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News Asus teases GeForce GTX 970 DirectCu Mini

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 1 Dec 2014.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

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  2. David

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    You'd think a card designed with small, cramped, builds in mind would be designed to exhaust hot air out via the PCI bracket. No?
     
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    A possible reason cold be that the vent slots don't allow enough air to effectively escape quick enough.

    As the 9xx series cards are so efficient and much cooler I wonder if they will be able to bring out a 980 mini card? Personally I would like to get either this or a 980 mini and then slap on a full cover water block for the extra cooling needed to unlock maximum over clocking potential.
     
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    Blower type coolers don't work on short cards because there isn't enough room for the cooling fins. Well, at least there isn't enough room to cool a 150W+ card. You can see this on the reference 970s using the short PCB, they use the same type of blower as the 670 where the fan extends well past the PCB.
     
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    Want it, want it now.

    More importantly, when/where/how can we get a full cover block for it?
     
    fix-the-spade, 1 Dec 2014
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    My thinking exactly!
     
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    My short Zotac GTX970 is doing just fine in my ITX box...
     
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    Yeah that's a pretty short PCB too. I'm looking at this or the Zotac for my new build I think.
     
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    gigabyte already released an ITX size card...
     
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    Yeah I was looking at those the other day. The short PCB Zotac is already supported too so fingers crossed!
     
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    im running the zotac in my sg05 and its great.... bit more heatsink space as well :)
     
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    So, beaten to market by both Gigabyte and Zotac. :lol:
     
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    Too bad it's not a... Strip tease :cooldude:
     
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    I've been reading bad things about the Gigabyte version, apparently it is extremely loud, even for a mini card. Obviously not an issue if you are going the water route as I mentioned above.
     
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    Zotac is quiet but ive heard it can be spotty as well. Although mine is perfectly fine. So who knows...
     
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