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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...
 
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:
 
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