Zotac GTX 1050 Ti OC 2018 doesn't have copper heat pipes anymore

[00anshu11]

I recently bought a Zotac GTX 1050 Ti OC 4GB brand new from Amazon. After opening it I noticed it doesn't have those copper heat pipes within it as it was advertised and I'm pretty sure the older versions of the same card indeed had it. So no copper pipes anymore instead I got a different looking heatsink, rest seems all identical to the old version. Is that a bad thing? Should I get it replaced or returned?

 

[RobCrezz]

They dont make much heat to be honest being a low power GPU, as long as the temps are good it doesnt matter too much.

 

[00anshu11]

Hi mate, thanks for replying to my post. I had another query, why would zotac do something like that and yet still advertise it has copper pipe cooling? Isn't that selling lies?

 

[RobCrezz]

Might be a differerent revision, maybe to reduce costs if the extra cooling wasnt required?

Can you post a link to it with the cooling pipes, and to what you received?

 

[00anshu11]

alright mate, Here are some links.

With copper pipes: https://thinkcomputers.org/zotac-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-oc-edition-graphics-card-review/

Without copper pipes(which I got):
https://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-Compact-Graphics-ZT-P10510B-10L/dp/B01M27X994

Latest unboxing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDBALk2wmmI

 

[dontlistentome]

I don't know what happened here, but I can tell that over the years I've learned something. Certain brands tend to create a product, say a videocard, and they sell that design for the life of the product. There are no deviations or substitutions. These brands tend to be the 'top' brands, and their products tend to cost more.

Other companies will design and sell a product. Then at some point they may have used up all their supply of heatsinks, so now they go back to the supplier and say "Hey, we need X thousand more heatsinks" and the supplier might say "Sorry, we don't make those anymore" or "Sure, but the price went up". Either way, it puts the videocard company in a tough spot. They can either use another heatsink, or they will have to raise prices to pay for the same type of heatsink because the costs for that heatsink have risen.

Unless you paid specifically because you wanted those pipes, I wouldn't worry about it. Does the card perform and stay cool? That's all that matters unless you really, really wanted those pipes.

 

[00anshu11]

Thanks man, I pretty much purchased the very same card having the same SKU ZT-P10510B-10L. It seems I may be unlucky that I didn't get the older version of the same card that had the pipes. The temperatures however I will have to check it out, how cool is actually cool for this card in your opinion?

 

[RobCrezz]

As long as it stays below 80'c then its all good.

 

[00anshu11]

As long as it stays below 80'c then its all good.

Thanks mate.

 

[RobCrezz]

No worries.

Even on Zotacs site only the one with the regular alu cooler is shown.
https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-oc-edition

I wouldnt worry about it, these gpus are so power efficient they really dont make much heat at all.

 

[00anshu11]

No worries.

Even on Zotacs site only the one with the regular alu cooler is shown.
https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-oc-edition

I wouldnt worry about it, these gpus are so power efficient they really dont make much heat at all.

Yeah that's the thing actually, if that was really the point, I wonder why they added the copper pipe on previous versions of this exact same card in the first place as shown here and lots of other places " https://thinkcomputers.org/zotac-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-oc-edition-graphics-card-review/ ". At least Zotac could've told the public about it, but they didn't. Anyway thanks mate, I will report back here if I encounter any heating issues. Cheers.

 

[RobCrezz]

If you install MSI afterburner you can keep an eye on the temps, in the settings it has an OSD function where you can get it to overlay the game and show you usage/temp etc.