ELSA launches a single slot GTX1050Ti

[zMeul]

source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11135/elsa-single-slot-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-4-gb-sp

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The ELSA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB SP graphics card is powered by NVIDIA’s fully-fledged GP107 GPU (768 stream processors, 48 texture units, 32 ROPs) and uses a PCB with the NVIDIA name on it. The latter may indicate that the AIB is based on a reference design of the GPU developer and ELSA sources the PCB from an NVIDIA-approved manufacturer (or buys both GPU and PCB from the Santa Clara-based company). The card runs at frequencies recommended by NVIDIA (1290/1392 MHz base/boost) and is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR5 memory operating at 7000 MT/s. Just like numerous other GeForce GTX 1050 Ti cards, the model from ELSA consumes no more than 75 W and does not need auxiliary PCIe power connector.

 

ELSA plans to start sales of the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4 GB SP graphics adapter on February 24, 2017. The company did not announce price, but it is likely that it will be close to NVIDIA’s recommendations for Japan. As for availability of the product in other countries, it might be possible that other manufacturers which use NVIDIA-designed PCBs for their GeForce GTX 1050 Ti products might adopt single-slot coolers as well. If not, Amazon.co.jp can ship the ELSA card worldwide (make note of import taxes).

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some people might recall ELSA, they were pioneers in 3D

ELSA was founded in 1980, Germany, as ELSA Technology AG - 2002 they filed for bankruptcy

in 2003, a taiwanese company bought the rights to the name and became ELSA Technology Inc.

 

but the original brand still remains unde ELSA Japan Inc. - the company was founded in 1997 as a joint venture with the mother company, ELSA Technology AG

their main business was to manufacture workstation graphics cards, one of their 1st clients were  NEC Corporation

in 1999 they started creating video cards for the consumer market

in 2002, ELSA Japan Inc. buys all the shares from the mother company and becomes independent

[Mohenjo]

i would prefer a low profile tbh. 

[NumLock21]

What is the point of a single slot 1050ti? Who is going to run a custom loop with a 1050Ti. Why can't 1080 and 1070 be single slots? In fact they can still be a dual slot card, just have 1 DVI ports, instead of 2, cause that's where the problem is.

[Princess Luna]

Good for who likes compact builds I suppose... not my thing really I like my GPU as big as it can get [:

[EPPHO]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

What is the point of a single slot 1050ti? Who is going to run a custom loop with a 1050Ti. Why can't 1080 and 1070 be single slots? In fact they can still be a dual slot card, just just 1 DVI ports, instead of 2, cause that's where the problem is.

It's meant for small cases/low GPU slot cases etc. Not for watercooling

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

It's meant for small cases/low GPU slot cases etc. Not for watercooling

Then a 1080 or 1070 can be used in small cases too.

[xboxonthego3]

I just want a low profile single slot 1050 or 1050ti.... come one someone make it.

[zMeul]

13 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

What is the point of a single slot 1050ti? Who is going to run a custom loop with a 1050Ti.

what?! custom loop on a 1050TI ?!?!

 

one reason to get a single slot card would be because you need as many cards as you can - CUDA compute cards

with a mobo that has 7 PCIe 16x slots (X99 WS-E) you can only put 4 dual slot cards ... or 7 single slot cards

[grimreeper132]

16 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Good for who likes compact builds I suppose... not my thing really I like my GPU as big as it can get [:

I agree, I want a 4 slot beast of a card, cause, uuuuuummmm nope, can't think of a reason, I just want one

[Sauron]

Elsa?

 

[Bcat00]

Ditto, would love a GPU with a cooler the strength of the Noctua NH-D15. Never understood why there isn't one on the market. Most people never even use their pci slots other than the one for the GPU anyways.

[tlink]

19 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Then a 1080 or 1070 can be used in small cases too.

well sorry mr fancy pants but not everybody can afford that  

[NumLock21]

19 minutes ago, zMeul said:

what?! custom loop on a 1050TI ?!?!

 

one reason to get a single slot card would be because you need as many cards as you can - CUDA compute cards

with a mobo that has 7 PCIe 16x slots (X99 WS-E) you can only put 4 dual slot cards ... or 7 single slot cards

That was my point, who the heck will run a custom loop on a low-end card.

If the 1080 or 1070 has just a single row of video outputs, then users can make it into a slngle slot card and be able to run 7 of them, instead of just 3.

[MageTank]

22 minutes ago, zMeul said:

what?! custom loop on a 1050TI ?!?!

 

one reason to get a single slot card would be because you need as many cards as you can - CUDA compute cards

with a mobo that has 7 PCIe 16x slots (X99 WS-E) you can only put 4 dual slot cards ... or 7 single slot cards

You took the words out of my mouth, though, mostly for a different reason. I will likely get a Xeon or 16t Ryzen CPU, and throw a ton of these single slot cards in, and allow my family to game on a single PC over our gigabit LAN. These cards should do just fine for medium-1080p and since my family mostly plays MMO's, it's the perfect solution. Give each client 2c/4t and a 1050 Ti. It's basically like having an i3 + low/medium grade dGPU. Give each client 16GB of ram just in case.

 

Hopefully we see these in the US markets eventually.

[Bouzoo]

3 minutes ago, MageTank said:

These cards should do just fine for medium-1080p and since my family mostly plays MMO's, it's the perfect solution. Give each client 2c/4t and a 1050 Ti. It's basically like having an i3 + low/medium grade dGPU.

i3s in general are not good solutions for MMOs, at least for many of them. 

