Zotac Magnus ER51070 Zbox Barebones Review

A Closer Look – Interior

With the removal of 7 screws to the upper edging, gaining access to the interior is reasonably straightforward, although the screws were somewhat small making it delicate work.

It’s certainly the graphics card which immediately grabs your attention. Inbetween you and that, however, is a rather sensible heavy-duty guard. The guard is designed to prevent any interior impact damage from the top and although we did not test it too rigorously, the framing was very strong and more than suited to the task.

Upon removal of the guard, unfortunately, we’re not treated to much of an interior look. The Nvidia 1070 takes up most of the visual space, however, the processor and exhaust fan can be seen to the side of it. While not entirely visually impressive, don’t forget this is a mini build and as such it’s primary design is to be compact. In this regard, the design seems to utilise excellent use of the space.

On the underside of the case, access can be gained to the hard disk drive and RAM installation slots. This is much easier than gaining access to the processor/graphics card. All you need to do is unscrew the 4 stands. This can be done by hand and takes no more than a minute. It should be noted that although the pictures do show RAM and a SSD, these are not standard to the build. The point of the design is that through the ease of access, purchasers can install whatever RAM or hard drive they like.

A closer look at the interior shows just how easily accessible the RAM slots and hard drive slots are. Having done a quick test, it took me no longer than 2 minutes to remove and re-install these items.

PSU

Being a compact built, the PSU block is located as part of the power cable supply. The model itself comes with kettle cables for UK or EU. The power block itself seems very hard wearing and durable (as you would hope) it is, however, a little on the large and heavy side although not unusually so.