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Zotac Now Using Core i5 CPUs in ZBOX Mini PC

One would think that a miniature personal computer small enough to fit in one's palm wouldn't possess too powerful hardware, and this held true at first for the ZBOX mini PC, but it is no longer the case. Zotac made sure of it. Zotac's ZBOX mini PC has been around for quite some time, which means tha...

9 May 2013
03:25 GMT

Zotac's GeForce GTX Titan AMP! Edition Detailed, Is 10% Faster

Yesterday, we only made a brief mention of the latest iteration of the GeForce GTX Titan graphics card, since the board, while it had shown up online, hadn't been formally unveiled yet. Now it has, and we dare say it definitely has what it needs to justify the name GeForce GTX Titan AMP! Edition. The Titan is...

1 May 2013
02:25 GMT

GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition Launched by Zotac

It's not the fabled GeForce Titan Ultra that NVIDIA is supposedly preparing, but the new card from Zotac definitely has an aura of power. Called GeForce GTX TITAN AMP! Edition, it ships in a bundle with the Assassin's Creed game series. Just as AMD has Never Settle game sets, NVIDIA is including famous t...

30 April 2013
08:02 GMT

Zotac Announces GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost Series Graphics Card

With all the new video cards powered by the Gk106 28nm Kepler GPU going around, it was obvious that Zotac, like pretty much every other NVIDIA partner, would release a GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost. Unlike some other companies, Zotac only has one video board out, for now. It is factory overclocked, but not to the same e...

26 March 2013
12:03 GMT

Zotac Launches A Storage Enclosure and the StreamBox

The two products that Zotac has introduced through its newest press release are similar in role but quite different in how they fulfill said role. Their names are StreamBox and RAIDbox. RAIDbox is a small enclosure that can house two MSATA solid state drives and lets owners choose between four modes of operation. S...

5 March 2013
05:45 GMT

Zotac Launches GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Dual Silencer Graphics Card

A new video card has been released, one that people with no financial concerns will be glad to learn about, assuming they don't want an NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan or already have a good computer. The card is called GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Dual Silencer and gets its name from the very good and very quiet cooling mo...

4 March 2013
08:36 GMT

ASUS, EVGA and Zotac Launch Their Own GeForce GTX Titan Graphics Cards

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX Titan super-powered graphics adapter just days ago, and while the company does intend to sell only a limited number of them, it does not mean to prevent its partners from shipping some. That said, it would appear that all of the company's partners have one card to ship. ASUS, ...

22 February 2013
08:28 GMT

Download Zotac's ZBOX nano XS AD13 and AD13 Plus BIOS Now

Zotac ZBOX nano XS AD13 and AD13 Plus AMI BIOS version 2K121114 can now be found on Softpedia. It is targeted at the AMD M3L chipset, and will install the Suspend-To-RAM (STR), Hardware Monitor, on board LAN and HD Audio features, as well as Zotac's ZBOX Full Screen Powerup Logo.Before you begin, make sure the s...

7 February 2013
07:40 GMT

Zotac Refreshes ZBOX Nano XS Mini PC

Among the many mini personal computers on the market, Zotac's ZBOX have a reputation due to their box-like shape and glowing circle on top. It makes them noticeable but in an unobtrusive way. The company has now announced an update to the ZBOX nano XS series, one that has an AMD E2-1800 accelerated processing u...

5 February 2013
10:27 GMT

Picture of Zotac GeForce GTX 660 Thunderbolt Edition Graphics Card Surface

The word “thunder” and variations thereof have a certain allure that IT companies cannot help but succumb to every once in a while. Zotac is the one using the term now, in its newest graphics card. The company hasn't actually released the new video board. We've learned of it thanks to some pho...

31 January 2013
04:10 GMT

CES 2013: Zotac ZBOX ID84, a New Mini PC with Dual Wi-Fi Antenna

Zotac's Zbox miniature PC has come a long way since the first iteration, when it was just a little critter trying to get by. Like most pother IT companies worth their salt, Zotac has dragged its favorite products to Las Vegas, Nevada, where this year's edition of CES is taking place (Consumer Electronics S...

7 January 2013
10:22 GMT

Zotac's GeForce GTX 660 Destroyer Dual-Traction Cooling

Even if there had been a bit more haste in creating the new video card from Zotac, people from around the world would not have gotten the chance to buy and use it, unless they lived in one particular country. As people must have surmised, Zotac has put together a new graphics adapter, one that won't be availab...

7 December 2012
14:11 GMT

AMD E2-1800 APU Now in Zotac ZBOX Mini PC

The dual-core 1.7 GHz E2-1800 accelerated processing unit from Advanced Micro Devices may not be Trinity, but it is a fitting choice for the sort of system that Zotac designed the ZBOX as. Being a reasonably strong processor with a genuine integrated graphics processing unit, the APU handles computing and video tas...

