ZOTAC MAGNUS EN1070K Gaming Mini PC Intel Kaby Lake Core i5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 VR Ready Windows 10 (ZBOX-EN1070K-U-W2B

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Ive had this box for close to a year now in a couple of months. I have to say that I am completely satisfied with this little guy. Everything on it works. I had made my own PCs for years and these days it gets old making your own thing. I jumped on this because 1) it was small and 2) I really didnt have to do anything to set it up. Pop the top cover, put in the SSD, add the RAM, its a sinch. It might be important to say that I got this box as an MMO/LAN party type PC, and it has been a great experience. PROS: - Small Form Factor - No hassle - Low power - No Driver issues - Accessible ports CONS: - Runs hot (to be expected, it is a small form factor running a pretty great graphics card) - No true path to upgrade outside of basic hardware - Cost (again to be expected, as this has two factors going into the price, form factor and prebuilt) Again, I got this for (mainly) my mmo playing. I can move it around, it can sit on my desk and not be in the way in the slightest. Knowing that MMOs will generally run lower graphics, and for a much longer period of time, this box just made sense to me. I really enjoy products that are small and pack a punch, and this box definitely delivers. If you want top end gaming, this box isnt for you. If you want to upgrade over the years to keep up with the top end gaming scene this box isnt for you. If you like no hassle setup for a heavy duty MMO box, this box is definitely for you. I have an ASUS MX27AQ 27" WQHD AH-IPS running at 2560x1440 attached to this box with zero issues when gaming. I have this type of monitor because I also have it attached to my Mac as a secondary screen for when working and drawing. Not sure if its worth noting, but this is also the only PC ive had where the sleep function on Windows doesnt screw something up for me. If you know what youre paying for, and you really like this box, I highly recommend it. I no longer have the want/need to go and buy parts and build something new, so you are definitely paying for a convenience with this machine. Theres some assembly required with the Barebones box, and OS installation, but it was such a quick and easy process its hardly worth mentioning. Thank you, Zotac, for a great product and experience.

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The device works as advertised; Ive been able to play AAA games from this year on it without a hitch. I was also able to upgrade the memory and replace the 1 TB HDD with an SSD without any problems. Its a nice tradeoff between the GTX 1080 model (which will require a bigger box b/c the power / cooling needs for that are insane) and portability / size.

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This machine has just enough oomph to let you play games on your living room TV with settings cranked up. The older the game, the higher the visual flair you can push. For steam games, specially indies, its great for 4K gaming. Since TVs arent the most friendly devices to configure, specially HDR ones, you can make this the ultimate HTPC if you dedicate enough research time to the TV to buy and the configuration of the video and audio output. Slap some 16GB ram + an SSD and youll have a speedy device.

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Going in I was looking for a windows PC with a small form factor, relatively quiet (under normal operation) with as much horsepower as would fit into a small package. For the price I think its essentially impossible to get a cheaper, more powerful box in such a small and quiet package. That said - it is certainly not quiet under the load of most modern games - upon purchase the noise was almost deafening but after some research it appears that Zotac overtunes their fans out-of-the-box and so a firmware update later, and even under gaming load the noise is reasonable. Over all I have loved the box, it has performed exceptionally, and I have recommended the brand to multiple friends who have also had great experiences. pros: compact, powerful, good value, reliable cons: no upgrade path, loud out of the box, could be prettier (note that for my needs these were non-factors)

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Just got this a week ago, working great so far! Gets consistent 60 fps playing Skyrim with 290 active mods, high res texture packs, and maximum graphics settings all around. Doesnt even get noisy or overly hot when doing so. Will update later if anything changes. There are cheaper and equally powerful options out there, but nothing compares to this tiny form factor. This thing is barely bigger than my wifi router, and totally unobtrusive. If you need something small and are okay paying about $200 extra for the size, this is your box. I highly recommend the GTX 1060 version.

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Bought right under usd$500, with a i5 6400 and gtx 980(mxm card, but is full spec 2048cuda cores), it got a gtx 1060-ish performance, considering the fact that it is just 500 bucks, that is preety great. By the way, it is a mini itx pc, so tiny yet manage to not thermal throttel, in 100% load in games, it usually sits somewhere 60 to 70 °C. Worth noting that it only support one m.2 sata(NOT NVME), one sata3 2.5 inch hdd/ssd, and 2 ddr3L memory slot(the laptop kind).

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I use this little computer as a mobile demo PC for VR. It works great for that, and even some light Unity work. Ive played many games at high detail settings with major skipping issues. Very affordable alternative to VR ready latptops. I added a 500gig SSD and 32Gb RAM (which was maybe a little overkill). I bought a USB-C Hub to expand extra ports for keyboards, mice, controllers, etc. I definitely recommend for making your VR rig mobile without breaking the bank.

