Original title: The first Intel NUC 12 Extreme mini machine with interchangeable CPU: The i9 version was released in April Domestic undecided

Last month, Intel officially released the NUC 12 Extreme mini-machine, code-named "Dragon Canyon" (tentatively translated as Dragon Canyon).

Powered by 12th generation Core processors, the mini-machine is designed for gaming enthusiasts and professional creators alike.

Now, this mini machine has opened pre-sale on the overseas Simplynuc platform, of which the i9 version was shipped as early as April, the i7 version is undecided, and there is no further release information in China.

Judging from the page information, the i9 version is priced at $1,899 (about 12,000 yuan) and the i7 version is priced at $1,699 (about 10,740 yuan).

We previously reported that the NUC 12 Extreme adopts the exact same machine design as last year's Beast Canyon/NUC 11 Extreme.They are all small chassis of about 8 liters, with specific dimensions of 357×189×120mm, the front panel skull light effect panel can be customized.

It can still fit a dual-slot, full-length PCIe x16 discrete graphics card with a maximum length of 12 inches (305 mm), and this upgrade to PCIe 5.0 means that it is ready for the next generation of NVIDIA RTX 40 series, AMD RX 7000 series.

The biggest change isFor the first time, it supports replaceable and upgradable CPU processors, and comes standard with PBP (processor base frequency power consumption) 65W 12th generation Core, optional 16-core 24-thread i9-12900 (8P+8E), 12-core 20-thread i7-12700 (8P+4E).

Memory is DDR4-3200, SO-DIMM notebook type, dual slot dual channel, maximum frequency 3200MHz, maximum capacity 64GB.

The storage offers three M.2 sockets, one M.2 2280 direct-attachable processor that supports PCIe 4.0 x4, and another M.2 2280 and an M.2 2242 connected chipset that supports PCIe 4.0 x4/NVMe or SATA 6Gbps. They support SSD RAID 0/1, as well as Intel Optane SSD and Optane M10/H10/H20 accelerator disks.

In terms of network, wirelessly provides AX 201 Wi-Fi 6, AX211 Wi-Fi 6E, supports Bluetooth 5.2, built-in antenna, wired upgrade 10 Gigabit network card, i9 version also has an additional 2.5 Gigabit network card (i225-LM).

In terms of interface, there are two Raiden 4 (support 5V/9V mobile phone fast charging), one HDMI 2.0b, one miniDP 1.4, and six USB-A 3.2 Gen2.