Single slot GTX260

[thilanliyan]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/ga...60-/7770.html?doc=7770

 

[Raider1284]

damn that is a tiny cooler.. would hate to see the temps that thing hits. Also severly hate that that the article is just repeating the same phrases over and over...

 

[nicnas]

Oh and it dumps ALL the heat in your case. Thumbs down from me.

Only good application I see is a crazy quad-SLI (or a folding station) in a tight case/mobo but then again how will it cope with the heat from 4 graphic cards?

 

[Red Storm]

Looks sexy, but I like my heat dumped out of the case.

 

[crisium]

Single slot is great for small cases like Shuttles, but the 260 is such a long card. Still, if you have room and need other slots open then this is the best performance available, right? I know they make single slot 4850, but not 4870 or higher.

 

[Smartazz]

This is probably good for people who want tri SLI as it'll leave more slots open.

 

[MrK6]

Probably any cooling benefit from having extra room in SLI set-ups will be lost due to that dinky cooler and it exhausting heat into the case. Very few applications would warrant such a card; high-end single slot air cooling is on the verge of obsolete.

 

[aka1nas]

I could run 6 of these on my board!:Q

 

[spittledip]

This is the coolest looking card I have seen in a while. But I also prefer the 2 slot design to push heat out of the case. That card looks really good though. I get sick of all the cheesy graphics they put on cards normally. I like this plain sleek look.

 

[JimmiG]

I think video card coolers that exhaust the hot air are overrated for a couple of reasons.
A surprising amount of heat still rises from the video card and never gets exhausted by the video card fan. Only the heat carried by the air that gets forced through the fins of the cooler gets exhausted, which is far from all the heat that the card produces.

Also the airflow (cfm) of the small video card fan is completely dwarfed by 120mm or even 80mm case fans, that push 80 cfm or more. Many cases have three or more of those fans, resulting in hundreds of cfms of air getting pulled out of the case. A tiny video card fan isn't going to make much of a difference to the total air flow.

Single-slot cards are also great for users of m-ATX boards. It's difficult to install a PCI card even two slots below the PCI-E slot because it would sit right against a dual-slot cooler.

 

[Denithor]

Would be nifty for a Shuttle build.