Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN970 - Best Compact Gaming Desktop?

[@computer5272]

$800 with no storage, OS, or RAM? Fuck that.

[@Arudis4x]

Ikr?

[@Samosayummyyay]

+Computer An ssd, ram and an OS all together will cost you at least 150 euro. Isn't that big of a deal for a tiny SILENT powerhouse of a pc that can be taken everywhere you want ;) It's like an High-end gaming laptop without the top (no screen).

[@saddlesore_adventures]

+Kameel you can buy better laptops for this price, and it will have both RAM, hdd, screen and keyboard. These bricks are neat little machines, but their prices are seriously fucked up.

[@ManofLowMoralFiber]

+Computer RAM is cheap. OS is free. Everyone already has a few SSDs laying around that aren't in use.

[@SamwiseMyG]

+Man of Low Moral Fiber that is so not true

[@TweakTechNow]

Who decorated the background? The Queen of England?

[@adamwhite1025]

There no such thing as the queen of England

[@rjfaber1991]

+msgamingelite Since this is in Canada, it would be "Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith".

[@djjesus.hediedforyourspins3154]

+Robert Faber The Queen is alright mate

[@rjfaber1991]

DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins Yes. It's funny to know the full set of names and titles, but in any practical sense, "Her Majesty" or indeed "The Queen" would suffice.

[@IanRadinRoug]

+Adam White That point could be argued.

[@TCWordz]

People saying "overpriced" really aren't thinking this through. Sure, price to performance levels are terrible compared to something you could build, you need to consider other factors. Nothing you could build would be able to be so small yet powerful and size/looks is super important for some people. It's not a budget PC but nobody is trying to say it is.

[@HisCarlnessI]

Water cool it.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

+HisRoyalCarlness wouldn't be hard actually.

[@schnitzel438]

+HisRoyalCarlness wouldn't be erection actually.

[@HisCarlnessI]

+xCRUCiOx Mostly joking because of the phone water cooling episode... But now I wonder if you could put a better processor in there if you did.

[@SamTheFable]

+StikManJones Naaah, you need something for 24/7. ln2 is not.

[@Cryocube]

+StikManJones still boring.... liquid helium anyone? any higher bids?

[@Hionimi]

GTX 960 while it is named EN970? Seems a bit misleading. O_o

[@schnitzel438]

+Mina Darsh Why do you say that? I love my 980ti from them, the ENtitanX

[@Hionimi]

+Hearty Oatmeal Stock or OverTroll Edition? :v

[@schnitzel438]

:v

[@shdowhunt60]

It's not even a GTX 960. It's a 970M. For some reason they're calling it a 960.

[@Hionimi]

+shdowhunt60 That might explain it, sort of... O_o

[@trekkie117]

This review has really helped me with the personal project of buidting a William Gibson-style deck Thanks for showing me that I won't have to resort to using a laptop motherboard

[@patrickoleary3095]

SCRAPYARD WARS 3 NOW

[@kapildeshmukh7878]

It's going to roll out in December.

[@SuperAuthoritah]

Lol its been on vessel for like a week.

[@cricket0140]

+Patrick O'Leary I've been checking at least once per hour. My heart sinks when I see the previous series' thumbnail :(

[@AUSxTECHxGUY]

+Patrick O'Leary Vessel...

[@sangita6709]

+Patrick O'Leary yes its been on vessel

[@GraphicallyChallenged]

This is amazing. Thank you Zotac.

[@ClaudeThePianist1]

The url that would crash older versions of Chrome in the intro huh... Someone at LMG is kinda evil...

[@joejoe4games]

+Claude Wakes I was waiting for somebody to say something...

