Little systems with big potential
Though Intel is making a run at the mini PC market with its NUC line, Zotac is the formidable force to look out for. The company's been making pint sized PCs for several years, and at Computex, it gave us a look at its new EN970, it's most powerful mini PC to date.
The EN970 rocks an Intel Core i5 5200u processor based on Broadwell and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M GPU. That's a fairly potent one-two punch for both general purpose computing chores and gaming. To demonstrate that point, Zotac had the system running Mortal Kombat X at its booth.
Like Zotac's previous mini PCs, you can choose between a barebones model that needs RAM and storage, or a Plus model that only needs an OS. In this instance, the Plus model comes with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD -- a welcome change on the storage side, as most of Zotac's Plus systems are saddled with a mechanical hard drive.
There's also the EN960, a slightly less powerful system that trades the GTX 970M for a GTX 960M. That system was shown running Grand Theft Auto V in 1080p.
If you're familiar with the Zotac brand, then you know the company also makes graphics cards. We got a chance to see three new air-cooled offerings from Zotac, it's GTX 980 Ti AMP! Edition, GTX 980 Ti AMP! Omega Edition, and GTX 980 Ti AMP! Extreme Edition. Zotac feels confident the Extreme version will be the highest clocked GTX 980 Ti on the market with a 1253MHz base and 1355MHz boost (reference is 1000MHz core and 1076MHz boost).
Zotac also has a fourth GTX 980 Ti card, the GTX 980 Ti ArcticStorm featuring a hybrid air and liquid cooler. The card is clocked at 1025MHz (base) / 1114MHz (boost). That's lower than the other cards, but with the hybrid cooling solutions, Zotac says users will be able to overclock it really high themselves.
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