Minisforum launches new NUCXI5 & NUCX17 mini PC

Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum will launch two new products in the near future, named NUCXI5 and NUCXI7, both based on the Intel platform. Both use the same appearance design and are equipped with discrete graphics cards and Thunderbolt interfaces, which have good game performance and scalability.

According to Wccftech, The NUCX15 is equipped with an Intel Core i5-11400H processor, with 6 cores and 12 threads, 12MB of L3 cache, and a turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. It is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 mobile graphics card and 6GB of GDDR6 memory. The NUCXI7 is equipped with an Intel Core i7-11800H processor with 8 cores and 16 threads, 16MB of L3 cache, and a turbo frequency of up to 4.6 GHz. It is equipped with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 mobile graphics card and 8GB of GDDR6 memory.

The overall dimensions of the NUCXI5 and NUCXI7 are 80mm x 260mm x 394mm, which looks very slim. It supports up to 64GB of dual-channel DDR4 memory, is equipped with two M.2 2280 PCIe slots, and has one HDMI and one Thunderbolt 4 port for two display outputs. In addition, it is also equipped with a 2.5 GbE network card, three USB 3.2 Type-A ports, a headphone jack, and an SD card reader, and the Windows 11 Pro operating system is pre-installed.

In fact, Minisforum’s NUCXI5 and NUCXI7 are based on Intel’s NUC X15 laptop kit code-named King County launched in the third quarter of last year, which integrates CPU, GPU, and motherboard functions, making it convenient for OEMs to design systems. This time Minisforum is directly used to create a mini PC.