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if you know me or if you follow my channel you'll know that I like small computer cases particularly ITX cases when it comes to custom builds but this is a prebuilt bare-bones system made by ZOTAC this is the ek7 1080 and this is one of the smallest if not the smallest system out there with a full sized GTX 1080 so not an MX M card on a laptop card it's the full fat GTX 1080 from a desktop stuck into a very small 5.8 liter case so previously ZOTAC made a very similar product this the en 1080 K it was a very powerful water-cooled system but there were three kind of issues to it first it used an MXM card it didn't have the full size gtx 1088 ii it was expensive that thing started at $2,000 thirdly the en 1080 K needed to AC adapters basically had to 300 watt AC adapters I would plug into the back end it was just honestly unsightly and just unwieldly for a product this small to need to a see adapters so this one the ek7 1080 has been updated if you want to call it that but now it starts at $1500 which i think is a pretty fair price for what this thing includes so for the base model $1500 you're not getting Ram you're not getting storage but you're getting basically everything else which we'll discuss a little bit now if you think you're one of those people that can build a custom PC for seven bucks that's gonna compare to this I mean in this market with the crypto mining happening and all the GPU pricing being as wonky it's really difficult for me to kind of compare this thing to what a regular building cost right now if you're trying to buy a GTX 1080 at a regular five or $600 price point it's gonna be nearly impossible people are charging like eight 900 bucks for that stuff which sucks so the pricing on this thing is actually pretty good if you consider the current market it's fair if you consider regular pricing this system runs a single AC adapter it's this one the 330 watt behemoth it's really large but because it's external it keeps your case size small so this 5.8 liter device can sit on your media center your table whatever you want and this thing can sit under your table in the cab whatever so it keeps this thing kind of cleaner and smaller now they're able to do that because this thing is running a laptop CPU the 7700 to HQ so this is a 45 watt CPU the previous generation was a desktop CPUs more energy and it produced more heat now obviously that one's gonna be a little more powerful in terms of its boost clock but this thing is very comparable and it uses a little bit less energy so you don't have to spend as much effort cooling this system down the last main feature about this mini PC and probably its best feature is that this thing is holding a full sized GTX 1080 this is the reference card the founders edition and they're able to fit all the processing power from this into here and this has a full computer inside this is just a graphic card and the performance on the GTX 1080 combined with the 7700 HQ is excellent the desktop grade version of the 1080 is a very capable card and it'll push an excellent frame rates across pretty much every single game that I played now I don't play super graphically intense stuff like gt5 and stuff because the truth is I don't find those games all that exciting I like more competitive stuff like I don't do the single-player games that much but single-player multiplayer competitive non-competitive this thing is gonna crush it it's also a strong performer in VR and because it's small you can put in your backpack and you now have a relatively portable VR capable system now the thermal performance is something I think a lot of people are interested in because it's such a small case and the previous generation the en 1080 K had water cooling but this one is air cooled and the FEA noise is controllable in the BIOS but if I just left it at standard settings it's quiet on idle but during games it can get pretty loud now you're not putting the system in front of your face like a laptop like you're not playing right on top of this thing so obviously the decibel rating is just for reference so you understand what's going on it really depends on how close you sit to this machine when I set this up on my table I had it about three or four feet away from me and I didn't find the fan noise annoying or anything now there is some thermal throttling not a lot it's hard to pick up on it unless you're actually running a monitoring program so I actually didn't notice that there was throttling in game the frame rates didn't drop but when I looked at the logs there was some throttling around the one hour mark now you can't control the fans in the BIOS so if you set the fans more aggressively it'll get rid of the throttling but it becomes louder so this system 7700 HQ GTX 1080 great performance and if you pump up the fans yeah it doesn't throttle but I kind of expected this system just run a little bit quieter the performance is good and if you said it right it won't throttle but it's a little loud on standard settings it's quieter it's just that it can throttle if you play for long periods of time reports we're looking at five use pas a USB type-c which doesn't support Thunderbolt 3 and we have an SD card audio jacks and a pair of Ethernet in the back it's obviously not as port filled as like a full desktop system but for content creation or gaming they should do the trick in terms of upgrade ability even though it has a desktop GTX 1080 in there it's not an easy thing to upgrade I actually think that they say it's not upgradable but I think you could if you really wanted to you can see the riser in there and you can see the PCIe connections so I feel like if you had a small enough card in the future that could fit into the space it could just connect up but I'm not entirely sure in terms of the other stuff the drives and the memory are all located on the bottom and you can swap that stuff out pretty readily there's room for a to drive and one stick of Intel obtain memory and it can hold up to 32 gigs of RAM so overall the upgrade ability is good it's just not as good as a regular desktop system I do like this thing a lot it's not for everyone but if you're into small cases like I am and he likes something that's just really clean and relatively modern looking that can sit on your table or your media center if you have this up in your living room or something this is a pretty good pickup okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it sub zv loves it see you guys next time