 There has been a flood of trashcan PCs in recent years all of them vying for the title of the one that finally got it right Zotac on the other hand well Zotac has no need for trash cans. No my friends Zotac brings the heat in fancy handle-less lunchboxes Last year's Magnus EN980 blew our socks and sandals off as a super tiny Liquid cooled high-end gaming PC that we thought was pretty darn close to our vision of the ultimate compact PC So then will this year's EN1080K VR ready mini PC with a substantial graphics upgrade be even more filling? Let's find out Rockats isku plus force FX features pressure sensitive Qwe as ad keys which can be configured in three different modes for multiple functions check it out now at the link below Sorry So taking a good look at the new Magnus we can see that aside from its totally blacked out matte aluminum finish and an HDMI 2.0 port at the front for VR Very little has changed externally so on the front We've still got USB 3.1 type A and type C front panel audio and an SDXC card slot And then at the back we've got identical looking rear IO2 again frustratingly Lacking audio jacks making the front panel ones the only ones you get with that said display port 1.3 and HDMI 2.0 are both nice additions the EN1080K actually has a total of five video outputs Though only four of them will work Simultaneously on the bottom we get the same oddly ventilated panel along with the familiar honeycombed plastic Upper panel that worked together surprisingly well with a nice mesh that keeps bugs and other debris from making it into your lunch Okay, now I'll stop that now because this next bit is super serial This is perhaps the most important upgrade over last year's model lighting effects Now the Magnus logo is illuminated and the power LED is RGB whoa so you can use the software to configure it for the world's smallest dance party cuz uh That's actually about the extent of the system lighting Pulling off the bottom panel then gets us to the really fun stuff Zotac ships the EN1080K as either a completed system or as a bare bones So if you're gonna buy the latter pay close attention First up we've got twin DDR4 sodium slots alongside an m.2 SSD slot that Thankfully supports NVMe this time around Then we've got a tool a SATA drive rounding out our expansion with the two and a half inch drive of your choice Then if we go further than bare bones builders and painstakingly remove all of the panels that is 25 screws not counting the feet we get a good look at the water cooling system complete with radiator reservoir and custom blocks for the CPU and the entire desktop grade MXM module GPU if you look even Closelier you can actually see that the CPU block is way larger than it needs to be So it's clear then that Zotac is taking no chances with VRM cooling as well as the basics Which is a great indicator of future reliability overall, we should hopefully get great thermal results and Super low noise now. Let's talk first though about what's under the water cooling for the GPU We go from a GTX 980 4gig all the way up to a GTX 1080 8gig graphics card and Zotac decided to man up on the CPU as well moving from a core i5 to a near top of the line core i7 7700 though it should be noted that they are still not allowing overclocking. It is not a K model I think we can let that slide though for how utterly impressive it is that Zotac managed to cram All of that in here. I mean to put it in perspective at 5.85 liters that is under half the volume of the very impressive Corsair one that we reviewed recently and only slightly more than the lower spec to MSI Trident that uses air cooling so then let's power it on First there's a really annoying buzzing noise then Nothing? Yes, my friends the default BIOS configuration has the fan not even spinning unless the GPU hits 50 degrees or higher making the new Magnus much quieter at idle than the old model The drawback of this config is that under synthetic load we did manage to get the CPU to throttle Because the default fan curve sacrificed maybe too much of its performance for silence The good news though is that this too can be tweaked in the BIOS and it's still quieter than you'd expect for something so compact Alright, so now The performance showdown for comparison we dusted off its older brother the EN980 Pulled the Corsair one out of the mothballs and grabbed a full-sized Kaby Lake test bench for reference So then we expected the test bench to be faster given its higher turbo clocks and higher speed memory But what we didn't see coming was how close the EN1080K would hang on it Handled everything we threw at it with flying colors including our synthetic CPU tests Where it only really lagged behind in the real bench image editing tests it also provides a great VR experience Thanks to the aforementioned front panel HDMI 2.0 and USB 3.1 ports making it one damn impressive little lunchbox Sorry, sorry couldn't resist But that impressiveness doesn't change a key point that we made in our review of the EN980 the inability to upgrade the CPU and GPU in the Magnus EN1080K Seriously puts a damper on its otherwise spectacular performance and the $1799 US price tag yes $200 more even than its predecessor is for a system That will forever be as you bought it save for maybe throwing in some more RAM or storage I mean with the GTX 1080 a core i7 7700 HDMI 2.0 display port 1.3 USB 3.1 I mean we can't see your gaming lunch getting moldy anytime soon We're just saying that What are we saying? Maybe it maybe it's this okay. There's no question that the EN1080K is a tiny Quiet punching above its weight class freaking incredible little piece of technology Zotac did an outstanding job once again But at these prices you just have to ask yourself Are you hungry enough for frames to spring for this water-cooled? Supermeal or is it just too much to swallow? Tunnel bear is so easy to use that you can get your mom or even your grandpa Using a VPN app which is a good idea because a VPN lets you browse privately and Enjoy a more open internet and tunnel bear all bad you just download it. It's available for PC Mac Android iOS there's even a chrome extension, and you just press like One button and boom all your traffic gets hidden from advertisers your ISP Or anyone who wants to profit from you or your data. 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