you know I'd forgive you for thinking video cards these days are all such
conformists plastic shrouds everywhere two to six heat pipes your choice of
blower or two to three fans and that's
it where has the style gone to China
apparently with some help from our friends at NVIDIA we Tracked Down the
five most mold-breaking graphics cards of the current generation many of which
are aren't available in North America at
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okay so some of these cards are actually fairly well known by now and pallet Colm
X GTX 1050 TI is one of them it was
first announced back in February of this year and sports no fan whatsoever just a
rather sizable heat sink and two lengthy
heat pipes that means that case clearance might be an issue if you
decide to pick one of these up since from the card's Edge to the end of the
Heat hpe we measured 13 and A3 CM not a
problem for wider desktop cases like a defin R5 but definitely a consideration
for a home theater PC and we have another GTX 1050 TI too this one's from
MSI and it's got the same specs but a pretty different approach while it also
Sports a dual slot design with roughly the same overall length if you count the
cooler its width is much less and the
card itself self is half height so as
you might expect it comes with a lowprofile bracket out of the box which
means it's a viable option for a cheap 2u video transcoding box or one of those
slim PCS that were so popular a couple of years ago it's twin fan design means
that it'll generate some noise but we shouldn't actually see any thermal
throttling and in our testing these two
were actually neck and neck the whole time which really shouldn't come as that
much of a surp priz given that they're otherwise identical but what did blow us
away is that pallet comx actually ran
slightly cooler than the lowprofile actively cooled MSI and this is in a
closed case working our way up the
ladder this one should be very exciting to small form factor enthusiasts we've
got the GTX 1070 Katana from Galax while
not appreciably longer than a Founders Edition GTX 1070 the katana takes up
only a single slot thanks to its heavy
use of copper and aluminum to make the whole shroud part of the cooling setup
it's got a single blower fan to exhaust case out these tiny holes in the rear
iio and also just out into your case and
they even managed impressively to include three outputs meaning you're not
losing out as far as connectivity goes all this and without a back plate but
how does it measure up performance-wise well shockingly it's actually right up
there with our Founders Edition though The Thermals leave a lot to be desired
and it screamed like we were smashing its toes with a hammer the whole time
this card is definitely not one that you'd want to use in a case that doesn't
have some sound isolation or really at all unless you really need a single slot
card next up then is a pair of freaking
heavy GTX 1080s from Ino 3D and colorful
and I do mean pair because these cards
are strikingly similar with the in3d I
chill and Hercules airboss Behemoth whatever it's
called sporting not one not two not
three but four fans for um reasons I
guess but hey maybe with the 150 MHz
Factory overclock they're on to something and finally the RGB ey chill
logo indicates GPU load automatically which is kind of cool even though we
would prefer Direct Control it's colorful twin here the iigame xtop has a
distinctive feature of its own check this
out it's got a turbo button ah that
brings me back to a simpler time when PCS were beige and Windows was up to
version 95 anyway this card comes in a surprisingly
well-written if somewhat rambling box with no specs whatsoever we hit up the
website and whoa the website is coming
to hit us a surprise that sounds painful
let's see what else we got here RGB Lighting on the logo and uh oh here we
go the turbo button actually boost the clock speed by about 100 MHz neat I'm
not sure though why you wouldn't run it that way all the time because as for
performance it still actually fell little bit behind the Ino 3D eye chill
which manag better numbers across the board clearly that fourth fan is uh
working wonders finally our craziest card yet
the 1080 TI based colorful AME wow this
thing weighs a lot Vulcan X and Holy
balls is that a three slot card okay
technically no because it doesn't have more IO over there but the cooler does
definitely cover up the slot directly underneath so like the xtop the Vulcan X
comes with a turbo button that bumps the Boost clock to 2 GHz then aside from
some gamery fans we've got six heat pipes uh connected to two heat sinks
which on its own would be impressive but what is that on the side next to the
GeForce logo that's a screen baby a
pretty crappy old school LCD screen but a screen nonetheless does your graphics
card show fans speed core temperature
core frequency and memory usage conveniently on a little hardto read
display inside your Tower instead of in a sensible software interface no well
neither does ours because there's no software in the box and none on the
English version of the website I still got to give them points for originality though anyway how much does a 2 GHz
boost get you over a regular 108ti well looks like significant gains
in synthetics and real world numbers a couple frames higher than our Founders
Edition and to its credit by the way it even when overclocked stayed very very
cool though with a heat sink this big that shouldn't exactly be a shock so
there you have it six totally non-mainstream graphics card designs
some are similar to ones that were once popular like low profile single slot or
passive but with more performance than we've ever seen in these form factors
before While others take more let's say dramatic approaches so would you buy any
of these Hot Topic versions of graphics
cards or would you rather just stick with comfortable Conformity let us know
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