Around mid-to-late October, Zotac introduced a pleasingly ultra-compact ZBOX MAGNUS EN275060TC barebones PC system. Back then, preview material focused on relatively potent Team Blue and Green hardware being bunged into a 2.65-liter chassis. Many tech enthusiasts were impressed by the Zotac engineering team's latest feat; mainly the fitting of desktop-class GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB graphics card into an extremely cramped interior. Some cork sniffers were less enthused by the manufacturer's choice of CPU—an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX model—due to the chip's mobile application origin. A true all-desktop-grade alternative is also lined up within Zotac's ZBOX MAGNUS product stack, but packaged in a larger enclosure: EU27507TC.

HKEPC has performed teardowns of Zotac's latest and greatest ZBOX MAGNUS systems, with the EN275060TC SKU receiving the most recent treatment. A gory feature article was published yesterday, providing close-up shots of the mini PC's intriguing custom discrete graphics solution. Zotac's "Blackwell" gaming range has favored larger profiles, but the emergence of less potent NVIDIA GPUs has diversified the company's portfolio of current-gen cooling solutions. HKEPC's investigation of the EN275060TC's interior setup shows a compelling custom GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card, that lacks an external power connector. A GPU-Z diagnostic indicates the utilization of a hybrid "PCIe x8 5.0 + x8 5.0" interface.Wccftech has kindly summarized the Hong Kong-based publications findings: "(the Zotac) motherboard PCB features a power source at the bottom that reportedly routes the 19 V input directly to the GPU through the secondary x8 interface. The GPU is now left with a PCIe 5.0 x8 connection, which is still enough for unlocking the GPU's full speed, while the second PCIe x8 connector is able to draw the required 180 W, letting the GPU run at its full potential." Uniko's Hardware recalls seeing an earlier/similar ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 5060 Ti prototype that managed to function without a traditional 16-pin power avenue.