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Wish more manufacturers would focus on quality cooling in a small form factor (Always loved Zotac for that) rather than just slapping three fans and a billion pipes (with only two actually making contact with the die) on every chip that comes their way.
The HPC server community is anticipating 500W plus soon and 1000W cards are on the horizon. Expect gaming GPUs to follow somewhat. That means thicker heatsinks and beefier fans. Maybe 4 slot cards are the future?
Those cards going to come with their own substation to run them?
Maybe the best way to get around mining farms is cards that draw so much juice that having more than one will cause a brown out.
What's wrong with me? Why can't I stop thinking of this pathetic anemic card?
Also,
Tiny sleek 3D cards are sexy.
Thin and sleek but capable cards? Latest quadros are somewhat appealing looks wise:
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A4000, not too shabby for compact builds, low power and blower design helps cooling the case.
Then there's the little ones at half height but those are a bit anemic performance wise for anything above 900/1080p low/medium settings.
Well it's only 1 slot wide... guess there might be some nice water cooling solution that fits in the extra space left ;-)God forbit you need to be within 20ft of one while its running. Not an issue for use in a datacenter. But you do NOT want one in your workstation.
I bet if by tomorrow we replaced every power plant with a Fusion one that generates 1000x more power, in less than 10 years it'll be close to being overloaded again.