WEBVTT 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:14.320 Welcome to my unboxing of something that's actually pretty cool. This is the 00:00:10.719 --> 00:00:17.520 Zotac Zbox 804 Plus. So, it's got their 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:19.439 usual chassis, but there's some aspects 00:00:17.520 --> 00:00:23.240 of this particular little mini PC that are not very usual at all. It comes with 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:28.240 Bluetooth gigabit LAN 802.11n. So, that is N wireless, a 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:31.840 remote control, and a vase mount. The configuration that I've got here has a 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.520 320 gig hard drive and two gigs of memory. Although you can buy it as a 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:38.559 barebones, which doesn't come with a hard drive or RAM, obviously at a 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:44.320 cheaper price, and you can put in whatever you want. So, you can build yourself a very silent, very high 00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:48.719 performance, and more on that later. Mini PC for a very reasonable budget. It 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:53.520 also doesn't come with an operating system, so you're free to choose your own. Whether you want to go with Windows 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:58.000 7 Home Premium Professional, or whatever else the case may be. They don't lock 00:00:55.120 --> 00:01:01.359 you in that way or force you to buy a more expensive premium skew in order to 00:00:59.920 --> 00:01:06.080 get a better operating system. So, that's something that's really convenient. Let's have a look at the 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:13.040 overall specs first. So, this uses the AMD E450 APU, which has two cores 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:16.880 running at 1.65 GHz, as well as an AMD 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:19.360 6000 series 6320 graphics core built 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:26.799 into the APU itself. So, an APU is kind of like a CPU and a GPU on one die. 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:30.400 Moving on, we've got two uh two gigs of memory included. There are two sodium 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:34.720 spot slots available. It supports one 2 and 12 in hard drive or SSD with the 320 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:38.439 gig drive included. Anything without plus in the part number is a bare bones, 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:43.840 just so you guys know. Gigabit LAN 802.11n Bluetooth 3.0. It has an SDHC 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:49.720 slot that also supports memory stick if you actually still use that. Onboard 8 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:53.840 channel digital audio is uh output via 00:01:49.720 --> 00:01:55.920 HDMI or optical spitiff. Okay. IO 00:01:53.840 --> 00:02:01.520 dimensions. We'll get into that later. Cool. There's a QR code. We'll talk 00:01:59.600 --> 00:02:06.240 about that after. And since we're going to open this thing, none of this is very 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:07.360 relevant. So, let's get this baby opened 00:02:06.240 --> 00:02:11.520 up. I don't know if you guys remember, but I did a full NCX tech tips episode 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:17.920 on one of Zotac's mini PCs, which was just beastly. The thing was running some 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:18.920 serious high bit rate MKVS 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:24.720 uh using XBMC. Very, very robust little system. 00:02:22.720 --> 00:02:27.920 We've got a bunch of pieces here. You know what? I'm going to actually open 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.800 these up off camera. So, here we are. One thing that we do have to do is 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:35.360 install the batteries in the remote, which is a fairly simple process, as you 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:39.040 guys can see. Here I am doing it now. I'm doing it. I'm doing it now. You 00:02:37.519 --> 00:02:43.840 know, the guys on the local radio station, Team 1040, the uh the sports 00:02:41.519 --> 00:02:47.760 radio station, are just they're doing like this thing. It's like a March 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:51.840 Madness themed, like basketball themed thing where they're taking iconic TV 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:55.120 characters and then they have like brackets where they come down down down 00:02:53.840 --> 00:03:01.200 to a finals and then they're they're going to have someone win and they're having the uh the listeners vote and 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:06.800 they're like floored every time Basil Faulty wins a bracket because apparently 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:11.200 none of them understand the humor of Faulty Towers which just irked me this 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.800 morning cuz they were like, "Oh, it's some British show. There were only 12 episodes." Yes, 12 episodes of the 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:21.440 purest comedy gold that ever existed. Anyway, moving on. Uh, here is the media 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:26.319 center remote that is included. It has all of your usual suspects in terms of 00:03:23.519 --> 00:03:30.640 programmable keys, numbers, and mute buttons and navigation keys and all that 00:03:28.239 --> 00:03:35.200 good stuff. Next, we have the included power cord, four included screws, more 00:03:32.959 --> 00:03:39.200 on those later, as well as the IR receiver. So the reason this comes on a 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:44.799 really long cord that is more than one Linus arms span in length is because it 00:03:42.799 --> 00:03:48.799 can be easily positioned like plugged into the uh the Zbox itself and then 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:52.519 positioned somewhere discreet and convenient so that the remote will be 00:03:51.200 --> 00:03:59.200 able to hit it. It would hit that thing. Okay. Then 00:03:55.760 --> 00:04:00.640 we have an antenna and a little mounting 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:06.720 piece here, which we'll do more on later. As well 00:04:02.920 --> 00:04:08.159 as a warranty terms thing. So, in the 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:11.519 Oh, look at that. In the EU, they get two years. I think that's by law. 