I think the Zotac cooling thing was that the mini's don't advertise ball bearing fans.  I'm not sure about the amp extremes.  I'm sure you can figure that out though. 

I have 12 EVGA 1070ti FTW2 split between two rigs.  So far as good on them.  I hear good things about them, but they've only been running for a couple of weeks, so I don't have any personal long term experience with them.