Zotac Announces Tiny PC With An Nvidia Desktop GPU

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  • TechyInAZ
    Actually the gigabyte BRIX BXi7GE-760 runs a GTX 870M instead. There is no way you can run a desktop 760 in such a small package, so gigabyte opted for the gtx 870M which is the mobile equivalent to the 760. You can find it online.
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  • wicketr
    So basically their Steam Machine without Steam? http://www.tomshardware.com/news/zotac-steam-machine-skylake,28688.html
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  • TallestJon96
    Yeah Zotac is going to launch a similar product as a steam machine.

    It's going to feature a 970m, which is a tier above the 960, but below a 970, a skylake CPU (unspecified), a 64gb m.2 drive, 1tb hard drive, and 8gb ram. Seems like a well rounded machine to me, similar to this en970.

    Also a 3Gb 960? When did that come out?
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  • Duncan3601
    Unless if it's a typo, I'm very happy to see a 3GB 960! For the 1080p performance point, 2GB isn't going to be enough for much longer, but 4GB is too much- Both AMD an NVIDIA messed up with the 960/380 by not making them 3GB cards like the 280/280X. Hopefully there will be an aftermarket stand-alone desktop card from Zotac that is a 3GB 960.
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  • FearfulSPARTAN
    Unless if it's a typo, I'm very happy to see a 3GB 960! For the 1080p performance point, 2GB isn't going to be enough for much longer, but 4GB is too much- Both AMD an NVIDIA messed up with the 960/380 by not making them 3GB cards like the 280/280X. Hopefully there will be an aftermarket stand-alone desktop card from Zotac that is a 3GB 960.

    While agree that 3gb is the sweet spot right now, 4gb gives some headroom and some games can use it. What I find most interesting is that it says it has a 192 bit bus which indicates that it cant be gm 206 so maybe its a further cut down 970?
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  • photonboy
    Almost as powerful as my i7-3770K + GTX680 (for most games). Most games will run max or get pretty close visually (if tweaked properly).

    Pretty impressive assuming the price is reasonable and the noise under load stays low enough.
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  • Duncan3601
    Unless if it's a typo, I'm very happy to see a 3GB 960! For the 1080p performance point, 2GB isn't going to be enough for much longer, but 4GB is too much- Both AMD an NVIDIA messed up with the 960/380 by not making them 3GB cards like the 280/280X. Hopefully there will be an aftermarket stand-alone desktop card from Zotac that is a 3GB 960.

    While agree that 3gb is the sweet spot right now, 4gb gives some headroom and some games can use it. What I find most interesting is that it says it has a 192 bit bus which indicates that it cant be gm 206 so maybe its a further cut down 970?

    Yea that is a bit odd- I think that Zotac modified the gm 206 somehow, or are using some variant (possible pre/proto 960ti? -just speculation) to provide better interfacing for the additional ram.
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  • ragenalien
    If you look closely this 960 is identically spec'd to the 970m with only half the VRAM.
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  • Bloob
    Even with DX12 or Vulkan, wouldn't that CPU be a bottleneck?
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  • dezonio2
    Somebody done goofed up in Zotac. That has to be a GTX 970m inside.

    So basically their Steam Machine without Steam? http://www.tomshardware.com/news/zotac-steam-machine-skylake,28688.html
    That steam machine had a 50w 970m GPU. That's way more likely than a 120w desktop part. The chassis also look pretty similar. And both have "970" in the name.

    So basically their Steam Machine without Steam? http://www.tomshardware.com/news/zotac-steam-machine-skylake,28688.html
    Unless if it's a typo, I'm very happy to see a 3GB 960! For the 1080p performance point, 2GB isn't going to be enough for much longer, but 4GB is too much- Both AMD an NVIDIA messed up with the 960/380 by not making them 3GB cards like the 280/280X. Hopefully there will be an aftermarket stand-alone desktop card from Zotac that is a 3GB 960.

    While agree that 3gb is the sweet spot right now, 4gb gives some headroom and some games can use it. What I find most interesting is that it says it has a 192 bit bus which indicates that it cant be gm 206 so maybe its a further cut down 970?
    192 bit bus is on the 970m. The 3GB denominations of VRAM is done on the mobile GPUs.

    Anyway I love my desktop Zotac GTX 970. Even though it doesn't seem to support PCIe M.2 drives, if it's priced right, I will seriously consider it for my next LAN PC.
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