Pros: Gamestream issue is fixed with new updated Nvidia Experience software.
PC performs great with minimal noise.

Cons: No

Pros: If I ever get a working unit, I'll fill this in.

Cons: Spent over a week with Customer Support (CS) in which we covered as much ground as a 30 minute phone call. Horrible:

Created win7 USB boot disk which appears to work up to the point when selecting which disk to install on. win7 installer, despite showing the disk and allowing me to create/delete partitions, said there was no partition to install on. I put HDD into another win7 PC and manually set active partition. Still did not work. CS decided my BIOS needed updating to work with HDD THAT ZOTAC HAD INSTALLED!! (pro unit comes with memory and HDD). CS sent me BIOS update utility THAT ONLY WORKS IN WINDOWS!! Remember, my issue is that I can not install windows. After reminding my support engineer of this, CS sent me DOS BIOS flash utility which failed because the new bios image size was wrong. That is, old dos utility did not understand new BIOS size was correct. CS then recommended and RMA, that had to go through another person for authorization. Got authorization and returned unit. Just got mail from ZOTAC that RMA arrived and I should allow 30 DAYS FOR A RESOLUTION. I feel no love.

Other Thoughts: I've installed win7 on several PC's in the past couple years. I also google all issue I run into before trying to deal the customer support. I'm pretty confident that I didn't just miss something and customer support didn't add anything useful other than get new BIOS. My issue is very similar to one where the the issue was with bios sata mode set to AHCI. Changing that to IDE fixes the problem. This IDE setting was not available in Zotac AMI BIOS.

I also tried loading AHCI driver that came with unit during the win7 install. Win7 found driver and seem to happy loading it, but that did not help.

I believe the HDD is OK since I was able to run disk manager on it when installed on another PC. Newer BIOS does say it supports more SSD/HDD, So I think all I need is a BIOS update. Having RMA to get new BIOS is absurd.

Would have been more tolerable if I could have talked this through with customer support. Having to wait a day to get answers via email, and then to find answer are just plain wrong is also ridiculous. I can't believe I will ever buy a zotac product after this experience.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Phil,

We apologize for the issues you encountered, we would like to help get to the root cause to get your system up and running asap.
Our record shows your system was replaced within 1 week of your RMA receival with a brand new opened unit, if you are still having issues with your replacement please contact us direct for immediate support.

Please contact our Lead Tech Dan directly at 909-594-4300 x650, we will help walk you through on the setup process to ensure the OS is installed without any further issues.

Thank you for your patience and support of our product.

Sincerely,
Zotac Support Team

Pros: Everything that you would expect from a small compact epic gaming machine. This is a great little pc. Surprisingly this little pc is very quiet you don't even know that its on. So far this has run my games with no stutter. Runs them liquid smooth. Temperature wise it gets warm but not excessively hot.

Cons: When you are loading your windows disk, because this does not come with a operating system. Have a usb dvd reader available.

Other Thoughts: I purchased this as a gaming pc for a area where I don't have much space. This works perfectly and more than exceeds what I expected. This is a awesome little pc. Now that I have seen how well this works, considering doing more than just games with it.

Pros: Purchased it espessialy for Gamstream to Nvidia shield. In Nvidia experience control panel says "Not ready". CPU marked as not supported even that on Zotac's site it says it should work. Opened case at Nvidia support and on Zotac site. No answer so far.

Cons: Game performance is great.
Silent.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear loyal customer,

Please kindly update the GeForce Experience to the latest version, it should be fully supported.

http://us.download.nvidia.com/GFE/GFEClient/2.1.2.0/GeForce_Experience_v2.1.2.0.exe

In any case if you have any further issues, please feel free to contact us anytime we will be happy to walk you through the setup.

support.us@zotac.com
909-594-4300

Thank you for supporting our product!

Sincerely,
Zotac Support Team