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EK Adds Water Block for ASUS GTX 980 STRIX
EK is paving the road well lately, they just introduced a new Full-Cover water block, designed and engineered specificaly for ASUS Strix series NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 graphics cards - the EK-FC980 GTX Strix.
EK-FC980 GTX Strix is a high-performance Full-Cover water block, co-developed with ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) engineering team. The cooler actively cools the GPU, RAM as well as VRM (voltage regulation module) as water flows directly over these critical areas thus allowing the graphics card and it's VRM to remain stable under high overclocks.
EK-FC980 GTX Strix water block features EK unique central inlet split-flow cooling engine design for best possible cooling performance, which also works flawlessly with reversed water flow without adversely affecting the cooling performance. Moreover, such design offers great hydraulic perfromance allowing this product to be used in liquid cooling systems using weaker water pumps.
Base is made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper while the top is made of quality POM Acetal or acrylic (depending on the variant). Screw-in brass standoffs are pre-installed and allow for safe installation procedure. In order to simplify the search for suitable and compatible water block EK is adding newly released graphics cards and motherboard from various manufacturers to EK Cooling Configurator database.
#4968615 Posted on: 11/28/2014 09:02 AM
it's marketing... when you see an EK you have this aluminium band, when you see XSPC you have light around, alpha is rough design with lot of attachment (old style) and huge pasive cooler (new style), and aquacomputer is tinted plexi or bimetal...
it's only to reconise the brand at 1st glance.
is it usefull... hmm no, with proper vent on drm, a GPU only cooler is enough... but yes i prefer full cover for the aestetic looking.
we can +1 EK for making full cover for exotic PCB, there is not too much who do that.
I have never quite understood this aluminium blank sheet that they have cutting across half of the block. Their usual waterblocks in full plexi are much nicer.
it's marketing... when you see an EK you have this aluminium band, when you see XSPC you have light around, alpha is rough design with lot of attachment (old style) and huge pasive cooler (new style), and aquacomputer is tinted plexi or bimetal...
it's only to reconise the brand at 1st glance.
is it usefull... hmm no, with proper vent on drm, a GPU only cooler is enough... but yes i prefer full cover for the aestetic looking.
we can +1 EK for making full cover for exotic PCB, there is not too much who do that.
#4968619 Posted on: 11/28/2014 09:24 AM
Well I'd rather see them make more custom mainboard blocks, but with the strix they probably reach around 25% of 980 users, so it's not really that exotic I guess. Still, good to see it's not just reference designs!
Well I'd rather see them make more custom mainboard blocks, but with the strix they probably reach around 25% of 980 users, so it's not really that exotic I guess. Still, good to see it's not just reference designs!
#4968621 Posted on: 11/28/2014 09:43 AM
I don't understand why people bother with full custom water loops when there are perfectly fine sealed cpu solution that work just aswell and can be moved from gpu to gpu.
Waste of money for little to no benefit.
Max 5 c performance benefit.
I don't understand why people bother with full custom water loops when there are perfectly fine sealed cpu solution that work just aswell and can be moved from gpu to gpu.
Waste of money for little to no benefit.
Max 5 c performance benefit.
#4968727 Posted on: 11/28/2014 02:30 PM
I don't understand why people bother with full custom water loops when there are perfectly fine sealed cpu solution that work just aswell and can be moved from gpu to gpu.
Waste of money for little to no benefit.
Max 5 c performance benefit.
are you talking about rigging h50-80's or similar onto gpus? sure you can do that.. it looks horrible, but you can do it. May get a bit hard to place an h100(i) for the cpu and 2 or 3 h50-80s for gpus in a case though.
If I were running a single GPU I might consider it just because of cost but with multi GPU systems it just seems like a horrible idea.
I don't understand why people bother with full custom water loops when there are perfectly fine sealed cpu solution that work just aswell and can be moved from gpu to gpu.
Waste of money for little to no benefit.
Max 5 c performance benefit.
are you talking about rigging h50-80's or similar onto gpus? sure you can do that.. it looks horrible, but you can do it. May get a bit hard to place an h100(i) for the cpu and 2 or 3 h50-80s for gpus in a case though.
If I were running a single GPU I might consider it just because of cost but with multi GPU systems it just seems like a horrible idea.
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I have never quite understood this aluminium blank sheet that they have cutting across half of the block. Their usual waterblocks in full plexi are much nicer.