8.2" Long. That's pretty short nowadays. Not as short as the mini-1060 (6.5"), but most of those 1070s are pushing a foot. Cheapo single fan RX 470s aren't that short. Why is the reference RX 470 PCB sooooo looong?
Arguably, fi they had spent another $5-10 on a better heatsink for their cooler, and anther week or so properly binning their 480s, they would have left a far better impression on reviewers, and would have sold much better, without the "powergate" scandale/#/whatever.
I'm all for these short "mini-itx" cards with a decent GPU on them. However whenever I look for a decent quite case I haven't found one that support larger quieter fans, sound insulation, and takes advantage of the sub 10" GPUs.
Anyone see a case that's nice, small, quite, and is designed for one of these smaller GPUs?
I plan to use the mini 1060 card in my Fractal Design Node 605 case. Supports full atx and dGPU's up to 280mm but due to the small volume of the case I am going for a short card to allow additional airflow. The case also supports 3 120mm fans and 2 80mm. It's not exactly a mini-itx case but it blends in with my stereo equipment better than anything else I've come across.
I got this card about a month ago (this "news" piece is quite late) and have it in Silverstone's FT03-Mini. Card is not super quiet and heats up whole case (including walls) quite a lot but I don't mind as it handles Battlefield 1 very well and is dead quiet in desktop use.
I have the same case. Very nice case indeed. 🤓 You know what helped a lot, a new main fan. I got one of those corsair mag lev fans and it cut my system temps down by like 10-15C. I've been considering this card for my FT03 Mini.
It's obvious how a dual slot blower would help in cramped cases with hardly any air flow. How's going single slot and thereby making the cooler much less capable helping?
Since the whole focus of this card is its size, can you please ask Zotac for the dimensions?
Seems like that should be the main specs announced, not just confirming that it has 8gb of vram or that its clock speeds are within 2% of all other 1070s...
A single component for $395 USD. I miss picking up a Riva TNT for $110 that didn't need multiple slots worth of space, a dedicated power connector, and a huge heatsink with a cooling fan just to then have the ability to sink a bunch of money in newly released, buggy video games.
The quickest GPU I have at my disposal right now is the Quadro NVS 160m buried in my Latitude e6400 laptop. At this point I'm not ready or even very inclined to seek out an upgrade. The GTX1050 is somewhat interesting, but in the end, it's more video card than I'd be willing to purchase. If Nvidia were to get around to releasing a hypothetical 1040 or some other graphics processor that would end up in the sub-40W TDP range (or 20W for a mobile version because I'm really not interested in dealing with going back to the Stone Age of desktop computers again), then I think I'd start to kick around the idea of upgrading.
The Zotac GTX 1070 Mini has been available for quite a while in Asia. I bought my first one in Oct. Surprisingly cool running card. I got 74C on load (ambient 30C) with fan at 80% running Time Spy stress test at 2GHz. http://s1058.photobucket.com/user/Koenig888/media/...
My version comes with a nice back-plate. The Mini uses the cheaper Micron VRAM instead of the better Samsung VRAM which limits memory OC.
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stardude82 - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
8.2" Long. That's pretty short nowadays. Not as short as the mini-1060 (6.5"), but most of those 1070s are pushing a foot. Cheapo single fan RX 470s aren't that short. Why is the reference RX 470 PCB sooooo looong?Dahak - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Why spend time and effort to make a shorter pcb when 90% of the market will be buying the standard length boards anywayTheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Arguably, fi they had spent another $5-10 on a better heatsink for their cooler, and anther week or so properly binning their 480s, they would have left a far better impression on reviewers, and would have sold much better, without the "powergate" scandale/#/whatever.ferit - Wednesday, April 8, 2020 - link
personally I need a mini card since my thermaltake case can't take anything longer than 10".spikebike - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
I'm all for these short "mini-itx" cards with a decent GPU on them. However whenever I look for a decent quite case I haven't found one that support larger quieter fans, sound insulation, and takes advantage of the sub 10" GPUs.Anyone see a case that's nice, small, quite, and is designed for one of these smaller GPUs?
