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there has been a flood of trashcan pcs in recent years all of them vying for the title of the one that finally got it right so tack on the other hand well ZOTAC has no need for trash cans no my friends ZOTAC brings the heat in fancy handle lists lunchboxes last year's Magnus Ian 980 blew our socks and sandals off as a super tiny liquid-cooled high-end gaming PC that we thought was pretty darn close to our vision of the ultimate compact PC so then will this year's en 1080 ke V already mini PC with a substantial graphics upgrade be even more filling let's fly though rockettes sq+ Force FX features pressure-sensitive qwe a si D keys which can be configured in three different modes for multiple functions check it out now at the link below sorry so taking a good look at the new Magnus we can see that aside from it's totally blacked out matte aluminum finish and an HDMI 2.0 port at the front for VR very little has changed externally so on the front you've still got USB 3.1 type a and type C front panel audio and an SDXC card slot and then at the back we've got identical-looking rear i/o 2 again frustratingly lacking audio jacks making the front panel once the only ones you get with that said DisplayPort 1.3 and HDMI 2.0 are both nice additions the en 1080 K actually has a total of 5 video outputs though only four of them will work simultaneously on the bottom we get the same oddly ventilated panel along with the familiar honeycombed plastic upper panel that worked together surprisingly well with a nice mesh that keeps bugs and other debris from making it into your lunch ok now I'll stop that now because this next bit is super ear cereal this is perhaps the most important upgrade over last year's model lighting effects now the Magnus logo is illuminated and the power LED is RGB whoa so you can use the software to configure it for the world's smallest dance party cuz that's actually about the extent of the system lighting pulling off the bottom panel then gets us to the really fun stuff ZOTAC ships the en 1080 K as either a completed system or as a bare-bones so if you're going to buy the latter pay close attention first up we've got twin ddr4 sodium slots alongside an MDOT 2s SD slot that thankfully supports nvme this time around then we've got a tool a SATA Drive rounding out our expansion with the two and a half inch drive of your choice then if we go further than bare-bones builders and painstakingly remove all of the panels that is 25 screws not counting the feet we get a good look at the water cooling system complete with radiator reservoir and custom blocks for the CPU and the entire desktop grade mxm module GPU if you look even closely err you can actually see that the CPU block is way larger than it needs to be so it's clear then that ZOTAC is taking no chances with vrm cooling as well as the basics which is a great indicator of future reliability overall we should hopefully get great thermal results and super low noise now let's talk first though about what's under the water cooling for the GPU we go from a GTX 980 4 gig all the way up to a gtx 1088 gig graphics card and ZOTAC decided to man up on the cpu as well moving from a core i5 to a near top-of-the-line core i7 7700 though it should be noted that they are still not allowing overclocking it is not a que model I think we can let that slide though for how utterly impressive it is that ZOTAC managed to cram all of that in here I mean to put it in perspective at five point eight five liters that is under half the volume of the very impressive Corsair one that we reviewed recently and only slightly more than the low respect MSI Trident that uses air cooling so then let's power it on first there's a really annoying buzzing noise then nothing yes my friends the default BIOS configuration has the fan not even spinning unless the GPU hits 50 degrees or higher making the new Magnus much quieter at idle than the old model the drawback of this config is that under synthetic load we did manage to get the CPU to throttle because the default fan curve sacrificed maybe too much of its performance for silence the good news though is that this too can be tweaked in the BIOS and it's still quieter than you'd expect for something so compact alright so now the performance showdown for comparison we dusted off its older brother the en 980 pulled the Corsair 1 out of the mothballs and grabbed a full sized KB Lake test bench for reference so then we expected the test bench to be faster given its higher turbo clocks and higher speed memory but what we didn't see coming was how close the en 10 ATK would hang on it handled everything we threw at it with flying colors including our synthetic CPU tests where it only really lagged behind in the real bench image editing test it also provides a great VR experience thanks to the aforementioned front panel HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.1 ports making it one dem impressive little lunch box sorry sorry couldn't resist but that impressiveness doesn't change a key point that we made in our review of the en 980 the inability to upgrade the CPU and GPU in the Magnus en 1080 K seriously puts a damper on its otherwise spectacular performance and the $17.99 us price tag yes $200 more even than its predecessor is for a system that will forever be as you bought it save for maybe throwing in some more or storage I mean with the gtx 1018 a core i7 7700 hdmi 2.0 DisplayPort 1.3 USB 3.1 I mean we can't see your gaming lunch getting moldy any time soon we're just saying that what are we saying maybe it maybe it's this okay there's no question that the en 1080 K is a tiny quiet punching above its weight class freakin incredible little piece of technology ZOTAC did an outstanding job once again but at these prices you just have to ask yourself are you hungry enough for frames to spring for this water-cooled super meal or is it just too much to swallow tunnel bear is so easy to use that you can get your mom or even your 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