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GPU Weight....

PowerPie5000

PowerPie5000

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Why don't manufacturers specify the weight of the card? I'm looking at the various GTX 1070 models but don't want anything too heavy hanging and sagging in my PC! There's always the risk of damaging the PCIe connector (it does happen), but it seems the manufacturers are not too concerned about this after seeing some behemoth size cards & coolers!

Which of these is most likely to be the heaviest? :

Zotac GTX 1070 AMP!
Inno3D GTX 1070 iChill Air Boss X3
Palit Jetstream & Gamerock models (coolers look similar apart from the colour)
KFA2 GTX 1070 EX OC

I'm trying to keep it under £400 and don't want anything too hot, noisy or too heavy! I'm not bothering with the blower cooler types either. I'm leaning towards the Inno3D card at the moment...
 
From what I have read the Gigabyte G1 Gaming is a light card, maybe worth a look?

I'd be happy to whip mine out (MSI Gaming X 1070) and weigh it if you like? I also have a Palit Dual 1060 which is pretty much the same as the 1070 version I could weigh as well :D
 
The inno3d x3 is excellent. The fan doesn't even spin up at idle and even when it does it's more or less silent to at least 50% fan speed (couldn't get it any higher than that before water cooling the card). Mine boosts to 2012mhz out of the box and overclocks to 2152/9914mhz. It has no coil whine at all and it doesn't sag even with the block on it, which is much heavier than the cooler. The backplate does a good job of keeping the card rigid plus ventilation on the rear of the card due to the perforations down the centreline.
 
Daaaveee said:
From what I have read the Gigabyte G1 Gaming is a light card, maybe worth a look?

I'd be happy to whip mine out (MSI Gaming X 1070) and weigh it if you like? I also have a Palit Dual 1060 which is pretty much the same as the 1070 version I could weigh as well :D
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Thanks for offering to weigh it, but I actually managed to find out the MSI card weighs 998g... I think that's even slightly less than the FE card! I'd get the MSI card, but I'm trying to stay below £400 and the red will stand out a bit in my black & blue rig :D.


pastymuncher said:
The inno3d x3 is excellent. The fan doesn't even spin up at idle and even when it does it's more or less silent to at least 50% fan speed (couldn't get it any higher than that before water cooling the card). Mine boosts to 2012mhz out of the box and overclocks to 2152/9914mhz. It has no coil whine at all and it doesn't sag even with the block on it, which is much heavier than the cooler. The backplate does a good job of keeping the card rigid plus ventilation on the rear of the card due to the perforations down the centreline.
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Is it a heavy card overall? Do you mean you couldn't manually get the fans higher than 50% or the card just didn't get hot enough? What were the max temps before putting it under water?

Cheers :cool:
 
PowerPie5000 said:
Is it a heavy card overall? Do you mean you couldn't manually get the fans higher than 50% or the card just didn't get hot enough? What were the max temps before putting it under water?

Cheers :cool:
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It is fairly heavy but then again so are the rest of them. The backplate keeps it nice and rigid though so there is no sagging. The fan's didn't go over 50% because I couldn't get it warm enough. I have a 200mm front intake fan and a 200mm roof exhaust fan both running at a silent 480rpm along with a 120mm Akasa Viper rear exhaust running at a silent 630rpm. From my first post in the 1070 thread when I got the card:-

pastymuncher said:
Got my Inno3D iChill Air Boss X3 1070.

Spoiler:


It comes with a nice iChill mouse mat, free codes for 3Dmark advanced and VR Mark and a iChill case badge.

Power consumption is down from 72w at idle to 48w/61w (desktop/internet) and from 372w down to 268w while running Firestrike Extreme when compared to my EVGA GTX 780 FTW. It's almost double the performance of my GTX780 in some cases!!

This is a cracking card. Boosts to 2012mhz out of the box with the memory factory clocked at 8208mhz. The cooler is dead quiet and while running Firestrike Extreme the card didn't go over 53 degrees C with the fans not exceeding 50%. I took the cooler off to check the paste as the two teardowns I have seen in reviews showed the paste to be plastered on. This was not the case with mine and it was a pretty perfect application. I cleaned it off and replaced it with Gelid GC Extreme and stuck the cooler back on. Ran Firestrike Extreme again and temps breifly hit 53 degrees C before dropping and holding at 45-46 degrees C. The fan's didn't even come on until it hit 53 Degrees C and breifly spun up to 49% before settling at 30%.

This is a cracking card with a fantastic cooler which almost makes it a waste of time sticking it under water but I bought the block (Aqua Computer
Kryographics Pascal for GTX 1080 and 1070 Acrylic Glass Edition) at the same time as the card so have installed it anyway. Have yet to test it under water as I have been having some health problems this week but will report back when I have done so.
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Whatever happened to the chassis designs that included some kind of PCI support system? My GlobalWin 802 back in the day came with a box of mostly baffling parts for this purpose (I think the rail they would attach to was one of those optional extras nobody sold).
 
Have a look at some of the silverstone cases if its that much of a concern, their Raven cases feature an inverted motherboard design and when I had mine it was one of the best air cooling cases I have ever had. The card is vertical so the weight is supported by the I/O bracket of the card :)
 
Card design is more important than weight.

A lot of my cards are quite heavy but don't sag or cause damage to the PCI-E slots.

One of my Pascal Titans could be considered a deadly weapon (not just to your wallet) if you were to hit someone with it as it is quite weighty for a small card.

My Kingpin 980 ti's are so heavy I have weighed them on the bathroom scales !!!
 
I am with the OP on this one, I think it would be a good idea if they did put the weight of the card in the spec sheet.

But in the unlikely event that a heavy graphics card did break a PCIe slot, then I would think it would be upto the manufacturer of the graphics card, to repair/replace the damaged motherboard.
 
drex69 said:
I am with the OP on this one, I think it would be a good idea if they did put the weight of the card in the spec sheet.

But in the unlikely event that a heavy graphics card did break a PCIe slot, then I would think it would be upto the manufacturer of the graphics card, to repair/replace the damaged motherboard.
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Good luck with that, it would virtually be a game of one blaming the other for weeks if not months on end.
 
I understand what you are saying, but there must be a maximum acceptable weight for a GPU, on a PCIe slot ?
 
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