[PCGamer] Galax built the world's only single-slot GeForce GTX 1070

iARDAs · Apr 13, 2017

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The GTX 1070 Katana measures just 16mm thick and uses what Galax calls a turbo radiator-a fancy name for a thin cooling solution. Underneath the pancaked shroud is a copper cooling fin and vapor chamber contraption to draw heat away from the GPU and memory. Strategically placed holes in the bracket allow heat to escape.

Galax built a custom PCB for this card. The company says it uses high-quality components in its construction, but doesn't go into detail other than say it features an optimized electrical circuit.

Not only does this air cooled card take up just a single slot, it's also factory overclocked. Galax pushed the base and boost clockspeeds to 1,518MHz and 1,708MHz, respectively, up from Nvidia's reference clocks of 1,506MHz (base) and 1,683MHz (boost).

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gtz · Apr 13, 2017

Finally

I have always wondered why this was not attempted on the GTX970 since Maxwell is relatively cool.

I have always wanted one, I thought those days were gone. The 8800GT and the ATI 4850 were the last high end cards in a single slot config.

Drawback will be a noisy fan but I can live with that.

teh-yeti · Apr 13, 2017

I am very curious about 2 things. How loud and how hot?

Slomo4shO · Apr 13, 2017

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Originally Posted by teh-yeti

how hot?

The "Caution: Hot Surface" warning on the shroud should shed some insight

PostalTwinkie · Apr 13, 2017

That is a very very very sexy GPU.

BURGER4life · Apr 13, 2017

Look at that tiny PCB!

Causality1978 · Apr 13, 2017

niceeee so you can put 7 to this https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99E_WSUSB_31/specifications/

7 x PCIe x 16 slot(s)

PostalTwinkie · Apr 13, 2017

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Originally Posted by BURGER4life

Look at that tiny PCB!

Design award contender as a whole package.

Causality1978 · Apr 13, 2017

maybe linus tech can try this and share results from benchmarks

MrKoala · Apr 13, 2017

What's the point of running a single slot blower card if it dumps heat into the case?

Seban · Apr 13, 2017

Galax is going in the right way. I want to see something like this not only slim as it is but also low profile in the future so I can build kickass gaming HTPC. Size does matter, but in computers it should be reveresed. You wanna look at computers and say: look how small and sexy this is. When I see bigger and bigger cases with glass and rainbow leds I am begining to wonder what went wrong.

Slomo4shO · Apr 13, 2017

http://www.galax.com/en/graphics-card/10-series/galax-geforcer-gtx-1070-katana.html

Causality1978 · Apr 13, 2017

case is for childs or gamers . we run out case in the cold rooms

LancerVI · Apr 13, 2017

Nice card.

Though, not a big fan of Galax when it was Galaxy.

Would never answer any support emails or return calls. EVER. Drove me absolutely insane. Thank God for Amazon.

I know it's a different'ish company now, but I remain hesitant to purchase anything from them, regardless of how nice their cards are.

2002dunx · Apr 13, 2017

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Originally Posted by Causality1978

niceeee so you can put 7 to this https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99E_WSUSB_31/specifications/

7 x PCIe x 16 slot(s)

Yes, you can, but don't expect them all to function.... more than four will confuse the hell out of the BIOS.

dunx

Millillion · Apr 13, 2017

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Originally Posted by 2002dunx

Yes, you can, but don't expect them all to function.... more than four will confuse the hell out of the BIOS.

dunx

I thought those problems were solved years ago.

jarble · Apr 13, 2017

Not really news this has been out for a while
http://www.overclock.net/t/1618915/techpowerup-galax-unveils-a-single-slot-geforce-gtx-1070-graphics-card/0_50

And reviewed
http://www.expreview.com/53224-all.html

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Originally Posted by 2002dunx

Yes, you can, but don't expect them all to function.... more than four will confuse the hell out of the BIOS.

dunx

Seven cards will be just fine its when you start passing eight you can run into windows driver problems. I will note that your not going to get full 16x only 8x on most from the plx switching.

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I thought those problems were solved years ago.

You are correct most of the bios oddities have been ironed out for boards like these.

Edit: formating

ZealotKi11er · Apr 13, 2017

Something about Single slot looks right. Seeing the cooler I would say it will be effective. HD 4850 had single slot with 114W TDP. GTX1070 has 150W but this is better cooler. Not sure why card with less TDP are not single slot.

twitchyzero · Apr 13, 2017

this isn't low profile that will fit in a HTPC, right?

Is this coming State side? I know it was Chinese market only months bACK.

jarble · Apr 13, 2017

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Originally Posted by ZealotKi11er

Something about Single slot looks right. Seeing the cooler I would say it will be effective. HD 4850 had single slot with 114W TDP. GTX1070 has 150W but this is better cooler. Not sure why card with less TDP are not single slot.

[PCGamer] Galax built the world's only single-slot GeForce GTX 1070

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