SPARKLE Launches World's First GeForce GTS 250 Graphics Card with Low Profile Design

[RadeonProVega]

why make a low profile design card and add a 6 pin to it?

 

[Weer]

It's low-profile.. but it takes two slots?

 

[Jaffakeik]

I wonder if i can use CUDA for gaming or only for game designing?

 

[wahdangun]

hmmm, i didn't understand, i tough, HTPC didn't have powerfull PSU to begin with? so why they use 6 PIN?

 

[Silverel]

hmmm, i didn't understand, i tough, HTPC didn't have powerfull PSU to begin with? so why they use 6 PIN?

Which is why I was wondering about the 5k series. IIRC the 5750 and 5770 only draw about 100w at max load. Those should be able to run fine on a pci-e 2.0 slot.

 

[Tartaros]

hmmm, i didn't understand, i tough, HTPC didn't have powerfull PSU to begin with? so why they use 6 PIN?

That depends on the psu. Also there are converters for pcie from hdd connectors. I have a htpc and I use a common psu, the case didn't come with it.

The card is sexy

 

[Roph]

Hasn't there been a low pr ofile 8800GT/9800GT before? Which is just the same thing? Or am I remembering wrong?

 

[Mussels]

the standards for add in cards are from back when PC's lay on their backs, before the cases went upright.


If a motherboard lies flat on its back, the direction "up" is height (PCI bracket), the direction sideways (such as covering multiple slots) is width, and "length" would be the dimension from one of the of board to another, in the direction the PCI slots go (since the PCI brackets are at the 'back' and the user is at the 'front')


seriously, i find arguments like this utterly stupid... just cause two people agree doesn't make it right. it makes them both wrong.


Roph: yes, in the green edition cards i beleive.

A card like this with a half height bracket (make one yourself if you have to!) would be damned sexy in an ITX LAN gaming machine.

 

[Yukikaze]

why make a low profile design card and add a 6 pin to it?

Because low-profile doesn't automatically mean that it shouldn't have one ? There are plenty of even relatively low power or HTPC PSUs that have a 6-pin connector.

 

[RejZoR]

Low profile means that high end card occupies only one slot. What do you benefit from slimmer design if it still occupies several slots?

 

[Mussels]

Low profile means that high end card occupies only one slot. What do you benefit from slimmer design if it still occupies several slots?

no it doesnt. low profile is purely about the height of a card, so that it fits in low profile PC cases with half height PCI slots.

http://www.auzentech.com/site/products/x-fi_forte.php
click images - auzen clearly show the difference between a full height and a low profile

images of low profile PCI slots - note how the slots are roughly double the height of the standard connections at the rear of the case.

 

[tkpenalty]

I dont get why people like panther are arguing against an industry standard, which merely is superficial and doesn't change anything. Mind you guys, height is in its traditional sense in enterprise environments such as datacentres where the chassis lays flat, like those above.

You guys need to stick your heads into average-consumer-land or datacentres because thats where the majority of the shit happens.

 

[Esse]

Unfortunately no low profile bracket in the box.

Are you sure? I know you're all questioning this but it says in the picture it comes with a low profile bracket.

 

[Mussels]

Are you sure? I know you're all questioning this but it says in the picture it comes with a low profile bracket.

its possible the review sample didnt for some reason, but retail does. the package contents can change.

 

[wolf]

Wow an article about a new card has turned into a full blown crazy-fest over what a low profile card is, suffice to say the mods are completely correct.

Still I think it would be nice to see more low profile, native pci-e 4x cards hit the market, dual slot or not isnt a big bother, but pci-e 4x will broaden the allure of such cards IMO.

 

[RejZoR]

I've never ever seen any so called "low profile" card with smaller bracket plate. They all had full size one, so that's no low profile for me.

 

[Disparia]

Are they not that popular over there?

I just checked about 50 of the 91 video cards tagged as low profile/low-profile ready at Newegg - they all came with low-profile brackets. Not surprising and I don't have to check them all to know that coming without one would be a rarity. Been building/upgrading computers for the companies I've worked at for 6+ years now. With the exception of the IT department, nearly every case is a desktop or slim tower. When upgrading a station to dual monitors, more often than not it'll need the addition of a low-profile video card.

 

[btarunr]

its possible the review sample didnt for some reason, but retail does. the package contents can change.

Yup, that is most likely the case. With our own reviews, companies sometimes mess up with the bundle. There was lulz when someone bundled two CrossFire cables with a Radeon HD4870X2.

The picture in the news post says that the low-profile bracket is included in the package. So it will.

 

[PP Mguire]

Dude, this plus Zotac Atom 330 and Ion and 4gb DDR2 = win.

 

[Zubasa]

Dude, this plus Zotac Atom 330 and Ion and 4gb DDR2 = win.

Win if it doesn't require a 6-pin.
If you are going to pair one with the an Atom, you might as well get a 9600GT LP what doesn't need a 6-pin.

 

[btarunr]

This is a GTS 250. You should be grateful that it makes use of just one connector. Normally GTS 250 (9800 GTX+) uses two connectors.

 

[wolf]

This is a GTS 250. You should be grateful that it makes use of just one connector. Normally GTS 250 (9800 GTX+) uses two connectors.

Looks like the reference GTS250 on the NVIDIA website uses just one connector, but not all do, even so for a small form factor case a single pci-e 6 pin really isnt an issue, this with the Zotac atom 330 board wont draw too much between them, if there is no pci-e 6 pin you could just use a double molex adapter.

 

[btarunr]

Looks like the reference GTS250 on the NVIDIA website uses just one connector, but not all do, even so for a small form factor case a single pci-e 6 pin really isnt an issue, this with the Zotac atom 330 board wont draw too much between them, if there is no pci-e 6 pin you could just use a double molex adapter.

http://images.nvidia.com/products/geforce_gts_250/GeForce_GTS_250_med_f.png

GTS 250 is technically the same thing as 9800 GTX+. The reference design itself did some power budgeting. You can check out other manufacturers. One power connector is as far as GTS 250 can go.

 

[wolf]

Oh yeah no disagreement there, I had a 9800GTX so I know it and the + had 2 connectors, as do many non reference GTS250's, I couldn't fathom this GPU needing none at all, it would have to be Nvidias G92c (40nm)

would be nice however to see Sparkle make a low-pro GT240 with no power connector, maybe even single slot too.

 

[Cheeseball]

I want one. Imagine they make a HD 5770 in LP, that would be awesome by itself. Best yet, they keep the L6788A. Ooh yeah.