Posted on Thursday, March 07 2013 @ 11:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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received three pictures of ASUS' GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini, a shorter version of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 670 designed to fit in small Mini-ITX cases. The new graphics card is just 17cm long and has 5-phase VRM which draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector instead of two 6-pin connectors, enabling you to choose a more compact PSU as well.
What's more interesting about the GTX 670 DirectCU Mini is its cooler, which appears to use a combination of a thick metal plate that draws heat from VRM and memory on the obverse side; and a round aluminum fin-stack, which could be cooled by a single ~80 mm fan. ASUS did not release pricing or availability information, and is still gauging community interest in such a product.
