ZOTAC ZBOX MAGNUS ONE
This product is actually a mini-PC made by ZOTAC for Windows. This machine is very compact and at the same time very powerful as it packs some of the best CPU and GPU combinations depending on your budget. Out in the market sometimes it is also called as a console killer specially targeting XBOX and Sony PS series. So, no more talking, let's get started.
1. OVERVIEW
2. DESIGN/BUILD QUALITY
3. PORTS AND BUTTONS
4. CONFIGURATION
5. PERFORMANCE
6. PRICE/COLOURS AVAILABLE
7. CONCLUSION (DON'T MISS)
1. OVERVIEW
The product comes in a good packaging and somewhat depicts a barebone's mini-PC as you only get essential stuffs like CPU, GPU, motherboard etc. and you don't get on-board RAM and storage. You get the product itself, some documentations, a little Pen-Drive with drivers on-board and a couple of main
connection cord depending in the region you live, 2 antennas of Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0. Thats all.
It's a very compact and mini looking gaming PC, which is a bit heavy to hold. It comes in a 8.3 litre compact chassis which is very beautiful and minimalistic to look at. It's a mini ITX case probably build of stainless steel. The front portion comes in a brushed aluminium sort of design and all other 3 sides gets a matt black coating.
You get all the buttons and IO ports available on the front panel. You get the power button with a status indicator at the top which glows in white colour and at the bottom you get a USB 3.0 port, a typeC port, a card reader and a 3.5mm audio jack.
Both the sides and the back has got enough number of vents for good air circulation and ZOTAC brandings.
On the back side you get 2 antenna port at the top, in the middle you get the remaining motherboard ports and GPU port having 3 display ports, a full-size HDMI 2.1 port, 4 USB 3.1 port which provides super-fast data transfer speeds, 2 ethernet ports and a Kensington lock. At the bottom you get a tiny fan for cooling, and main's cord port.
4. CONFIGURATION
The interior is absolutely neat and clean with excellent cable management. This Magnus One edition packs Intel's i5 10400 CPU having 6 cores and 12 threads with max turbo clock speed of 4.3GHz paired with NVIDIA'S RTX 3060 GPU from ZOTAK having 12GB VRAM on-board making it enough for 1080p gaming. On board this PC has 2 M.2 slots available for storage and 2 DDR4 RAM slots are available. Installation of storage and RAM is exactly similar to a full-size PC.
5. PERFORMANCE
This PC is mainly targeted for 1080p gaming. The game to test will be the recent Spider Man Remastered which is very graphic intensive. At 1080p high graphics it gives about 60-65 FPS. The average temperature was about 70-degree Celsius even after 1080p gaming which is great in terms of a mini-PC.
6. PRICE/COLOURS AVAILABLE
PRICE- RS. 84,999 (changes frequently)
COLOURS AVAILABLE- Black
7. CONCLUSION
Look, this PC is somewhat on the expensive side because if you build a PC with similar specs from scratch it will cost you around Rs. 20,000 less considering the price of RAM and SSD storage which you don't get with this product. But building a mini-PC is not at all an easy task for regular people. See
you get an entire pre-build PC which is absolutely clean in terms of setup and cable management. So, you don't want to waste your time experimenting with different CPU and GPU combination then you can go with this one. This is not a value for money proposition but if you want a good mini-PC with good gaming performance, you can consider this product.
Thankyou.
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