RaichuPls - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Silverstone's SG11/13 lineup is pretty nice. They all support Nvidia reference designs lengths and also ATX PSUs.Kakti - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
I plan to use the mini 1060 card in my Fractal Design Node 605 case. Supports full atx and dGPU's up to 280mm but due to the small volume of the case I am going for a short card to allow additional airflow. The case also supports 3 120mm fans and 2 80mm. It's not exactly a mini-itx case but it blends in with my stereo equipment better than anything else I've come across.boskone - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Fractal Design Node 304 or Core 500.Either can take (or comes with) up to 3 fans, and the latter's easily fit with watercooling if that's your thing.
Just get a motherboard with upward-facing SATA ports; the ATX PSU blocks the forward-facing ports on my MSI Gaming 5 and Z170n Wifi.
whenamanlies - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
I got this card about a month ago (this "news" piece is quite late) and have it in Silverstone's FT03-Mini.Card is not super quiet and heats up whole case (including walls) quite a lot but I don't mind as it handles Battlefield 1 very well and is dead quiet in desktop use.
garrek99 - Sunday, December 25, 2016 - link
I have the same case. Very nice case indeed. 🤓You know what helped a lot, a new main fan. I got one of those corsair mag lev fans and it cut my system temps down by like 10-15C.
I've been considering this card for my FT03 Mini.
jwcalla - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
You really need a blower fan for mini-ITX cases.Great_Scott - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
No, what you really need is a single-slot cooler, at least for the majority of the cases.MrSpadge - Thursday, December 22, 2016 - link
It's obvious how a dual slot blower would help in cramped cases with hardly any air flow. How's going single slot and thereby making the cooler much less capable helping?jwcalla - Friday, December 23, 2016 - link
A "majority" of mini-ITX cases don't have room for a double-slot GPU?Kakti - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Since the whole focus of this card is its size, can you please ask Zotac for the dimensions?Seems like that should be the main specs announced, not just confirming that it has 8gb of vram or that its clock speeds are within 2% of all other 1070s...
Kakti - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Guess we have two of the dimensions on Zotac's website - 210mm x 122m. No word on z-axis, but based on pictures looks just a hair over dual slot size.Great_Scott - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Which is a shame because the Z-axis matters too.santiagodraco - Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - link
Mini? Hardly. When they release a half height/low profile card then you can talk about mini.Runamok81 - Thursday, December 22, 2016 - link
Is this News? Hasn't this product been available for months? http://camelcamelcamel.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-Compact-G...BrokenCrayons - Thursday, December 22, 2016 - link
A single component for $395 USD. I miss picking up a Riva TNT for $110 that didn't need multiple slots worth of space, a dedicated power connector, and a huge heatsink with a cooling fan just to then have the ability to sink a bunch of money in newly released, buggy video games.MrSpadge - Thursday, December 22, 2016 - link
Go for a GTX1050 then, it can give you somewhat similar feelings. And it's even faster than the Riva TNT!BrokenCrayons - Friday, December 23, 2016 - link
The quickest GPU I have at my disposal right now is the Quadro NVS 160m buried in my Latitude e6400 laptop. At this point I'm not ready or even very inclined to seek out an upgrade. The GTX1050 is somewhat interesting, but in the end, it's more video card than I'd be willing to purchase. If Nvidia were to get around to releasing a hypothetical 1040 or some other graphics processor that would end up in the sub-40W TDP range (or 20W for a mobile version because I'm really not interested in dealing with going back to the Stone Age of desktop computers again), then I think I'd start to kick around the idea of upgrading.Charlie22911 - Friday, December 23, 2016 - link
Maybe this is being a bit nit picky, but the PCB looks a bit lazily designed.Koenig168 - Saturday, December 24, 2016 - link
The Zotac GTX 1070 Mini has been available for quite a while in Asia. I bought my first one in Oct. Surprisingly cool running card. I got 74C on load (ambient 30C) with fan at 80% running Time Spy stress test at 2GHz. http://s1058.photobucket.com/user/Koenig888/media/...My version comes with a nice back-plate. The Mini uses the cheaper Micron VRAM instead of the better Samsung VRAM which limits memory OC.
Ro_Ja - Monday, December 26, 2016 - link
They should try putting in 1 fan as cooler and make it single-slot. I remember the GTS 450 being SFF