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  • JoeyJoJo123 - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    I imagine it's not volumetrically smaller than the Silverstone ML07B, RVZ01B, or FTZ01B...

    The venting doesn't look adequate for the GPU region, but the CPU region seems like it might be OK enough. (They're mirrored and the exact same size on both sides). On the Silverstone cases, there's two open 120mm fan mounts for the GPU and a single 120mm fan mount for the CPU, with semi-open (or restricted, depending on your viewpoint) ventilation/perforation for the PSU fan.

    I'm not really a fan of the gamer-esque design, LEDs (although I guess RGB is better than no-RGB), or the race-car like vented hood like things on the side panels. Although I will say that compared to my current FTZ01B, the case feet when in the vertical position look pretty damn solid.

    It all looks adequately specced though, but if I was on the market for small portable prebuilt PC, I'd look at Zotac's other non-upgradable options (I mean, honestly, with Intel's socket/chipset changes with every new CPU generation, you're basically looking at a new Mobo, CPU, and GPU with any PC refresh anyways, at least with AMD there's stability in CPU socket compatibility for CPU upgrades into the future) or MSI's Trident 3 (which looks even smaller, has a separate power brick for easy stuffing into a backpack for LAN party like stuff, and still looks to use a standard 2 PCI-e slot GPU, with obvious length/width restrictions.)

    Alternatively, if you want even lower power and even smaller size, then laptop-variant CPUs and GPUs are available in smaller packages, like MSI's Vortex G25 or one of Zotac's other offerings, or yeah, even a gaming laptop. There just isn't a huge delta between mobile and desktop CPU/GPU performance these days outside of the capability of overclocking. For lighter loads, like games at medium to medium-high settings, modern laptops are actually shockingly fine.
  • romrunning - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    One big difference between the old mobile CPUs & the new mobile CPUs is that Intel will finally let you have 4-6 cores. That's a pretty big difference, especially if you are doing anything multi-threaded on the laptop.
  • shabby - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    Are the rgb's upgradable?
  • Reflex - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link

    No, but you can overclock them....
  • shabby - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link

    Whoa neat!
  • Alistair - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    Where is the coffee lake? Wait for purchase...
  • StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link

    Yeah... Only a quad-core as we are about to enter 2018 is a stretch.
  • bill.rookard - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    Hmm.. A Ryzen 7 1700 is a 65w CPU. Paired with a good GPU (GTX1080) it would be an excellent gaming / work machine.
  • Alexvrb - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    Having a couple Ryzen options would be nice, including more affordable Ryzen 5 models. The 1070 Ti is within a hair of the 1080 though, I think it's probably the better value. No harm in offering them both though.
  • ddriver - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    Oh wow, UPGRADEABLE PC - luxury feature... what has this world come to... PCIE ribbon cables - we are truly living in the future.
  • Alexvrb - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    I know the headline was an eyebrow raising affair. Could have said something like upgrade-friendly SFF PC.
  • Reflex - Monday, December 11, 2017 - link

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/33753221/dan-...

    I have one of these on order. First gen got excellent reviews, second gen starts delivery in January. They are being built by Lian Li based on a custom design by Dan Cases, and can accommodate even the top CPU's on the market while being considerably smaller than any full GPU SFF PC I've seen other than the Zotac Magnus series.
  • cosmotic - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link

    Now if only they didn't look so ridiculous
  • Ro_Ja - Tuesday, December 12, 2017 - link

    It's going to sell fine if this will come with Coffee Lake and Ryzen variants

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