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Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini
Mini ITX platforms can be high-end these days, as such the graphics card market is adapting to that as well. ASUS will be releasing a Asus GTX 970 DirectCU Mini, just 17cm long. It uses an innovative DirectCU thermal design that combines a heat-spreading vapor chamber and the CoolTech Fan, which uses wide-angle airflow and venting to cool critical graphics card components.
Award-winning DirectCU now includes custom vapor chamber technology and the new and advanced 360-degree CoolTech axial fan. Even in DirectCU Mini form, the proprietary design delivers up to 20% cooler temps and vastly quieter performance than reference.
Exclusively-formulated alloy components boost performance by reducing power loss, enhancing durability, and achieving cooler operation. Choke concrete cores eliminate buzzing sound under full load while capacitors assure a 50,000-hour lifespan: equivalent to 2.5 times longer than traditional capacitors. DirectCU Mini measures just 17cm in length – making it the perfect choice for compact gaming PCs.
- 1228 MHz engine clock for better performance and outstanding gaming experience
- DirectCU Mini with vapor chamber offers 20% cooler and Vastly quieter performance
- DirectCU Mini measures just 17cm in length –making it the perfect choice for compact gaming PCs
- Premium alloys in power delivery components defeat heat for cards that run 15% faster and last 2.5 times longer than reference
- GPU Tweak helps you modify clock speeds, voltages, fan performance and more, all via an intuitive interface
- GPU Tweak Streaming share on-screen action in real time – so others can watch live as games are played
GPU Tweak streaming tool that lets you share on-screen action in real time – so others can watch live as games are played. It's even possible to add to the streaming window scrolling text, pictures and webcam images.
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#4969909 Posted on: 11/30/2014 11:43 PM
That's a really good question.
Cute, tiny card. Why we buy full lenght cards when the small one has exactly the same performance and gives us way more airflow space inside rig?
That's a really good question.
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#4969913 Posted on: 11/30/2014 11:59 PM
These cards are not new as these small mini versions have been around since the GTX 670 I believe, but in answer to the question... they do not perform the same. First, they are clocked slower on both the GPU and usually on the memory too, although not by much. The next reason is that because the cooler is smaller, the temps will run higher and while that is fine for stock speeds, it does limit overclocking potential, although this is not such a big issue with the 9xx cards as they are much cooler to begin with than the hotter running GTX 670's. Also to do with the cooling, on the larger versions the fans are often able to completely stop (ASUS and MSI have this feature) thus meaning the card is effectually a passively cooled card and therefore silent, with the fans only spinning up when needed (thermally controlled). These smaller cards need the fans to run much more often (even constantly) and often spin significantly faster which raises noise.
Personally I think these cards are awesome and I would get one of these, slap on a full cover water block and water cool it, thus allowing me to overclock the card to the full potential just like it's larger brother without any noise increase.
Cute, tiny card. Why we buy full lenght cards when the small one has exactly the same performance and gives us way more airflow space inside rig?
That's a really good question.
These cards are not new as these small mini versions have been around since the GTX 670 I believe, but in answer to the question... they do not perform the same. First, they are clocked slower on both the GPU and usually on the memory too, although not by much. The next reason is that because the cooler is smaller, the temps will run higher and while that is fine for stock speeds, it does limit overclocking potential, although this is not such a big issue with the 9xx cards as they are much cooler to begin with than the hotter running GTX 670's. Also to do with the cooling, on the larger versions the fans are often able to completely stop (ASUS and MSI have this feature) thus meaning the card is effectually a passively cooled card and therefore silent, with the fans only spinning up when needed (thermally controlled). These smaller cards need the fans to run much more often (even constantly) and often spin significantly faster which raises noise.
Personally I think these cards are awesome and I would get one of these, slap on a full cover water block and water cool it, thus allowing me to overclock the card to the full potential just like it's larger brother without any noise increase.
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#4969947 Posted on: 12/01/2014 01:56 AM
I just go for whichever has the nicest cooler for the money size in my case is irrelevent, now in a nice lan party machine this would be awesome.
I just go for whichever has the nicest cooler for the money size in my case is irrelevent, now in a nice lan party machine this would be awesome.
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#4969954 Posted on: 12/01/2014 02:12 AM
Don't these small cards run quite warm because it's such a small heatsink? and then they'll be noisy because it's just one fan trying to do all the work of cooling it. Also I don't see people getting much overclocking out of small cards
Cute, tiny card. Why we buy full lenght cards when the small one has exactly the same performance and gives us way more airflow space inside rig?
Don't these small cards run quite warm because it's such a small heatsink? and then they'll be noisy because it's just one fan trying to do all the work of cooling it. Also I don't see people getting much overclocking out of small cards
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Cute, tiny card. Why we buy full lenght cards when the small one has exactly the same performance and gives us way more airflow space inside rig?