In the mini PC Magnus One (ECM 10700 C), Zotac accommodates high-performance components in a small space. In contrast to the previous E-series devices, this time the manufacturer is mostly installing desktop hardware that can be replaced if necessary. Zotac positions the mini PC as an all-rounder that should be suitable as a workstation and gaming system.

Zotac builds Intel’s Core i7 in the Magnus One – 10700 of the Comet Lake-S series (8 cores, 16 Threads, 2.9-4.8 GHz). This means that the CPU will soon be a thing of the past, as Intel will launch the successor generation Rocket Lake in March 2021 S wants to introduce. Also on board are Nvidia’s current desktop graphics card GeForce RTX 3070 with its own cooling and 8 GB of RAM. An adapted LGA 696 motherboard is used in the Magnus One, which has space for two SO DIMM memory latch offers. That is enough for a maximum of 64 GByte DDR4 – 2933 – SDRAM. By default, Zotac installs 16 GByte.

In the preconfigured version, Zotac installs Windows 10 Home on a 512 GB M.2 SSD with SATA 6G connection. There is also a 1 TB HDD in 2.5 inch format for additional data. Users can retrofit another M.2 SSD with a PCI Express 3.0 connection. Alternatively, Zotac wants to sell the Magnus One as a barebone, in which the buyer has to install data carriers and RAM himself.

Connectivity In In terms of connectivity, the Mini-PC has two Ethernet ports with 2.5 GBit / s (NBase-T) and 1 GBit / s. The Magnus One communicates wirelessly thanks to the Killer Chip AX 1650 via fast Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 The GeForce RTX 3070 offers three DisplayPort 1.4a connections and one HDMI 2.1 – all three allow Ultra -HD displays with 3840 × 2160 pixels and up to 144 Operate Hertz. The mainboard also has the HDMI 1.4 port of the combined processor GPU, which is used for 30 Hertz in Ultra HD is sufficient.

Zotac Magnus One ECM 73070 C (7 pictures) In the preconfigured version, Zotac installs Windows 10 Home on a 512 GByte M.2 SSD with SATA 6G connection. There is also a 1 TB HDD in 2.5-inch format for additional data. Users can retrofit another M.2 SSD with PCI Express 3.0 connection.

There are eight USB ports (4 × USB 3.2 Gen 1 with 5 GBit / s, of which once Type-C, and 4 × USB 3.2 Gen 2 with 10 Gbit / s) available. An SD card reader and a microphone / headphone combo connection are located on the front of the device. A 144 – watt power supply with 80 – Plus-Platinum certification supplies the components with power.

Information Zotac has not yet made the price and availability in Germany.

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