The second device in the AMP box lineup is the AMP Box Mini. Known simply as the “External Box” at the Computex event last year, the AMP Box mini is a huge refinement over the Computex concept.
Initially, the prototype was only limited to PCIe SSDs, with Zotac demonstrating the concept using the Sonix SSDs on board, and while this sounded like a deal breaker to most with experts even panning this device as a lacklustre concept, Zotac seems to have heard the critiques which is probably why we can see the production model of the AMP Box Mini have a slightly more elongated chassis to accomodate a 6 pin PCIe Power conncetor along with a 180 W adapter to give users that extra juice for the machine. The trade off here is that the AMP Box Mini supports GPUs that draw up to 150W and measure in under 7.87 inches in length. This means that the overall range of GPUs that can be accomodated in the AMP Box Mini is less than those tht can go into the bigger version, however, thanks to the VR support present in both flavours of the AMP box, the product is still one worth taking a look.
