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Sparkle 9800gt low profile

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caspur

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The Sparkle 9800gt, (which is supposedly the fastest low profile card ever) was announced sometime in December, but strangely it hasn't reached any of the stores yet.

Its interesting that only a few companies have the ability to assemble low profile 9600/9800gt's. You'd think given the demand of these cards, especially from OEM systems, that with the price premium (>50%) charged over their regular height versions, manufacturers would compete over them.

And where is Ati's answer to the 9800gt low profile? Bend a 4850 in half?





 
what demand do you speak of?

majority of oem sales probably use that crappy integrated intel graphics

 
I think there is actually LESS demand for really powerful low profile cards because a system that can't take a normal full height card also cannot take a power supply powerful enough for a high performance GPU.
 
I don't know if I would want a 9800gt, even if I needed the fastest low profile card i can get for some OEM comp. As if my old 8800gt didn't run hot enough in my 300 full of fans, I can't imagine how hot it'd be in a low profile case, with horrible airflow and a low profile heatsink. However, if they could make a 2 slot low profile cooler... that might work. It'd be cool in my book at least
 
I would absolutely jump on one for my S939 4800+ Shuttle system. Hope they emerge soon. I can't imagine it would eat more power than the horrible old 7800GT I have in there now.
 
Originally posted by: Dadofamunky
I would absolutely jump on one for my S939 4800+ Shuttle system.
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Can't the Shuttle systems take normal sized video cards?
 
Hooray, another low profile thread 🙂

I believe there is a lot of interest in low profile performance graphic cards and smaller computers in general. And the cards are out there in mobile form anyway so why not give desktop users the option as well. Should be a fairly simple matter to change the PCI-E interface and cooling solution from a mobile card.

Anyone know what the power draw of the current high end mobile cards are?
 
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