Published on Mar 5, 2014

Tech Product Review

ZOTAC is a major innovator and manufacturer of graphics cards, mainboards and mini-PCs and widely considered the pioneer of Mini PCs.

Their Zbox mini-PC is incredibly powerful, and comes with an HDMI and DVI-I dual link display port, four usb ports, and has native wifi and Bluetooth capabilities. So you can mount it on the back of your flatscreen tv, connect a wireless mouse and keyboard to it, and treat it like a standard computer or a gaming station or even just as a media center.

This particular model has an Intel Haswell Processor, 500 gigabytes of hard drive and 8 gigabytes of RAM. So it's beyond the necessary video requirements for heavy gamers.

Now you can pick these up in dozens of retail spots like amazon.com or by heading to ZOTAC.com. They will run you anywhere from $200 to $600, dependent on what you're looking for. But they're a great alternative to spending a ton of cash on a bulky tower or small laptop

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