Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini OC 4GB GDDR5 PCIe GTX970-DCMOC-4GD5

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Compact enough to fit in tiny MiniITX cases, Delivers good performance for sub4K gaming at a far more reasonable price than AMD's R9 Nano

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Costs about $50 more than standardsize GTX 970

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Last revision on December 11, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Compact enough to fit in tiny MiniITX cases, Delivers good performance for sub4K gaming at a far more reasonable price than AMD's R9 Nano

Reviewers Didn't Like

Costs about $50 more than standardsize GTX 970

Expert reviews and ratings

Asus' compact GTX 970 card fits in the same small cases as AMD's R9 Nano, and delivers most of that card's performance for about $300 less. It's not up to 4K gaming, but for anything less than that, it's a better value. Read...

By Computer Shopper on September 24, 2015

Nvidia's Maxwell hardware continues to impress me, and I still rate the GTX970 very highly even though Nvidia's reputation has been taking a hammering in recent months. I don't really want to dwell on the GTX970 memory concerns today, if you have managed...

By Kitguru.net on March 25, 2015

For us, this is what the GTX 970 is all about. The efficiency of the GPU is such that you don't need large coolers to keep it both cool and quiet, as the DirectCU Mini cooler illustrates very well. The dinky dimensions make this card the perfect...

By Bit-tech.net on January 15, 2015

When the R9 Nano was first launched we determined it was a great little card , albeit one that would only appeal to a very narrow subset of users. It was admittedly geared towards small form factor systems but that also meant it competed against every...

By Hardware Canucks on November 12, 2015

& Video The ASUS GTX 970 DirectCU Mini does exactly what it advertises, it is small, cool running and is able to compete with any other GTX 970 with ease.If you want a small GPU which packs a punch much harder than anything this size should, the GTX...

By Overclock3D on June 05, 2015