I think you're right Hilbert, water block pricing is becoming ridiculous. My 24/7 rig isn't watercooled at all anymore. 8600K delid and liquid metal on Noctua air cooler, 2080Ti FE on air. WC is to expensive for the gains now I did buy a Velocity block for a 3900X I own, not overly impressed with it, has no weight to it and cost over £60! At least my used Raystorm Pros are all solid lumps of copper, only paid like £25 a piece on ebay

Where are the Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme TRX40 blocks!?! Man I'm about to slap my build together and would love to skip out of taking it all down to put in a monoblock.... Thing is pretty for sure. And for the price talk.... I do not think it is that much for what you're actually getting. $200 isn't anything at all.... And I'm a person that believes you get what you pay for.....from a reputable company that is...

Matt26LFC:

I think you're right Hilbert, water block pricing is becoming ridiculous. My 24/7 rig isn't watercooled at all anymore. 8600K delid and liquid metal on Noctua air cooler, 2080Ti FE on air. WC is to expensive for the gains now I did buy a Velocity block for a 3900X I own, not overly impressed with it, has no weight to it and cost over £60! At least my used Raystorm Pros are all solid lumps of copper, only paid like £25 a piece on ebay

Price isn't that bad at all. Maybe you'd want to go with Bykski and see how their warranty system works out if there's an issue.

Matt26LFC:

I think you're right Hilbert, water block pricing is becoming ridiculous. My 24/7 rig isn't watercooled at all anymore. 8600K delid and liquid metal on Noctua air cooler, 2080Ti FE on air. WC is to expensive for the gains now I did buy a Velocity block for a 3900X I own, not overly impressed with it, has no weight to it and cost over £60! At least my used Raystorm Pros are all solid lumps of copper, only paid like £25 a piece on ebay

Hi Matt Sadly that's true with some latest CPU and GPU waterblocks like EK Quantum or Magnitude or even Optimus waterblocks which are quite expensive blocks and if you compare them to normal CPU blocks from Heatkiller or Bykski, Barrow, Aquacomputer you will gain 2-3°C in best case and its worth it, in my view, no Bykski one is probably best performing CPU waterblocks for Ryzen 3xxx series and for ThreadRipper, I used theor blocks like on TR4 or Ryzen and been very happy with performance, for another build we are used Heatkiller IV Pro TR4 which I think its one nice waterblock But personally I still would go with Noctua NH-D15 or something similar and Raijintek Morpheus II cooler for GPU, have run that for while and been happy with performance if I would be running single CPU and GPU XSPC Raystorm blocks are okay just not sure on Ryzen there, don't used them just on ThreadRipper and their Raystorm NEO have been one of best with Heatkiller and Bykski Hope this helps Thanks, Jura

JUST buy Alphacool ! they know how to build and to price their offerings. EK is overRated.