Zotac ZBOX ID80 Plus Mini PC Review

Name: Zotac ZBOX ID80 Plus Mini PC
Brand: Zotac

by Paul Lilly — Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT

3D Gaming: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Gaming Performance

If you set the resolution low enough and dial down the quality settings, you can muster barely playable frame rates in a game like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, but the combination of an Atom D2700 processor and GeForce GT 520M GPU just doesn't add up to a potent pixel pushing one-two punch.

Left 4 Dead 2

Gaming Performance

Left 4 Dead 2

In our Left 4 Dead 2 test, we use a custom Time Demo that involves plenty of fast action, some explosions, and plenty of people and objects on the screen at the same time.

We saw more of the same in Left 4 Dead 2, even with all the eye candy turned off. To continue beating a dead horse, this just isn't a system you'll be doing a lot of gaming on, outside of casual titles and Flash-based games.

Tags: Nettop, Zotac, systems, HTPC, Mini PC, ID80 Plus

Paul Lilly

Paul is a seasoned geek who cut this teeth on the Commodore 64. When he's not geeking out to tech, he's out riding his Harley and collecting stray cats.