7 November 2012
10:33 GMT

Zotac Also Prepares a Low-Profile Card, GTX 650

Just like Micro-Star International has revealed its triple-display GeForce GT 640, Zotac has finished preparing a somewhat stronger low-profile board, the GeForce GTX 650 LP. The specifications of the adapter are only partially known. VideoCardz believes a 1,071 MHz GPU is backed by 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAM at 5 GHz. The...

7 November 2012
03:18 GMT

Zotac's GeForce GTX 650 Destroyer Twin Silent Intelligent

The GeForce GTX 650 graphics card from NVIDIA is actually one of the weaker 600-series boards, but it still has a graphics clock speed of over 1 GHz, one that Zotac decided to push even higher. The advent of CPUs with integrated graphics, especially AMD's accelerated processing units (APUs), have made low-end ...

18 October 2012
04:18 GMT

Zotac Has Three GeForce GTX 650 Ti Cards on the Way

We know that NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 650 Ti graphics card will be released on October 9, but that isn't stopping the company's partners from, directly or indirectly, revealing their custom models. After spotting cards from Micro-Star International and Galaxy, we now get to see the full range of adapters...

8 October 2012
03:39 GMT

Zotac Launches GeForce GTX 660 Ti AMP! Extreme Edition

High-end video cards like the Radeon HD 7970 or NVIDIA's own GeForce GTX 680 boards are all well and good, but they don't sell as much as the adapters populating the lower echelons of the video board industry. Zotac seeks to bank on this by releasing a new GTX 660 Ti. True, the GeForce GTX 660 Ti is still...

28 September 2012
07:31 GMT

Zotac’s Powerful GTX 660 Ti Overclocks to GTX 680 Performance Level

Traditional Nvidia video card manufacturing partner Zotac has an interesting GeForce GTX 660 Ti implementation with a custom PCB design and probably the test cooling system ever to be mounted on a GTX 660 Ti video card. The official name of the product is Zotac GeForce GTX 660 Ti Extreme and the huge PCB is the same...

18 September 2012
07:46 GMT

Zotac Launches GK106-Based GTX 660 Video Cards

Traditional Nvidia add in board (AIB) video card manufacturing partner, well-known company Zotac is officially launching today its own implementations of the new GK106 GPU that features 960 CUDA cores and it’s being manufactured in TSMC’s 28nm technology. The company’s “basic” GK106 car...

13 September 2012
22:21 GMT

Zotac GeForce GTX 660 AMP! Edition Graphics Card Spotted

The GeForce GTX 660 graphics card will not be launched until September 13, 2012, or three days from now, but photos of custom boards are already showing up, and not only. The Zotac GeForce GTX 660 AMP! Edition will have better clocks than the reference ones. Unfortunately, we do not, in fact, know exactly what thos...

10 September 2012
05:08 GMT

ZOTAC’s GTX 650 Extreme Edition Already Available

We already know that Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 650 video card will be launched on September 12, 2012 as we reported here and we also know the initial performance results that we reported on here. Chinese video card manufacturer Zotac is a little eager when it comes to selling its own Extreme Edition of the GTX 650 l...

5 September 2012
00:21 GMT

Zotac Zbox Nano Mini PC Upgraded to AMD E2-1800 APU

Zotac has been refining its small and charming Zbox Mini and Nano PC lineup ever since it first launched it, and today's announcement will tip the scales that were recently swayed in NVIDIA's favor. What we mean by that is that, less than two weeks ago, the Zbox HTPC received NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 520...

22 August 2012
09:56 GMT

Zotac Working on a Fanless Nano miniPC

It seems like Rory Read was right when he said that today’s home and mobile computers have roughly enough computing power and that it’s time that the computer market should refocus on features and capabilities rather than raw performance. The success of the tablet market and especially the ARM-powered de...

13 August 2012
21:31 GMT

Zotac Adds NVDIA GeForce GT 520M to ZBOX HTPC

Zotac's collection of ZBOX mini PCs has just grown, or at least received a new possible hardware component. The company issued a press release in which it reveals the newest graphics card available to buyers of the home-theater personal computer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M 512 MB. The rest of the specs are the sam...

8 August 2012
10:41 GMT

ZOTAC Launches Fanless Nvidia GeForce GT 630 and GT 640 Graphic Cards

We got used to Zotac launching very powerful video cards with lots of overclocking features, but today the company is presenting its new silent ZONE Edition video cards using Nvidia’s GF108 and GF116 GPUs. Both cards come with a fanless cooling solution and are targeted at the affordable low-end market. The Zo...

