Hades Canyon NUC for a console user

[KrzanBit]

Hello there
I've been using consoles my whole life , but I'd like for that to change (30fps at 1080pmedium is boring ) , after doing some research and watching a few reviews I think I found my perfect console killer the Hades Canyon NUC with 8809G , it's pretty expensive though and I'd like to ask a few questions if possible
1.Is the fact that's it's a quadcore with Hyperthreading a bottleneck at my desired settings 1080p60 high/ultra?
2.Can the vega m GH push that kind of settings at 60 fps?
3.Is 4gb hbm2 enough for 1080p gaming?
4.Will I be fine with 16gb of ram and a 256 nvme ssd?
Anyways I just wanted to ask this here as I'm very new to pc gaming and I honestly have no idea what I'm doing . Thanks in advance

 

[Flayed]

This review seems to say it can play the latest games at 1080p 60fps.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/intel-hades-canyon-nuc

 

[compcons]

You may want to look at mini-itx systems or roll your own. With a slightly larger case, you could squeeze in a true discreet PCI-express graphics card. PC gaming allows the flexibility to upgrade your components over time and use the latest and greatest hardware. A 3 or 4 generation old processor can still play games fine when paired with a newer graphics card.

That NUC is a whole lot of money and I would guess you could build a really impressive machine with only a slightly larger footprint.

 

[KrzanBit]

You may want to look at mini-itx systems or roll your own. With a slightly larger case, you could squeeze in a true discreet PCI-express graphics card. PC gaming allows the flexibility to upgrade your components over time and use the latest and greatest hardware. A 3 or 4 generation old processor can still play games fine when paired with a newer graphics card.

That NUC is a whole lot of money and I would guess you could build a really impressive machine with only a slightly larger footprint.

Yep , but a NUC is basically plug and play like a console.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yep , but a NUC is basically plug and play like a console.

Nah. You want to join the PCMR, go all in. ;-)

Building a PC is not as hard as some people pretend. Arguing about this part vs. that part is half the "fun" of this forum, but most of them are 95% the same for plus or minus a couple bucks. Ignore the noise. Assembly is on par with Lego kits.

Something like this should run rings around the NUC for about the same price*, even if it is slightly bigger than a four-slot bagel toaster: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/k7fLyX

*And that's why we build our own instead of buying consoles or SFF prebuilts.

 

[XavierMace]

Yep , but a NUC is basically plug and play like a console.

Except for having to open it up to install RAM and Storage (and no, a 256Gb is unlikely to be sufficient), then install an OS. If you can do that, you could install a video card too. You haven't mentioned any games, but no, it won't play all games at 1080p60 Ultra.