this is a Zotac ZBOX the i760 model more
specifically it's not the first time I've ever seen one but my early
experiences with ZBOX just weren't that great the hardware was slow usually
Intel atom or early AMD Apu based and
they didn't have decent Graphics so from a gaming perspective they were basically
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have happened number one is that Hardware is much more efficient and
number two is that it's much more powerful so this same form factor I mean
it really looks almost identical to the old ones can have way cooler and faster
guts in it so let's get physical with our ZBOX e that's uh for epic Gaming by
the way series Mini PC overall there are no surprises here it can lay flat it can
stand uppr right on the included foot and it can be bolted to a Vasa
compatible monitor or TV with the included adapter also included in the
box is a couple of antennas for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth a DVI to VGA adapter a
manual a driver disc which you may actually need because Zotac website is
so slow and the screws for the vase amount
for the PC itself we'll start at the front where we've got headphone and
microphone jacks an SD d card reader a USB 3 Port an IR sensor and a power
switch a funny thing here is that Zotac couldn't decide which way was up for the
labels on the front ports it's a minor issue but it's definitely one that made
me laugh on the right hand side is another usb3 port with a little cover on
it and a large exhaust vent on the left we find two thumb screws to open up the
unit and the mount for the foot and then the top is straight smooth glossy
plastic with an attractive orange LED that you can actually turn off in the BS
but it's got a very muted glow so I would personally leave it on the bottom
is the same thing but with a bunch of ventilation holes and no LED and this is
all for the internal cooling fan I guess there's also four little rubber feet
here now speaking of cool most of the
interesting IO is on the back where we find power in our antennas HDMI and dual
link DVI out two USB 3 ports and optical audio out and finally dual Ethernet
ports which feels like a very strange inclusion to me I would have preferred a
mini DisplayPort output or something but maybe next time now hold on a minute
then normally these kinds of small form factor PCS are tightly integrated and
difficult to take apart why did this thing have thumb screws over on the side
with the foot Mount well truthfully you're intended to take it apart it's
available as a barebones where you put in your own drive and memory or as a
pre-built that you just install an operating system on so once we get ins
side we can see the large 6800 Ultra style heat sink that cools a dual core
Intel Core i5 that runs at 1.6 GHz base
and up to 2.6 GHz with turbo boost and a
gtx860m with 2 gigs of RAM here we see
the included Intel Wireless AC and Bluetooth 4.0 card and finally over here
we've got the 1 TB hard drive that's included with the pre-built one but can
be removed if we pull out that one screw to reveal two DDR3 sodium slots one of
which is populated with an 8 gig module now evaluating the performance of this
thing could have been as simple as running our suite of games and measuring
the FPS but I don't think it really would have been fair to a product like
this I don't see this as a normal PC it's more like a console in terms of
size and utility so I took a little bit of a different approach using the same
image quality settings that we found looked the same as a PS4 back when we
did our image quality comparison with Battlefield 4 and Assassin's Creed
before we wanted to see if this tiny PC
a mere 6 months after we did that video could deliver the same gaming experience
at 1080 as a current gen console and it
did in fact it was about 10% faster than
our value gaming PC at the time which was able to achieve the same minimum
frame rate of 30 FPS that the consoles Target so this one did it quite
comfortably and it managed to that while being much much smaller than the PC
smaller than a console and whisper quiet even while gaming I'm really really
impressed but with that said the en 760
does cost quite a bit more than a PlayStation 4 so whether it's worth your
hard-earned money is a pretty tough call and only you can make that decision once
you've considered the pros and cons it is a great package if you don't mind the
spend of it the cooling fan is incredibly quiet it's wellb built fully
featured and Tiny enough to hide behind the TV or pretty much anywhere else so
it has that g try sex appeal and it's
fairly likely to achieve spouse approval if you have a process for that in your
house given that it'll be out of site but the big drawback of course is that
while you'll have the functionality of a desktop like a lot more versatility than
a console you won't get the upgradeability or customizability of a
true desktop PC so there you have it
guys I love that Zotac had the guts to
build something like this and I hope it's a massive success because given
what they can jam in a notebook these days there is obviously more powerful
Hardware that could make its way into this kind of a form factor if the demand
was strong enough but with steam in home streaming finally available
theoretically we don't even need gaming machines on our TVs anymore but it's
hardly perfect so especially if I had some DDR 3 or 2 and a half in Drive
lying around this epic Gaming series would likely be getting a look from me
if nothing else even if I didn't end up going for it and I went for a very low
powerered just streaming box with an h264 decoder but guys let me know your
thoughts are powerful gaming boxes hooked up to TV's dead or do you like
the direction Zotac is going here or would you prefer just a larger one in
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