Zotac kicked off CES by showing some barebones HTPC love with the new Zbox lineup, but today Zotac gave some DIY HTPC love with the announcement of the D2700-ITX WiFi Supreme. Like most of Zotac’s mini-ITX motherboards, the diminutive board is packed to the gills with features and connectivity options. As you may have guessed from the name, the D2700-ITX […]
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Zotac’s Zbox line of mini PCs have always been aimed square at the HTPC market and Zotac is making clear that they plan to continue to chase that market with their 2012 lineup. They have three 2nd-generation Zbox variants on tap this year, the ID80, ID81, and AD04. As in the past, the three Zbox models will come in a […]
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Zotac makes a number of mini-ITX motherboards and has established a reputation for stacking a lot features on their little boards. They make two different Z68 Mini-ITX boards, the Z68ITX-A-E, for which we saw a review a while back, and the Z68ITX-B-E. The Z68ITX-B-E adds a couple of different features, in particular the built-in discrete Nvidia Geforce GT430 GPU. Intel has […]
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Integrated graphics performance has reached a point that I rarely find myself wishing for a video card in my HTPC, but if I were to decide that was what I needed , I would be looking for two things: a passively cooled card to eliminate fan noise and an Nvidia GPU so that I could try out the hardware accelerated […]
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I know we don’t do a lot of review roundups here at Missing Remote, but every so often you get just the right collection of hardware reviews coming in from all over the place. Zotac has been making the rounds to get their HTPC-centric hardware in the spotlight. First up we have a review of the AMD E-350 powered Zotac […]
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The quest for the perfect and smallest home theater PC (HTPC) is one that has gained momentum over the last few years. Not that long ago it was a significant challenge to build a small and quiet home theater PC (HTPC). However, this is no longer the case and the options to create an efficient small form factor PC are […]
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If you’ve been drooling over the feature rich Z68 platform from Intel but were waiting for a smaller board, Zotac’s got you covered. As far as I know this is the only mini-itx board available today. Take one look at the company’s Z68ITX, and it’s easy to see why. This motherboard is small enough to fit inside shoebox-sized enclosures yet […]
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How did I miss posting this review of the latest SFF by our very own Andrew Van Til over at Anandtech. As we’ve come to expect the review is extremely thorough and Andrew does a great job of analyzing it’s performance which he deems is worthy of your living room (as long as your CPU requirements aren’t too demanding). Looking […]
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