18 July 2012
06:41 GMT

ZOTAC Shows GTX 670 Extreme Edition on GTX 680 PCB

The GTX 680 Extreme Edition video card from Zotac impressed us from the first pictures that surfaced on the net, and now the company decided to apply the same treatment to the GTX 670 GPU. They simply used the famous Extreme Edition GTX 680 PCB and stuck a GTX 670 GPU on it. Zotac video card company is also famous f...

25 June 2012
02:20 GMT

Zotac GTX 670 TwinCooler Graphics Card Appears

NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 670 graphics adapter does not truly qualify as a short-length video board, but Zotac has taken the matter into its own hands, making a version that fits in micro-ATX cases just fine. One trait of the GeForce GTX 670 video board, a trait not immediately distinguishable in the product photos...

14 June 2012
15:01 GMT

ZOTAC’s GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition Is Official!

Popular video card manufacturer Zotac has just launched the GeForce GTX 670 AMP! Edition custom Nvidia GeForce GTX 670 Kepler-based design, on its official website. It comes with a very powerful VRM and custom cooling system. Zotac’s custom video cards have always impressed the PC enthusiast gamers, but the co...

10 May 2012
10:23 GMT

ZOTAC Presents Impressive Custom GTX 680 Video Cards

Macau-headquartered video card company Zotac has reportedly just announced the GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition and the GeForce GTX 680 OC 4GB Edition. With these cards, just as usual, Zotac tries its best to differentiate themselves from the other similar products on the market. As with most of their products, the comp...

8 May 2012
11:21 GMT

Zotac Gives Assassin’s Creed Games for Free with Their GTX 690 Video Card

Zotac video card and motherboard company has just launched the GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, on its official website. Like all other GTX 690 launched these days, Zotac's card sticks to Nvidia’s reference board design. It seems that Nvidia has forbidden the AIC partners to modify the reference design, and...

4 May 2012
08:53 GMT

Zotac Has a Bigger and Badder SuperOverclock Motherboard Too

We've seen the small, mini-ITX 7-Series motherboard from Zotac, and now we get to look at what is essentially the polar opposite, in both size and features. The ZT-Z77-U1D SuperOverclock hasn't actually been launched officially, or at least we haven't spotted the press release yet. Instead, it is E...

10 April 2012
05:55 GMT

Zotac's Mini-ITX Ivy Bridge-Ready Powerhouse

Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs will be launched in a couple of weeks, so motherboard makers are showing their 7-Series platforms, even very small ones. Contrary to what some may think, a powerful computer does not actually need to have a huge main unit, far from it. It all boils down to the motherboard size and how...

10 April 2012
05:33 GMT

ZOTAC GTX 680 Extreme Edition Reaches 1.4 GHz

The mystery of the mini USB type-B connector has been solved: it’s likely to be a separate way that ZOTAC uses to have its overclocking software monitor the SMBUS components. This is quite peculiar of ZOTAC as the SMBUS can usually be read by the means of the driver interface, but there’s still the fact ...

2 April 2012
05:14 GMT

Zotac Preparing GeForce GTX 680 Extreme Edition

Zotac is on a roll, or is getting ready for such an episode regarding the graphics adapter market, having begun work on some really powerful video controllers. Expreview is where the photos of a future Zotac product have surfaced, along with part of the specifications. From what we can gather, this isn't the...

29 March 2012
03:16 GMT

Zotac Prepares 2GHz GeForce GTX 680. Yes, Really

If you think NVIDIA's GeFoce GTX 680 video card is tough, you're right, but that doesn't change the fact that it won't even hold a candle to what Zotac is working on. According to a QQ report, Zotac has decided to develop a Kepler-based video adapter whose graphics processing unit runs at 2 GHz....

23 March 2012
05:55 GMT

GeForce GTX 680 Kepler Pre-Orders Start, Zotac Makes It Happen

NVIDIA may not have actually launched the Kepler yet, but listings of the card, or OEM models at least, have begun to crop up, one of them belonging to Zotac. The Zotac GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, based on the newest and greatest graphics processor form NVIDIA, has appeared on the Dutch online store ComCom.nl. ...

17 March 2012
04:47 GMT

Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 SE GPU Shows Up in New Zotac Video Card

Zotac has just announced a new graphics card based on Nvidia’s latest GeForce GPU, the 560 SE, which was specially designed to deliver decent 1080p gaming performance without breaking the bank. We talked about the GTX 560 SE previously, but this is the first time to we see this GPU being used by a first tier v...

14 March 2012
05:42 GMT

CeBIT 2012: Zotac Intros Trio of ZBOX Mini-PCs, Sport Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs

Zotac has just announced that it has expanded its ZBOX mini-PC lineup with three additional models packing AMD and Intel processors, designed to provide high-definition video playback in a compact form factor. The most powerful mini-PC to be introduced by the Chinese company is the ZBOX ID82, which is powered by an ...

