Review of Galax 1070 Katana GPU ( it has arrived) - page 4.

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Quote from: mrada1204 on May 11, 2017, 06:01:25 PM

it seems it is not such a good card in terms of cooling ... u have to keep it at lower tdp to not overheat

Don't know yet..

It does have very good sols to watts.

and it is running with two 1080 ti's

It is hot spot 92f

I will take the temp of air

it will end up mining in a cooler room.

here is the bottom line right now 3 card rig is doing 1442 sol at 385 watts on software

a five card rx 480 would do 1442 sol at 700-750 watts not flashed and maybe 600 watts flashed.

the space is much smaller for this rig. more testing need.

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it seems it is not such a good card in terms of cooling ... u have to keep it at lower tdp to not overheat

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Quote from: cptfisher on May 11, 2017, 05:42:27 PM

without additional power for the pci slots you will draw all from your atx conenctor and risk to destroy it is very high on the long run if you employ 6 cards....

you are wrong.

Those boards have run 4 rx 480s for months with zero issues it drew 600 watts and used four slots.

the entire three card rig now draws under 550 watts.

the three cards are using 5 pcie cables most power is pcie cable

I also have down clocked to 55% tdp to avoid over heating.

Right now my garage is pretty hot around 90f

You can see the card is warm as it runs at 71 c with fans set to 75%

note is only doing 314 sols due to low tdp of 55% 82 watts 3.83 sols a watt

the middle 1080 ti is doing 522 sols at 55% tdp 142 watts 3.65 sols a watt

and the fat ass aorus is doing 652 sols at 59 % 163 watts 4.00 sols a watt using 2 8 pin pcie cables

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without additional power for the pci slots you will draw all from your atx conenctor and risk to destroy it is very high on the long run if you employ 6 cards....

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Do you think it would be feasible to stuff 6 Katanas in one of these board you pointed out in the other thread? Talk about density!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138439

Getting enough air flow across the cards would be Job 1.

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Okay it is in hand

photos coming

the most powerful and affordable 1 slot nvidia card in my hand

and here is a biostar z170 rig

with
Galax 1070 Katana left -------- one slot
Zotac 1080 ti FE center ------- two slot
Aorus 1080 ti right ------------ three slots

lots of room to breath

loading on msi

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Quote from: U253 on May 10, 2017, 07:42:47 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on May 09, 2017, 10:56:48 PM

Quote from: zer0k on May 09, 2017, 08:18:05 PM

Can't wait to see the results on this card

If you can keep it cool enough, it will really help increase density in a lot of Nvidia systems that aren't using risers

yeah it should work great on the bioster z170 boards.

I will test it with

strix 1070
msi 1070
katana 1070

1080 ti founders
1080 ti founders
1070 katana

1080 ti msi aero
1080 ti msi aero
1070 katana

the biostar allows 3 cards with a riser

but with the katana 3 cards and no risers should be easy .

If I like the one I will get a second and return another card.

it may allow 4 cards on the biostar z170

in slots open air.

katana 1070
katana 1070
katana 1070
founders 1080 ti

give 1 slot spacing seems wise for this card. I read some reviews from Chinese websites, this card likely does nothing better than 1070FE in cooling. And it's not exactly the blower type as FE, hot air comes out at 1/4 position so definitely will need some spacing. The four slots Biostar boards is a good choice.

Also this is not the first time Galax makes this type single slot card, usually even in China the supply could be limited as it's not as popular.

And it's a heavy card.

lot of copper in it vs aluminum.

on open air flat mobo setups like the one below it should be good.

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Quote from: U253 on May 10, 2017, 07:42:47 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on May 09, 2017, 10:56:48 PM

Quote from: zer0k on May 09, 2017, 08:18:05 PM

Can't wait to see the results on this card

If you can keep it cool enough, it will really help increase density in a lot of Nvidia systems that aren't using risers

yeah it should work great on the bioster z170 boards.

I will test it with

strix 1070
msi 1070
katana 1070

1080 ti founders
1080 ti founders
1070 katana

1080 ti msi aero
1080 ti msi aero
1070 katana

the biostar allows 3 cards with a riser

but with the katana 3 cards and no risers should be easy .

If I like the one I will get a second and return another card.

it may allow 4 cards on the biostar z170

in slots open air.

katana 1070
katana 1070
katana 1070
founders 1080 ti

give 1 slot spacing seems wise for this card. I read some reviews from Chinese websites, this card likely does nothing better than 1070FE in cooling. And it's not exactly the blower type as FE, hot air comes out at 1/4 position so definitely will need some spacing. The four slots Biostar boards is a good choice.

