craig5320

ZOTAC ZBOX ID83 Plus Mini-PC Review

"Sapphire recently released the AMD A8 based Edge VS8 mini-PC and now we get a chance to see what ZOTAC's latest generation of system can offer in comparison. The ZBOX ID83 Plus takes us into Ivy Bridge in a system which is comparable in size to a decent router, let's find out how it performs..."

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Trusteft

Something about these systems I find fascinating.
Thank you for the review.


Can you install Windows XP, Windows 98 on them?

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Formerly BlueMak

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Veridian3

Zotac dont have any XP (or 98) drivers on their site so it would be down to whether you could track down the drivers yourself.

Trusteft

Too bad, thank you.

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Formerly BlueMak

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

AKA

The chipset this is based on supports dual channel. Seeing this, it's merely a matter of configuration. Simply add a SODIMM with the same specifications, and you'll have dual channel. Alternatively, just get the ID83-U model (barebones) and add 2 SODIMMs (and HDD) of your choosing to get the same dual channel benefit.

Veridian3

The point was that we felt the default configuration should be dual channel... with the consumer not needing to add anything.

AKA

Point taken. Perhaps the word "configuration" would have been more succinct, then. The "design" allows dual channel.