Monday, November 21st 2016

MSI Unveils GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Low-profile Graphics Card

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btarunr
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MSI unveiled the first half-height (low-profile) graphics card based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The MSI GTX 1050 Ti 4GT LP graphics card features a half height PCB, and a dual-slot cooling solution that uses a pair of 50 mm fans ventilating a dense aluminium heatsink. The card is 18.2 cm in length, and includes both standard- and low-profile I/O shields.

The MSI GTX 1050 Ti 4GT LP relies on the PCI-Express slot for all its power. It ticks at NVIDIA reference clock speeds of 1290 MHz core, 1392 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz (GDDR5-effective) memory. It features 4 GB of GDDR5 memory across the GPU's 128-bit wide memory interface. Display outputs include one each of dual-link DVI, HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4 connectors. MSI didn't reveal pricing.

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43 Comments on MSI Unveils GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Low-profile Graphics Card

#26
RCoon
Praise the sun! Gonna buy this on launch day.
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#27
Caring1
btarunrProfile refers to height, not width. This is the convention:

Being the convention, doesn't make it right.
In a tower case the card is usually laying flat so what you call height, IS the width.
If the card is vertical, then it is correct.
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#28
TheinsanegamerN
jabbadapOr at least add heat pipe(s). Hopefully zotac and kfa² follows shortly with their designs.
Any heatpipes would add vertical height, no longer making this dual profile. And you cant rotate the fins so a heatpipe would make sense because that would direct airflow up, which is a no no in low profile coolers.
lZKoceWhat's the big deal with dual slot? Sapphire R7 250 was LP single slot and the card went to 70 C so much as to touch anything with 3D requirements. For me at least, dual slot is not a deal breaker.
There are many low profile cases that can only handle single slot cards.

Although I think this is a failing of case makers to not make a low profile dual slot case.
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#29
PLAfiller
TheinsanegamerNAny heatpipes would add vertical height, no longer making this dual profile.QUOTE]

I've seen close enough real product with heatpipes : Colorful Buri 750 LP also within two slots :

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#30
TheinsanegamerN
lZKoce
wait...what? A blower style LP cooler?

WHY DONT WE GET THESE STATESIDE?!?
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#31
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
TheinsanegamerNwait...what? A blower style LP cooler?

WHY DONT WE GET THESE STATESIDE?!?
Because in America we are in the bigger is better mindset
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#32
Covert_Death
TheDeeGeeCalls it LP with a Dual Slot Cooler...
Well yes, seeing how low profile denotes a half height board they are 100% correct. Your looking for a 1.5 slot or slim board. Has nothing to do with low pro.
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#34
Assimilator
@W1zzard please get one of these in for review!

@MSI please make a single-slot full-height version too! And if you want massive bonus points, a single-slot low-profile version...
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#35
jabbadap
Assimilator@W1zzard please get one of these in for review!

@MSI please make a single-slot full-height version too! And if you want massive bonus points, a single-slot low-profile version...
Quite hard to cool such a card with single slot and low profile.

In other news, HIS will make single slot RX 460:

Edit: there's actually product side on HiS home page:
www.hisdigital.com/un/product2-940.shtml
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#36
Assimilator
jabbadapQuite hard to cool such a card with single slot and low profile.
That's why I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I'm sure MSI (or some other company) can accomplish it if they apply their minds!
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#37
jabbadap
AssimilatorThat's why I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I'm sure MSI (or some other company) can accomplish it if they apply their minds!
Well some sort of notebook like flat heat pipes thingy, with blower fan. Or vapor chamber type solution.

Not saying it's impossible, but very hard to fit and card could become very long. And looking how niche thing than would be, I'm not waiting miracles. Although Tesla P4 is full fat gp104 and it's low profile and single slot :ohwell:
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#38
Assimilator
jabbadapWell some sort of notebook like flat heat pipes thingy, with blower fan. Or vapor chamber type solution.

Not saying it's impossible, but very hard to fit and card could become very long. And looking how niche thing than would be, I'm not waiting miracles. Although Tesla P4 is full fat gp104 and it's low profile and single slot :ohwell:
Problem is that the Tesla cards are intended to be used in server blades that have high amounts of airflow being pushed through them. Sadly not all PC cases are as well ventilated.
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#39
Xerxes
Anyone know of a good website to check for stock? I really want this card for my SFF machine and want to buy it soon as it is available. Thanks.
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#40
Nox Metus
SmanciI don't mean the heatsink. The bracket and ancient dvi. Ruins compatibility with cases that can fit dual slot coolers but have single slot bracket.

I am going just to solder out the DVI connector and use a single slot bracket.
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#42
Electromecano
The same mistake again! This card can't not run at the frequency it mention. It is the same card as GTX750TI. I don't see any increase performance at all with the GTX1050. The fans must spin really fast and is noisy if you need the power. Of course in a LOW PROFILE system, you don't wont too much noise and this is the problem. The heatsink of this card is really bad. Put some copper. Aluminum is not good. The cup absorb more heat. The solution for me is to build a custom water cooling or wait for it... This product is heating too much is a small PC. The 2 fans and heatsinks are the same as GTX750. So think about the design in the futur!
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#43
Nox Metus
I finally implemented my plan of installing this card into a single slot HTPC case. I installed a CPU heat sink and cut a hole in the case for it.


To install the heat sink I had to flip 8 capacitors to the other side of the board.


Problems:
  1. There is no way you can find a short single slot L bracket for this card. The stock bracket is fixed to the DVI connector that I had to remove.
  2. This card doesn't drive a CPU fan. I don't know why. Low profile cards from two previous generations (Kepler and Maxwell) of NVIDIA cards could do it. However the card is so energy efficient that with the passive heat sink it is just 30 degrees Celsius. Under the load it went up to 60. I think I will power up the fan from the motherboard slowing it down so much that it barely rotates.
I don't like the design of this card. Not only it occupies two slots, but also the rework was quite difficult. A similar heat sink install in low profile 750 Ti required flipping of just three capacitors vs 8 in this card.
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