I guess a far more common scenario is a case with enough room for a dual-slot cooler but only a low profile card. Like a ton of business desktops from HP/Dell/Acer etc.
Some care has to be exercised when feeding a 75W card to a PCI-E slot in a retail or business class desktop from one of the major retailers. I've seen a few Dell Optiplex desktops that list in their spec sheet that the PCI-E slot isn't rated to deliver the full 75W. I personally haven't tried an upgrade like this in an underspec expansion slot so I can't speak for how things would turn out, but its something that might be worth keeping in mind.
call me back when I i can actually buy one. It's been a month since they were first announced. Just another press release product (no actual quantity) to distract people from Polaris 11.
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Gigaplex - Thursday, April 14, 2016 - link
And once again they miss the point for a lot of users wanting a low power GPU. Some of us have cases that only accept single slot cooler designs.Calista - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
I guess a far more common scenario is a case with enough room for a dual-slot cooler but only a low profile card. Like a ton of business desktops from HP/Dell/Acer etc.BrokenCrayons - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
Some care has to be exercised when feeding a 75W card to a PCI-E slot in a retail or business class desktop from one of the major retailers. I've seen a few Dell Optiplex desktops that list in their spec sheet that the PCI-E slot isn't rated to deliver the full 75W. I personally haven't tried an upgrade like this in an underspec expansion slot so I can't speak for how things would turn out, but its something that might be worth keeping in mind.stardude82 - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
This was cool the first two times. Wake me when a 25W GM2xx card is announced or when someone squeezes it down to a half-height card.Fergy - Saturday, April 16, 2016 - link
I am looking for that too. Is the MSI N720-2GD5HLP the best choice right now?PulsartheSpacenerd - Sunday, April 17, 2016 - link
There are actually two half height versions of the 750 Ti, the MSI N750ti-2GD5TLP and Gigabyte's 750 Ti Low Profile OC Edition.Meteor2 - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
Wish you'd test one. I'd especially like to know the performance of the hardware h265 encoding with Handbrake.defaultluser - Friday, April 15, 2016 - link
call me back when I i can actually buy one. It's been a month since they were first announced. Just another press release product (no actual quantity) to distract people from Polaris 11.