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Gigabyte Builds First Mini-ITX GTX 970 Graphics Card

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When the GTX 980 and GTX 970 from Nvidia came along we were very impressed with, among other things, the low TDPs. Now, it seems that thanks to the 145 W TDP of the GTX 970, Gigabyte has been inspired to build a Mini-ITX variant. Yes, you read that right: Gigabyte built a Mini-ITX GTX 970. Its model number is GV-N970IXOC-4GD.

So what did Gigabyte sacrifice to make this happen? The truth is, not a whole lot. Presumably, the VRM circuitry isn't as elaborate, and the cooler certainly isn't either, but the card is still overclocked, running at 1076 MHz Base with a Boost clock of 1216 MHz. Reference GTX 970's run at 1051 MHz and Boost at 1178 MHz. It's not much of an overclock, but it's enough to show that Gigabyte has faith in its design. It is powered by a single 8-pin PCI-Express power connector.
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All that power in a tiny package, hats off to Nvidia/Gigabyte-I presume it will fit into Gigabytes very own tiny PC console style box thingamabob perfectly and even smaller Steam boxes.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-mini-itx-gtx970-oc,27915.html#xtor=RSS-181
 
It's probably a little bit smaller than the Zotac as the cooler on the zotac sticks over the end. Plus the gigabyte is a custom PCB version as it uses a single 8pin over dual 6 pins on the Zotac/reference boards.
 
Looks quite nice actually, though iv just realised, graphics cards are getting wider like sticking out of the motherboard which is why I guess we see less of the blower style coolers and more of these fan towards the card style coolers, that and there quieter.

But iv just had a brain wave, (might be beer talking)...

Hasn't anyone ever thought about making a motherboard with a socket for a cpu and ram etc.. and scrapping the pci-e (graphics slots), and just adding sockets for a Gpu core like a cpu, and then some Gddr ram stick slots?. interchangeable with each other, and maybe some other sticks for all the rest of the stuff a graphics card actually needs.

I know its off topic totally, but surely its possible, and it would save NVidia/amd money on making pcb's and designs etc for graphics cards and putting it together etc, then you could just simply have a AIO cooler on the core and add GDDR memory sticks etc if you need more memory for 4k etc?
 
Do you guys reckon this will get a reduction in price anytime soon? such as 3 weeks away's black friday? I have the smallest rig in the world (well Lian LI PC-TU100b and this is the only upgrade that will fit from my gtx 760 mini...
 
yes the trend is deffo for smaller GPUs, but this one looks very odd..... it doesn't look like it's worth £300....more like £130, even so, AMD had better be careful because their cards look way too big now..
 
When I built my first PC I insisted on a small graphics card. I still really like them but the power wasn't available. However my next upgrade (2015) will definitely have something a bit more diddy.
 
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