World's Smallest GTX 1080
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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687 words · ~3 min read
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thank you to Squarespace for sending us the CES 2017 miniature high performance graphics
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cards have been around for a while now but we're largely popularized by the
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performance and thermals of the 970 mini
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now in 2017 Zotac has introduced an 8.3
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in 1080 mini performance-wise it's basically the same as a reference card
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but with a tiny boost it's base clock is running at 1620 MHz and its boost clock
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is running at 1759 MHz about 33 MHz higher in terms of
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boost clock video input wise it is the same as reference with three display
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port 1.4 connectors one HDMI 2.0 B
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connector and a dual link DVI connector for cooling the fans are actually
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different the fan on the left is a 90mm static optimized fan the fan on the
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right is a 100 mm airflow optimized fan
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and the blades on each fan are different to correspond with that there's a bit
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more of a curve on the static pressure optimized one below that on the custom
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PCB you have a 5 plus1 powerphase design and a standard 180 W TDP this card
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should enable even more people to dive into small but ultra high performance
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ITX PCS which I personally find quite exciting because it's an interesting
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realm for computers to go into and I will say the price is unknown but is
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speculated to be somewhere around the cost of a reference card and for
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thermals at load it should be about 74° also if you're looking at aesthetic
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stuff there are white lights on the card
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and and the front shroud and the back are both metal and next up we have the
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vrgo backpack which is a much more elegant solution to tether-free VR
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instead of that kind of like thrown together laptop on your back thing that
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I've done in the past this is actually easy to use and can be used as a
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standard desktop as well which is rather cool it includes two hot swappable spots
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for Batteries you can remove one at a time to keep the system running
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completely if you want to have one charging and one in the unit like we do
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now or if you get a whole another set of batter batteries you could run two in
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the backpack for 2 hours of play and have two charging which takes 2 hours to
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charge and swap those in and out for continuous play it has spots built in
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for all your gear so you can have your controllers and nice little holding
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spots on the side as as well as your cable and you can even hang your headset
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off of the clip on the other side as well if you do want to convert it into desktop mode it's a relatively easy
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process just take the backpack off lay it down somewhere like this conveniently
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placed table pull up the velcro tab turn
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the dial into the unlocked position slide downwards and the backpack portion
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comes off to put it back on it's the exact same process but in Reverse lay
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the backpack portion down slide it up turn the dial put the velcro thing down
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