ZOTAC ZBOX B series BI320 Mini PC with Onboard 32GB SSD, Win 10 (ZBOX-BI320-U-W2B)

I had bad luck with 2 mini boxes that I purchased using the Intel Cherry Trail processor with integrated graphics. First one, a Minix, received 3 graphics driver updates in a weeks time. There were 3 yellow exclamation marks on graphics lines in the device manager and it appeared to need a new driver to fix it. I backed up the old drivers, just in case. The last update left the box dead. Wouldn't even try to boot to the BIOS. Searched the web and the Minix forum, but found no joy on what to do when the power light is pale green instead of vibrant blue. Using the reset was the only option and if it doesn't work, basically you're screwed! Get a new box. Second purchase (what was I thinking!), a Nexbox with the same Cherry Trail processor with integrated graphics. It arrived DOA. No idea what the problem was with it.So, I decided to go a completely different route this time. Wanted a different processor. I got the barebones box because I hate Windows Home and didn't want to fool with it. The open box price was great. I have my old SATA hdd from my ASUS laptop and I can install the OS I want and have the amount of RAM I need. Amazing, the ZBox can use up to 16gb!As everyone says, it's as quiet as a church mouse. I have a performance monitor for the motherboard and the temps don't fluctuate much (all fahrenheit): cpu 244, gpu 242 and main board 222, the fan is spinning away at over 2500 rpm (with variance at higher rpm's).Had some issues with the internet dropping. And the simple solution for me was moving the ZBox closer to the router and repositioning the antenna. The change in distance is little more than 3 feet. I wouldn't have thought that short a distance would make a difference, but it did.Installing the RAM and SATA hdd was easy. One little problem, Amazon sent the wrong ram. I ordered 8gb and they sent 4gb. New ram will be here later today (April 28th) and until it gets here I'm using the 4gb. Runs great with 4gb. I'll get to see if there's any difference when the 8gb arrives. And I can report the difference is negligible. You can't have too much ram, but you can have too little. Just depends on how you're going to use the ZBox, 4gb may be just fine for you.The UEFI/BIOS is robust. Not going to try overclocking the ZBox, but looks like the settings are there if you have the courage to try it. I use to do such things, but with a quad core, and so much ram available, I see no reason to try it. And after installing CPUID, I'm amazed, thrilled and delighted to report the cpu is running as fast as it can. CPUID reports a core speed of 2239-2241 mhz and change! I was not expecting that! The Minix pc I had to return ran at the lowest speed available. [EDIT: During an update where MS wants to finish the updates during a re-boot, CPUZ 1.37 caused a BSOD and trashed the ZBox. No way to boot up or get into BIOS. I tried everything, but another update kills my pc. Ordering another one of these. Not the pc's fault. Setting updates NOT to update.]Boot up is slow. The reason it's so slow is a pause during boot to give you a change to press the delete key (to enter BIOS) or F8 (for more boot options). I'm amazed the F8 option is there. You can probably change that in the BIOS, but I'm content to have those options there and I'll put up with the longer boot up time.Never seen a USB and sd card reader using the same access point. A great idea and it's no problem to use. It gives us another 3.0 port and it's a space saver on the motherboard. Ordered a hub that uses the 3.0 USB-type C port putting it to good use. So many 3.0 USB ports available. It's one of the reasons I picked it.I purchased a new 3.0 USB thumb drive with new class 10 micro sd cards. Couldn't get the UEFI/BIOS to see them. And when it could see them, it couldn't see my SATA hdd. After playing around with the UEFI/BIOS settings trying to get all drives to play nice, I decided to take out the motherboard battery to rest everything back to factory default settings. I decided to reformat the hdd, delete the partitions and rebuild mbr. Then everything was seen in UEFI/BIOS.I include the following info in case someone else has the same Windows installation problem with their barebones purchase. After searching the web, I find I'm not the only one to have the problem with Windows returning an error msg that it can't install on the selected partition. Found lots of bad and useless information about why this error msg is received and what can and can't be done about it. I found the simple solution on a youtube video. The install went smoothly by following the instructions on how to change mbr to gpt during the Windows 10 install. Setting the hard drive to gpt first didn't work. Had to start out mbr and be changed during the install. That's the way it was for me anyway.Video plays as expected, no problems there. Mouse and keyboard recognized immediately during Windows install.Amazon customer service has been great through all the problems, with the Minix box dying and the Nexbox arriving DOA. First one I purchased was received April 5th and I just received the ZBox on April 26th. What a month, less than a month!I was surprised and thrilled Customer Service sent the 8gb ram stick before I returned the 4gb one I received. Many thanks to them for that. And thanks for refunding the expedited shipping charges for the second purchase of this item! Pray you never get the BSOD during updates!I'm very impressed with the ZBox and wish I had found it before I purchased those other boxes. As you can well imagine!

