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hey guys is Austin even though this might look like a large box inside is one of the most powerful and smallest gaming computers that you can buy inside this guy is the wonderfully named ZOTAC Magnus ek7 1080 which stands for a really powerful very small computer I think so if you guys are familiar with ZOTAC you know that they've been making small bare-bones pcs for quite a while now and this is sort of the next evolution of that as instead of having something that's meant for like an office like kind of a a low-end computer this is a proper gaming box video with the bare-bones is that while this does have important components like obviously the case and power supply as well as a processor and graphics card there's no memory there's no SSD and there's no OS the idea here is that you can pretty much supply whatever you want with this guy but inside you're giving a core i7 7700 HQ processor as well as a full GTX 1080 correct this guy open and we get a giant thank you for your purchase oh we also get the kind of giant power adapter so you know hopefully don't have a problem with an enormous 330 watt power brick that's sitting outside your computer it's actually probably bout the same size is it but I mean I guess with GT X 1080 inside you can't be too picky we also have our antennas for the built-in Wi-Fi as well as the power cord and inside here we have the actual system itself so it's not that big I'd say it's about the size of like a tall shoebox maybe that is a very dense little computer again keep in mind this has a GTX 1080 inside so the top is pretty much nothing but ventilation which makes sense considering the hardware inside but up front we get not only an SD card reader but also a full size USB 3 port a USB type-c port as well as headphone and microphone jacks around back it's fairly basic we have 4 more USB 3.0 ports where we actually install the antennas for our Wi-Fi a pair of ethernet jacks which is kind of interesting and then you get your three display ports DVI and HDMI from the video card one of the nice parts about buying a bare-bones system is that it comes pretty much ready to work on so on bottom here we can install not only a SATA SSD but also an M to drive or an intel octane drive at the same time which you also have a pair of ddr4 sodam slots for your ram so now we have the Z box all set up all it took was installing 16 of ddr4 memory as well as a 512 gigabyte SSD throwing a copy of Windows on here and we are good to go so first off we have GTA 5 even though it's a little bit of an older game it still can be surprisingly taxing and here running a 2560 by 1080 we're getting a pretty decent frame rates between 70 to 90 now this is an ultra wide monitor that does have g-sync so that 80 to 90 frames per second looks great but in theory we could run it all the way up to 166 frames per second we want to bring the graphics settings down a little bit that being said on this giant ultra wide this looks really good especially considering how tiny the PC is it's crazy that this game can run an Xbox 360 and yet it'll also look just this awesome on a proper PC with a nice monitor moving along we have Deus Ex mankind dividing now well this might not be the most popular game in the world it still looks really nice especially when you give it some good hardware to work with and here at 2560 by 1080 with pretty much everything cranked up we're pretty much hitting 70 to 80 frames per second I was about to say that a next game is pub G but while I'm in the loading screen I'm realizing that even this stupid open area here is running out like a hundred frames per second this is gonna be good where skydiving got a 105 frames per second with G sync enabled so it shouldn't be surprised that a GTX 1080 system is able to run pub G smoothly but what is nice is just how easily it's able to run it while still being quiet so there is a little bit of coil whine I noticed when you're actually really taxing the CPU but the graphics seem to be running pretty cool to put the size of this in context this is the previous version the zotac en 1070 as you can see is much much smaller however not only did it have a less powerful gtx 1070 inside but it also didn't run anywhere near the same clock speeds of this 1080i should probably not cover the exhaust the question though is is the z box worth it well before we answer that I'm gonna give a huge shout out to Dollar Shave Club for sponsoring this video maybe they can also sponsor this guys uh next shave so odds are if you were a well-groomed person in the world you've probably bought razors at the store you realize that it is a terrible experience all the way around based on having to ask someone who'll get the key they have no idea what they're actually talking about and they're really expensive does shave club fixes all that in a box that shows up right at your doorstep right you can try their shower and shave trial which includes not only their executive razor handle but you're also getting four blades as well as a trial of three of their most popular products see even Dollar Shave Club sensors it no D monetization here so if you arrayed up your shaving game head over to dollarshaveclub.com slash Austin that's dollarshaveclub.com slash Austin and huge shout out to tell a shave club for helping to support the channel at fifteen hundred dollars for the bare bone kit or eighteen hundred dollars if you don't want to deal with it and just get it with memory SSD as well as Windows pre-installed this guy definitely doesn't come cheap however when you consider just how expensive it is to build yourself a PC today especially with high-end components like this that price isn't too crazy and of course getting something that's this small that you don't have to build yourself is a huge plus it's not for everyone but ZOTAC has built the most powerful small form factor game PC I've ever tried some curious what do you guys think about these ZOTAC ZBOX let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one