If you plan on buying them (not already bought them) i think you should stay away from nvidia. I know you mentioned you don't want to make money, but buying them will be just a loss and no one want that. Going with AMD will at least get some of your money back
I've for now gave up on mining, as with my incredibly high electricity rate I have a pure profit of something like 50$ a month. Definitely not interesting for now. I doubt I'll buy anything in the coming year. That's just maybe some anticipation for in one year and a half from now if I move to another country to launch a big-scale mining operation, that will be driven by money at that time. I'll probably avoid 1050, Ti or not though given the poor numbers showed in the thread linked by Amph. I hope new cards will be released by then !