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Guru3D.com » News » EK Full-Cover water blocks for 1080 Ti AORUS graphics cards

EK Full-Cover water blocks for 1080 Ti AORUS graphics cards

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/25/2017 06:11 PM | source: | 14 comment(s)
EK Full-Cover water blocks for 1080 Ti AORUS graphics cards

EK is releasing two EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus water blocks that are compatible with AORUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti based graphics cards. This kind of efficient cooling will allow your high-end graphics card to reach higher boost clocks.

EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus

This water block directly 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 full load and high overclocks. EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus water block features a 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 performance allowing this product to be used in liquid cooling systems using weaker water pumps.

The base of the block is made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper while the top is made of a high-quality acrylic material or POM Acetal material (depending on the variant). The top material does not affect the block performance in any way. The acrylic (Plexi) top also features two pre-drilled slots for 3mm LED diodes.EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus water block is compatible with GIGABYTE® AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti and GIGABYTE® AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition graphics cards. 

These water blocks and backplates are made in Slovenia, Europe and are available for purchase through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network. The EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus Backplate – Nickel is available for pre-order and will start shipping Wednesday, 31th of May, 2017! In the table below you can see manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP) with VAT included.

Name MSRP (incl. VAT)
EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus – Nickel 114.95€
EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus – Acetal+Nickel 114.95€
EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus Backplate – Black 29.95€
EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Aorus Backplate – Nickel 37.95€


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#5435841 Posted on: 05/25/2017 06:51 PM
Is there a lot more overclocking headroom for GPU's on liquid cooling than air cooling these days?

my first reaction when seeing this is "oh, awesome" then i thought about how much extra money people are forking out for the AIB partner models of the 1080ti, and the better air cooling that comes with the AIB version of the air cooler.

Just curious, because if the difference is not that much then people would be better off buying founders edition cards and just watercooling those instead!

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#5435852 Posted on: 05/25/2017 07:06 PM
No difference in OC ability.
Pascal GPUs all overclock about the same regardless of board quality.

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#5435859 Posted on: 05/25/2017 07:16 PM
Is there a lot more overclocking headroom for GPU's on liquid cooling than air cooling these days?

my first reaction when seeing this is "oh, awesome" then i thought about how much extra money people are forking out for the AIB partner models of the 1080ti, and the better air cooling that comes with the AIB version of the air cooler.

Just curious, because if the difference is not that much then people would be better off buying founders edition cards and just watercooling those instead!

It depends, if you are thermally limited or have issues with stability because of heat, then WC can help a lot.

1080ti can hit 1.9+ Ghz on air but often just for short time before starting to throttle with a lot of noise due to fans ramping up.
On a water, the same GPU can continuously hit 2.2+ GHz and stay there with temperature ~50 degrees.

So on water, you get ~20% higher clock, much lower temps, lower consumption (because of lower temps), almost no noise.

The disadvantage of WC is higher maintenance, big initial cost and a slight chance of the leak.

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#5435864 Posted on: 05/25/2017 07:26 PM
No difference in OC ability.
Pascal GPUs all overclock about the same regardless of board quality.

The question was not about board quality, but rather WC vs AIR cooling.
AIR cooling in extreme situation is getting noisy and have its limits especially during summer in hot areas or in bad airflow cases.

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#5435873 Posted on: 05/25/2017 07:38 PM
The question was not about board quality, but rather WC vs AIR cooling.
AIR cooling in extreme situation is getting noisy and have its limits especially during summer in hot areas or in bad airflow cases.

My answer was directed to his "is it better off just buying FE and watercooling those instead"

Which the answer is a yes.

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