[@ClaudeThePianist1]

***** Yeah when I scrolled down to the comments to see if someone had beat me to it I didn't see anyone, suprising...

[@joejoe4games]

maybe everyone posted the link and the comment was automatically hidden because of it... :D

[@MrAppendixX]

% means: convert the next two digits (or letters) to something. %30 is converted to "0" since there is two "%30" s it becomes "00" there is another percent sign which would convert the "%00" which is " NULL" which crashes chrome

[@ClaudeThePianist1]

***** Haha, could be true :D

[@michaeljunr6847]

0:46 red ring of death?

[@lux551]

+Michael Anthony de Jun More like the orange ring of Linus

[@thealancorp.2394]

+Michael Anthony de Jun wped

[@gtamike_TSGK]

+Michael Anthony de Jun haha!

[@toesly]

"The October crate is gone forever, you'll have to wait for the September one. " Linus Time Travel Tips lol

[@Oblivionsthoughts]

Thanks Zotac for sponsoring the vid and thank you linus for making it, I think its great ,love the idea of being able to make my own router :) and What make me interested in the zbox is the fact that its neat, compact and light weight , so I will be able to carry it around easily while traveling if im working or playing some games :)

[@sergegoujon8022]

Naming machine with GTX960 inside as EN970 is kinda cheap trick and smells fishy...

[@WetaMantis]

+Serge Goujon Yea that's not misleading that's false advertisement.

[@TheChadOlson]

+Serge Goujon Fishy, or slightly pickled?

[@RaihanRamadistra]

It is equipped with a GTX 970M but it's branded as a GTX 960.

[@AlexRolandHuszar]

+M. Combat neither does this, it's 10% behind, and has 3gb of vram just like a 970m, and has a tdp just like a 970m

[@blu4able360]

Congratulations on the 2,000,000 subs Linus!

[@variananora]

+Jake S (blu4) not yet.

[@supermohamedabde2000]

+Varian Anora but quite close, I think he meant it to be a premature celebration

[@variananora]

yeah..

[@confuseh]

"Speaking about temperatures..." I thought Linus going to fit advertising again

[@babatulani6361]

I SUBBED RIGHT BEFORE THIS WAS UPLOADED. AND I NEEDED THIS. THANK YOU.

[@MarcosCruz-xe7vv]

welcome :)

[@iTzDaNiiLo]

$800 price point is pretty darn tough especially when you can build a very decent gaming desktop with that money but at the same time, if apple built this machine, it would cost $4000 with worst specs

[@videogamekings97]

I have 64gb of Ram, 3 Titan x, 2000w power supply, and ice cooled Pc. With an i7 Octacore Can I run GTA?

[@davitson]

Yes you might be able to run it 1080p 30fps

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

+JeffFruitFa funny.

[@MrGorgor1000]

+JeffFruitFa You don't have a processor, so no, you wont be able to run it.

[@paulandreasallik]

u mean run pong right? mabey with the lowest

[@VextrenYT]

Keep dreaming...

[@Zenchilli]

GTX 960 with 3GB?

[@BadBoyV1]

+Zenchillis Hardware Reviews Yep, not that it will ever use it all lol

[@1toncheese]

+BADBOYONE well considering the fact the equivalent 4gb 960/r9 380's do use more than that and can see performance improvements vs the 2gb models at 1080p 3 gb is a happy medium.

[@shdowhunt60]

+1toncheese It's not even a GTX 960. It's a 970M.

[@1toncheese]

shdowhunt60 I know.

[@dersandmann6881]

Zenchillis? Du auch hier :D

[@ViktorLox]

The site that pops up when you enter the link under the logo, in the intro. It's eye-melting cool! Try it!

[@BoogerLeader]

Horrible machine for the price, small or not. There are cheaper alternatives that are compact and have all their parts AND an OS. No one should purchase this, it's a complete waste of money.

[@JoeGP]

+BoogerLeader with a desktop GPU ?

[@WyCris13]

+Joe G.P. I have a 500$ PC that's better than this

[@BoogerLeader]

Joe G.P. Yeah, and better CPUs as well.

[@matthewwatt2295]

+WyCris13 It's not this small though, is it?

