Zotac announces a Magnus EN PC that fits a desktop RTX 5060 Ti into a sub 3-litre case
Though not all its components are desktop-class, as it uses a mobile Intel chip and SO-DIMM memory sticks.
We first covered Zotac’s 2025 refreshes to its ZBox SFF PCs in Computex earlier in May, and during then, we noted an update to one of its Magnus mini-PCs, which was touted to contain a desktop NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. At the time, this bit of information, along with the chassis capacity, was all that we knew of this PC.
Back then, we wondered if Zotac really was able to stuff a desktop-grade GPU in a small chassis. But five months after Computex, Zotac has (rather quietly) announced that it’s real.
The Zotac Magnus EN275060TC has a mouthful of a name, but inside its 2.65-litre case sits a desktop RTX 5060 Ti. For context, the EN275060TC is an update to 2023’s Magnus EN mini-PCs, which utilised a case of a similar size but contained a laptop-class RTX 4070 Ti.
The Magnus EN275060TC uses an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX, a mobile CPU which likely can’t be upgraded.
Apart from the two Thunderbolt 4 ports on the front, you can output to external displays using DP 2.1b and HDMI 2.1b, and there’s two 2.5Gbps Ethernet ports here, too.
Like its predecessor, however, the Magnus makes a tradeoff: It’s powered by a mobile CPU, in this case an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX. Zotac isn’t the first manufacturer to use this laptop CPU-desktop GPU combination for SFF PCs; ASUS, for instance, released its TUF T500 prebuilt that paired a 13th Gen Intel CPU with RTX 50-series graphics cards.
Like the TUF T500, the CPU in the Magnus will probably be non-upgradable as it has to be soldered on. But considering the fact that the Magnus is six times smaller and comes with a more recent (though not flagship) chip, it makes a bit more sense here.
In addition, the Magnus also supports up to up to 96GB of DDR5-6400 SO-DIMM memory, along with 2x M.2 NVMe slots. For port selection, you get 2x Thunderbolt 4 ports and dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, as well as 3x DP 2.1b and 1x HDMI 2.1b ports. Wireless connectivity is also pretty up to date, with support for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.
It’s also important to note that the Magnus will come in two variants, a barebones version, and a Windows version with Windows 11, 16GB of DDR5-5600 memory and a 1TB NVMe SSD installed.
Pricing and Availability
Unfortunately, Zotac hasn’t announced any global availability details for the Magnus, and it’s not listed on Zotac’s Lazada page or on its authorised distributors, Beyond Geek and Tech Dynamic.
It hasn’t announced the pricing either, though from a cursory look at some storefronts from other countries that tout availability or are taking pre-orders, it doesn’t look cheap; Australian store scorptec lists the barebones version as going for AU$3,299 (around S$2,800), while Hong Kong storefront Centralfield lists it as HK$12,699 (around S$2,100).
Judging from these prices, when the Magnus does come to Singapore, we may be looking at prices above S$2,000 to start.