Zotac ZBOX Nano AD10 Plus U Mini SFF PC Review

Name: Zotac ZBOX Nano AD10 Plus
Brand: Zotac

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, October 28, 2011, 10:00 AM EDT

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and 3DMark Vantage. When testing low-power platforms with ET:QW, we dial things in to moderate resolutions for the LCD panel that was available in each test case. Since these are more entry-level game tests on highly mobile or ultra small form factor platforms, we left anti-aliasing turned off and image quality settings set from moderate to high levels where possible.

3D Gaming: Vantage, ET: Quake Wars and Left 4 Dead 2

Testing Zacate's GPU

With the latest drivers available on AMD.com, the Zbox Nano AD10 Plus shows much better performance in the OpenGL-based ET:QW test and a slight improvement in 3DMark Vantage. Please note, the GPU configurations in the Nano and other E-350-based systems are the same, the improved performance shown here by the Nano are due to further driver optimizations done on AMD's part. The other E-350's would perform similarly had we tested with the latest drivers.

Tags: SFF, Zotac, Nano, PC, HTPC, Mini, Fusion, ZBox

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com