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hear that that's the sound of silence and if you're looking to make your PC as quite as possible or maybe even silent then one component you're really going to need to focus your attention on is the graphics card well that is assuming you're a gamer of course for the most part even extreme graphics cards like the Auris GTX Extreme Edition that I looked at recently run very quiet certainly no louder than the rest of the fans a typical gaming system not only that but once you have your speaker's cranked up or your headset on you aren't exactly going to notice the gentle hum of a high-end gaming PC however there are situations where some gamers find even the smallest amount of fan noise and nuisance I know I personally like to have my gaming PC in the living room generating as little noise as possible keeping a modern Intel Core i5 processor for example cool while also making very little noise is pretty easily done there are countless passive sea vehicles to choose from like this thermal right marchó heatsink I have here but what about the graphics card well there are passive heat sinks you can buy install on your graphics card as well such as Arctic's excel or OS 3 a universal passive cool that works with a large number of AMD Nvidia graphics cards however there are some downsides this approach which you won't face when passively cooling your cpu for starters compatibility can be an issue the accelerator 3 which I used in my example is not guaranteed to work with AMD Nvidia graphics cards that don't follow the reference PCB design so any deviation from this design could render the cooler incompatible other drawbacks include the fact that you must install it yourself and therefore risk damaging the graphics card and will also likely void your warranty in the process then there is the issue of the price at $40 u.s. is cooler while impressive isn't exactly cost-effective especially if you want to pair it with mid-range to entry-level graphics cards this is where palettes gtx 1050 TI Carmex steps in the first and currently only passively cooled gtx 1050 - I grabbed his card on the market power launch there Carmex line with the GTX 750 and 750 Ti offering silent passively cool graphics cards based on entry-level GPUs the 750 Ti was certainly capable enough though it was released back in early 2014 but today it's not really cutting it so palette has upgraded and they are replacing the 60 watt GPU is a much more capable 75 watt TDP model in the gtx 750ti now with 20% more criticals that are also more refined and almost 30% more bandwidth so the 1052 i offers a serious performance boost the big question of course is how does this thing run without an active fan does this nice big passive heatsink allow the gtx 1050 Ti to run it reasonable temperatures and of course if those turbo frequencies without throttling well as you might have expected that's what we're here to find out in this review and we will get to the results shortly but before we do let's just take a bit more of an in-depth look at this graphics card unsurprisingly pallette has opted for these stock end video clock speeds for the GPU and gddr5 memory this means a base clock of 1290 megahertz with a boost clock of at least 1392 megahertz and I'll be very interested to see just how high the GPU boost 3.0 pushes things with this graphics card the memory is clocked at 17 hundred and 50 megahertz for a throughput of seven gigabits per second now the graphics card itself measures 182 millimeters long and 142 millimeters tall but it will also take up two slots thanks to a 37 millimeter stick heatsink the PCB meanwhile measures just 145 millimeters long and 112 millimeters tall all up the car weighs 470 grams which is surprisingly light given the size of the passively cooled heatsink in comparison gigabytes own gtx 1050 TIG one gaming model is longer at 220 millimetres and quite a bit heavier at 612 grams also unlike the g1 gaming model this pallet card doesn't require an external 6 pin PCI power connector and that's a very good thing in my opinion the heatsink features a copper base which comes in direct contact with a pair of nickel-plated 6 millimeter heat pipes which extend out and back into the upper section of the nickel-plated aluminium fin ra where they evenly disperse heat from the base part of the underside of the heatsink has been flattened out and covered in blue thermal pads which remove heat from the cards vrm speaking of the vrm this pallet card only features a basic 2+1 design which isn't particularly impressive but then it is only designed to operate at the default envía specification and overclocking certainly isn't a priority here as you might have expected this graphics card does not feature a backplate and the passive cooler or the passive heatsink doesn't wrap around onto the backside of the graphics card like we have sort of seen in the past this old gigabyte model although the cooler doesn't wrap around on to the backside you can see that the thins there do protrude onto the back side of the card and this a soos silencer model features most of the heatsink on the top side so consider capture airflow from around the CPU section but yeah interesting design around at the i/o end we find a basic configuration offering a HDMI 2.0 output DisplayPort and DVI output all three can be used simultaneously for triple monitor workstations ok so enough going over the car max time to do some real testing out of the box the pallet Carmex is just a single frame slower than the gigabyte g1 gaming model and playing battlefield 1 my custom overclock which did push the boost clock up to eighteen hundred and ninety eight megahertz only increase the average frame rate by six percent which is disappointing given we saw a 13 percent jump in operating frequency the titanfall 2 results are much the same the stock Carmex card was slightly sold and the gigabyte g1 gaming and with the maximum overclock applied it was only slightly faster last time I tested with Call of Duty infinite warfare and here the Carmack's was good for 47 FPS at 1080p overclocking orders an extra 3 FPS for another 6 percent performance boost under load palettes gtx 1050 - icomics allowed for an entire system consumption figure of 118 watts that's the exact same figure reported using the msi gtx 1050 ti4 g OC card and it's - what's less than the g1 gaming model now for testing temperatures I decided to stick the Carmex in my core i3 test rig rather than extremely well ventilated core i7 test machine our core i3 system is built inside the fractal design defined on OS and here the graphics card is pinned hard up against the PSU so airflow is very minimal even so after an hour-long stress test playing rise of the Tomb Raider the GPU temperature only maxed out at 75 degrees I was quite impressed with that temperature given the test system used and of course this is a passively cooled graphics card that's that I should note that was quite cool on the day I tested and I had no trouble keeping an ambient room temperature of 21 degrees in the office for comparison I took the GTX 1050 to icomics out of a none OS and installed it into the core i7 tester II which uses the corsair crystal series 570 x RGB case here at maxed out at 72 degrees again after an hour of gameplay out of the box the card did hold an operating frequency of just 1683 megahertz and when overclocked it reached 75 degrees at 1898 megahertz though as we saw previously this only boosted performance by around 6% well there you have it pallets passively cooled geforce gtx 1050 to a graphics card works and it works rather well for those willing to build a super quiet home theater PC capable of 1080p gaming then this Carmack's graphics card will fit the bill nicely the only thing yet to be revealed is the price though I'm not expecting it to come in as a premium palette is generally very competitive on pricing so I wouldn't be surprised if this passive version doesn't cost much more than a base model card of course when it comes to cost versus performance the GTX 1050 toy isn't that impressive to begin with and many will just opt for an RX 470 instead however you cannot buy a passively cooled rx 470 and I don't expect that to change as it is a 120 watt 2 DP GPU this then does make the palet gtx 1050 TI comics a very unique and as I said previously a must-have item for those lone to build a very quiet PC let me know what you guys think about this graphics card in the comments below and if you enjoyed the review maybe consider giving it a like anyway I'm your host Steve see you next time