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Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN1070 Gaming Mini PC Review

Test Bench

All tests were conducted at default clock speeds at a resolution of 1920×1080. High or Ultra settings enabled.

CPU Intel Core i5-6400T @ 2.2GHz
Cooling Onboard custom cooling by Zotac
Motherboard ZOTAC ZBOX series with Intel B150 chipset
Ram 16GB ADATA XPG DDR4-2400 SO-DIMMs
HDD ZOTAC 256GB SSD Premium Edition
PSU DC Power Pack 19.5V @ 9.23A
VGA card GeForce GTX 1070 (MXM) module with 8GB GDDR5
Watercooling
N/A
Nvidia Drivers Version 375.70 WHQL
OS Windows 10

Now let’s take a look at the BIOS setup screens on the Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN1070

 

The BIOS

The BIOS setup page is fairly simple and easy to navigate. It doesn’t have much OC options (even though there is an OC page), you can able/disable the Intel SpeedStep and Turbo Mode and that’s it.

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I couldn’t find the options to set XMP memory profiles, and there’s no CPU or DDR voltage controls. So in effect, this is BIOS is very limited – rather like the BIOS you’ll find on a laptop/notebook.

 

Motherboard and Chipset

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Memory and SPD info

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CPU-Z Information

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All looks normal here. 

 

GPU-Z Information

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gpuz_temps

The onboard GeForce GTX 1070 found on the Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN1070 is designed laptops/notebooks. So the GPU clock rate runs slightly lower than the desktop versions. Still, it’s very nippy at 1443 MHz with a boost clock of 1645 MHz.

 

Temperatures

Now this is interesting. During the AIDS64 CPU+GPU stress tests, the temperatures sky-rocketed to 71-73 degrees Celsius for the CPU, while the GPU temperature it 78 degrees Celsius.

aida_stress_temps

 

No wonder, the heatsinks were so large on the Zotac ZBOX Magnus EN1070. My only concern is that once you hit the temperature threshold, CPU throttling may kick in … and that may cause some issues.

Luckily, we didn’t experience this … what you see is the highest temperature I could achieve.

 

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7 comments

Colin 30 November 2016 at 20:59

Thanks for the review. What is the fan noise like when the system is under load?

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Winston 30 November 2016 at 22:37

Surprisingly, the fan noise is quite low under full load.

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Ricardo 21 December 2016 at 14:40

Great Review!

A quick question!

I want to buy one, but just to change his MXM Graphics Card, I have an Alienware 17 R5 eDP, and Im wondering if this card is going to work with it.

Before I buy the Zotac 1070, any change you can give us a hand and try it on a MXM Laptop with eDP?

Thanks!!!

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Winston 21 December 2016 at 16:32

You need to double check with the manufacturers to make sure these mxm cards work

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kalvdans 4 May 2017 at 11:16

6434 GFlops from the AIDA64 benchmark sounds a bit too much. I get only half of that with GPUburn on Linux. Can someone try GPUburn on windows and see what they get?

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sakafm 9 June 2017 at 04:26

does that mxm gtx 1070 need a power cable{like clevo and Aetina mxm gtx 1070…….they need a power cable } ????????????
i have a plan to use it in a dell precision 7710 laptop
but if it needs a power cable then i think i have to forget my plan
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Winston 9 June 2017 at 05:09

No power cable needed… well, I didn’t see one for the MXM card

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