A couple of weeks ago ASUS showed off some pictures and revealed a few details of its forthcoming
GTX 670 DirectCU Mini: Small Size, Full Power graphics card on its Republic of Gamers (ROG) site. Now SweClockers has managed to round out the details of this up and coming mini graphics card and also
published the first full product image.
SweClockers
informs us that ASUS is intending to launch its GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini in late April. ASUS has noted a resurgence in the trend for SFF PCs of late and wants to make powerful add-in-boards to complement the powerful desktop processors that have dropped their power consumption over the years. Graphic cards have seemed to follow the opposite trend to processors, getting ever larger and more power hungry
“They accommodate physically larger cores, additional memory, power circuitry and enlarged coolers, to the point that they often dwarf mini-ITX motherboards, making it difficult to find cases to accommodate them,” writes Alex Mankz on the ASUS
ROG Blog.