970 Strix PCB Length

[HdFkK]

Hey everyone,

 

for my Mini ITX water-cooling build, I am looking for a short graphics card to watercool with an EK block. My options as far as I can tell are the short versions of reference cards like for example the Palit 970 Jetstream or the EVGA 970 with the reference cooler. I definitely know those will fit. But, and here comes my point. All of those cards only feature 4 power phases for the GPU and the strip does 6, I just want a card with more overclocking headroom in terms of the PCB, and the strix PCB seems to be relatively short. So if anyone out here who owns a 970 Strix could measure how long the PCB is (without the I/O shield) that would make my choice a lot easier. I also thought about a R9 Nano, but that would be quite a step up in price.

 

If I can´t get the strix in my system I might as well wait for the Pascal cards, either to get more performance or to grab one of those 970s once they become fairly cheap.

 

Thanks!

[mikat]

with all the watercooling parts you'd be looking at R9 Nano prices, so get that and watercool it later down the road

[Moonzy]

give me 5 minutes `-`

[Moonzy]

PCB = 23cm

PCB + backplate = 25.5cm

[HdFkK]

41 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

PCB = 23cm

PCB + backplate = 25.5cm

Thank you Sir! This would mean the strix would fit by a couple millimeters. 

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, HdFkK said:

Thank you Sir! This would mean the strix would fit by a couple millimeters. 

please add or minus 0.5cm, as there might be parallax error

my ruler cant fit into my case properly `-`

but i measured 3 times to make sure lol

[HdFkK]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

please add or minus 0.5cm, as there might be parallax error

my ruler cant fit into my case properly `-`

but i measured 3 times to make sure lol

Will do, a german review side measured the pcb to 23,3cm. I think I´ll go with 23,5cm and if that´s too long I won´t get the strix.

[harrynowl]

The PCB wasn't very long when i had one. Card was about 25-26cm or so from the top of my head. but it was a bit taller than usual. Shame cause the PCB was actually empty could've been half the size to be honest

 

 

[HdFkK]

4 hours ago, harrynowl said:

The PCB wasn't very long when i had one. Card was about 25-26cm or so from the top of my head. but it was a bit taller than usual. Shame cause the PCB was actually empty could've been half the size to be honest

 

 

Did it overclock good? I mean I would only buy it for better GPU power delivery, otherwise I´ll go with a Palit Jetstream since it has mDP Connectors which would come in handy with all the Apple stuff I have.

[harrynowl]

3 minutes ago, HdFkK said:

Did it overclock good? I mean I would only buy it for better GPU power delivery, otherwise I´ll go with a Palit Jetstream since it has mDP Connectors which would come in handy with all the Apple stuff I have.

it did 1590/2000mhz. boring card tbh used more interesting cards in the past  

[HdFkK]

13 hours ago, harrynowl said:

it did 1590/2000mhz. boring card tbh used more interesting cards in the past  

Like 970s in general? I would love to get something with more power, but an R9 Nano really is the opposite of price/performance. Too bad no company does anything better than a 970 with a short PCB..