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    ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Its most powerful small form factor graphics card.
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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Please someone produce a water cooling block for this. I could then build an extremely small watercooled PC using a 180x180 radiator

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Cool and cute, but there really aren't many cases that take advantage of this. Coolermaster 110 is one but generally the itx cases tend to support full length

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Can't believe you can squeeze an overclocked 970 in a mini-ITX footprint!

    Quote Originally Posted by krazy_olie View Post
    Cool and cute, but there really aren't many cases that take advantage of this. Coolermaster 110 is one but generally the itx cases tend to support full length
    True, but even in some of the cases that do support full-length there's a benefit to having a shorter graphics card. For example, I've currently got a full-size GTX 660ti in my Sugo SG05 and it makes the routing for the hoses on my all-in-one water cooler a nightmare! Could hugely simplify things if I had a shorter graphics card like this, which would greatly improve overall airflow.

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Hmm, Gigabyte's 970 ITX card only has one 8 pin power socket. It also doesn't have a backplate and has a more traditional heatpipe cooler design. It'll be interesting to see which is better.

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    I'm in love! That thing would be so awesome with a watercooling setup...or a teeny-tiny SLI setup as well XD

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    This will probably make it into my LAN rig.

    Question if they can make this why the need for larger cards? there seems to be no sacrifice here?
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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Will a smaller card like this be more unreliable long term? Like others, I'm wondering how they can do this so small when the standard cards are so much bigger. I'd love to have a card like this since most standard cards in this class wouldn't fit in my case, or at best would be a pain to work around.

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Quote Originally Posted by =assassin= View Post
    Will a smaller card like this be more unreliable long term? Like others, I'm wondering how they can do this so small when the standard cards are so much bigger. I'd love to have a card like this since most standard cards in this class wouldn't fit in my case, or at best would be a pain to work around.
    Not reason for it to be, almost certainly louder, though.

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Ill wait for the reviews, Got a SG05 so the stock card is a little to big, shame really as a card that exausts out the back of the case would be perfect.
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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Quote Originally Posted by krazy_olie View Post
    Not reason for it to be, almost certainly louder, though.
    Ah, that's not too bad then - I could live with a bit more noise if I had no other option.

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    Re: ASUS reveals the GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini

    Quote Originally Posted by CustardInc View Post
    Hmm, Gigabyte's 970 ITX card only has one 8 pin power socket. It also doesn't have a backplate and has a more traditional heatpipe cooler design. It'll be interesting to see which is better.
    Yeah I would definitely like to see a comparison review between them!

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