EK to offer Backplate Cooling Solution
With liquid cooling you are cooling just one side, why not the other one as well EK must have figured. They have the first proper active backplate cooling solution that is integrated seamlessly, in a way that doesn’t require awkward soft tubing connections.
Since the PCB itself is basically a huge heatsink – it has several layers of copper that make up all electrical traces – it is great at absorbing heat from all of the components on the PCB. Removing excess heat from the PCB will lower the overall temperature of all the components on it, even those that are not directly cooled. With the newest power-hungry GPUs that have their components densely packed, every additional cooling is very welcome since lower temperatures also allow higher overclocks and more GPU boost. And with flagship graphics cards, like the RTX 3090 that has video memory placed on the PCB’s backside, it makes even more sense to use additional cooling.
Another thing is the benefit of thermal pads between the PCB and the backplate since it reduces coil whine. Thermal pads act as absorbers – they are soft and could lessen the coil whine caused by the vibration of the inductor coils. Having a small water block on the backside of the GPU makes the whole assembly sturdier compared to only having a standard backplate, which in turn acts as a better absorber of vibrations.
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Needed imo for cards with memory on the back.
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finally.....it only took RTX 3000 and RX 6000 for them to get on it I became painfully aware of the problem after opening my case and touching the backplate after 14hrs of gaming with the gpu @99% (borderlands 3) which made me completely rethink the way I built my cases
that said the larger and open "free flow" backplate of recent rtx and rx seems to help a bit, spoiler alert I've tested a 3090 and I noticed the backplate cools much quicker after a gaming session than my 1080ti
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I wonder how well this is going to stack up against Optimus Cooling and their Absolute water blocks? I have one on order already....Well I should say back order as that would seem.
Shipping is a nightmare right now I guess with them. That and I want to say there was a Nickel plating issue for a short while and they didn't want a poor product too.
Guess there's a review on gamers nexus, but that was with a preliminary block and not their final rendition of what has been reaching the masses.
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finally.....it only took RTX 3000 and RX 6000 for them to get on it I became painfully aware of the problem after opening my case and touching the backplate after 14hrs of gaming with the gpu @99% (borderlands 3) which made me completely rethink the way I built my cases
that said the larger and open "free flow" backplate of recent rtx and rx seems to help a bit, spoiler alert I've tested a 3090 and I noticed the backplate cools much quicker after a gaming session than my 1080ti
I had a FX 5800 I think it was that I had bought an aftermarket cooler for that wrapped around to cool the back of the card as well. It wasn't water-cooled but still something ahead of its time.
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Interesting. I am about to order a vertical mount just to see the way3er block on my gpu.
This is different for sure.