Temperature question (Zotac GTX 1050ti OC vs 1050ti mini)

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Hello guys! so my friend is planning to buy GTX 1050ti and is confused which has better cooling temperature when gaming? Zotac GTX 1050ti OC (dual fan) or 1050ti mini (one fan) when in not overclock mode.
 
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Well the dual fan zotac card has stock base clock of 1392mhz and a boost clock of 1506mhz vs the zotac mini with a base clock of 1303mhz and boost clock of 1417mhz. So that means the dual fan card will perfom ever so slightly better, but probably not to a degree you would ever notice gaming. And you could apply a small overclock to the zotac mini with software like msi afterburner and bring it right up to the speeds of the dual fan zotac card, however you may need to add a bit more speed to the fans which you can also do in msi afterburner to keep temps in check. I doubt there is any difference in durability or longevity if you mean that, you will more than likely upgrade long before either card dies.
Well the dual fan card would cool slightly better I would imagine. But I agree with the above poster, the 1050 ti is a low power card which does not generate very much heat at all, both off those coolers should be more than adequate to cool a 1050 ti gpu core.
 
ahh i see, lets say he chooses the gtx 1050ti mini, does having the mini version have any advantage compared to the non-mini? (aside frome being compact and small of course) like performance or durability?
 
Well the dual fan zotac card has stock base clock of 1392mhz and a boost clock of 1506mhz vs the zotac mini with a base clock of 1303mhz and boost clock of 1417mhz. So that means the dual fan card will perfom ever so slightly better, but probably not to a degree you would ever notice gaming. And you could apply a small overclock to the zotac mini with software like msi afterburner and bring it right up to the speeds of the dual fan zotac card, however you may need to add a bit more speed to the fans which you can also do in msi afterburner to keep temps in check. I doubt there is any difference in durability or longevity if you mean that, you will more than likely upgrade long before either card dies.
 
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I have a 1050ti OC and under full load it doesnt reach more then 30 C so... you will be fine with whatever model you choose
 


How does yours never reach 30c when full load playing Doom/Gta v I get max temp 68
 


Their card should certainly heat up past 30c, unless they play their games in the arctic or something. Either that or they have a large cpu bottleneck thats keeping the gpu at low load thus its not heating up. 68c during gaming for a 1050 ti is what I would expect and perfectly normal.