Popular mini PC vendor Zotac has launched the ZBox PI430AJ, the first device we’ve come across that uses the AirJet, a solid-state active cooler, from Frore Systems. The tiny PC, which was unveiled at Computex, has a retail price of $499 (around £400 / AU$755) and uses two AirJet Mini cooling chips to cool an Intel Core i3-N300MHz CPU with a 7W TDP (and eight efficiency cores), 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM but no SSD; this is a barebone system aimed squarely at businesses.
The chip should not suffer from any throttling, the sudden drop in performance due to lowering speeds caused by rising chip temperatures, despite the tiny size (115 x 76 x 22 mm) of the chassis. This makes it a great choice for edge-case scenarios (e.g. digital signage, electronics POS, embedded).
