Zotac Magnus One brings huge power in little mini PC at CES 2022

Zotac Magnus Ane brings huge power in little mini PC at CES 2021

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Desire a tiny desktop PC that packs enough power for gaming, graphics work or anything else y'all want to throw at it? The Zotac Magnus 1 (ECM73070C) mini-PC was just announced at CES 2021, and information technology looks like it tin do all that and more than.

Zotac has been in the mini-PC business for years, but it'due south never put this kind of power into something then small before. With an 8.3-liter instance that's significantly smaller than nigh pocket-size-form-cistron cases, the Magnus One measures just x.45 10 ix.viii 10 iv.96 inches.

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Zotac will be selling the tiny case on its own or with the power supply already installed, But if you lot want to buy a ready-fabricated system, Zotac has crammed some enormous power into this little instance.

Specs included with the Zotac announcement show a version of the Magnus One outfitted with a 10th-generation Intel Cadre i7-10700 processor, 16 GB of DDR4 memory, a compact Zotac Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics carte du jour and a 1.5 terabyte combination of difficult drive and solid-state storage.

Port selection is surprisingly generous, with i HDMI i.4 port, one HDMI two.1 port and up to three DisplayPort 1.4a outputs. USB ports are available in spades, with four USB 3.1 Gen 2 connections, three USB three.0 Type-A ports and a single USB three.0 Type-C.

A 3-in-1 card reader handles SD, SDHC or SDXC microSD cards while an audio jack is in that location for headsets and speakers. And if you desire to keep your tiny desktop motorcar uncluttered from extra cables, information technology's likewise equipped for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth v.

Configuration options let you ramp up the internal memory to 64GB of RAM and storage is surprisingly flexible, with slots for Intel Optane retention, an thou.ii SSD or a 2.five-inch HDD or SSD.

Frankly, that'due south a lot more room to abound than I idea this tiny instance would permit. It means that even if you buy a pre-built configuration, at that place's still an opportunity to upgrade it in the future.

Zotac has not announced pricing for the Magnus One or when it will exist available.

Brian Westover is an Editor at Tom's Guide, covering everything from TVs to the latest PCs. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he wrote for TopTenReviews and PCMag.