I hope you will forgive a task that bends the mission here, given for you to worry? Often for the purpose of checking the new and strange hardware of gaming hardware. Instead, I want to talk about small computers-not only a small desktop computer, but also small, computers are the same size as chocolate o ‘box-natural, have been available for decades.
However, recently, I wondered if the last mini PC was on the peak of having their moments like serious game machines. Between the price of the desktop component increases and the electricity bill is getting better, it will mean that a smaller, cheaper system will have a new call, and the success of handheld devices such as Steam Deck and Asus ROG Ally shows that the convenience still exceeds the performance of many PC players. There were even suggestions that Valve was reviving the concept of their mini steam PC, many years after the first trial. Should Friend care about?
To find out, I spent very little desks for two modern mini computers. First, there is Zotac Zbox Magnus EN374070C, basically a narrowed RTX 4070 system using laptop components and will give us a good idea about how high -end mini PC life looks like. The second is the Acer Revo box, a slice of circuit is even cheaper (and much cheaper) based on Intel’s integrated graphics.
Both can endure, a common use of common use. Both run the same Windows operating system that you will be familiar with, both have many screen outputs (including two DisplayPorts, in the case of Zbox) and the only way you will feel missing on USB ports is if your setup includes many chosen accessories or donged on the mouse head and standard keyboard. The lack of rear audio jacks may be an worries for speakers users, although nothing can cross the headset.
They are also silent-under the load, Zbox cannot completely disturb the noise of the fans, but both have more silence on the mission of approving desktop compared to my usual desktop. And there’s nothing better to keep your table (or floor) clear, because both are small and light enough to attach to the underside of the table or behind the screen. Coming to a wall, even if you want to get all kinds of hammer-rest about it.
Also: they are cute. Look at them! The entire computer, in size, is similar to the box that Domino sends their cookies.
Level, there To be Compromise in another place. The mini PC is not a module or can be upgraded as, for example, a desktop based on ITX mini. With both Zbox and Revo boxes, you can open the chassis and exchange more RAM or SSD – actually, Zbox is available as the Barebones system, asking to find supply and install these parts yourself before starting the first. But CPU, GPU, motherboard and shell are all a package agreement.
Because their tight internal is also needed to use smaller, more efficient, more efficient components, there is always a level of performance. The Zbox’s RTX 4070, inevitable, will be slower than the RTX 4070 has a plane size that a desktop computer type can do.
However, a specialized GPU is a specialized GPU and Zbox has little difficulty running some of the largest frame sabotage in recent years. Including 1440p:
Sadly, mini PCs with integrated graphics will be a more lucky embedded. You will notice that I did not place the Revo box on the chart, and it was due to six games, it could only actually run two without any problems. Or, in the case of Cyberpunk 2077, replacing images with a faulty block. For those who have successfully completed, F1 22 needs to be reduced from high quality to extremely low to massage its original 24fps to 42fps to be able to play, while Apex legends only manage 39fps. I remember when Intel launched this special edition of Iris Xe, as part of their 13th-generation CPU, and heard a lot of conversations about its improved gaming performance, that for highly honest 3D games, it was a similar improvement to replace your chocolate teapot with a stone.
After that, again, perhaps those games are not the games you like to play and the Revo box has feet for independent works that cannot be tolerated and older classics. No, I can’t get 100fps among those who shine to watch the ray, but a portal 2? Those who survive vampires? Deus EX? Neva? All run completely well. Yes, even. And on a whisper and is priced lower than a Zotac area.
Should you worry about PC Mini? I did not say that you have gone halfway down to the CEX to turn your desktop into a mini PC, especially if you are among those who have a frame mind. I know me, personally, will return to my large rig later, not only because of my insatiable demand for the gate out, sweet, sweet.
However, I do not doubt a second that there are potential PC owners out there will be well served by a mini PC. Mostly because – just like these Zotac and Acer models show that – it was a quite diverse patch of the computer, ready to serve most people. There is also a lovely elegance for them: nothing is wasted, down to the air in the case. If PC Gaming is a wide church, there are too many places on stores for these small people.
