 And if you're worried about that future-proofing, Intel says it's planning to ship at least
 a couple generations of this NUC Element CPU brain.
 The company also says its 500-watt power supply is designed to handle any graphics card on
 the market for the next couple of years as long as it fits into this frame, which means
 it needs to be under eight inches and fits into a dual slot chassis.
 In addition to that, it says that you shouldn't see any kind of performance detriment from
 the fact that all of this is happening over an X16 PCIe slot.
 And if you don't like this exact five-liter design with its prominent skull, there will
 be some other options on the market.
 Intel is planning to ship this as a bare-bones kit, meaning you need your own storage, your
 own memory, operating system, and graphics card if you want to make it a gaming system,
 for between $1,300 and $1,700 in i5, i7, and i9 configurations.
 But there will be other manufacturers building their own chassis around the NUC Element as
 well, including Razer and some other companies I can't talk about quite yet.
 Those will be shipping this year with the bare-bones system from Intel shipping in March.
 I've been a fan of Intel's tiny NUC computers for a while, but I've never seen enough graphical
 oomph in there for me to buy one myself.
 And it looks like that's changing here.
 I'm also a big fan of small modular computers.
 I've tried to build them, but I've never been able to make them this small.
 So if this works out, I'm going to be a customer for this actual box.
 For now, I'm going to wait and see how it plays out.
 We're in Las Vegas all this week for the Consumer Electronics Show, so you can check out our
 other interesting videos of intriguing gadgets as well, including laptops, foldables, and
 more.