GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA Revealed - Single Slot, Vapor Chamber

[PLAfiller]

What can I say...thing of beauty...

 

[Basard]

looks like the old 8800 gt with that thin casing!View attachment 86261

Pray to god that it performs better...

 

[Slizzo]

Pray to god that it performs better...

Don't know what you're on about. 8800GT performed better than the G80 8800GTS and was close to the G80 8800GTX.

 

[EntropyZ]

Smexy card, too bad it'll run hot and probably never hit a high boost clock. It's awesome that vendors are still trying.

 

[timta2]

Exceptionally cool, but what I dont get to this day is, why dont we have dust covers for blower style fans?
Or would that ruin some airflow effect or something?

Seems to me it would help a lot just putting a removable dust cover over that fan.

Can you imagine the high number of RMAs, for dead cards? Take a look at how filthy and dusty the average person's desktop computer is on the inside. Most people don't know or don't care about cleaning them. Once the dust builds up on that dust cover, bye-bye video card!

 

[Basard]

Don't know what you're on about. 8800GT performed better than the G80 8800GTS and was close to the G80 8800GTX.

I was talking about the single slot solution on the 8800GT... A friend of mine had and XFX way back in the day.... he ended up getting a Xigmatek Battle Axe for it, which was epic. But he had nothing but problems with the single slot cooler it came with. The card itself was a beast.... a hell of a beast. And I got his old XFX 7950GT with the passive cooler.... that was the best graphics card ever made.

 

[notb]

It seems it works like an open air cooler, exhausting mostly inside the case. Very interesting I think, but what is it for? Most cases seem to have space for 2 slots, even the ultra SFF.

Most do but not all of them - that's the point.
So this is exactly targeted at people who want a powerful yet single-slot card.

Generally speaking, dGPU market is fairly small. It is a good idea to make a unique, interesting card rather than a more ordinary one that can only compete by price or performance with tens of similar products.

Zotac has been doing that for a while. AFAIK the 1060 mini is one of the best selling cards in their offer - even though most cases can handle a longer GPU. Again: not much competition.

 

[deu]

That's a nice looking card. I am curious what the acoustics are going to be like.

I found a video on youtube where they tested the cards accoustics:

 

[Slizzo]

I was talking about the single slot solution on the 8800GT... A friend of mine had and XFX way back in the day.... he ended up getting a Xigmatek Battle Axe for it, which was epic. But he had nothing but problems with the single slot cooler it came with. The card itself was a beast.... a hell of a beast. And I got his old XFX 7950GT with the passive cooler.... that was the best graphics card ever made.

I had a BFG OC card. While it may have ran a little hot and was a little noisy, I think it performed just fine for the time I had it. I ran a custom fan profile using RivaTuner way back when. I believe my fan "idle" was at 65% duty cycle, which was just barely audible over my case fans. Card idled quite cool at that.

But yes, in the "now times" of bigger and quieter coolers, a single slot will be noisy.

 

[ypsylon]

If there is some company which will provide a waterblock for it, my folding rig will get a new partner, full of these babies.