ZOTAC
Intel's Jasper Lake series of products based on the Tremont microarchitecture was launched in early 2021. Since then, we have seen a steady stream of notebooks and motherboards / mini-PCs based on those processors getting introduced in the market. Ultra-compact form-factor (UCFF) machines based on the Atom series offer attractive entry-level options in the NUC domain. Their low-power nature also lends itself to passively cooled designs. Today, we are looking at two different fanless Jasper Lake UCFF PCs - the ECS LIVA Z3 and the ZOTAC ZBOX CI331 nano. Our investigation into the performance and behavior of the two PCs revealed some interesting insights into fanless system designs. Read on for a detailed look at what 6W Jasper Lake SKUs can deliver for traditional PC workloads...
Zotac Announce two 880G AMD Mini-ITX Motherboards
The mini-ITX market is gathering pace, and seemingly every motherboard company wants a piece of the action. Some get it almost right, such as the Gigabyte H55N-USB which...
26 by Ian Cutress on 12/3/2010ZOTAC IONITX-P-E: Can Intel's CULV Processors Reinvigorate Interest in NVIDIA's ION?
NVIDIA’s ION brought a tremendous appeal to mini-ITX last year, but over the past six months Clarkdale has established itself as the natural and more capable choice for small...
42 by Rajinder Gill on 8/26/2010New Driver Enables Smooth 1080p Flash Playback on NVIDIA NG-ION
When we reviewed Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 we noted that the upgrade to the Next-Generation ION didn't feel like much of an upgrade. Performance improved in some cases, but power...
29 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/10/2010NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 465: Cheaper Isn’t Always Better
Hot off the heels of launch of the GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, NVIDIA is launching the next card in the Fermi family. Based on the same GF100...
71 by Ryan Smith on 5/31/2010Zotac ZBOX HD-ID11 Review: Next Gen ION is Better & Worse than ION1
The nForce 2 was one of the best chipsets to come out of NVIDIA. It was NVIDIA’s second attempt at a desktop chipset yet it cemented NVIDIA’s position as...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/6/2010This Just In: Zotac's ZBOX HD-ID11 Next Gen ION
Two months ago NVIDIA unveiled its next-generation ION GPU. Sporting either 8 or 16 SPs (or CUDA cores if you bleed green), the next-generation ION is strictly a GPU...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/30/2010