I have emails from e buyer every so often and have been considering one of these cards for a new build for quite a while. Haven't seen this card cheaper anywhere else
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revolver31
12 Sep 163#1
I'd like to see a lot more of these mini designs these 3 fans on a gpu crap is way over the top and unnecessary , all flash no substance, these power efficient chips don't need all that, two fans is plenty but 1 with a good heatsink will do perfectly fine aka evga sc.
Card look ok, gd shroud goes around the heatsink which looks to be pretty gd with lots of smaller fins, not sure on the orange, poor io though, 2 dvi? really should be 2/3 dp, 2 hdmi (vr), single 8 pin is nice already been proven all these extra power phases and 6/8 pin do nothing but sucker people in, price though is still a little to high imho.
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revolver31
12 Sep 163#1
I'd like to see a lot more of these mini designs these 3 fans on a gpu crap is way over the top and unnecessary , all flash no substance, these power efficient chips don't need all that, two fans is plenty but 1 with a good heatsink will do perfectly fine aka evga sc.
Card look ok, gd shroud goes around the heatsink which looks to be pretty gd with lots of smaller fins, not sure on the orange, poor io though, 2 dvi? really should be 2/3 dp, 2 hdmi (vr), single 8 pin is nice already been proven all these extra power phases and 6/8 pin do nothing but sucker people in, price though is still a little to high imho.
DanielClarke to revolver31
12 Sep 16#3
the price vs performance is right on the money for me with this card, I am waiting to see what intel have in store with regards to the new architecture, currently no real gains between the past 2-3 releases of their chips. considering the bundle deal posted recently with regards to the 6700k (trying best value for money, under £1000, inc. monitor)
Nate1492
12 Sep 161#2
I've yet to see a better price for the mini 1070. If you have a SFF and are looking for the best graphics card, this may be the second best possible card. (1080 is rumored to have a mini, but I don't think it exists yet).
riccom
12 Sep 16#4
didnt know about this model, was in the market for a 1060 but this looks a great deal.
Minlack
12 Sep 16#5
Decent price for a 1070. Closer to MSRP than most other models. Not sure if the Mini ITX has any drawbacks compared to the normal sized versions.
cannibalwombat
12 Sep 16#6
My dream card! Was looking at reviews of this card yesterday (which are few and far between). Can't imagine thermals suffer particularly, otherwise it's a no brainer for mini-ITX builds like mine.
fishmaster to cannibalwombat
12 Sep 16#17
A friend of mine has just bought a Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Edition it has two fans I think not the three fan version and it still won't fit in his case, so if he keeps it, it's another £100 or so for a decent case.
Mantelope
12 Sep 16#7
I was looking for a regular version of this card as I have an ATX case but if this performs the same then I'm tempted.
MazingerZ
12 Sep 16#8
Why were the minis released so soon? surely everyone would go for a mini since less space
Minlack to MazingerZ
12 Sep 16#9
I've always assumed the smaller board, with smaller heat sink / fewer fans would provide less effective cooling as a possible downside. But that might only be an issue with more strenuous over-clocking.
russtyk
12 Sep 161#10
Your assumption is correct, there's no way around it. Bigger coolers can dissipate more heat, more effectively.
Law of diminishing returns applies as ever, but with a smaller cooler the card will be less likely to hold higher boost clocks for as long.
Boost 3 (or whatever Nvidia's marketing department have called it) means that your clock speed is related to temperature. It's just built in overclocking really, but based on a thermal threshold.
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Card look ok, gd shroud goes around the heatsink which looks to be pretty gd with lots of smaller fins, not sure on the orange, poor io though, 2 dvi? really should be 2/3 dp, 2 hdmi (vr), single 8 pin is nice already been proven all these extra power phases and 6/8 pin do nothing but sucker people in, price though is still a little to high imho.
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Card look ok, gd shroud goes around the heatsink which looks to be pretty gd with lots of smaller fins, not sure on the orange, poor io though, 2 dvi? really should be 2/3 dp, 2 hdmi (vr), single 8 pin is nice already been proven all these extra power phases and 6/8 pin do nothing but sucker people in, price though is still a little to high imho.
Law of diminishing returns applies as ever, but with a smaller cooler the card will be less likely to hold higher boost clocks for as long.
Boost 3 (or whatever Nvidia's marketing department have called it) means that your clock speed is related to temperature. It's just built in overclocking really, but based on a thermal threshold.