Raptor Canyon? Three times the width, but still a small form factor

The recently announced NUC 13 Extreme, aka Raptor Canyon is not a mini-ITX system, although it may be larger than some. The newly announced case is 13.9L in volume, which may not be as large as some of Cooler Master’s mini-ITX cases, but it certainly exceeds some other offerings from other companies. You will still pay a premium as you buy more than one empty box.

They have been some shots of the NUC 13 Compute Element it’s inside this breadbox-sized system, which kind of looks like a video card. It consists of a mainboard with 13th generation CPUs, from i5 to i9 depending on your choice, as well as memory, all attached and hidden under custom cooling. As with other NUC Extreme models, the memory and CPU are the same as in a desktop system and can be replaced or upgraded by the owner.

As you can see from the picture, the PSU, main board, components and cooling overall are about the same size as the triple GPU slot installed in the NUC 13 Extreme case. The current RTX 4090 FE might fit a bit inside this case, but almost any previous-gen NVIDIA card or current-gen AMD triple-socket card should fit as well. There’s also good reason to believe it will fit most Arc A7 cards.

It will be very interesting to see what the price difference will be between a NUC Extreme 13 and the equivalent components in a mini-ITX case.