ITX Polaris & Pascal cards

KarateOC

Weaksauce
Joined
Mar 20, 2016
Messages
72
Last edited:
Pretty substantial hit to the clockspeed compared to stock Founders Edition™, but that 1070 should whip a Nano.
 
Pretty substantial hit to the clockspeed compared to stock Founders Edition™, but that 1070 should whip a Nano.
Maybe you are confused with the 1080? This is a OC model, and therefore has a higher clock.

Founders Edition = Base 1506 Boost 1683
The New GeForce GTX 1070 Graphics Card

Gigabyte ITX
Boost: 1746 MHz/ Base: 1556 MHz in OC Mode
Boost: 1721 MHz/ Base: 1531 MHz in Gaming
GIGABYTE - Graphics Card - NVIDIA - PCI Express Solution - GeForce® GTX 10 Series - GeForce<sup>®</sup> GTX 1070 Mini ITX OC
 
Are their any draw backs with the mini itx cards? I've been looking at benchmarks for the 970 and they look surprisingly close. I assume there must be a draw back, but I can't work out what it is.
 
Are their any draw backs with the mini itx cards? I've been looking at benchmarks for the 970 and they look surprisingly close. I assume there must be a draw back, but I can't work out what it is.
I would expect similar performance and acoustics of that of a reference card (although many ITX cards including this Gigabyte ITX now have a semifanless mode). Larger custom coolers however have larger heatsinks, more fans and additions power connectors etc allowing for more overclocking or a lower fan rpm (and therefore quiter) at the same clock. If you are not planning on a large OC then a good quality ITX card should have no major drawbacks.
 
Thx for the thread Karate. The Gigabyte is a fat boy, but will still work in my case. Hopefully more mfgrs will announce!
 
You know what's crazy? With the non-K Skylake chips being 65W only and the GTX 1070 being 150W, you can squeeze this in a S4 Mini with a HDPLEX HiFi 250W DC-ATX + Dell 330PM111...
 
You know what's crazy? With the non-K Skylake chips being 65W only and the GTX 1070 being 150W, you can squeeze this in a S4 Mini with a HDPLEX HiFi 250W DC-ATX + Dell 330PM111...

I'd want a little more overhead than that on the PSU.
 
I've got my fingers crossed for an eVGA version and EK block... It can't come soon enough!
 
Is the max safe wattage with the HDPLEX 250w/330w dell or 350w HP brick without cooling fans at roughly 300w for extended load/gaming sessions? Would like to hear input from the NFC S4 Mini users as I have read several reports of HDPLEXs being burned up with the GTX 970 and 65w+ cpu
 
The max safe with active cooling the HD Plex is 420w. I Test it by myself years ago with the Dell 330W.
 
Wondering if anyone has seen a thickness value for this Gigabyte 1070itx fatboy, as I like to call it.
 
I'd be happy with a 1070 that's just not using the reference PCB - something around 9.5" or so, the size of an old 570, would be wonderful.

But I'll take a completely tiny one, too.

Hoping the GTX 1060 / RX 480 will get some nice SFF designs.
 
Seems that both 1060 and 480 has a short PCB, to bad there aint anny small aftermarket cooler like we had back in the old days, like the Zalman VF900 :)

Pretty sure the 1060 PCB is exactly the same layout as the 670 and 970 which means the Arctic Accelero coolers should work just fine with it. I know the Accelero Twin Turbo III has a 21cm heatsink
 
Gotta wait for custom 1060's. The reference board has a wacky power solution that is integrated with the fan assembly.
 
Gotta wait for custom 1060's. The reference board has a wacky power solution that is integrated with the fan assembly.
I saw that too but you should be able to finagle the connector out of the fan assembly and just have it loose like a pigtail. where there's a will...
 
Pretty sure the 1060 PCB is exactly the same layout as the 670 and 970 which means the Arctic Accelero coolers should work just fine with it. I know the Accelero Twin Turbo III has a 21cm heatsink

Wouldn't the Accelero Mono PLUS be enough? The spec sheet claims 200W and it's only 138mm long.
 
I saw that too but you should be able to finagle the connector out of the fan assembly and just have it loose like a pigtail. where there's a will...
Yeah you could certainly do that, but between that and the $50 surcharge there is no reason not to at least wait for custom cards to be unveiled.

Wouldn't the Accelero Mono PLUS be enough? The spec sheet claims 200W and it's only 138mm long.

The problem with most if not all Accelero GPU coolers is that they are thicker than 2 slots.
 
Wouldn't the Accelero Mono PLUS be enough? The spec sheet claims 200W and it's only 138mm long.
The mono plus will add both height and width.

this stock cooler works because the fan is recessed. In some cases, you could take off the fan and shroud and strap something like a Noctua NF-A9x14 to the top of the heatsink. You would then still have some height clearance, for most cases (might still be adding a bit of width). But good luck finding an outright better heatsink for a card this size, which will not give clearance issues. After that, you might want to look into a VGA all in one water cooler.
 
Last edited:
Or just buy one of the partner cards instead of the "founder's edition". They're saying both types will launch on the same day, so why go to the trouble of modifying a reference card AND paying more?

Although annoyingly, all of the custom 1060s that appear to have been shown so far are crazy long - Asus has one with three fans on it. It's like. Dudes. I can't fit any of the currently available 1070s in my case (although EVGA's 10.5" board length comes extremely close, my system's max is 10"), the 1060 ought to be a little more reasonable in size.
 
Or just buy one of the partner cards instead of the "founder's edition". They're saying both types will launch on the same day, so why go to the trouble of modifying a reference card AND paying more?

Although annoyingly, all of the custom 1060s that appear to have been shown so far are crazy long - Asus has one with three fans on it. It's like. Dudes. I can't fit any of the currently available 1070s in my case (although EVGA's 10.5" board length comes extremely close, my system's max is 10"), the 1060 ought to be a little more reasonable in size.

They are just reusing coolers from 1080s and 1070s. Coolers are cheap and people will often buy the most badass looking card when everything else is equal :p

People who can only handle 10 inches are in the monitory and cards will come out later to service those systems.
 
I want to watercool either a RX 480 or GTX 1060 but lean towards the 1060 because on paper it looks to have better thermals... But I too want to wait for a custom one. One annoyance I have with NVidia's cards is that the reference cards still put an extra DVI port on the 2nd row of the slots. Needs to be a single slot mini card to be truly compact :D
 
Updated OP to reflect info on the zotac 1060 mini. There will be a 3gb and 6gb version. Perhaps the 3gb version is what Nvidia was referring to when they mentioned a msrp of 250 USD...
 
Any news on other brands making an ITX 1070? Surely not just GB?

EK says they're not making a block unfortunately... Fingers crossed they change their minds, or someone else does...
 
EK says they're not making a block unfortunately... Fingers crossed they change their minds, or someone else does...

I'd much rather someone else do a better ITX 1070, maybe even with a reference PCB, and then have blocks for that. This trend of ever-taller ITX cards needs to stop, preferably right now.

Not that I've been able to see yet. I believe Zotac said they would for the 1060?

Well yeah, but we already had loads of ITX 960s, so the ITX 1060s will be plentiful and aren't as exciting as ITX 1070s. Though I would agree that they are probably the better card for most systems because of the reduced heat output.
 
Card is nice and short. But did you see the pci bracket end? The vents go right across where the pci slot divider is in a case. What are we supposed to do, delete the divider to get full ventilation? Weird
they should have included an HDMI - DVI adapter. Instead of putting a DVI port on the card.
 
Back
Top