r/ZOTAC

I’m considering buying an open-box ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5070 Ti SOLID CORE OC directly from the Zotac Store for $900.

For people who have bought open-box GPUs before, especially from Zotac or manufacturer stores:

1. Is this generally a safe purchase, or is open-box too risky for a GPU?
2. What are the main downsides compared to buying new?
3. What should I inspect immediately after receiving it?
4. Are issues like coil whine, cosmetic damage, missing accessories, prior returns, or warranty problems common?

Mainly looking for real experiences and advice on what to watch out for before buying this

Hello everyone,

I just bought ZOTAC NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti AMP Extreme INFINITY. I would like to know, if I should right from the start underwolt this GPU or change the power limit to 90%? I asked AI and diff AI tell me diff opinions. So I would like to ask you, if I should do something with it or just keep it default.

My main game is Black Desert Online on 2k resolution. (Its not GPU heavy game).

The reason why do I even ask this, is that I want to help the card to be "alive" as long as possible, because my last card 3070ti died few days ago.

I got huge case and very good airflow, that 3070ti was maximum 60-65degree while gaming so temp. should not be a problem even for the new 5070ti.

Thanks for any advices,

Hey everyone.

I just wanted to provide some information that I hope helps others needing to do this.

After about a year of use, several of my fans developed bad bearing whine that gradually occurred throughout the fan curve so I needed to replace them. Upon researching I discovered no one has taken apart this card and documented its disassembly, specifically referencing the thermal pad thickness used on this card since it differs from the regular solid SKU. There was a video on taking off the shroud but not the heatsink and Steve did a Solid GPU teardown so I felt I had enough information to tackle this with ease.

I replaced the thermal paste with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme and the thermal pads with Thermal Grizzly Minus 8 Pads. I replaced the OEM fans with replacement OEM fans from GPUFanreplacement.com.

A couple of things to note here:

The measurements were taken by calibrated digital calipers. The backplate thermal pad thickness measured at 2.5mm, the cap pads at 2mm and the memory pads at 1mm. I used an Xacto Knife to precisely cut the orientations.

The stories about using the website mentioned above were just about them shipping OEM fans so it will probably happen again. I watched a couple of videos of people unboxing and installing products from them and it was just OEM parts. However, I received a different model than what was in my GPU so maybe the difference in fans provided will aid in their longevity.

Zotac did a poor job on the card’s thermal paste application, which I assume was the leading cause of my poor temps (85C + on load, with undervolt 76C).

When reassembled and tested, I haven’t seen temps rise above 64C with the same tests currently. I have ran a several hour stress test to make sure I had full pad contact and not throttling. So far so good.

Lastly, many might ask why I didn’t go with a RMA request instead of opening up the card. Well one, I like doing these things and they are easy for me. Two, there’s so many horror stories about Zotac’s RMA process these days, greatest hits include damaging the product during repair, losing the product, exchanging the product with a refurb or a different sku, or just refunding the customer MSRP minus proration at times. I wasn’t very confident in the idea that if none of the above actually happened to me, would they do a better job than myself ? Not if they could, but whatever service center it gets sent out to, the employee doing the work might be over worked and do a rush job just good enough to pass QC. I would have gotten a new fan but who knows on the thermals. So I did it myself.

I hope this might help someone else.

Kind of sad - placed an order on Zotac. Item says delivered with no picture of delivered but I never received it.

Contacted zotac support - no response.

Contacted Paypal and disputed - they pulled in Zotac and Zotac declined the claim.

UPS declined the claim.

Am I just out my $250?

Hello!

I’m trying to recreate this with the exact same card however I cannot find any Etsy listings or Printables files for the case fan brackets to allow them to attach to the 5080. If anyone has any links or anything pertaining to this that would be immensely helpful.

Here is the link to the original post made by someone else on this subreddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZOTAC/s/p9eseydhd2

This is occurring in every game it seems. I have tried reseating the GPU cables, reseating the ram and checking the 24pin motherboard cable. I set the PCIEx16 from auto to 4.0 and it still won’t pull more than 150 watts. The cables connected to the GPU are the triple 8 pin to 12pin. I genuinely don’t know what to do to fix this, is it a faulty adapter?