Arrived very quickly, and packaged great. It was the exact model BI320 that I purchased with everything included as stated. Setup was extremely simple and took maybe 10-15 minutes tops. Very quick boot into Windows 10, no problems with any of the hardware after windows updated.I've added a 750GB 2.5" SATA drive inside it and installation took seconds and it was recognized without any problems. I have it connected via DVI to my Viewsonic 24" monitor, and also via HDMI to a SPECTRE 32" HDTV and the dual display is working perfectly. I'm using a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse m520 I believe, have my Brother Laserject printer connect via USB, have Anker USB 7 Port Hub connect to expand USB ports. Connected to the Anker USB 7 Port Hub I have 2 external HD docks which are running (4) 4TB 7200rpm Hard Drives which I use for my media storage.This little ZOTAC ZBOX BI320 is running all of that, and its completely cool (I have it standing vertical in included base) and you can't even hear the CPU cooling fan running. Awesome little box so far. We shall see how it lasts over time. I will continue to update this review as the months pass. Very impressed overall. Nothing about this product seems cheap, very solid build.***UPDATE***I've upgraded the memory "8GB Memory for ZOTAC ZBOX BI320 DDR3L 1600MHz PC3L-12800 SODIMM RAM (PARTS-QUICK BRAND)" purchased for $80.00 and it installed perfectly. Once installed, booted into the BIOS and did EXIT/SAVE to update the 8GB RAM in BOIS and then it booted straight into Windows 10 perfectly and the 8GB is working smooth. Huge performance boost with the 8GB in it. It was running great with the 2GB it came with and I had no problems, but I do recommend the upgrade as it really does make a huge difference when streaming, or copying files to and from the box as well as running/opening multiple applications.LOVE this PC, very stable box. I'm truly impressed with it.

Makes for a great HTPC. Very reliable. Tool free component installation is nice too! No issues with overheating, runs linux fine.

I had one of these before and the fan seized up so I figured I might as well upgrade to a newer version.I spent the better part of a day trying to get windows 7 on which does not natively support usb 3 so the setup froze to a halt.I tried injecting new drivers in the setup.wim file and nothing worked, so I installed Ubuntu and it installed without any issues at all.Awesome video and digital spdif audio , loving this unit.Highly recommended with linux

Good . Better service and nice product.

La entrega al día siguiente no funciono pero recibí el producto en 2 días, ojo por que aun así les hacen el cargo por envío detalle que tengo que reclamar. El producto venía extraordinariamente bien empacado. Incluye manual en varios idiomas (esp). Así como discos originales de Windows 8 y drivers actualizable a Windows 10 /64.Retirando 2 tornillos se retira la tapa del chasis para poder añadir un módulo de memoria adicional o para colocar un disco duro de estado sólido. El sistema operativo ocupa casi 30 gb con actualización y archivos por lo que es un must el pensar añadir un disco adicional o colocar un disco externo vía usb y redireccionar las carpetas de archivos para evitar saturar la partición del OS.Conecte el equipo con la configuración de fabrica y después de configurarlo y reiniciar media docena de veces verifique que inicia en 5 segundos, desde presionar el botón de encendido hasta estar en el desktop, posteriormente descargue el update a Windows 10, puse antivirus y los demás programas básicos ofimáticos y tome tiempos nuevamente, 15 segundos en iniciar!. Definitivamente un equipo realmente rápido para estar disponible, aun mas rápido que una tablet y aunque note que para juegas 3d no es extraordinario, para los videos en alta resolución funciona sin contratiempos así como para las tareas básicas de Excel, Word y algunos programas de diseño básicos.A mi parecer es ideal para centro de entretenimiento ya que no ocupa espacio y consume casi nada de energía (12 volts) ó como computadora adicional, no sustituye una i3, i5 pero realmente da una muy buena batalla aunque note algunos "lags" de escenas muy rápidas en películas rmvb pero ninguno en avis, para estar lista para estar lista al inicio es literalmente imbatible.Nota :para ver películas de Netflix o vía Internet si recomiendo pensar en adquirir un teclado inalambrico con control de mouse incluido, esto es el único pero que realmente es preocupante, por lo demás el equipo es excelente, además de que acabo de darme cuenta de que no hace sonido, tiene un ventilador, pero a menos de que pegues el oído a donde están los orificios de ventilación es casi imposible detectar sonido alguno aun con carga de trabajo. Posteriormente compraré una más para colocarla en otra tele, realmente me pareció una buena compra para sustituir una pc core dúo de mi esposa y aprovecharlo como centro de entretenimiento al mismo tiempo.

Powerful little device for its size. I got the model with no ram/hdd or OS. I had an SSD and 2 4GB RAM sticks laying around for me to use. The packaging was great, and it was so easy to open up and put the RAM and hard drive in, but, the cover needed a bit of force to slide back into place.My main reason for purchasing this was to install Linux with Kodi and use it as a media box/HTPC. At first I had issues installing a barebones Linux installation because when you use a USB stick to boot, it shows up as the first HDD device (/dev/sda) which means your hard drive becomes the 2nd drive (/dev/sdb) during installation. Then when you remove the stick and reboot, the HD then becomes the first (SDA). This is a bit confusing and I couldn't get around it. But I tried installing Lubuntu 16.04 and it worked perfectly. The Lubuntu installer recognized the hard drive as SDA so installation was easy. From there I customized it to boot into Kodi and all went well. I didn't have to install any drivers at all, everything worked right away.There's no comparison to the Android boxes used as media boxes. The ZBox just blows them away in performance. My old Android box had a Quad-Core S812 chip with 2GB of RAM and should have been much quicker than it is. This ZBox with the N3150 CPU is a beast in comparison. My desktop loads super fast and goes straight into Kodi in about half the time than the Android box did. Kodi also runs much faster and smoother than ever before. My subscription updates take seconds instead of minutes.I also installed Chrome browser to surf the net and works great!Very happy with this purchase!