[@BoogerLeader]

Matthew Watt No, it's about the size of a small console. Any sane person would be willing to deal with something slightly larger that's cheaper and has better performance.

[@camkeith1122]

This is an excellent way to have a compact and very powerful pc which is great for saving space and easy for anyone to operate i would love to win this competition.

[@AnimilesYT]

Please, do not use a 2.5" mechanical drive. They often operate at 5600rpm or they are very expensive. I really notice how slow my laptop is compared to my pc. To boot up with a 5600rpm drive takes ages, and to boot programs often takes a while too. Especially games. If you don't want to spend a lot of money, get at least a 250 gig ssd for the programs you use often, and a hdd for the smaller programs and those you do not use often. (and offcourse as storage drive for all your po-... I mean, movies. :)

[@Diavolo222]

+Animiles I see your point but I dont think it can be that slow. I have 8.1 on my mother's laptop which has an 5200U and a 5400RPM HDD and it boots up obviously slower than my rig equipped with a SSD but it boots fast enough and doesnt take more than 20-30 seconds ( if that ). We've been kinda spoiled by SSDs and think waiting for 20 sec is somehow the end of the world now. Does it feel awesome to turn on your PC and in 6 seconds you are already browsing ? Sure, but it's not mandatory and it's not "stone age" slow.

[@AnimilesYT]

Diavolo222 I use a 120GB SSD in my desktop. Booting into desktop isn't a problem if it takes 30 seconds instead of 8. But once I'm booted into windows and I click my browser then it takes a while to start and respond quickly because my laptop is still booting up background programs. But other then booting up I notice a huge difference in loading battlefield maps. When I'm playing BF4 with a friend (me on my pc and he on my laptop) I'm already killing people while he's still waiting untill the game is loaded.. And if you're willing to spend 800 on a case, motherboard and 960, then I don't understand it if you're willing to use a 5600rpm hdd instead of an SSD for main programs :3

[@Diavolo222]

Animiles Using BF4 as a benchmark is pretty...stupid. Laptops, most laptops, arent made for gaming and BF4 is notorious for having slow load times outside of SSDs. You shouldnt NEEED SSD to play a game. Also, if you have too many background programs loading up at startup, maybe you need to tweak your laptop abit. Bloatware is the bane of laptops.

[@AnimilesYT]

Diavolo222 I've disabled the bloatware. I use many other little programs that I want to start at startup like pushbullet, puush and more. So I'm stuck with the slower bootup time. I use them on my pc too though. BF4 is a good benchmark since it has slow loading times. I can't install it on my SSD in my pc since it's only 120GB. I use a 7200RPM HDD and It's fully loaded before I can deploy. Because they both run off of HDD's and the loading time is slow I can say which one is faster and how much faster it is without software telling me. I can see how slow the 5600RPM one is. And now imagine the time you'll lose each time you load a file, start a program or copy and past files. Over all it'll slow you down quite a bit.

[@Wylie288]

+Animiles ive got a 5400 rmp hdd and my bootup times are about 20 seconds..

[@nathanaelmoonsilver2809]

Thx a lot for stating the rough price at the moment of recording! While I do watch some high end tech videos out of interest (and wishful thinking) this product is clearly more of a value attempt. If you would pls continue to state its price-preferrably even at the beginning- then I would know from what point of view to take the content. Like this I always have to check out prices before watching a video, which most often is too much of a Hassle, so I don't watch at all. Greetings!

[@charleystube3835]

so $800 plus you have to buy a OS, ram and a hard drive making that over $1000. what a great deal!

[@thealancorp.2394]

+charleys tube who buys an OS

[@coldfire4369]

who buys ram?

[@Etmanning]

Who buys a hard drive?

[@MrGartenzwerg95]

who buys a $800 box?

[@joppevdijk]

+Benetrat0r a wealthy cat of course

[@Noodleude]

That url in the intro just restarted my computer. thanks.

