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  • Chaitanya - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    its been years since good single slot cards were available for pc builders. I hope this trend returns.
  • Charlie22911 - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Agreed!
  • StevoLincolnite - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Needs to be low profile though.

    There are no decent low-profile, single slot GPU's on the market.

    AMD needs to bring some 14nm lower-end chips to market I think.
  • bill.rookard - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    Just looking around, you could almost get a 1050ti, then pick up a used Quadro 2000. They run about a 65w TDP (so - close to 1050ti), and they have a small single slot cooler. If you could get the mounting to fit, you could theoretically fit it. Then, if it does run a stitch hot, the automatic throttling will let it run to the capability of the cooler.
  • Samus - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    That's the problem. Even with a sophisticated vapor chamber, without enough air movement, it's just going to throttle. A card can only be so small when trying to dissipate 75w of heat.
  • DanNeely - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    The Quadro 2000 is an elderly Fermi generation card. You'd be better off either spending a bit more for a significantly faster K620 or waiting for the Pascal based P400-1000 series cards to become available. As native 30-45W parts they have TDPs low enough to run effectively and quietly in a half height single thickness configuration. Alternately, at some point nVidia will finally launch replacements for the GT 945 and GT 705-730 series cards that make up their consumer 20-45W lineup.

    Alternately some of AMDs previous generation half height single slot R5 3xx OEM cards can be found on ebay.
  • StevoLincolnite - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    Something around the 40-50w TDP would be better.

    I upgraded from a Radeon 6570 to a Radeon R5 240 just so I could get more performance and use the latest AMD drivers.

    And if I could, I would get something faster.
    Cut down a Radeon 460 by 30-50% would be ideal.
    Still get the better GCN 4 architecture as well that way... And would handle Overwatch well.
  • Samus - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    This is awesome. I wish ELSA was still marketed in the USA. One of the best cards I ever owned was a ELSA GLoria II, and right after that a Guillemot (ELSA purchased Hercules and Guillemot) TNT2 Ultra. Both built exceptionally well.
  • Valantar - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    A single slot card with an axial fan? That's... weird. Wonder how well it works.
  • DanNeely - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    From the gallery images I'd guess it works like a blower but vents in the case above/below the logo. OTOH if they're not making any provision to vent out of the case I'm surprised they didn't go with an open air style layout with the fan in the center. It could be that there's no heatsink on the case front side of the fan and they wanted to make it as thick as possible to limit noise I guess.
  • meacupla - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Yeah, the venting this thing has makes no sense to me.
    Large fan, okay, that's pretty standard.
    But the hot air venting slots are very small, both in size and quantity, when compared to the fan size.

    Like, if I had this thing, the first thing I would do with it, is cut open a big hole. Starting at the logo and going all the way to the back plate to remove the restriction.
  • roc1 - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    The backplate needs holes for the hot air to go through and out of the case. There seems to be a decent amount of spacing between the DVI and HDMI ports for this.
  • DanNeely - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Once you factor for the DVI plug overhanging the screw down point there's really not any more room there than between the other two ports. To get a usefully large opening to vent blower style they'd need to go with 3 mini ports instead of full size DVI/HDMI/DP or drop the DVI port for a 2 output model.
  • Peichen - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    ELSA made the right move. Japan is crazy for Frozen's Elsa and Anna and undoubtedly would appreciate well made and compact German product.
  • domboy - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    Dual-slot coolers have always bugged me... I hate wasting a expansion slot on a big fan. Of course I realize I don't need to use most of them anymore, but it still bugs me.
  • Ej24 - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    AHHHH TAKE MY MONEY! How difficult is it to import a GPU from Japan to the US??
  • xenol - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link

    You can use a third party to buy stuff for you and ship it to you. Judging by the stuff I usually get from Japan, it's about $20 for 5-10 business days.

    However, you'll pay a higher premium for the card itself. Hardware prices in Japan are absurd.
  • bill.rookard - Saturday, February 18, 2017 - link

    List price for a normal ITX sized ALSA 1050ti is about $179 USD after converting the Yen over. I'm imagining that this single slot design will somehow wind up being just as expensive, if not more.

    Considering that you can get a regular GTX 1050ti for $140 here in the US, it would almost be easier to find a compatible single slot cooler set up and mod it yourself... which is frustrating to say the least.
  • samer1970 - Sunday, February 19, 2017 - link

    This needs to be done in low profile and single slot as well. and it is doable using notebook heatpipes and cooling methods.
  • Meteor2 - Sunday, February 19, 2017 - link

    There are laptops with 75W GPUs? Didn't know that.
  • Meteor2 - Sunday, February 19, 2017 - link

    ...which just goes to show how little I know.
  • DanNeely - Monday, February 20, 2017 - link

    There're gaming laptops with twin 150+ GPUs. They're massive though, 17.3/18.4" screens, chunky bezels (a side effect of needing more volume for cooling in the base), around 2" thick, and 10+ pounds heavy before a power brick that's the size and weight of a desktop PSU.

    They're also really loud when gaming and have horrible battery life even when not gaming, and are very expensive. OTOH if you're a lan party gamer without a car, they're much easier to carry on public transit than a desktop + monitor is. Or if you're a PC gamer who's stuck with a job that leaves you flying around the country and living out of hotels all the time they actually let you game on something that performs similar to the gaming PC you had to leave at home.
  • Meteor2 - Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - link

    It does sound like quietly dissipating 75W of heat from a single-slot card should just be possible. But I suspect it would need some expensive design work and components. Perhaps manufacturers think it's too risky to try in case people don't buy.
  • Rehmanpa - Friday, February 24, 2017 - link

    PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RELEASE THIS IN AMERICA.

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