7 March 2012
08:19 GMT

Zotac Has a Micro-ATX Board Nearly Ready

We've seen many announcements pertaining to high-end motherboards recently, but Zotac is offering a different flavor, or will do so once its ZT-H67D3 actually reaches stores. The reason why there is so much talk about high-end motherboards right now is the impending arrival of Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs. S...

24 February 2012
12:01 GMT

CES 2012: Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Get a Mini-ITX Motherboard from Zotac

At this year's CES fair, Zotac showcased its first motherboard built around the Intel Z7 chipset, a mini-ITX contraption that is designed to bring Intel’s next-gen 22nm Ivy Bridge processors to small form factor computers.This mini-ITX board draws power from 24-pin ATX and 8-pin EPS connectors and then del...

13 January 2012
05:59 GMT

CES 2012: Zotac Unveils New ZBOX Mini-PCs Built for HTPC Use

Zotac has just announced that it has expanded its ZBOX mini-PC lineup with three additional models packing AMD and Intel processors which were designed to provide high-definition video playback in a compact form factor. Dubbed the ZBOX ID81, ID80 and AD04, all the three models come with 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and integra...

10 January 2012
05:45 GMT

Zotac Shows Off Heavily Customized GTX 560 Ti Extreme Edition

Zotac is getting ready to launch yet another heavily customized graphics card, this time based on Nvidia’s GTX 560 Ti design, that will feature a non-standard PCB with a 9+3 phase power and an in-house developed cooling system.Its new creation will be called the GTX 560 Ti Extreme Edition and one of its most di...

28 December 2011
04:07 GMT

Zotac Unleashes GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Limited Edition Graphics Card

Now that Nvidia has made official its GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores GPU based on the GF110 graphics chip, hardware makers have started to announce their solutions built around this design and one of the first such video cards to be released comes courtesy of Zotac.The card in question is none other than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti...

29 November 2011
09:50 GMT

Nvidia’s Upcoming GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores Smiles for the Camera

On November 29, Nvidia is expected to launch a new graphics card based on the company’s GF110 core that will be known as the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores and recently the first picture of such a solution built by Zotac was leaked on the Web.The card, which was spotted by Fudzilla, uses Zotac’s now traditi...

24 November 2011
16:21 GMT

Zotac's Passively Cooled GTS 450 Zone Edition Makes Appearance

The high power consumption of modern mid-range GPUs has kept graphics card makers from releasing too many passively cooled solutions built on these cores, but Zotac has found a way to surpass these issues with its recently introduced GeForce GTS 450 Zone Edition.While the GTS 450 is no longer what we would call a cut...

22 November 2011
10:36 GMT

Zotac Outs VIA Nano X2 Powered ZBOX VD01 SFF System

Zotac's ZBOX line of mini-PCs has proven to be quite popular among HTPC enthusiasts and users in search of a small form factor system, and recently the company has expanded its lineup to include a new ZBOX unit based on VIA's Nano X2 processor.This new mini-PC is called the ZBOX Nano VD01 and is built aroun...

6 October 2011
09:50 GMT

Zotac Intros PCI and PCI Express x1 GeForce GT 520 Graphics Cards

Graphics card maker Zotac has just announced it has updated its GPU line to feature two new solutions based on the Nvidia GeForce GT 520 design that use the PCI and PCI Express x1 interfaces in order to come as an upgrade path for users with pre-built systems that have limited expansion capabilities.Despite the inter...

27 September 2011
11:06 GMT

Zotac Pushes Forward on HTPC Market with New Mini-ITX Board

Many HTPCs are available for order, but there are those that would like to make their own machine, for whom Zotac has created the A75-ITX WiFi small form factor motherboard. Zotac's product portfolio is one that, though it sticks to just a small part of the IT market, is, nonetheless, fairly diverse. It d...

22 September 2011
10:04 GMT

VIA-Powered Zotac ZBOX Now Reaching Availability

As IT gets more advanced, machinery gets more and more compact, and this, naturally, goes for PCs, as proven by the mini computer that Zotac added to its ZBOX series. The ZBOX nano-VD01 was revealed back in June, during the 2011 edition of the Computex trade show. Surprisingly enough, however, the item didn�...

16 September 2011
04:49 GMT

Zotac's AMD Fusion Powered Zbox Nano Mini-PC Debuts in Japan

Over the last couple of years, Zotac has released a wide number of Mini-PC solutions based on Intel Atom processors, but the company has decided to go in a different direction with its latest line of AMD Fusion-powered Zbox Nano devices, which just started selling in Japan. Just like its name implies, the Nano is ...

31 August 2011
03:10 GMT


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