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**AMD Fiji Thread**

mururoa said:
As you noticed, I was asking a question, which you ended up answering in a suitably passive-aggressive manner. :)

It has been possible to fit high end graphics cards into ITX-cases for a long time now... Allowing for better airflow is an interesting point but I think the the real enabler is the low TDP, resulting in less heat produced regardless of the size of the card.
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Apologies, not my intention.

Cases are built to fit the components that go into them. Large GPUs require large spaces to contain them and still allow adequate airflow. If you wish to have a smaller, less intrusive case you have no choice but to compromise GPU performance. The Nano will allegedly give 290X - 980 performance with a far smaller footprint.

I personally see it as a step forward.
 
Jono8 said:
Whilst the Nano looks cool, it is a shame it isnt out till October.

Also, it is only the size that it has going for it really. To be fair to Nvidia, the 980 will have been out a year by the time the Nano comes out and already had 4gb ram, had a decent bit more performance than a 290x and had an even smaller TDP of 165w..so tech wise it seems a bit mundane.

Do we reckon all of the next gen cards (ie pascal/ whatever is next for AMD after Fiji) will be this small now due to HBM?
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You not seen the pascal card? its about 70mm high and 100 mm long.

The days of large cards are dead. The issue know is cooling a card that small as you can only fit one fan or go watercooled.
 
Looking at page 5 of this: http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/ElevenHundred_manual_EN.pdf - I can't put the radiator at 4 or 5 because they're directly over the PSU (which has an open top). What about putting the radiator at number 7 (the inside one)? Does that seem potentially workable to anyone with enough knowledge or have I finally gone mad? Not ideal....but not completely stupid either?

If not, I have to get a 980 Ti :eek: (probably the G1)
 
Sweey said:
Looking at page 5 of this: http://www.antec.com/pdf/manuals/ElevenHundred_manual_EN.pdf - I can't put the radiator at 4 or 5 because they're directly over the PSU (which has an open top). What about putting the radiator at number 7 (the inside one)? Does that seem potentially workable to anyone with enough knowledge or have I finally gone mad? Not ideal....but not completely stupid either?

If not, I have to get a 980 Ti :eek: (probably the G1)
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What do you mean directly over the PSU, the PSU sits at the bottom surely? 4 or 5 are fine, cpu cooler allowing. 7 as you suggest is also doable if you have fans at the front feeding fresh air to the rad.
 
mururoa said:
What do you mean directly over the PSU, the PSU sits at the bottom surely? 4 or 5 are fine, cpu cooler allowing. 7 as you suggest is also doable if you have fans at the front feeding fresh air to the rad.
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5 is directly above the PSU's open top so any leak would quickly pool on a card's surface and drip down into the PSU - which yes is at the bottom. I'm looking at it and all I can see is something going tremendously wrong if a leak occurs. There's also an issue with space due to the NH-D14.

4 is possible but sits over lots of components so doesn't fill me with confidence (my CPU isn't watercooled).

I do have one intake fan at outer 7 pulling air into the case so that would feed fresh air into the radiator at inner 7.
 
While its not impossible my experience has been AIOs are very unlikely to leak usually - I've abused the **** out of 1-2 over the years as well without any dramatic issues (one failed gracefully but I was doing something pretty crazy with peltiers with it).
 
Jono8 said:
Whilst the Nano looks cool, it is a shame it isnt out till October.

Also, it is only the size that it has going for it really. To be fair to Nvidia, the 980 will have been out a year by the time the Nano comes out and already had 4gb ram, had a decent bit more performance than a 290x and had an even smaller TDP of 165w..so tech wise it seems a bit mundane.

Do we reckon all of the next gen cards (ie pascal/ whatever is next for AMD after Fiji) will be this small now due to HBM?
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Nano is promised in the summer the Fury 2x promised autumn. Also i havent't seen a single 980 which really used 165w...more like 220-240w. But ofc we dont know the Nano numbers.
 
Sweey said:
5 is directly above the PSU's open top so any leak would quickly pool on a card's surface and drip down into the PSU - which yes is at the bottom. I'm looking at it and all I can see is something going tremendously wrong if a leak occurs. There's also an issue with space due to the NH-D14.

4 is possible but sits over lots of components so doesn't fill me with confidence (my CPU isn't watercooled).

I do have one intake fan at outer 7 pulling air into the case so that would feed fresh air into the radiator at inner 7.
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Looking at the pdf you posted the case has a vent in the bottom with a filter for the fan of the psu to suck air in and expel from the rear so the fan should point down and not up :confused:
 
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(Not a great photo I know)

Not sure if I would be able to fit it into my Carbine Air 240.

The left hand side is out of the equation due to mobo clearance, and the front has my h100i radiator fitted.

A lot depends on the actual card and cooler sizes. Depending on that it might be possible to fit the cooler on the left hand side of the case as the card itself will be shorter than my 980 GTX.
 
Mtom said:
Nano is promised in the summer the Fury 2x promised autumn. Also i havent't seen a single 980 which really used 165w...more like 220-240w. But ofc we dont know the Nano numbers.
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Have to laugh at nitpickers picking AMD up on "typical board power" when NV do the exact same thing with Maxwell.

SimBy said:
It was just a mockup. Besides it can't really be any shorter than the length of PCI Express slot. Nano is about as short as you can go.
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Be prepared to be pulled up on a technicality! :D

Seeing as how 4x 3.0 doesn't seem to cripple cards that much yet I can see someone making that argument, or risers etc.
 
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Jono8 said:
Whilst the Nano looks cool, it is a shame it isnt out till October.

Also, it is only the size that it has going for it really. To be fair to Nvidia, the 980 will have been out a year by the time the Nano comes out and already had 4gb ram, had a decent bit more performance than a 290x and had an even smaller TDP of 165w..so tech wise it seems a bit mundane.

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The Nano represents the future of GPU form. If that's technologically mundane, then well...
 
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