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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers access dotnet and today we're looking at Zuma tags ZBOX en 760 I really have to sneeze it is not working I'm looking at the light and it's not working so we're just gonna roll with this and see what happens this is the em7 60d box the Z box looks like this if you're curious where the Z box is it is basically an HTP see a home theater PC also known as a mini PC Enzo tags branding they've been making these for a few years now I've seen them at PAX East for at least three years and thus far they haven't really made a gaming grade one this is a gaming grade one so I am told the Z box is a custom form factor mini PC it's a little bit smaller than many ITX it's got a CPU on board it's got a GPU soldered on board you install your own RAM and hard drive they also saw one with those pre-installed but let's let's run through all the specs of this and then talk about why I have not yet benchmarked this and what you can expect when I do benchmark it so for the specs this like I said has a mobile GPU it is using an nvidia 860 m which is one of their maxwell GPUs they actually have two 860 m as one is based on Kepler and one is based on Maxwell this to my knowledge is the Maxwell GPU and that is also why we're having issues with the drivers right now the CPU is an i5 its Intel Core i5 4200 u which is another laptop component it operates natively at 1.6 gigahertz and turbo boost up to two point 60 gigahertz if you are wondering if that is slow the answer is yes one point six is pretty slow but if turbo boost works like it should and and jumps up to two point six when gaming then will be an okay shape because the GPU will make up for the rest for the most part for most games obviously there are some games that will be more CPU bound than others but the Z box right now does not function with n videos three 3078 drivers so unfortunately I can't benchmark II yet I do have benchmarks coming but I'm just waiting on ZOTAC to get back to me with the updated driver compatibility so the main issue here is that right now it's running on three 20.6 I want to say which is it's a little bit old at this point and unfortunately if I benchmark on three 20.6 with the 860m against all of our other video cards you're gonna see a huge disparity that doesn't actually exist in hardware it's entirely on the driver side because all the other cards I benchmarked on three 37.8 and you I want to use watchdogs for the bench but it's not going to work without the newest drivers because of a million reasons I've discussed if you have seen my diatribe on watch times so we are waiting for the benchmarks on that but we can at least look at the internals today and get an overview of what the Z box is so this is targeted as a gaming unit in terms of i/o let me just read off the back here we have four USB 3.0 ports there are two on the back one on the side slash top however you look at it and then one on the opposite side from the back which I suppose would be the front so that's what we have for the USB IO there's no USB 2 it's all three there are two 3.5 milimeter jacks for out and input there's a four and one card reader so that includes your SD SDHC SDXC all of those things and then we have Wi-Fi antennas included with the Z box so it actually has its own wireless card internally you don't need to buy a USB stick for wireless which is good because we only have 4 USB ports and then we have a like I said wired wireless receiver there's a power button antenna connector for more antennas there's an optical spoof which is one of my favorite words to say so that is an optical reader for audio of course if you want to use it in a proper HTPC setup where you would have high quality speakers 2 rj45 Ethernet ports and then we've got a DVI port and HDMI port another antenna connector for the second wireless antenna and DC power input so it actually connects to an adapter that connects to the wall so it doesn't have an internal power supply it's actually external that's how you can make this so small and the unit that I have here is the I believe it is in 760 whereas the more expensive unit is the en 760 plus so the difference between them is the 760 does not come with RAM or a harddrive pre-installed the 760 plus does and the pre-installed Graham is one stick of eight gigabytes at 1600 megahertz the hard drive pre-installed is a one terabyte drive at 5400 rpm so I would advise you strongly to buy this model which has nothing pre-installed why your own RAM by your own SSD and go from there this unit chips at $550 should be available later this month and the pro model with the RAM and drive ships have 700 I yeah it strips at 700 so not the best value if you're capable of installing your own Drive and Ram and I'm gonna show you how to do that right now because it's pretty darn easy and and then we'll get to the benchmarks as soon as the drivers are compatible with this device but for today we're just gonna install everything things are pretty simple here looking internally we have of course the board there's a giant heatsink with a small what looks to be perhaps a maybe I don't know if that's 60 or 80 milliliters but it's a small fan on the GPU and then next to that we have of course the wireless adapter and you've got a port for your drive and underneath that you can remove that one screw holding in the drive drive sled we'll call it underneath that is where the RAM is installed this is actually laptop Ram it is so dim Ram and you can basically take it out of any laptop if you have one or of course just buy new Ram and it will take two slots so for maximum efficacy you can fill both of those slots right now I've got some some pretty mediocre Kingston laptop RAM in here just for testing purposes pop your RAM in just like a laptop pop the SD into the sled install it it will connect to the port's very cleanly do not force anything because you'll break it and then just close it off and that's that's really all there is to it so at this point we install an OS we install some games we hope that the drivers are updated and then play and and I'll have a benchmark for you shortly so subscribe to the YouTube channel for that and of course check the website for full information on this product as well as the other ZOTAC ones and I will see you all next time peace