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Zotac has introduced the industry's first compact PC featuring Frore's AirJet solid-state cooling system. Zotac's ultra-compact Zbox Pico PI430AJ is powered by Intel's Core i3 processor is designed primarily for everyday home and office computing, as well as applications like digital signage. As far as specifications are concerned, Zotac's Zbox Pico PI430AJ is a fairly sophisticated machine featuring Intel's eight-core Core i3-N300 CPU, 8 GB of LPDDR5 memory, and an M.2 SSD. For connectivity the PC offers a Wi-Fi 6 + Bluetooth 5.2 adapter, a single GbE port, a USB Type-C port, two USB 3.2 Type-A connectors, and two display outputs (DisplayPort and HDMI). The Zbox Pico PI430AJ has two major selling points: it is as small as modern smartphones, and it is passively cooled using...
ZOTAC Goes For Iris Pro in Their New ZBOX E-Series Gaming Mini-PCs
So far there have been only a few ways to get hold of an Iris Pro 5200 enabled machine. The first CPUs with these processors were in laptops, until...
24 by Ian Cutress on 3/10/2014The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti and GTX 750 Review: Maxwell Makes Its Move
As the GPU company who’s arguably more transparent about their long-term product plans, NVIDIA still manages to surprise us time and time again. Case in point, we have known...
184 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 2/18/2014Zotac ZBOX ID42 Keeps 'Ion' Alive
Zotac's ZBOX mini-PCs have proved popular in emerging markets. The Ion boxes based on the Intel Atom and NVIDIA GPU combination, however, have run their course. NVIDIA no longer...
5 by Ganesh T S on 1/7/2013Z77 mITX Round-Up: Five of the Best – MSI, Zotac, ASRock, EVGA and ASUS
The mini-ITX motherboard market seems like a fast growing segment. It has many applications in terms of small home servers, work machines, HTPC devices, mobile gaming desktop machines...
54 by Ian Cutress on 12/31/2012NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Launch Recap
Earlier this week we reviewed NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 650 Ti. As this was a hard launch many of NVIDIA’s partners have had their cards available for purchase from day-one...
9 by Chris Hansen on 10/11/2012The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Review, Feat. Gigabyte, Zotac, & EVGA
At a pace just shy of a card a month, NVIDIA has been launching the GeForce 600 series part by part for over the last half year now. What...
91 by Ryan Smith on 10/9/2012The GeForce GTX 660 Ti Review, Feat. EVGA, Zotac, and Gigabyte
NVIDIA has a bit of a problem right now: their products are a bit too popular. Between the GK104-heavy desktop GeForce lineup, the GK104 based Tesla K10, and the...
313 by Ryan Smith on 8/16/2012Zotac GeForce GT 640 DDR3 Review: Glacial Gaming & Heavenly HTPC
Two weeks ago NVIDIA formally launched the retail GeForce GT 640, catching up to their OEM and laptop offerings with their first GK107 based video card for the retail...
60 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 6/20/2012Zotac ZBOX Nano XS AD11 Plus: Redefining the Small Form Factor PC
Small Form Factor (SFF) PCs are becoming quite popular as processors become more and more power efficient. Over the last few years, we have had a slew of budget...
44 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2012Introducing Our 2012 Case Testbeds and Revised Methodology
Over the past year we've tested more than twenty different enclosures using our existing testbed and produced a mountain of comparative data. The goal of the undertaking is produce...
29 by Dustin Sklavos on 3/29/2012Zotac's ZBOX AD04 Gives HTPC Users an AMD E-450 APU
If you'd rather have a Brazos based mini HTPC than something that uses Cedar Trail, Zotac has you covered with the ZBOX AD04. Equipped with an AMD E-450, the...
3 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012Zotac's Cedar Trail ZBOX ID80 Uses Discrete GPU
Intel announced its 32nm Atom platform for netbooks/nettops at the end of last year. Codenamed Cedar Trail the new Atom doesn't really change CPU performance all that much but...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/9/2012NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti with 448 Cores Launch Recap: MSI, Gigabyte, Zotac, and EVGA (UPDATE: And ASUS, Too)
Every time a new GPU launches, it finds its way into half a dozen or more cards from different manufacturers. These manufacturers do their best to differentiate these cards...
21 by Andrew Cunningham on 11/30/2011NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 560 Ti w/448 Cores: GTX 570 On A Budget
A little more than a year ago NVIDIA introduced the GF110 GPU, the power-optimized version of their Fermi patriarch, GF100. The first product was their flagship GTX 580, followed...
80 by Ryan Smith on 11/29/2011Zotac Packs AMD A75 Into Mini-ITX Form Factor
ZOTAC has today released A75-ITX WiFi motherboard. Like the name suggests, this motherboard is based on AMD's A75 chipset and comes in Mini-ITX form factor. Don't let the size...
13 by Kristian Vättö on 9/22/2011Zotac Z68ITX-A-E Wifi Review - Mini-ITX meets Z68
With every chipset, there's a call to arms in providing the package that everyone needs. Unfortunately there's never one motherboard which can cater for every possibility, but there are...
29 by Ian Cutress on 9/22/2011Zotac releases DisplayPort to dual HDMI adapter
Zotac has released two new products: Mini DisplayPort and DisplayPort to dual HDMI adapters. These adapters are first of their kind and simply have one (Mini) DisplayPort input and...
19 by Kristian Vättö on 8/2/2011Zotac, and a Z68 E-ATX with almost everything?
The Zotac "Crown Edition-ZT-Z68 U1DU3" is a Z68 motherboard in the Extended ATX (E-ATX, 330x305 mm) format. At that size, you know from the start that it will...
23 by Ian Cutress on 7/16/2011Fusion E-350 Review: ASUS E35M1-I Deluxe, ECS HDC-I and Zotac FUSION350-A-E
Despite what you could buy many years ago for more than a thousand dollars, you can now get the same performance in a motherboard/CPU combo for under $200. ...
67 by Ian Cutress on 7/14/2011Zotac ZBOX: Brazos Goes HTPC
The ultimate goal of any HTPC is to handle any media content you might desire, all while consuming very little power and generating no noise. Package all of that...
37 by Andrew Van Til on 6/9/2011