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So apparently a new GTX 950 was announced by EVGA that doesn't need external power. I don't know much about this sort of thing but, is this model even out to buy yet?
I'm having trouble finding info on it, other than the fact that it exists
http://www.evga.com/articles/00990/evga-geforce-gtx-950-low-power/.
are they wood screwing with us again?
>>54336858
i don't understand
>>54336867
once upon a time nvidia showed off a card at a show as if it were fresh out of the factory
turns out it was a mockup held together with woodscrews
Asus has one too.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_950/
Check it, nigga.
>>54336879
not that fag but i just googled it, and all i got were images of screw holes that look pretty normal to me. what am i missing? the screws are metal too.
MSI has one too
>>54336893
Awesome, so how do we know which ones are which when buying?
I'm in Australia and if I were able to find this within a couple weeks, I will be very happy.
>>54336893
>the 950 is outperforming the 760 in some games
How long until GTX x50/ R7 x70 cards will be able to max out games @ 1080p?
>>54336924
You need to take a trip to the /diy/ board for some education.
Wood screws are a type of screw, the material the screw is made of is irrelevant.
>>54336825
>no pcie power connector
>still uses 2 slots
What the fuck.
Why cant we get single slot cards again?
Back in 2008 you could easily find a card that required a 6 pin pcie power connector, but still only used one slot.
>>54337300
Because the heatsinks+fans and output connectors are taking up all the space.
Most people could just do with a single DP or HDMI port, but cooling modern GPUs requires a lot more thermal management than it did back when ATI was still alive and kicking.
>>54337333
Well that is what i mean. PCIE-16x has a max power draw of 75 watts... the 6 pin adds another 75 ontop of that. If a card from 2008 that used more than 75 watts of power (and in turn generated more than 75 watts of heat) only needed a single slot cooler, then why does a card from 2016 that draws less than 75 watts need a two slot cooler? Shouldn't we have gone forward in cooler tech, not backwards?
>>54337369
Sure, a low-powered card like a GTX950 (which has a TDP of 90 W according to NVidia) could do with a smaller heatsink. Even passive cooling could be possible. But that would require engineering and not just copying NVidia's reference design.
This is the big issue nowadays; companies are pushing their coolers onto the market, not the graphics card. Because they're the same shit with every manufacturer anyway, just slight modifications but nothing major to really distinguish your brand from the other companies.
It's marketing. And we're the ones suffering from it.
>>54337369
A bunch of cards that had single slot coolers were terrible, like the 8800GT/9600GT.
A single slot solution just isn't worth it for a graphics card that needs active cooling, it'll run too hot.
>>54337416
I absolutely love how there is already a full coverage waterblock for the fury duo that is only a single slot... 16 gflops of gpu in only a single slot of space...
Im sure there is a demand for it too, outside of aesthetics. M-ITX and small cases might have trouble fitting larger dual slot cards.
>>54337416
But the ones with built in water cooling like the evga hybrid 980ti are awesome!
>>54337459
Even from a cooling perspective in SLI/Crossfire configs each card would benefit from the additional spacing between them and the next card in line. But as I said, that'd require engineering sans marketing bs.
>>54337469
I'm not saying they're bad cards, but you have to acknowledge the fact that every single AIO any manufacturer uses is the same shit. There's no difference. It's just marketing fairydust and buzzwords to make it all shiny.
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2841/geforce-gtx-950-lp
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125856
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5850
Gigabyte's GTX 950 75W is out on Newegg, no power connector needed just like the other 75W cards
>>54337056
Polaris/Pascal will probably.
I wished they would make a 4GB 950. It could definitely use it for higher res textures.
>>54339119
Just remember... real world tests show lower performance than their more power hungry siblings. Dont expect to get the same fps as your buddys rig with the same higher wattage card
>>54337300
You can still get a single slot card if you buy quadro or firepro, but its a stupid idea to buy them for this reason
>>54339659
retard alert
>>54337028
read the fucking backside of the package or the technical specifications on the website you are buying from.
>>54340183
fucking jewvidia ripping people off again. should call it 940 if it's slower than the regular 950.
>>54342136
so is it out? what I was really asking was, if I were to go to the store tomorrow, would I be able to find one?
>>54337300
I used a single-slot FirePro not too long ago that didn't have any PCIe power connectors. That thing would run like a vacuum cleaner when I benchmarked the card for FP32 calculations and thermal readings hit high 60s. Just because it uses less power doesn't mean that it runs cool enough for a single slot cooler.
![flat,800x800,075,f[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KCqbmse.jpg "flat,800x800,075,f[1].jpg")
tfw renewed thermal paste on my two year old GTX 780 and now it runs 7 C cooler
>>54336825
Another GTX 950?
ASUS did it first and then MSI.
I bought pic related last december and it was ok until 2 months ago i started noticing frame drops (from +60 to less than 30 or so) and at first i thought it was a drivers issue but i clean installed 362.0 and it's still the same. is it a w10 issue?
>>54344701
no, it's a "I'm another nvidia cuck in denial" issue.
>>54344701
are you playing nvidia Gameworks games? you know, the thing that promotes slightly better hair at a 30% performance loss
>>54345712
No. Even games that don't require high specs are dropping frames (Dark Souls 2 and even fucking league of legends). Everything was cool like 2 months ago idk what happened
>>54346014
you got gimped, pascal comes now out and shows 30% improvement
>>54336858
What's this woods screws meme?
>>54346308
They're fucking wood screws, man
>>54342153
it's just not able to boost as high due to the power limit.
>>54344701
did temps change?
>>54346308
Nvidia announced Fermi with a fake PCB literally held together by woodscrews.
>>54342153
This is for anons with low wattage PSUs like 350 watts
>>54346610
That's funny.
My gpu keeps throttling up to this for no reason and gets stuck with nothing running but firefox and steam, I've rolled back the drivers several times, uninstalled a bunch of programs and it keeps happening after about 20 minutes of normal idle. Anyone have this issue?
>>54348171
>AMD
Literal housefire top nozzle
>>54349011
>Crying out le AMD is hot meme
>GPU in question isn't even AMD, but Nvidia
Top fucking kek at you being such a fanboy that you can't even read. What are you, 9?
>>54348171
Have you made sure the fans on the GPU are all clean? What about dust in the case?
If those are good; how old is the GPU? If you've got some spare isopropyl alcohol and TIM, might be worth cleaning & reapplying the paste.
Should also be worth seeing what wattage your PSU is. Perhaps its giving up and this is a sign of it?
>>54336825
When my 7970 died last summer I just got the cheapest 950 to top me off while the new cards come out this year and I can tell you - it doesn't draw a whole lot of power either way. Rarely goes over 60W.
If the "low TDP" version are more expensive just grab the cheapest standard one, it's a junker card anyway.
It's not like you'll be playing VR games or real time raytrace renders in Iray with it or somth , why throw dollars at it lmao?
>>54349154
It's about 6 months old. I was thinking about re pasting it but its not just the temps, the whole card ramps up like its in game and never throttles back down. Dust isn't an issue, I give the whole case a good spray every few weeks, I did pull the card out and spray after it started doing this.
>this is the card at normal idle then after about 20 minutes it just spikes like in my last pic
I'll gladly accept a dual-slot cooler if they'd make a damn half-height GTX950 card for my HTPC. The case has the width. Height, not so much.
>>54339119
what ya mean no power connecter? is this easy for a eGPU?
>>54336825
Why would you want such a thing? buy a 380, it's hardly more expensive and actually supports DX12
I wish I could buy Nvidia cards without knowing they'll eventually get gimped.or fried by drivers.
