As someone moving into a customod mini very soon, I'd like to see a 1080/ti with a tall, but ITX length PCB, sort of like the gigabyte 1070.
As is though, I'm trying to think if I could reasonably cut holes in the mini to make this fit.
I don't think that's going to happen for the 1080 Ti as you'd have to make it a lot taller to keep the length at 175mm. The card is already taller than the bracket. Let's do some basic math:
Zotac 1080 Ti Mini area = 211 x 125 = 26,375 mm^2
To keep the same area at 175mm length, you'd need the card to be 26,375 / 175 ≈ 151 mm tall.
That's assuming they can simply rearrange everything. For comparison, the Gigabyte 1070 Mini is 131 mm tall, so 20mm shorter. And the CustomMOD Mini (And Hutzy XS before it) only support up 131mm height, although it may be possible to redesign the GPU side to accommodate 151mm... I'm not sure, you may have to mod the PCIe bracket.
Regardless, for context the card would actually be exactly as tall as the EVGA 1080/980 Ti Kingpin, which is the tallest card I know of and doesn't fit in the NCase M1. No one will design a supershort supertall card, because the only scenario it makes sense is in these back-to-back ultrasmall cases that 99.99% of PC users on this planet have no clue exist
The height will totally defeat the purpose of the supershort length.
If they could only make it a little shorter, possibly a little taller, then we could fit it in something like the S4 Mini or another case designed around that length. Even if you could reduce the total PCB area, you couldn't make the cooler much smaller, they are already struggling with making this size a cooler work with a 250W chip.