Zotac’s GeForce GTX 1080 Mini and new graphics card enclosure bring big power to tiny PCs - huntsmanbire1992

Zotac's famous for its army of small form-ingredien PCs, and indeed we found a host of them at the company's CES 2017 suite—everything from tiny PCs battery-powered by Intel's untried Kaby Lake chips to slenderly larger (but still small!) play-ready rigs packing material Nvidia's GTX 1070, GTX 1080, and plane full water-cooling setups. Simply what stood out the virtually were two pieces of hardware designed to convey even more gaming power to ultra-tiny PCs: a newborn graphics card enclosure and the world's first-ever miniskirt-ITX GeForce GTX 1080.

Let's starting with the art wag. GTX 1080s are nothing new, merely you've never seen one quite a like this. The aptly named Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Mini is a full-fat GTX 1080—heck, information technology even sports a precise slight overclock, to 1,620/1,759MHz base/hike up speeds—shoved into a flyspeck dual-sports fan software measuring a bare 8.3-inches long. Cramming that much power into that tiny space required Zotac to create a custom PCB with a 5+1 phase VRM.

Cooling-wise, the Zotac GTX 1080 Mini features an Al radiator with thick, long copper heatpipes snaking throughout, equally well as a pair of fans that are different sizes, curiously enough. A Zotac representative told Pine Tree State that since this graphics card was designed for smaller rigs, the left-most 90mm fan is designed to keep static pressure in check, while the right-side 100m buff keeps inflame down. Aiding in the go after iciness is the complete-gold-bearing purpose of the card, which extends to some the shroud and a peachy-looking backplate that ditches Zotac's signature bright-fearful slash for a Thomas More soft gunmetal colouring.

zotac ces graphics 3 — The GTX 1080 Mini running in Zotac's suite was surprisingly smooth flatbottom in a case without its side impanel on.

Tingling stuff. Zotac expects the GTX 1080 Miniskirt to launch soon, and hopefully we'll have a review waiting for you when it does.

Zotac also revealed an early prototype of a fres product that ties its mini-PC and graphics card strengths together: an external graphics calling card dock.

The prototype was sol early that the exterior of the enclosure contained blemishes you should ignore, and it's not in the gunmetal gray that Zotac plans to wont on the shipping product. Nor did it pack the internal fans you'll find in the eventual consumer good example. But even in the jaggy early state, the dock functioned well enough to help a midget Zotac Zbox MI549 mini-PC with integrated Intel graphics operate Doom like a champion, augmented by the power of the aforementioned GTX 1080 Mini.

Zotac's prototype connects over Bombshell 3 and will work with any laptop or Personal computer that also features the (still relatively rare, but becoming more common) port. It'll hold even jumbo graphics cards up to 13-inches wide and three slots thick, and Zotac's bolstering the graphics card enclosure's usefulness by packing in a trio of USB 3 ports along with a devoted USB Quick Charge connexion to power skyward your ambulant devices in a jiffy.

The final invention of Zotac's art card enclosure still seems a bite up in the melodic line, as representatives were interrogative me what I thinking of various additional value-add features. Nevertheless, the company hopes to ship these sometime in the first incomplete of 2017.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/411563/zotacs-geforce-gtx-1080-mini-and-new-graphics-card-enclosure-bring-big-power-to-tiny-pcs.html

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