Gigabyte Mini-ITX GTX 970 Graphics Card

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/21/2014 09:59 AM | source: | 45 comment(s)

Gigabyte has produced a Mini-ITX GeForce GTX 970 Graphics Card, yeah it's cute alright. You soon will be able to find it under SKU code GV-N970IXOC-4GD. The card is running at 1076 MHz Base with a Boost clock of 1216 MHz, which is actually a notch faster then the reference cards. The card has a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector.

The cooler on the card hints towards the WindForce 3X design but obviously just has one fan opposed to three. It comes with a "Triangle Cool" design to guide the air for more effective cooling. Heat is transferred to this fin array through two 8 mm heatpipes and one 5 mm heatpipe.

The card runs at roughly 62 degrees C while running the Metro Last Night benchmark, not bad really. Though the card is still a dual-slot solution it is narrower than other high-performance Mini-ITX graphics card solutions that we've seen in the past. Gigabyte's card is only 12 cm in length. Monitor outputs are the same as the larger 900-series card from Gigabyte, consisting of two DVI ports, three DisplayPort interfaces, and an HDMI port.

Gigabyte has priced the card at $329.99, which is Nvidia's reference MSRP pricing. Mighty interesting !

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Corbus
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#4942007 Posted on: 10/21/2014 07:23 PM

Heh, cute card.

Rexob
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#4942020 Posted on: 10/21/2014 07:47 PM

I wonder how this would perform in the EVGA Hadron case...my experience is the case mostly necessitates a rear exhaust blower.

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#4942108 Posted on: 10/21/2014 10:12 PM

Looks really cool, I wonder if it performs almost as good as a full size card and its OC potential.

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#4942392 Posted on: 10/22/2014 09:02 AM

Would really love to see a review for this, I am curious about the cooling for this little thing and also if the power consumption is improved (or not).

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#4942396 Posted on: 10/22/2014 09:11 AM

this should be a standard.

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