ASUS Zen AiO Pro Z240IC Review: 4K All-In-One With Guts And Glitz

Name: ASUS Zen AiO Pro All-In-One Desktop System
Brand: ASUS

by Joshua Gulick — Thursday, December 03, 2015, 12:26 PM EDT

All-in-one designs are short on available real estate and they often don’t require as much power as desktop computers. Asus opted for a sizeable power brick to power the Zen AiO Pro. We tested the computer’s power draw by plugging it into a power meter at the outlet. Our measurements show the system’s power draw at idle and while under load.

The Zen AiO Pro has a fairly typical idle power usage. Under load, it jumps quite a bit, but it's generally more efficient than the power consumption of most of the all-in-one’s we’ve tested previously.

A Note On Noise (Or Lack Thereof):

The Zen AiO Pro’s low fan hum won’t be a problem for most users. It’s as quiet as most laptops, which is to say that you can barely hear it in a silent room under normal conditions. In an office environment, the Zen AiO Pro’s whisper will melt completely into the background noise.

Tags: Asus, GeForce, touch, zen, review, Skylake, Windows 10, allinone, zen aio pro

Joshua Gulick

Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.