[@sambell309]

"Oh wow that looks awesome to give to my brother as a step up from a console" "$800" nope.avi

[@Puckluck44]

I think that rock with the swirl you got is from the shoe Roswell that's kinda cool.

[@vietlee4290]

But can it run cry.................oh it did. T.T Is the circle on top the ZBOX meant for potatoes placement?

[@schnitzel438]

But can it run potato simulator? Feel free to edit that into your comment, zbox joke not so great

[@WoelerGaming]

I can finally watch these videos in 4k Yay!

[@John-Dennehy]

what's in your pocket? your hand keeps wandering down there

[@zerv9168]

It's the remote for his word thingy (I'm having a mind blank)

[@Patrick-nm2rk]

+w1llbefree Gaming I believe the word you're looking for is telepromter.

[@TheChadOlson]

+John Dennehy Advancing the 'teleprompter'... Unless you were trolling me, in which case, well played.

[@mergenocide]

+John Dennehy Spaghetti.

[@schnitzel438]

+Prime Paladin when you trip and spaghetti falls out your pocket ;_;

[@MarkusLaaksonen]

Linus, I like your humour - the link in the description is awesome and I think everyone should visit it, especially the people who use chrome as their browser! Keep it up :)

[@FennecTECH]

IT LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING ROUTER

[@complexoce]

5:50, As soon as Linus said "And speaking of temperatures" I thought he was going into a cool master fan sponsor vid or something xD

[@StaelTek]

an 2.2 GHz dual core Core i5 U cpu with a desktop 960 seems WAY too unbalanced in my opinion

[@Diavolo222]

+DeadNullermand not at all.

[@schnitzel438]

+DeadNullermand My 1.7 ghz pentium with a gtx 560 runs farcry 4 at max, 80+ fps. I also don't even have a storage drive or motherboard. My pc is great.

[@GamersBrainStorming]

+Hearty Oatmeal I'd love to see a video. :)

[@schnitzel438]

***** The GPU has an integrated CPU.

[@GamersBrainStorming]

Hearty Oatmeal I think you're lying. How do you run anything if you don't have a Motherboard? That doesn't make any sense.

[@Diavolo222]

The price is just right. We will always have to pay more for more compact stuff. That's just how it is. Performance seems very solid and if you are someone who wants to get into moba gaming and have no patience to learn to build PCs or take care of them, something like this seems ideal. I know one of my friends would be thrilled to buy something like this.

[@BoogerLeader]

+Diavolo222 It doesn't come with ram or a HDD and no OS. You'd be better off buying Alienware's desktop. Comes complete WITH an OS AND is cheaper. Oh, and it's also on the small side.

[@Diavolo222]

BoogerLeader Dunno, here Alienware is hella expensive. Like REALLY expensive.

[@BoogerLeader]

Diavolo222 Ah, not sure about prices in different countries, I live in the US. Alienware here is pretty well priced. There are cheaper, but not by much.

[@iitrixxhdtrollinggaming5060]

its an overpriced piece of crap alien alpha wannabe

[@brofights3138]

Is this background the permanent one?

[@roboterson]

love the "catch phrase todsy!

[@CheesyyyAlt]

a/%%30%30

[@welshymaverick]

+diogo marques Care to elaborate? :-)

[@CheesyyyAlt]

Welshy Maverick " Moving your mouse over this link (or long-pressing on mobile) will crash your Chrome tab. The %%300 at the end of the URL is converted into %00 (0x30 is the ASCII code for '0'. The %%300 becomes this string of characters: the original '%', the converted '0', and the original '0'. Combined, that's '%00'.) This sticks a NULL byte at the end of the web address." source: what.thedailywtf.com/t/http-a-30-30-crashes-chrome/51337 i don't think it works anymore

[@Naaruu_]

fuck it crashed my chrome

[@MartianUrban]

i left wordless... what a beauty!

