EK is proud to unveil its Special Edition high-performance GPU water blocks for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition graphics card. The EK-Quantum Vector FE RTX 3070 Ti D-RGB comes in two versions – Silver and Black.

The distinctive PCB shape of the Founders Edition card posed a design challenge, but a terminal between the two prongs of the PCB solved the issue. The result is a unique and unprecedented GPU water block. The EK-Quantum Vector FE RTX 3070 Ti D-RGB features a special PCB design just like its bigger brother, the RTX 3080 FE. The small form factor and unique shape of the RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition PCB presented the same engineering challenge and was solved via a Special edition block. The water block is purpose-designed with an extremely thick copper base for high-performance, allowing it to clear all components of the densely-packed PCB and adding more heat removal capacity in the process. The cooling engine used in this water block is the largest EK has built to date, having roughly 30% more surface area than the rest of the existing Vector series water blocks.

Like the Magnitude CPU water block, the entirety of this water block is CNC-machined without mass-production techniques. The block’s base is milled out of a 12mm thick piece of pure electrolytic copper sourced from Europe, which is then nickel-plated, while its top is CNC-machined out of a glass-like cast Acrylic material.

This water block comes with an included backplate that makes sure the entire graphics card is enclosed and not at all visible. It also provides additional passive cooling for the GPU core and backside of the printed circuit board VRM section. Due to the small size of the card and the block itself, the ribbed backplate boasts an increased surface area for additional passive cooling power. It’s CNC-machined out of aluminum, which is either black-anodized or nickel-plated, depending on the version of the water block. The units are priced 264.90€