ZOTAC
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...
HTC Vive Launch Day News & First Impressions
After what seems like entirely too long a wait, the consumer VR headset business is finally in full swing. Last week we saw the launch of Oculus’s Rift, and...
23 by Ryan Smith on 4/5/2016
ZOTAC to Offer Small Form-Factor PC with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 980 GPU
Various kinds of small form-factor PCs are on a roll these days. Mini-ITX systems have been offering performance of full-size desktops for several years now and even smaller systems...
17 by Anton Shilov on 3/11/2016
ZOTAC Announces SONIX PCIe SSD Price & Availability
ZOTAC has formally announced its PCIe SONIX SSD, which was first demonstrated at CES earlier this year. Confirming the final specifications and design, the company said that the new...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/2/2016
Zotac Updates ZBOX mini-PC Lineup at CES
Zotac had announcements in multiple segments at CES. Obviously, the SSD entry was the big talking point with the PCIe variant boasting good performance numbers. Zotac also had a...
14 by Ganesh T S on 1/16/2016
ZOTAC to Expand Lineup of SSDs with PCIe Offerings
ZOTAC is primarily known for its NVIDIA GeForce-based video cards, but in the recent years, the company started to sell motherboards, small form-factor personal computers and various accessories. Last...
8 by Anton Shilov on 1/6/2016
Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN970 Review - A Gaming mini-PC Done Right
In the course of our coverage of mini-PCs, we have seen offerings from vendors such as ASRock, GIGABYTE and Zotac targeting the gaming market. Usually, 'mini' doesn't fit the...
88 by Ganesh T S on 9/28/2015
Build-A-Rig Round 1: The Winners
As our final update to what has been a very successful first round for our Build-A-Rig project, last week we held the drawing to determine the winners. Each of...
19 by Ryan Smith on 8/12/2015
Build-A-Rig Round 1, Zotac vs. Corsair: The $1500 PC Showdown
We’re back again for the final phase of our inaugural Build-A-Rig Challenge, the performance showdown. For the showdown we have run the assembled Zotac and Corsair systems through our...
21 by Ryan Smith on 8/5/2015
Build-A-Rig Round 1, Zotac vs. Corsair: The $1500 PC Build Logs
In early July we introduced our new Build-A-Rig project. The aim of the project, with help from our partners Newegg, is to approach the companies that make up the...
53 by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on 7/30/2015
Build-A-Rig Round 1: The $1500 PCs and Interviews from Corsair and Zotac
Last week we introduced our new Build-A-Rig project. At a high level, we ask two or three companies in the PC industry each round to configure a system to...
117 by Ian Cutress on 7/8/2015
Introducing the Build-A-Rig Project: Company Configured PC Contest, Readers Win PCs
A while back Newegg approached us with an interesting offer. They wanted to regularly give away complete PCs to our readers, and they wanted our help in doing so. While...
68 by Ian Cutress & Ryan Smith on 6/30/2015
Steam Machines, Steam Link, & Steam Controller Launching November 10th
For a couple of years now Valve has been developing and promoting the concept of what has become their Steam Universe. The Linux-based SteamOS running on top of console-sized...
57 by Ryan Smith on 6/4/2015
Zotac Updates ZBOX mini-PC Lineup at CES 2015
Zotac's ZBOX series of mini-PCs has been receiving lots of updates over the last year or so. In addition to the traditional ZBOX (which, in itself, was small enough...
12 by Ganesh T S on 1/14/2015
Zotac ZBOX CI320 nano Review: A Fanless Bay Trail-M mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
44 by Ganesh T S on 1/6/2015
Zotac ZBOX CA320 nano PLUS Review: A Fanless AMD mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
31 by Ganesh T S on 11/26/2014
Zotac ZBOX CI540 nano Review: A Fanless Haswell-Y mini-PC
Over the last couple of years, mini-PCs in the ultra-compact form factor (UCFF) have emerged as one of the bright spots in the troubled PC market. Zotac is no...
48 by Ganesh T S on 10/31/2014
Zotac ZBOX EI750 Plus: A Feature-Rich Iris Pro mini-PC
Intel's Crystal Well parts (-R series) with integrated eDRAM have arguably been the most interesting products in the Haswell line-up. In the early stages, only Apple had access to...
34 by Ganesh T S on 8/25/2014
ZBOX Sphere OI520 Plus: Zotac's Take on the NUC
The Intel NUC has created a very successful niche for itself in the SFF PC market. While Gigabyte has released the BRIX lineup (with more options compared to the...
40 by Ganesh T S on 8/1/2014
Computex 2014: Zotac’s ZBOX Sphere and AMD Fanless Mini-PC
Over the last year or so, Zotac seems to have reduced its motherboard output in focus of the mini-PCs. It explains why we have no Zotac Z87 or...
4 by Ian Cutress on 6/12/2014
Zotac Launches Fanless ZBOX C-Series mini-PCs
At Computex 2014, Zotac has launched four new passively-cooled mini-PCs. All of these C-series units are sized the same as Zotac's existing ZBOX nano lineup (127 mm x 127...
6 by Ganesh T S & Mahendra Lodha on 6/2/2014
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