
Zotac A75-ITX WiFi B-series review
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When it comes to mini-ITX boards, Zotac is a major player. It offers boards supporting the latest CPU technology - in Intel and AMD trim.
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When it comes to mini-ITX boards, Zotac is a major player. It offers boards supporting the latest CPU technology - in Intel and AMD trim.

Zotac's GeForce GTX 650 Ti has the same layout as the basic GTX 660, using the same GK106 GPU, but with a few changes.

Nvidia graphics cards have recently become a lot like buses. You wait around for one for ages... then you're a little disappointed when it finally arrives and costs a lot more than you'd hoped.

We've been impressed by the overclocked AMP! cards from Zotac before - most recently the fantastic GTX 670 AMP! - and it's trying to continue that trend with the GTX 660 Ti AMP! edition.

Silence, they say, is golden. Personally I'm more concerned with gaming frame rates, but when something comes around offering zero dB sound levels and decent gaming speed, I'm going to sit up and take notice.

We were already pretty chuffed with the GTX 670 in its reference guise, but this factory-overclocked card is something special.

It's almost the same speed as a true GTX 570 and comes in cheaper. It's not quite as well designed a card as the Asus offering, but in price positioning it just makes a lot more sense.

What motherboard would be perfect for the mini PC revolution? Quite possibly this AMD A75-based mini ITX board from Zotac

Intel's top Sandy Bridge chipset shrinks for this mini ITX motherboard

The pinnacle of overclocked GTX 560s, but at what price?

The fastest single GPU card on the planet

Does this pricey GPU from Zotac stack up in price and performance?

With its DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort output options together with the Quick Sync video transcoding technology of Intel's Sandy Bridge processors make Zotac's H67-ITX a good choice to form the basis of a tiny HTPC or media PC.

So in the end we have a very fast card, as fast as AMD's own very fast card. But is there really a place for such a beast in the world today?

It's not necessarily that the GeForce GTX 550 Ti AMP! is actually a bad card, in many respects it's a perfect entry level gaming card. Unfortunately it simply doesn't make any sense in this market at that price. Drop the pricing closer to the £100 level and you have a card worthy of serious consideration. As it is though, you're better off grabbing a GeForce GTX 460 while you can.

If you're more of an Nvidia fan, or just love PhysX, and you're looking for the finest example of its mid-range Fermi silicon, then this Zotac GeForce GTX 560 Ti AMP! is quite simply the fastest you'll find.

The already blistering GF110 isn't noted for its overclocking headroom, and Zotac's AMP! Edition GTX580 offers noticeably – though not vastly – higher component-speeds than the stock GF110-based GTX580.

We're big fans of NVIDIA's plucky little ION motherboard chipset. What we haven't enjoyed is the feeble Intel Atom processor it's been saddled with. But what if you could have all the yummy graphics goodness of ION combined with a tastier CPU? Luckily, that's the very meaning of the Zotac IONITX-P-E's existence.

Stuffing Intel's desktop-class H55 chipset into a miniscule Mini-ITX motherboard is hardly a standard procedure. However, the Zotac H55-ITX WiFi can't hope to get by based on nothing more than novelty. It must beat the likes of Gigabyte's identically proportioned and similarly specified H55N-USB3.

Another passively cooled graphics card but one that doesn't break the bank

Barely a month after Nvidia's last GF100 graphics card, the GTX 465, struggled out the stable door another new graphics card, the GTX 460 has turned up to steal its thunder.

If it's hard to justify the £300 price for a stock version of the card, though, is the 50MHz overclock Zotac has given its GTX 470 AMP! Edition worth an extra £70?

Is this Nvidia's Fermi finally done right?

Is Nvidia's GTX 470 an AMD Radeon HD 5870 beater?

Oh look, it's the 8800. Again