[@LoudBassyMusic]

Looks like a wifi router 😂

[@rBennich]

4:05 "From there, it was just a matter of inserting the SSD directly into the SATA ports, and securing it with another thumb screw." Oh, the eufemism... :)

[@djjesus.hediedforyourspins3154]

it looks like a router

[@HungrySpinz]

Probably themost interesting advertisement you guys have put in a while

[@thescrawl6594]

I feel like Scrapyard wars is actually not going to happen and they are lying to us

[@emdotrod]

It's coming this Saturday!

[@Nbodies]

you gotta beLIEve man

[@zellers4]

First eps. on the other platform they use. I watched part 1 already lol.

[@zellers4]

+zellers4 vessle* couldn't remember the name lol

[@kapildeshmukh7878]

It's in December. Linus tweeted.

[@Djtwitch12]

Redo the fridge test again with this! :D

[@HeyItsJonny]

Just bought one of these for $100 to use with my live gamer portable, for 1080p or less console capture. It's pretty good, and beats my old laptops quick sync encoder.

[@HeyItsJonny]

I use it for handbrake and ripping games and dvds, too. Works great and is very quiet.

[@deadlydevansh]

so close to 2 million !

[@Y2Kxx]

I feel that This small form factor PC would be very good for taking on the go, like to LAN parties and stuff like that, verses trying to lug around a expensive, and no doubt heavy, desktop PC around. If I got one, I would probably mount it to the back of a monitor and basically have a better and cheaper version of a iMac. Great review BTW Linus.

[@MelvinKhosa]

This would make a great steam box, media player/streamer, and hardcore emulating device for the living room. Also would make a great HTPC.

[@JNTshowshow]

This was a great video Linus! Keep up the good work!

[@amongusmeegoose]

It's just brilliant. So portable and you can even mount it behind your monitor so you have much more space on your desk, it's even pretty powerful as well, definitely a mac mini killer and maybe even kills some pcs

[@Fourcher]

Great thing about these physically small PCs is that you can carry them around as you go and have good spec.

[@ChaseMMD]

I have a laptop with that i5-5200U. Honestly it's perfect for me. It has some gaming capability that can play League of Legends without shadows fairly smooth expect in team fights. World of Warships runs has to reduce settings to 1366x768 on the resolution but still looks good on the 1080P screen that i have.

[@goyabee3200]

I would love to see a teardown of this. LinusTechTips start doing teardowns.

[@waltonferguson9147]

Linus! Can you PLEASE review the case that's you used for the compensator if you haven't already!

[@JohnSTF72]

Pokemon-Linus?? Now i can't get the image out of my mind.Thanks Linus.

[@TheHoaxHotel]

Where's the serial port?! Will not be buying one of these until this heinous oversight is corrected.

[@nathanb-z9p]

+Carl Sagan Fuck you Carl.

[@djjesus.hediedforyourspins3154]

you buy it on dablu dablu dablu dot notscam dot cam

[@Storebrand_]

I agree, and where the fuck are the floppy drives?

[@DynekOfficial]

+The Hoax Hotel I love watching ur videos XD

[@leoslml]

Can I MONEYGRAM the serial port to you?

[@obamaspersonaltech5138]

After I saw how many of these they had in storage I knew why it got a good review

[@ryanamberger]

Use dilithium crystals to cool it. The matter/anti matter reactor should help keep the temperature down.

[@tunnelbliick]

As i saw the video i was wearing the same hat from the package. so fluffy

[@JanZajc9381]

I like the Zotac ZBOX because it compact and really powerfull compared to my system and my brother wanted a small gaming system, but not a console.

[@HightowerLSSD]

BTW, love how when you move your hands in front of your dangling pull strings and they start to wiggle around on my monitor :P

[@electro3191]

i would love to open that bad boy up and try to customize it :)

[@a.s.r.4623]

1:13 OMG a wild Linachu appears. Gotta catch it

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

that is awesome little box

[@Z0idberg100]

Can you make a video about how to build a private file sharing server that has a backup drive included? I was thinking that any approved computer on the network could connect to it and it would have weekly backups of the main drive. Having additional features, like running a mumble server, would also be pretty nice.

