 So this is an Intel Nook and this is the Intel Nook 12 enthusiast also known as Serpent Canon and what is interesting about this is that this is an Intel Nook that has the Intel ARC A770M mobile GPU. This is Intel's dedicated GPU and this is the first time trying it out here so this is the GPU you should be expecting in Intel laptops come next year and this is a very good showcase. Now you guys know I've covered nooks here on the channel and this is one I wanted to put through its gaming paces. It doesn't say it's a gaming nook in any kind of form or regard but I figured having the Intel ARC A770M I should get some good results but before that let's look at the nook itself it's really nice and simple all black nothing too crazy you've got of course USB ports in the front you've got a headphone jack you've got a Thunderbolt 4 you've got an SD card reader and you've got this power button vents all around which is pretty cool but at the back there are more ports for you to go through they are four USB A ports there is a 2.5 gigabit port for ethernet another Thunderbolt ports you've got optical you've got HDMI and then you've got two display ports and of course the power port now this thing comes with a massive power brick so that is a downside but this thing packs a lot in terms of specs. So this Intel nook enthusiast comes with a Core i7-12700H so that's the kind of same processor you'll find in a gaming laptop you've got the Intel ARC A770M with 16 gigabytes of DDR6 RAM which is pretty nice then you've got 16 gigabytes of regular RAM on your device you also got a Kingston 500 gigabyte storage PCI E4 so we've got all the things we need for this and you can see all the specs on the screen anyway now as you know I like to game on this channel and we wanted to put it through its paces to see what would actually get now I did run a Cinebench score for those who are interested you can find the scores up on screen but we care about the A770M what can it actually do for us so we went ahead and tested it off with Shadow of the Tomb Raider and we ran the benchmark test and at the highest settings we're able to get 96 frames per second running it on a 1440p monitor so this monitor you see on screen here is an NZXT monitor we'll talk about that later in the video but we ran it at the highest resolution of the monitor it's 144 hertz and we got 96 frames per second which is actually pretty good so that is just impressive for me to see especially with Intel's first run of dedicated graphics cards then we move over to Doom Eternal and Doom Eternal at the highest settings there which is Ultra Nightmare you can drop it down low of course we're getting between 70 to about 86 frames per second not what I usually like we could get higher of course if we drop it down from Ultra Nightmare to say Ultra we'll get it over 100 on that but it was good to see again I could play Doom Eternal without actually dropping below 70 frames per second so again that was pretty solid and the games looked good and ran pretty well and finally I went ahead and tried of course Call of Duty Modern Warfare Warzone as you know and on Warzone was getting roughly around you know 70 to about higher 80 frames per second again solid outing overall which means at least with the system I can get over 60 frames per second if I'm playing on a 1440p monitor if I drop it to 1080p I'm going to definitely get much higher results so what does that mean for me with this device what it means first of all is that the Intel ARC A770M is a solid dedicated GPU especially a mobile GPU which is what we have in the system and I'm glad to see that it actually can perform pretty well on the highest settings of a lot of games so if you want to get of course higher frame rates you can definitely just drop it down to say high or medium settings and you will get much better frame rates or even just go down to 1080p in that regard the only game we played at 1080p was of course Shadow of the Tomb Raider the rest were played at 1440p so you get the idea that this thing is a at least a good powerhouse when it comes to gaming and that is a good sign it means that when we look at Intel laptops next year with 13th gen and an A series dedicated GPU we should be getting some really solid performances but also hopefully Intel can price that quite generously so I mentioned the monitor earlier and I want to go back to that because that is an NZXT monitor that's the canvas and I'm actually just throwing into this video because I use it of course in conjunction while testing out the Intel Nook enthusiast what I like about this monitor is its price point currently you can get it for 289 the bad part about it is that they sell the stand separately but I do like the stand because it allows you to swivel left and right you don't have to actually turn the monitor the base actually turns and it's pretty steady plus you do have the ability to tilt up and down it does have of course HDMI ports two of those one display port and it has a refresh rate of 165 hertz now this is a 1440p monitor one millisecond response time also has hdl 10 capabilities AMD FreeSync premium as well it's got anti-glare and also a 100 1500 r curved radius which is pretty nice overall this is a saunas monitor and it pairs well with something like the Intel Nook now I don't have pricing for this nook because a lot of nooks you can get them bare bone but if you're looking for something that actually has some graphical punch with a small footprint like this I mean this might be the future of like desktop gaming because you don't have to have a super big rig to actually play the games you want and play them quite effectively so I definitely like this and I think this kind of proves that Intel is here to stay with their graphics cards especially just looking at the mobile version of the Intel arc I'm liking what I see I can't wait to see it with 13 gen and also maybe with the next version of the nook I will be checking out a gaming nook soon so stay tuned for that video anyway guys let me know what you think if you have any questions any comments don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy entertainment