MAGNUS EN1080 10 Year Anniversary Edition (ZBOX-EN1080)

Details

THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION MAGNUS EN1080 is ZOTAC‘s second generation of water cooling Mini PC. It ascends gaming to the Virtual Reality with an Intel 6th Generation Skylake Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics - the first Mini PC to equip NVIDIA‘s new generation flagship graphics. The unique SPECTRA lighting system gives the system a glow of its own, and users can customize the lighting with the SPECTRA utility.

• Resources
  • MAGNUS EN1080 10 Year Anniversary Edition (ZBOX-EN1080) -- Product Page
  • Windows Drivers: https://www.zotac.com/se/files/download/by_product?p_nid=607475&driver_type=All&os=All
  • Linux Drivers: https://webclone.zotac.com/eu/files/download/by_product?p_nid=607474&driver_type=All&os=All
  • Generic Driver Page (find the section titled "ZOTAC GeForce GTX 1080 ArcticStorm Thermaltake 10 週年版" )
    Windows version says: "FireStorm_V2.0.0.014TT for GTX 1080 ArcticStorm Thermaltake 10 Year Anniversary Edition"
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• Processor
  • Intel Core i7-6700 (quad-core 3.4 GHz, up to 4.0 GHz)
• Graphics
  • NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1080 w/ 8GB GDDR5x
  • Video Output 2 x DisplayPort 1.3
  • 3 x HDMI 2.0
  • max 4 displays
• Storage
  • 2.5“ SATA 6.0Gbps HDD/SSD bay
  • M.2 PCIE x4 / SATA SSD slot (22/42,22/60,22/80)
  • 3-in-1 SD/SDHC/SDXC SD Card Reader

For some reason, I had the following Linux kernel parameters set ( among others ) on this device for Ubuntu 16.04. I presume that some of this was necessary at one point:

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splash fbcon=font:TER6x12 pcie_aspm=off i915.preliminary_hw_support=1 nouveau.modeset=0 snd_hda_intel.audio=1 vt.handoff=1
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