tingies wrote:Well it seems that there isn't a single slot solution. I think I'm leaning towards a 5750.
I was going to tell you to give up on the single-slot quest, but it seems you've already come to the same conclusion.
The only reservation I have is that it doesn't push hot air out of the case like the 5770. Will that play a major role when it comes to noise and low temps?
I too was interested in this, but after getting a "rear-vent" card I am not so sold on the concept. For the required air volume, one slot's worth of venting is not really enough, so some of the rear-vent cards (like my GTX275) "cheat" and have additional holes in the shroud near the connector end that exhaust into the case. I'm actually a little concerned because that cheater hole on mine points toward the motherboard, and I wonder if some poor little 1W chip will get fried by the extra heat coming out of that 150W+ GPU. I'll probably end up modding some plastic to direct that air up off the motherboard.
If you have good case airflow, keep it pressurized, and open a couple additional slot vents (so some air movement is out the back), a fan-blowing-down-onto-the-card design will probably work fine -- and will probably be a larger, quieter fan than the little squirrel-cage blower on the rear-exhaust cards.