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:17.160 Everywhere else is one year. Driver installation DVD, users manual, as well 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:19.519 as uh quick start guide. Now, the unit 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:24.560 itself. So, remember guys, this is an E450. That means it is capable of 00:04:21.440 --> 00:04:26.960 DirectX11 gaming in games like uh Dirt 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:32.960 3, for example, where they're not super super demanding, but they are DirectX11. 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.400 So, more on that in a moment here. Let's uh let's do the unit itself 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:44.880 here. Very shiny. ERP ready, evidently. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.479 There's our cooling fan right there. Can you guys see that at all? There's a 00:04:46.080 --> 00:04:50.479 little aluminum heat sink under it. I don't know if you're going to be able to 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:56.080 see that. That's okay. There's a cooling fan in there. You guys will have to take my word for it. We also have four rubber 00:04:53.680 --> 00:05:01.280 feet. So, if you want to use it sitting down, you would put it this way. And as 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:05.040 like a media PC box, that's probably how I would set it up. You can decide which 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:10.880 way is the front. So, there's an exhaust vent here with a front USB 2. On this 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:15.479 side, there's audio. Uh, so that's headphones, microphone, SD slot, USB 2, 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:19.440 wireless LAN indicator, drive indicator, power 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:22.560 button. Okay, so that's probably the front. Then moving on to this side, we 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:26.479 got a couple screws. So that's to open up the chassis as well as more 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:30.880 ventilation holes. And finally on this side, this is what I would consider to be the back. Yeah. Yeah, this is the 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:33.360 back. So there's the wireless antenna, which we 00:05:33.400 --> 00:05:37.320 can derp plug 00:05:37.320 --> 00:05:45.840 in if I can. Oh, it's like springloaded. Neat. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:50.720 Okay, there we go. wireless antenna, USB 3, gigabit Ethernet, two more USB 2, 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:55.039 DisplayPort out. That's cool. That's uh that's a function of the AMD Radeon 00:05:52.479 --> 00:05:59.639 graphics on board. HDMI as well as optical audio out. And finally, the 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:04.880 power in. It also has a power indicator on the top. That 00:06:02.479 --> 00:06:08.000 orange ring does glow. But check this out. This is the kind of thing Zotac 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:11.840 thought of. You can turn it off in the BIOS if you have it in a room where, for 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:16.080 example, maybe it's a media PC and you don't want like disturbing random orange 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:20.560 glows coming out of your PC. Turn it off. No problem. And then it just looks 00:06:18.479 --> 00:06:27.759 the way it does when it's powered off right now. Other than a small glow from 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:32.319 the power button. Yeah, that is USB 2. Sorry, I was just checking that, guys. 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:35.919 So, okay. Right. What other options do we have for mounting? So, you guys saw 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:41.039 this funky thing right here. That is so that you can mount uh so that you can 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:45.960 mount it on the base station, which hopefully I can figure out how to 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:50.639 do. There we go. Slide that into place. That is 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:55.600 another way that you can configure it. Finally, and it comes with everything 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:58.639 you need in the box. You can do it this 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:00.800 way. Check this out. It comes with a 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:04.639 vase mount. So, all you have to do is clip the unit in. And I'll see if I can 00:07:02.880 --> 00:07:10.720 remember how it Yeah, there we go. You can find the guides here. So, you see 00:07:06.479 --> 00:07:10.720 these indents right here and right 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:18.080 here. You just clip the unit in like 00:07:14.080 --> 00:07:20.000 this. And you mount the plastic piece. 00:07:18.080 --> 00:07:23.840 Hold on. That opens up the clips. So, you mount the plastic piece to the back 00:07:21.440 --> 00:07:27.680 of your TV or monitor or maybe you're using this at a POS terminal in a store, 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:31.680 something where you you don't want like a huge PC next to it. You screw this 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:37.199 into the back with those screws that I said I'd tell you more about later. 00:07:35.280 --> 00:07:41.199 They're stuck to something. Sorry, guys. And then you clip the PC in just like 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:45.759 this, like I kind of showed you already, but 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:50.000 whatever. And there you go. Just like that. No big deal, right? You have 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:54.479 access to all of your important IO, including that top USB 2 00:07:52.440 --> 00:07:58.400 port. And you have a nice little lowprofile PC. You don't need a wire for 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:02.000 networking cuz it has built-in wireless as well as built-in Bluetooth. And I 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:06.720 think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:08.080 ever popular Zotac 804. Don't forget to 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:12.160 subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.