What are the most powerful single slot cards?

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Feb 12th, 2018 9:17 am

konsensei [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Mar 17, 2006; 6884 posts; 5799 upvotes; Burlington

Feb 12th, 2018 9:17 am

What are the most powerful single slot cards?

I am looking for a readily available and powerful card, that is SINGLE-SLOT.
I recently got a beautiful beautiful slim case to use as HTPC and got everything else set up. The problem is there is the only single slot for PCI. It does take normal full height as well as low profile. I know there are a few GT 1030 out there, but I'd really need something with more power. I saw an Inno3D gtx 1050ti that is single slot, but it is not available near us.

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Feb 12th, 2018 9:48 am

jacquesstrap: Deal Addict; Nov 9, 2008; 1656 posts; 697 upvotes; Toronto

Feb 12th, 2018 9:48 am

There was a deal for a 1050 low profile card on newegg, but it was dual slot:

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... ce=afc-%zn

For an HTPC, depending on what you're doing, consider an APU. I have an A10-6700 in my mini ITX HTPC and it meets my needs, though I'm still doing 1080p content.

Edit - just checked on Newegg quickly and there are two Zotac single slot 1050s:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... -_-Product
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... -_-Product

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Feb 12th, 2018 9:55 am

konsensei [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Mar 17, 2006; 6884 posts; 5799 upvotes; Burlington

Feb 12th, 2018 9:55 am

jacquesstrap wrote: ↑ There was a deal for a 1050 low profile card on newegg, but it was dual slot:

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.a ... ce=afc-%zn

For an HTPC, depending on what you're doing, consider an APU. I have an A10-6700 in my mini ITX HTPC and it meets my needs, though I'm still doing 1080p content.

Edit - just checked on Newegg quickly and there are two Zotac single slot 1050s:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... -_-Product
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... -_-Product

for sure it'll be doing from time to time 4k x265 hevc. And occasional gaming that will probably need 1050 - 1050ti at least.
The newegg links are single slot, but the heatsinks expand to dual slot. Doubt it'll fit.

Feb 12th, 2018 10:14 am

tkyoshi: Deal Fanatic; Mar 6, 2005; 5782 posts; 804 upvotes

Feb 12th, 2018 10:14 am

Look for a Geforce 1030 there are some single slot solutions. 1050 is too warm to cool with a thin heatsink w/o making a racket which is why they don't really exist.

https://www.amazon.ca/GIGABYTE-GeForce- ... H6Q04FTQH1

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Feb 12th, 2018 10:15 am

EugW: Deal Expert; Mar 23, 2009; 19560 posts; 5638 upvotes; Toronto

Feb 12th, 2018 10:15 am

I was looking into this too as I have a slim case and need a single-slot low profile card.

The 1030 with 2 GB RAM does NOT support 4K Netflix streaming. Minimum 1050 with 3 GB RAM.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/ ... vidia-gpus

Here's hoping that nVidia's 11xx series coming this spring will solve this problem for us slim single-slot types.

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Feb 12th, 2018 10:23 am

joeyjoejoe: Deal Guru; May 9, 2006; 12064 posts; 2671 upvotes

Feb 12th, 2018 10:23 am

1050ti is the best I know of... well there's the GALAX GeForce GTX 1070 KATANA, but that's near impossible to find.

What case is this?

Feb 12th, 2018 10:29 am

konsensei [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Mar 17, 2006; 6884 posts; 5799 upvotes; Burlington

Feb 12th, 2018 10:29 am

EugW wrote: ↑ I was looking into this too as I have a slim case and need a single-slot low profile card.

The 1030 with 2 GB RAM does NOT support 4K Netflix streaming. Minimum 1050 with 3 GB RAM.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/ ... vidia-gpus

Here's hoping that nVidia's 11xx series coming this spring will solve this problem for us slim single-slot types.

Yes, I do hope new cards would come out with some nice slim ones.

The only 1050ti I see that's indeed single slot is
http://www.inno3d.com/products_detail.php?refid=297

I would probably buy for now it if it was available. But I can't find any store here on in US carrying it.

Feb 12th, 2018 10:36 am

tkyoshi: Deal Fanatic; Mar 6, 2005; 5782 posts; 804 upvotes

Feb 12th, 2018 10:36 am

EugW wrote: ↑ I was looking into this too as I have a slim case and need a single-slot low profile card.

The 1030 with 2 GB RAM does NOT support 4K Netflix streaming. Minimum 1050 with 3 GB RAM.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/ ... vidia-gpus

Here's hoping that nVidia's 11xx series coming this spring will solve this problem for us slim single-slot types.

That's interesting, didn't know that. Kinda silly since Intel HD 620 and newer support it but maybe it's a marketing/money thing.

konsensei wrote: ↑ Yes, I do hope new cards would come out with some nice slim ones.

The only 1050ti I see that's indeed single slot is
I would probably buy for now it if it was available. But I can't find any store here on in US carrying it.

Yeah

Unfortunately they don't serve the NA market, i'm sure even if you found an importer they'd probably charge you an arm and leg.

Feb 25th, 2018 8:40 am

JAC: Deal Expert; Apr 16, 2001; 15862 posts; 2468 upvotes

Feb 25th, 2018 8:40 am

If you're only gaming occasionally, why not get a thunderbolt 3 external video card system?

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