CES 2022: Razer's Tomahawk is a Modular Gaming Desktop

Gaming peripheral maker Razer makes a lot of stuff. It makes headphones, mice, gaming laptops, and is fifty-fifty manifestly working on a toaster, but at CES 2020, the company surprised united states with a modular gaming desktop PC called the Razer Tomahawk.

The Razer Tomahawk has been built in partnership with Intel, and the secret backside its small size and modularity, is actually the Intel NUC 9 Extreme Compute Element. That's Intel's recently announced compute menu which packs in most of the essential elements of a estimator in an easy-to-swap package.

With that Intel NUC at its core, the Razer Tomahawk can pack in up to an Intel Core i9 processor, 64GB RAM, and WiFi 6. The NUC besides brings a plethora of ports to the Razer Tomahawk, including 2x Thunderbolt 3, 2x 1G Ethernet, 2x HDMI 2.0A, 6x USB iii.2 Gen ii — all of that in a small chassis that looks a lot like it might just be a GPU enclosure.

CES 2020: Razer's Tomahawk is a Modular Gaming Desktop

Speaking of the GPU, Razer is planning on releasing the Tomahawk with RTX-series graphics, with the high-cease Tomahawk packing in an RTX 2080 Super GPU. Moreover, since this is a modular gaming desktop, users will exist able to swap out the GPU for a new ane whenever they want to. The same can be done with the Intel NUC inside this computer, by the way, so when it's fourth dimension to upgrade the processor, it's about as like shooting fish in a barrel as swapping out a module and swapping in a new module with better CPU and more than RAM.

Intel says it's planning on supporting the Tomahawk for a couple of years at least, and other manufacturers, such as Libation Chief, are reportedly on-lath for the same also.

Razer is planning on releasing the Tomahawk to the public in June this twelvemonth, and while the company hasn't appear the cost for the desktop, reports suggest that it'll be around the $2000 marking.