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**UPDATE AT BOTTOM** I wanted a small, pre-built, high-end gaming PC, and preferably one that wasnt insanely ugly (as most pre-built gaming PCS are). I would have preferred a laptop but theres just not one that speaks to me yet. This Zbox desktop fit the bill in all regards, so I went for it despite the somewhat mixed reviews. Im super happy with it and taking into account the price, its just about 5-star material. But not quite. The performance is outstanding in all regards, gaming and otherwise. Right now Im mainly playing Overwatch and Fortnite Battle Royal. With both of these games I can do 4K resolution at 100% scale with everything on "high" and never even come close to dropping below 60fps. Epic/Ultra settings are fine for the most part except during intense battles, there are some frame drops. It was hard to choose between 1080p Epic and 4K High but everything is just so sharp in 4K, thats what Im sticking with. At idle the machine is fairly quiet although there is a fan that runs at all times. The fan gets much louder when you start gaming but I dont really notice because I have the audio turned up. It gets a bit hot when under full throttle though. GPU temps hover around 85-88 C, which seems pretty high. To top it all off, its insanely small. I have it sitting on its side next to a PS4 Pro and Xbox One X and wow, its impressive. It does have an external power brick though, which the others do not, but its a reasonably sized brick at least. Sadly, there are two major negatives: 1) 120GB SSD + 1TB HDD (5400RPM) is just a dumb set up. With the 2 aforementioned games installed, Windows fully updated, and a fresh run of Disk Cleanup to remove old/recovery versions of Windows, etc, theres about 35GB free on the SSD. Of course I want to have my games installed on the fast drive and theres only room for a few more. It would have been way better to double this drive to ~250GB and drop the 1TB HDD. The cost would have been the same and with that extra bay empty, then we as customers could opt to buy a second SSD to put in there when needed and both drives would be lightning fast. Most likely at least half the people wouldnt even need that, theyd stick with 250GB SSD and be happy. But as is, most people will want to replace the 1TB HDD with an SSD and that just adds to the total cost of the machine. Thats what Im going to end up doing. Also note, the 1TB HDD isnt formatted so it wont show up in Explorer until you take care of that. I saw a few reviews here mention that it didnt come with the 1TB HDD, my guess is this is why they thought that. You can save $300 by buying it without drives, RAM, or the OS but its not really cheaper to do it that way unfortunately so doesnt seem worth it the hassle of having to install the components and OS yourself. 2) The wifi is **awful** without a tweak. Theres a frequent large lag spikes during games, and often times is completely broken after waking from sleep. I know you shouldnt game over wifi but Ive never had an issue with it on previous PCs or consoles, occasional issues are expected but this is ridiculous. This PC has an intel 3165 wifi chip that has serious lag issues. Every 10-30 seconds it will scan for wifi networks which will result in huge lag spikes in your games. Took me a while to narrow it down because otherwise the wifi is fine, you dont notice these quick lag spikes just when browsing the internet or watching video. But once I figured it out, I found tons of discussion of it online. Its not just this chip, it seems to be all intel wifi chips. This has been an issue for 3+ years and still unresolved, which is crazy. Previous to Windows 10 there was a simple registry hack to fix this but it doesnt work in Windows 10. The solution is to download "WLAN Optimizer". Search for it online, its free. It has an option to disable background checks, Im not sure what voodoo it pulls off on Win10 to make that work but it does indeed work! And theres an option to have it run on boot so you never have to worry about it. Trust me, if youre going to game over wifi, you absolutely have to install this. Its the only way I could get it working. To make doubly sure this was the issue, I actually ended up buying a cheap $8 USB wifi stick and sure enough - even though my reception was much worse with this external stick, there were zero lag spikes. Gaming was perfect. So this is a must-do if youre going to game on wifi. All in all I am very happy. If the Wifi worked out of the box, and it came with a ~250GB SSD + empty 2.5" bay to add your own secondary SSD if needed, instead of a dinky 120GB SSD + slow 1TB HDD, I would absolutely give this 5 stars. But as is, 4 stars. ------- **UPDATE** Sadly I decided to return this. I didnt have any hardware issues like some have had, but the temperature hovering near 90C when playing games had me concerned that it might not last that long. And taking into account the extra money I was going to need to spend for a new SSD + RAM, I decided to just get a different machine entirely. Im still overall impressed with this little guy, you will seriously be amazed at how small it is and how great it can handle games. But ultimately it just wasnt the right choice for me.

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I purchased the EN1060. Good for gaming, yet small and quiet -- exactly what Ive been looking for. My only issue was that out of the box the unit came with the original BIOS (from 8/30/16) and not the most recent one (from 11/9/16), and as a result the system didnt initially recognize my NVMe M.2 SSD. When I updated the BIOS to the latest version, all was well.

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Its a nice little box. But keep in mind this is essentially a laptop in a box. Its nowhere near as strong as a regular desktop. I had to return it because a popular game I played would stutter because the CPU was too weak.

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