4 months ago
If I were building a caller PC today, I'd spell for a mini shape facet mATX aliases ITX build. With companies for illustration Fractal Design and Lian Li making cases that tin fresh modern GPUs without sacrificing connected thermals, you don't request to settee for nan aged mid-tower monstrosities of yesteryear. And that's why PNY's new "Slim” exemplary RTX 50-series designs caught my eye. All 3 variants, covering nan 5070, 5070 Ti and 5080, are 2 slot cards pinch conscionable a brace of 120mm fans for cooling. As a result, moreover nan largest of nan 3 caller models, nan 5080, is comparatively svelte, coming successful astatine 11.8-inches aliases 300mm long. That intends it tin comfortably fresh pinch room to spare successful a media PC enclosure for illustration nan Fractal Ridge.
Technically, NVIDIA's reference designs for nan 5070 and 5080 are besides dual-slot solutions, but astir of nan company's manufacturing partners nutrient two-and-half aliases 3 slot variants of those cards. And pinch nary Founders Edition type of nan 5070 Ti disposable from NVIDIA, PNY's caller return connected that GPU will apt find a dedicated fanbase among PC enthusiasts.
PNY says nan caller cards will get successful February, pinch nan institution readying to connection some modular and overclocked versions of each 3 models. However, PNY isn't sharing pricing specifications conscionable yet. That astir apt has to do pinch nan authorities of nan full PC manufacture correct now. With nan value of astir RAM kits doubling and tripling successful caller months owed to nan AI boom, building a caller machine has go prohibitively expensive, and each signs constituent to GPUs getting much costly successful 2026. In fact, nan representation crunch is truthful bad that NVIDIA is reportedly readying to bring backmost nan RTX 3060, a GPU from 2021, arsenic a stopgap. Yikes.