[@hadeshd59]

Most powerful modem/router i ever seen

[@markusdemedeiros8513]

Scrapyard wars 3, the ultimate mini PC build! I need this

[@marekvrbka]

3:40 My ultrabook which lacks DVD drive (2013, makes sense) came with DVD burning software...

[@sirhendro]

I was looking into getting myself a super small yet powerful computer and this thing really got my attention. The price was a bit high but not necessary a deal breaker, I just simply lost interest once I found out the i5 5200U inside it is only a dual core chip. Maybe next time when a newer version gets released with a quad core :)

[@StimorolChewingGum]

That Pikachu hat is cool :)

[@EricSpartacus]

+linustechtips you should do something about the audio quality of your vids. I've been hearing those screeches on those high sharp frequencies.

[@111zandre]

I want more PC Builds!!

[@xkmto]

Teasing something you're gonna be doing soon. *Me:* "Scrapyard wars!" *Linus:* Some weird 2 PCs and one box bs.

[@rohithkumarsp]

hey, the unoboxing was cut out in vessel video.

[@Trusteft]

Fraking awesome system. If I was in the market for a new system now I would definitely consider it, if it was a quad core.

[@hansyolo8277]

My PC costed me $800, i5 (4690 or 4960k or something like that, can't remember) quad core 3.5ghz, 8 gb ram, and a MSI GeForce GTX 960. And everything else you need. But the micro-PC is badass!

[@ymer92]

3:31 "for whatever the case may be" I see what you did there ;)

[@GraphicallyChallenged]

Slap in a 4 core and im sold.

[@DannyzReviews]

this can make for a nice little HTPC or steambox

[@glowfischdesignstudio2471]

the Zotac magnus Sounds like an interesting prodject specialy for the time i want to do some pc games on the move.

[@E5KAred]

cool hoodie :D

[@kunaljoshi8730]

nice hat linus!

[@ViolentOrchid]

Attempted tho join the forum. Never got a verification email. Cool giveaway, bro.

[@Chrispy_21]

you think this pc would be good for a streaming pc?

[@NeonYukon]

"Pickled vegetable spell" My old HTC phone spelled like that, right out of the box. Lmao

[@NeonYukon]

Everyone thought I was just crazy :c kek

[@ShiggitayMediaProductions]

Linus, you rock! Keep up the good work! :)

[@Siberius-]

I need that supernatural car!

[@dofgames]

Your haircut looks good :)

[@theposterpig]

Please review the new 4k and 5k iMacs!

[@sammymorini9748]

That would make a sick sleek expensive pfSense box

[@pauldufresne3650]

Good, they have think to put a place to put my coffee cut on the top!

[@FinestSeven]

3:26 what's the point of hiding the teleprompter scroll/button if you are going to grope your "pocket" that aggressively?

[@GeekTherapyRadio]

$800 would build a BALLER HTPC if you're willing to use a normal sized HTPC case, if space isn't an issue, like in a TV's component stand. If you had a gaming rig already, a WAY cheaper mini-pc could easily game stream using Steam. Just ideas. Depends on each individual's situation, of course.

[@FrankBell79]

the plus model is currently 230$ canadian on tigerdirect.ca!!!!! with the ssd, ram etc. insane price

[@Midnightspace]

+LinusTechTips , why is the skybox stare such a heavy load for the system xD

[@kjs628]

This thing is more cool than the console

[@Na5iR11]

The link in the intro crashes chrome if it is not updated. Something to do with special keys changing what the next key means etc.

[@BeckyAnn6879]

Minus the price factor, because... WOW is that steep... Would this be a good backup for a DIY Chromebook/Chromebox?