Also this is not the first time Galax makes this type single slot card, usually even in China the supply could be limited as it's not as popular.

And it's a heavy card.

Interested in seeing how well this card cools also given it's the blower design with less area to move air through like the FE version. I've seen a few of these at one of my local MicroCenters but never thought much about them since I use risers and had never heard of it, so def interested in your testing results as I'm only building Nvidia 1070/1080/1080ti rigs from now on...

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Quote from: philipma1957 on May 09, 2017, 10:56:48 PM

Quote from: zer0k on May 09, 2017, 08:18:05 PM

Can't wait to see the results on this card

If you can keep it cool enough, it will really help increase density in a lot of Nvidia systems that aren't using risers

yeah it should work great on the bioster z170 boards.

I will test it with

strix 1070
msi 1070
katana 1070

1080 ti founders
1080 ti founders
1070 katana

1080 ti msi aero
1080 ti msi aero
1070 katana

the biostar allows 3 cards with a riser

but with the katana 3 cards and no risers should be easy .

If I like the one I will get a second and return another card.

it may allow 4 cards on the biostar z170

in slots open air.

katana 1070
katana 1070
katana 1070
founders 1080 ti

give 1 slot spacing seems wise for this card. I read some reviews from Chinese websites, this card likely does nothing better than 1070FE in cooling. And it's not exactly the blower type as FE, hot air comes out at 1/4 position so definitely will need some spacing. The four slots Biostar boards is a good choice.

Also this is not the first time Galax makes this type single slot card, usually even in China the supply could be limited as it's not as popular.

And it's a heavy card.

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Quote from: zer0k on May 09, 2017, 08:18:05 PM

Can't wait to see the results on this card

If you can keep it cool enough, it will really help increase density in a lot of Nvidia systems that aren't using risers

yeah it should work great on the bioster z170 boards.

I will test it with

strix 1070
msi 1070
katana 1070

1080 ti founders
1080 ti founders
1070 katana

1080 ti msi aero
1080 ti msi aero
1070 katana

the biostar allows 3 cards with a riser

but with the katana 3 cards and no risers should be easy .

If I like the one I will get a second and return another card.

it may allow 4 cards on the biostar z170

in slots open air.

katana 1070
katana 1070
katana 1070
founders 1080 ti

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Can't wait to see the results on this card

If you can keep it cool enough, it will really help increase density in a lot of Nvidia systems that aren't using risers

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IT shipped will arrive on the 11th.

I will put it in a rig with

asus strix 1070
msi gamer 1070
galax katana 1070

the board will be an aorus z270

I will slot mount all three cards.

goal will be 1200-1300 sol/h for zec

using under 400 watts for the three cards.

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Quote from: adaseb on May 08, 2017, 08:26:38 AM

Where did you buy that?

Last I heard Galax brand GPUs aren't sold in North America.

they have a direct store only purchase

http://galaxstore.net/

http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-GeForce-GTX-1070-KATANA_p_130.html

this is the only way to buy it in the usa.

My guess is even though it reads in stock. The stock may not be in the USA.
They wait for enough people to order it from the USA link and ship at that point.

The link and the store are real.

Here is the facebook page for them in the US

https://www.facebook.com/GalaxyUS/

I did business with them 1 other time... And they were slow to ship.

But I can use this size card in a few of my builds. So I am willing to wait a bit.

It is 9 am In NY and they are near Chicago So maybe they will reply to my email in a few hours.

It is a paypal order so I do not have fear of a ripoff in any way.

UPDATE: I got an email response it is expected to ship may 10 via fedex. I may get it by fri or next monday.

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Where did you buy that?

Last I heard Galax brand GPUs aren't sold in North America.

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Quote from: th00ber on May 08, 2017, 04:50:07 AM

Still not here ?

I ordered it on may 5 it is yet to ship. Says it is in stock. I will send them an email later today.

I just emailed them. I will post back later today.

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Still not here ?

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Note It has arrived. Test build is below.

I like this card so much I ordered a second and almost certainly will order a third .

My goal is to have a 3x Galax katana 1070 plus 1 x founders edition 1080 ti In a rosewill case with about 1800-1900 Sols for ZEC and under 600 watts. At about 2.1k for the build.

This will be riser free and should fit in a data center rack.

And not be smoking stupid hot.

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I ordered one and will post review when it arrives. This is the most powerful single slot gpu available.

http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-GeForce-GTX-1070-KATANA_p_130.html

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11271/galax-and-kfa2-list-geforce-gtx-1070-katana-a-singleslot-geforce-gtx-1070

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