Zotac equips passively cooled mini PC with Celeron N4100 quadcore

Zotac announces the Zbox CI329 nano. The passively cooled computer contains an economical Celeron N4100 quad-core of the Gemini Lake generation. The mini PCs come in three variants and support up to 8GB of RAM.

The Zbox CI329 nano boxes have dimensions of 127.8 x 126.8 x 56.8mm. The most basic version contains no storage or memory. In addition, there is a Plus version, which already contains a 4GB DDR4 strip. The most extensive variant comes with 32GB m2 storage, a Windows 10 installation and 4GB ram.

The Celeron N4100 processor in the computer is a quad-core with a speed of 1.1GHz and a turbo of up to 2.4GHz. The chip has 4MB cache and an integrated Intel UHD 600 GPU running at 200MHz with a turbo speed of up to 700MHz.

The box has five USB connections, one of which is a type-c connector on the front. Furthermore, an SD card reader, an HDMI 2.0 connection and two gigabit network ports are available. In addition, the Zbox CI329 has WiFi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 5.0 on board. There is room for a 2.5″ SSD or HDD and it can be installed without tools.

Prices have not yet been announced by Zotac. The predecessor, the Zbox CI327 nano containing a Celeron N3450 processor, is for sale from around 160 euros.