Gadgetory

my coverage of Computex 2017 is brought to you by be quiet cable mod verda gear and EVGA go ahead and check out the links below for more info so I thought I'd pop into the zotac booth not really expecting a whole lot new because we're not really anticipating many new GPU launches except for maybe Vega but sure enough they did not disappoint I was pleasantly surprised to find this little guy right here this is currently being branded as the world's smallest GPX 1080p high that's right guys it's only eight point three inches long I might have to upgrade my my newly refreshed no 202 built with this sucker because holy crap that's a lot of power and a really tiny really tiny little compact card here you see we've still got the same sort of power configuration to a pin PCI you plug this is a custom PCB obviously look at that backplate there's no note no glaring yellow branding or yellow strip anymore it's completely color neutral as is the rest of the shroud you do get some white LEDs on the bottom of the top these little accents here as well as the zotac ZOTAC branding at the front they did choose to omit the RGB element as well as things like the fan stock controller etc simply to make the card as small as this certain things had to be sacrificed in order to get it down to this size but I think most of us would agree that it's completely worth it the other thing that they did was they actually sort of bent the the five six millimeter copper heat pipes in a more vertical orientation for the beam completely flat they kind of do this little little bent here and that was also another method that they used to get the card down to this size pretty impressive have you taken a close look at the fans here you'll notice that they're a little different the one of the right is 100 millimeters it's basically designed for optimal airflow one of the left is slightly smaller than 90 millimeters and that's optimized for static pressure no word on MSRP just yet but this part is gonna be launching very soon probably in the next month or two so keep an eye out for that so here's another cool new thing that I spotted the zotac booth this is their Arctic storm mini GT X 1080 P I which is pretty much working the same exact PCB as the card we just looked at except it's got a nice little mini waterblock on it this is currently again the world's smallest sort of a beam going on your world smallest water block for this particular GPU which is also very exciting comes with this nice little Jena quarter inch adapter here for your Inlet and outlet now so tacky shouting temperatures with this guy in the 40s and 50s that's in degrees Celsius which is very good that's actually very much on par with their full-sized Arctic storm water blog for the GTX 1080i so that's really nice that you're getting the same sort of thermal performance as you are with a full-size block and I will say that it is a full full coverage you're not just covering your GPU but your memory and your vrm as well that's awesome to see so there reminds me one thing I forgot to mention about the GTX head API mini air-cooled version is that we're still sort of working on the thermal situation they're hitting 82 degrees Celsius under load currently which I told them that's a little warm they said yes sir they're doing a little bit more tweaking in order to bring that down hopefully to the mid to high 70s that's a very warmest so let me know in the comments what's the comfortable low temperature for a GPU of this size and and horsepower for you guys let me know alright guys that's going to concluded for my brief coverage of the zotac booth here at Computex 2017 once again huge showed us all my sponsors be quiet cable mod verdict gear and EVGA for making this trip possible go ahead and check out their stuff in the link of the description below and I'll see you guys in the next one here at Computex