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Review on ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 2070 Super Mini 8GB GDDR6: Compact, High-Performance Graphics Card with Ice Storm 2.0 Technology (ZT-T20710E-10M) by Jamie Behm

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Nice card in hard to cool case

I have this in node 202, the case is not easy to cool as you will see. I installed a Corsair 240mm heatsink on the outside of the two 120mm fan slots, fans inside as in an unmodified case in the GPU area, pulling air through the heatsink into the case (I hope that makes sense) , heatsink cooling CPU, i7 9700, I also drilled ventilation holes in the bottom of the case and put the case on a custom stand (when it's standing upright with the GPU underneath). My old card was a 1060, it ran from high 60s to low 70s. I wasn't sure if the full size 2070 Super with radiator hoses would fit, so I went with the mini version which is actually shorter than the 1060 I had. When I installed the card for the first time, I reached the target temperature of 83 degrees and throttled it. I adjusted the fan curves on the heatsink and graphics card and got around 80 degrees but with a lot of noise. I replaced the Corsair fans with Noctua NF-12a fans, I was able to slow the fans down a bit on the GPU and now I'm getting mid 70's temps without much noise, not silent but slightly blocked by headphones. The GPU overclocks to 1995MHz without changing the default GPU settings. Overall I'm very happy to be able to run 3 monitors at 1080 resolution at high frame rates.

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