[Senzelian]

35 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Then a 1080 or 1070 can be used in small cases too.

No, because they cant get cooled by a single slot cooler and some cases only have one PCI slot available. So this is perfect for very slim cases. I'll probably get one of those 1050s and put it in a case that is only 4cm wide/thick.

[MageTank]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

i3s in general are not good solutions for MMOs, at least for many of them. 

What makes you say that? Very few MMO's are thread bound, and mostly demand high single-core performance. Even titles like Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 do fine with a simple i3. I've even tested this using a stock 6700k with 2 cores, 4 threads enabled and ESO ran perfectly fine. The only issue I had was slight stutters when listening to podcasts while grinding. Assuming gaming is all you will be doing, i3's should work fine for MMO's.

[Zodiark1593]

38 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Then a 1080 or 1070 can be used in small cases too.

A 1070 costs twice as much. Not exactly a fair comparison. 

[Senzelian]

22 minutes ago, Bcat00 said:

Ditto, would love a GPU with a cooler the strength of the Noctua NH-D15. Never understood why there isn't one on the market. Most people never even use their pci slots other than the one for the GPU anyways.

Lemme just hang that giant NHD15 off of one PCI slot. Surely itll be strong enough to take the weight. 

[MageTank]

2 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

No, because they cant get cooled by a single slot cooler and some cases only have one PCI slot available. So this is perfect for very slim cases. I'll probably get one of those 1050s and put it in a case that is only 4cm wide/thick.

I've been testing a 250w GPU in a 5L case. As long as the case is designed right, thermals won't be an issue. Granted, my design is only 50mm thick, and the GPU lies flat on it's backplate using a riser cable, it still doesn't throttle below it's advertised boost. 

 

That being said, you won't be cooling a 1070/1080 with a single slot cooler unless it's a water block, which defeats the purpose in an ITX build. If your ITX build can support a rad and pump, chances are, it's not small, lol. 

[Bouzoo]

4 minutes ago, MageTank said:

What makes you say that? Very few MMO's are thread bound, and mostly demand high single-core performance. Even titles like Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 do fine with a simple i3. I've even tested this using a stock 6700k with 2 cores, 4 threads enabled and ESO ran perfectly fine. The only issue I had was slight stutters when listening to podcasts while grinding. Assuming gaming is all you will be doing, i3's should work fine for MMO's.

I should probably said for some, not many, my bad there, brain exhausted.

If you don't need everything maxed sure it's fine, and I'll assume you family doesn't. I know quite few WOW players that have issues in high battles with i5s, and I have noticed 99% on my 4460 in heavily populated ares in FFXIV (in both DX9 and 11). Need a GPU upgrade asap there. 

 

[EPPHO]

44 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Then a 1080 or 1070 can be used in small cases too.

Of course. That's logic but it would run so hot even if they lower the clocks

[MageTank]

1 minute ago, Bouzoo said:

I should probably said for some, not many, my bad there, brain exhausted.

If you don't need everything maxed sure it's fine, and I'll assume you family doesn't. I know quite few WOW players that have issues in high battles with i5s, and I have noticed 99% on my 4460 in heavily populated ares in FFXIV. Need a GPU upgrade asap there. 

 

WoW is a different beast entirely. My little brother plays that, and has an overclocked 4690k and 980 Ti, and that game cripples his GPU at 1440p. If you turn on all of their copious AA settings, it will probably put even the Titan XP to it's knees. For the most part, my family plays older MMO's (Silkroad Online, Perfect World, etc) with the exception of my father (ESO) and my younger brother (WoW). Both of which don't really care about graphical settings as long as they can see whatever it is they are attacking.

 

I do want to experiment with some of those cheaper ES Xeons that offer 28 threads for $400. Granted, they are not clocked that high, they should still do fine for the most part. Besides, if it doesn't live up to my expectations, I at least have a Xeon that can do some heavy lifting on a budget.

[Bouzoo]

1 minute ago, MageTank said:

WoW is a different beast entirely. My little brother plays that, and has an overclocked 4690k and 980 Ti, and that game cripples his GPU at 1440p. If you turn on all of their copious AA settings, it will probably put even the Titan XP to it's knees. For the most part, my family plays older MMO's (Silkroad Online, Perfect World, etc) with the exception of my father (ESO) and my younger brother (WoW). Both of which don't really care about graphical settings as long as they can see whatever it is they are attacking.

 

I do want to experiment with some of those cheaper ES Xeons that offer 28 threads for $400. Granted, they are not clocked that high, they should still do fine for the most part. Besides, if it doesn't live up to my expectations, I at least have a Xeon that can do some heavy lifting on a budget.

Then it should be fine for the most part. 

On those older Xeons single threaded might be an issue however.

[NumLock21]

17 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

No, because they cant get cooled by a single slot cooler and some cases only have one PCI slot available. So this is perfect for very slim cases. I'll probably get one of those 1050s and put it in a case that is only 4cm wide/thick.

The reason why some will want to water cool their cards.

 

17 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

A 1070 costs twice as much. Not exactly a fair comparison. 

I wasn't talking about cost. And current high-end card aren't true single slot due to that extra DVI port, there won't be getting a ITX with SLI anytime soon.

 

This is a DTX, a idea came up by AMD. Too bad it didn't spread out to the DIY market.