For years Intel tried to make tiny, semi-modular, shockingly powerful desktop computers work, which were called NUCs, the “Next Unit of Computing.” Sadly, Intel had to wake up last year and abandon the NUC division, but Asus offered to take it off their hands. The ROG NUC appears to be the very first fruit of that labor, a reinterpretation of the high-end NUC Extreme line aimed squarely at gamers. The ROG NUC (“ROG” is the Asus Republic of Gamers sub-brand, if you didn’t know) is the spitting image of one of Intel’s earlier designs, complete with a skinny box and an illuminated logo — this tim…