http://www.techpowerup.com/206524/gigabyte-launches-geforce-gtx-970-mini-itx-graphics-card.html
Will this card fit into a micro-atx or full atx motherboard?
Will this card fit into a micro-atx or full atx motherboard?
http://www.techpowerup.com/206524/gigabyte-launches-geforce-gtx-970-mini-itx-graphics-card.html
Will this card fit into a micro-atx or full atx motherboard?
It will fit into any normal slot yes. Just like any normal card can fit in any normal slot MiniITX.
Partially I think there's a strange sort of mind set where people expect their top end graphics cards to look massive
The 970's power draw is easily low enough that short versions were going to be possible. There'll probably be a few in time.
The question is going to be noise. Having a massive heat sink and a couple of big fans lets you runs those fans very slowly (or not at all at idle) etc, this sort of size of card might logically end up a chunk noisier.
Will have to see when it gets reviewed.
(Some comments pointing out that its too tall for some mITX cases.).
How can this be as powerful as the stock 970 when it only has a single 8 pin power connector? Nvidia lists stock supplementary connectors as 2x6 and you see plenty of MSI, Gigabyte, ASUS, etc. non-reference using a 6 and 8 pin connector on their boards. I understand that most of those are either factory overclocked or designed to be overclock friendly. Even so, can this really be as powerful with a single 8 pin as the 2x6 pin stock?
That's cool! Do want... but cannot afford.
Just purchased seven GT630 cards for my rigs recently. Two for my Q9300 @ 3.0 C2Q rigs, one for my unRAID server (Zotac card with passive cooling, prior X1300 card had a fan), and four for my quad-GPU cruncher (Folding@Home race event in Dec. coming up in the DC forum).
Sure, 8 pin should be good for 150w, and 75 from the slot. TDP is only 145w. It shouldn't have any issues with power to make it slower than reference, but surely it won't overclock like the Gaming/Strix/WF3 models. That would be more due to cooling capacity and board space for more/better power phases than the power connectors it has
Much smaller heat sinks/less fans so they'll ultimately end up over clocking less if you push it. Well so long as its heat limited of course.
Really can't see why someone keen on overclocks would get one mind. Hardly a logical choice
Maybe you should return them. Just based on clock speed and CUDA core count, the 970 is almost as powerful as all seven of those. And the newer architecture is probably faster, no?
And heck, if you paid more than $50 a card for the 630s, you'd save money buying a single 970 instead.