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Since its reveal earlier this year, the ASUS Geforce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini has been making some serious waves in both the small form factor and gaming communities. Its reduced size, but full-fat performance make it the perfect balance for small PCs, and that's what some of your favorite review sites say. Check out the reviews inside from the world's top media, of this awesome little card.

Released today the GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini is a compact high-performance graphics card designed primarily for small form factor PCs with mini-ITX motherboards. The Mini features a dual-slot cooler design, and measures just 17cm long, compared with 24.13cm for a reference GeForce GTX 670. Don't let the size fool you though, the GTX 670 DirectCU Mini features a full GTX 670, Direct X 11.1 capable, graphics core and 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

The new ASUS GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU Mini is more than just a tiny graphics card. To achieve its size the cooling team in ASUS had to design an entirely new fan, dubbed CoolTech, to push air down and out more efficiently without requiring more fan speed (and thus, noise). Click inside for more details on the design.

Want more of that GTX 670 DirectCU Mini we teased earlier? Need a few pics for your news story? See inside for full size pics of the new mini sized card, designed with its ASUS exclusive CoolTech fan.

Where high-performance CPUs have dropped in power consumption, graphics cards mostly have shown the opposite trend. Their size makes it difficult to find cases to accommodate them. While Nvidia's GTX 670 tries to buck the trend with a small 6.75" (~17cm) PCB, it's always fitted with a far larger cooler. ASUS has instead matched the cooler to its 17cm PCB length, which is ideal for the smallest gaming builds. Here's a first look at ASUS' new GTX 670 DirectCU Mini.