EKWB offers terminal block to cool seven GPUs
EK added the EK-FC Terminal lineup. By popular demand EK is releasing five new terminals and customers are getting new ways to connect multiple graphics cards and some new options when planning a custom loop.
EK-FC Terminals are designed to simplify the liquid cooling of SLI & Crossfire configurations. Very popular with gamers and enthusiasts, a lot of variations already exist. Today, we are expanding the EK-FC Terminals family with five new models.
For customers who want to modify their tube routing from the GPU water block, we are releasing two new single slot terminals; EK-FC Terminal Direct and EK-FC Terminal Angled. Both new terminals are compatible with every EK Full-Cover water block (with the exception of CSQ water blocks) and EK Thermosphere water block. Both terminals are made of high quality POM Acetal material.
Next is the EK-FC Terminal DUAL Parallel 1-Slot. This terminal comes in Acetal (made of high quality POM Acetal material) and Plexi (made of high quality Acrylic material) edition. This is the best solution for customers who want to run SLI or Crossfire configuration with single-slot graphics cards and face the limiting PCI-E slot space on their motherboard. Finally, the famous EK-FC Terminal HEPTA Semi Parallel, premiered in the notorious 7 Gamers 1 CPU by LinusTechTips, is designed to connect no more than seven graphics cards with the single slot configuration. While hardly and mainstream gaming oriented motherboard exists to handle such a huge amount of graphics cards, workstation and server grade motherboards do support such configuration and customers running render farms or use their systems for computational purposes, are now able to liquid cool their system if they run seven graphics cards on a single motherboard.
ll newly released EK-FC Terminals are made in Slovenia, Europe and are readily available for purchase through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network. Find the MSR prices with VAT included in the table below:
Name | MSRP (incl. VAT) |
EK-FC Terminal Direct | 11.95€ |
EK-FC Terminal Angled | 15.95€ |
EK-FC Terminal DUAL Parallel 1-Slot – Acetal | 19,95€ |
EK-FC Terminal DUAL Parallel 1-Slot – Plexi | 24,95€ |
EK-FC Terminal HEPTA Semi Parallel | 49,95€ |
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some compute applications scale almost linearly with added cards.
Definitely useful for some folks
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some compute applications scale almost linearly with added cards.
Definitely useful for some folks
Offcourse appliccations scale linearly, for compute at least, i think to raytracing and other. each cards are seen separately by the system, whatever it is Linux, or windows... we do render farm like this since many years for OpenCL raytracing, or Cuda raytracing. We can push 200+ GPU's in a server for our 3D render and VFX at work. The only limit is the money.
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for game it is a waste as after 4 in SLI and Xfire... well, you know

but for computing it is a dream

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Wow thats one crazy build.
Is that 7 water cooled Furies + Xeon?
At first I thought he used something like 750 Ti, BFD.Why even go for water cooling, let alone have cooling problems.
But 7x Fury... /impresive
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I remember watching Linus' video and remember seeing this block and it was cool looking. Also it is good to see this finally for sale. Not sure on who would buy this block because 7 Graphics cards is alot. Is there such as thing as 7 way SLI/CrossfireX for them high intense graphical applications that them very high end users use?