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My Skylake rig is in the sig. It needs some updates, such as the memory expansion to 32GB.
I chose to use an old CoolerMaster Stacker 830 case without any noticeable sheet-metal mods. I use DIY ducting of my own design with carefully cut Lexan plates and foam art-board. So I wanted to take advantage of a CM barrel fan I had in the parts locker, made to fit the Stacker 830. It performs as exhaust, pulling air across the motherboard under the Lexan and forcing it out the right side panel.
In order to do this, I had to limit my choice of graphics cards. The standard card is perhaps 10.5" long, thus interfering with my placement of the barrel fan. I usually pick second-tier graphics -- this time GTX 1070 -- and I now abjure any thought of SLI configurations. and I prefer NVidia.
So I settled on the GTX 1070 "OC Mini" short card, which worked out just fine. The overclock potential isn't stellar, but it is good enough. Funny, it seems the customer-reviews at Egg are now more lackluster than what I'd seen in late 2016, but I don't have any of the problems in the complaints.
Few card-makers offer anything like the OC Mini -- only ZOTAC has a model.
Will the number of these short cards trend among more card-makers? Or is this just some specialty market-niche designed for ITX computer builds in small cases -- a small blip in a market of dual fan, reference and long cards generally?
I chose to use an old CoolerMaster Stacker 830 case without any noticeable sheet-metal mods. I use DIY ducting of my own design with carefully cut Lexan plates and foam art-board. So I wanted to take advantage of a CM barrel fan I had in the parts locker, made to fit the Stacker 830. It performs as exhaust, pulling air across the motherboard under the Lexan and forcing it out the right side panel.
In order to do this, I had to limit my choice of graphics cards. The standard card is perhaps 10.5" long, thus interfering with my placement of the barrel fan. I usually pick second-tier graphics -- this time GTX 1070 -- and I now abjure any thought of SLI configurations. and I prefer NVidia.
So I settled on the GTX 1070 "OC Mini" short card, which worked out just fine. The overclock potential isn't stellar, but it is good enough. Funny, it seems the customer-reviews at Egg are now more lackluster than what I'd seen in late 2016, but I don't have any of the problems in the complaints.
Few card-makers offer anything like the OC Mini -- only ZOTAC has a model.
Will the number of these short cards trend among more card-makers? Or is this just some specialty market-niche designed for ITX computer builds in small cases -- a small blip in a market of dual fan, reference and long cards generally?
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