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Photo Credit - Gigabyte
Review by Chris aka Revenant
Gigabyte. What happened? You could have had the best board of the Alder Lake launch...
There is a difference between a bad motherboard, and one that has merely got quirks. Too few USB ports? It's annoying but I can deal with it. VRM that can't handle a CPU causing a performance hit? Bad. A BIOS layout I personally find obnoxious? Meh, I can learn it. A BIOS that doesn't even support half the advertised features? Bad.
So where does...
All Photo Credits - Revenant
FIRST LOOK
FSP. It's not a name I think about when power supplies come up. I'm guessing it's probably not a name that most readers think of. However, I bet you know the names OCZ, SilverStone, Thermaltake, Nexus, Zalman, Antec, and Sparkle. Why do I bring that up?
Every single one of those companies have relied on FSP to design and manufacture power supplies for them.
Let that sink in for just a minute. The OEM for some of the most well known and respected...
Image Credit - Revenant
Zotac was kind enough to send us one of their Magnus One SFF PCs for review. Normally, I prefer to delve directly into the review of a system. However, for the Zotac Magnus ONE we had a slight delay due to deciding to add a Zotac Magnus EN1070 for comparison. A brief look at the very basics of specs:
Magnus ONE:
Intel i7-10700
RTX 3070
32GB of DDR4-SODIMM (note that the system sells with 16GB, but we require 32GB for our testing).
512GB NVME SSD
1TB HD
500 Watt...