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Great "console"

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2018

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 TV's aren't 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 you'll have a speedy device.

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Lee

A More Stable BIOS and Work On Cooling is a Must!

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017

1.5 Stars!

This brilliantly small computer was a marvel to see. Unfortunately, myriad issues continued to plague it over the months I had it. This pc *needs* a liquid-cooled option (like the i7 ZBox).

M.2 (NVMe) drives lock up on idle even when set to never sleep. My 960 EVO 500GB- when popped into an Alienware Aurora R7, hasn't presented any issues- which is the only real way to verify a drive, IMO. Returned the first ZBox believing it to be a faulty machine but the same issues were found in the replacement.

USB drives continue to pull power (even when set to not do so) when off and this system would remain hot to the touch when off for an entire day.

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If Zotac were to provide a more stable BIOS and work on the cooling this could have the ability to be a nice machine.

The i5 isn't overclocked and doesn't need to be. 7th gen Intel chips natively decode 4K (works great with Netflix app on Windows Store) and the i7 only offers additional software cores (read time-partitioning) so physical performance is equivalent in most cases. The NVidia 1070 is a beast. The machine is a bit loud for a media PC but it wasn't overbearing and is designed as if it were meant to be a Steam Big Picture machine on a 4K tv, if not for the problems with the device.

I would not buy again.

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Luis E Black

Great "console"

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2018

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Lee

A More Stable BIOS and Work On Cooling is a Must!

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2017

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J M

Excellent performance but a little noisy

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017

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This is my review of the EN1070K (Kaby Lake i5, GTX-1070)

PRO:
-Amazing performance, only 10-12% less than equivalent desktop GPU
-Great size
-4x video outputs as well as a USB-C Thunderbolt3, many USB3
-easy to access RAM and SSD

CON:
-Compatibility issues with M.2 SSD's - potentially resolved by confusing BIOS upgrade
-distinct fan noise that you can hear in a room - definitely not silent as other reviewers say
-coil whine, a little bit

Upgraded to this from a Skylake NUC + eGPU Zotac 1060, and it was a huge performance upgrade. I don't love the fan noise profile but honestly it's overall a pretty good machine. The performance is just so good that it makes up for any shortcomings. VRMARK shows a score of 7800, which is

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Random

Two Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2017

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Gee this cpu and cpu fan not working.

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Alex

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017

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It's a very good product.

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Sown

THERMAL THROTTLING

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2019

Everything is good until you get to gaming.

Idle cpu temp is around 60c

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Charles W. Hayes

Sleep issues

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018

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Lots of issues with Sleep; I purchased 3 units and had all three replaced by Amazon, those three replaced by Zotac, one of those replaced by Zotac again making 10 total units. 9 had sleep issues, one had a defective graphics unit. I tried different memory as zotac suggested, and different USB mouse/kb... No luck.

Otherwise, they are great boxes: Fast, quiet, small.

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Tamara

Nice, but double check they sent you you the right graphics

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2018

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I adore this machine. Powerful, and easy to pack up and move.

Beware though, the first one they sent me was the 1060 version. Box and serial number sticker on the machine all said 1070, but once I got fully installed, everything detected as a 1060 with 6gb. I'd advise to check the internals immediately, just in case.

Return process was super smooth though, and I ended up with the real thing. Just keep an eye out.

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Eric Wolford

No Display!

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2019

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First HTPC that had issues trying to get a display running. I'd recommend getting a Gigabyte Brix instead.

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John Mitchell

Save Your Money, Go For Real Brands

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2017

Although this was a Hong Kong based company, I still try my luck to go for this device as size small and having GTX 1070 6 GB graphic card.

But, I was wrong!

Item came from Zotac's Usa Branch. Box was having intact transparent Zotac seals. I have surprised when I opened the box as item front face was having many thin ( some deep) scratches. ( please see my photos I uploaded.) There was not even a protector covering plastic for that front side. Its cover to be opened with 2 screws located at back part. Those 2 screws paint was partially removed. And I understand, this item sent to me from ZOTAC USA was not brand new. Most probably this item was returned item or refurbished.

Once more it is proofed for me, I shall not deal with companies which their headquarters in China / Hong Kong etc. Asian Countries. Because they easily can sell refurbished, returned or second hand items under brand new title.

Till here, it is about seller. Now lets we talk about product itself.

- Product is quiet heavy & adapter is also giant as it is 230 Watt adapter. So it is not that possible to think to use this product when you are travelling. If you are buying this item to buy and keep on a place & not to move it much then why not you go for proper brands such as MSI Trident, Asus G20 or GR8II or etc. Those Asus & MSI brands are slightly bigger than this machine and they are well known manufacturers.

- HDMI slots & adapter inlet on device is very loose.

- I bought W10 Home 64 bit from Microsoft Online and made a clean installation on this device. After that when I was trying to install drivers with given CD/Thumbdrive in Zotac box, I have come across with many error messages which tells this n that .dll files are not found. After passing chipset & audio drivers, I install graphic driver. ( i follow the order in driver installation program in zotac cd.) Once GTX graphic card installed, it pop up NVIDIA window and ask for login to update. However, in awhile before login, it gives an error message, says " something went wrong". I have nothing to do but reinstall everything inclusive of windows 10. it makes same again, i just ignore this time those error messages.

- After I install mass storage driver, I placed a msata Samsung 850 Evo 1 TB in a sata case, it does recognize and lost the driver all time. I was using same ssd with sata case on other computer without problem. But Zotac does not recognize properly. Keep ask me format disk. I choose format, it does not make a format in 20 minute and give failure message.

- Zotac Bios menu has a part for booting. Undet that Boot menu, it asks for UEFI choice. This is also another hassle. ( for infor I m using Samsung 960 Pro m.2 500GB to load Windows operating system in zotac device).

- It plays my GTA 5 game in good manner but heat is too high.

Summary;
Save your money, dont be mad while setting up this device to make work. It is waste of money to buy this device. I recommend all want to have a proper gaming computer to choose Asus G20 or GR8II. Price of Asus GR8II with i7-7000 & GTX 1060 graphic card, HDD & operating system all included is about US$1,300. This is also showing that Zotac is also over priced as it is only barebone.

Beware of ZOTAC !!!

UPDATE on 8 Jul 2017;

Device started to stop itself due to heat in the middle of game. I place the device in a very well ventilated place and put it on a big scotch tape roll, so I was thinking that it may help for ventilation from below part as well. And additionally I add a fan to blow from far to kick the heat and help for device fans to receive more air. BUT NO POINT. Device keep stops in the middle of games such as GTA 5. And when I touch it device is like a fire ball.My advice is really to KEEP AWAY FROM ZOTAC!

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