EK Working On New Water Blocks for ASUS, MSI Cards

[Kaapstad]

EK Water Blocks, Ljubljana based premium water cooling gear manufacturer, is working on a plethora of new Full Cover water blocks, namely for the following graphics cards:

•ASUS GTX780TI-DC2 DirectCU II (EK-FC780 GTX Ti DCII) - 104,95€
•ASUS ROG Matrix GTX 780 Ti (EK-FC780 GTX Ti Matrix) - Price TBA
•ASUS ROG Matrix R9 290X (EK-FC R9-290X Matrix) - Price TBA
•MSI R9 290X Lightning (EK-FC R9-290X Lightning) - Price TBA

These upcoming Full Cover water blocks are engineered in cooperation with ASUS and MSI for the aforementioned flagship performance GeForce GTX 780 Ti and Radeon R9 290X based graphics cards. These water coolers will directly cool the GPU, RAM as well as VRM (voltage regulation module) as water will flow directly over these critical areas thus allowing the graphics card and it's VRM to remain stable under high overclocks.

All four water blocks will feature side-attached Terminal port system - up to four water blocks could be used on a single ATX form factor motherboard by using EK-FC Terminal (DUAL, TRIPLE or QUAD type) system or other means of interconnectivity.. Both water blocks will also feature a very high flow design allowing the products to be used in liquid cooling systems using weaker water pumps. Due to the non-standardized width of the circuit boards these water blocks will not line up with any other EK Full Cover water block.

In order to simplify the search for suitable and compatible water block EK is adding newly released graphics cards from various manufacturers to EK Cooling Configurator database and compatible graphics cards are being added to the list on daily basis:

EK-FC780 GTX Ti DCII is scheduled for release on March 17th 2014 through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network, as well as the EK-FC R9-290X DCII announced earlier this year. This water block is designed for GeForce GTX 780 Ti version but is 100% backwards compatible with non-Ti version. This water block superseds the existing EK-FC780 GTX DCII which will be phased out of production. A new EK-FC780 GTX Ti DCII Backplate will also be released.

EK-FC R9-290X Lightning is scheduled for release in first half of April 2014, followed by both Matrix water blocks by early May.

EK Water Blocks is also working on a new value oriented water block for the NVIDIA Maxwell GM107 GPU based GeForce GTX 750- and GTX 750 Ti series graphics cards. EK-FC750 GTX will again feature single-slot design to free adjacent PCI(e) slot and allow stacking of these graphics cards. Due to variety of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 (Ti) circuit board designs and no prescribed standard this water block will directly cool GPU and RAM only in order to maximize hardware compatibility.

http://www.techpowerup.com/198748/ek-working-on-new-water-blocks-for-asus-msi-cards.html

These should help boost the scores on the bench threads.

 

[Orangey]

Welp, this is what we've been waiting and screaming for, 6 months sure does go fast.

BTW had to laugh at:

Good to see that EK's PR dept. is still alive. It's been almost a day since they sent out a new waterblock press release.

 

[Kaapstad]

Welp, this is what we've been waiting and screaming for, 6 months sure does go fast.

BTW had to laugh at:

Are you planning on getting any of the above cards ?

 

[WalderX]

Looking forward to someone going quad-fire liquid cooled lightnings?

Anyone got a few grand spare?

 

[vsg28]

Bitspower also has introduced their block for the MSI 290x Lightning amazingly enough

 

[Silent_Scone]

Finally!

Now, to **** about with a ROG 290 or Ti...that is the question

 

[Rasch]

Finally!

Now, to **** about with a ROG 290 or Ti...that is the question

Deff a 290,you got 3 TI's you had your fun with the Green side!

 

[vsg28]

I second that, but not the ROG matrix. Get the 290x Lightning and overvolt it like you have been wanting to all this time

 

[Rasch]

I second that, but not the ROG matrix. Get the 290x Lightning and overvolt it like you have been wanting to all this time

You are limited on the Lightning to like 1.35V and i think they wont lock down the ROG Matrix.If the Reference Asus 290X's anything to go by.

 

[Silent_Scone]

That's what I'm betting on

 

[Rasch]

We need some cherry picked 290X gpus with 1.5 on a cracking custom pcb!

 

[vsg28]

You are limited on the Lightning to like 1.35V and i think they wont lock down the ROG Matrix.If the Reference Asus 290X's anything to go by.

I think they will increase the limit to be honest. But that ROG Matrix board is huge and looks kinda disappointing compared to previous Matrix boards.

 

[Orangey]

Are you planning on getting any of the above cards ?

I thought about it but given the price point they'll be coming in at now, will save my monies in case there's a sneaky new top-end card coming sooner than we thought.

 

[Kaapstad]

I thought about it but given the price point they'll be coming in at now, will save my monies in case there's a sneaky new top-end card coming sooner than we thought.

Save your money until next year, that's when we will see the real meaty GPUs using 20nm. What we will see this year I think will be the equivalent of the GK104 and Tahiti chips, next year we will see the equivalent of the GK110 and Hawaii chips which will be the real beasts.

 

[cwgk91]

Not for the gaming edition though

 

[Kaapstad]

EK Introduces ASUS R9 290(X) DirectCU II Water Block

EK Water Blocks, Ljubljana-based premium water cooling gear manufacturer, is proud to introduce the full-cover water cooling solution for the ASUS engineered Direct CU II series AMD Radeon R9 290X graphics card.

EK-FC R9-290X DCII 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 its VRM to remain stable under high overclocks.


Base is made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper - depending on the variant) while the top is made of quality cast acrylic material or POM Acetal (depending on the variant). Screw-in brass standoffs are pre-installed and allow for safe installation procedure. The cooling engine uses refined, 0.6 mm wide microchannel structure to even further improve the heat transfer while not sacrificing the famous low hydraulic restriction design.

Up to four EK-FC R9-290X DCII series water blocks can be interconnected using various methods (EK-FC Terminal, EK-HD Tube & Adapter System or EK-FC Bridge CSQ - depending on the water block variant) which allows for hassle-free piping job. The product is available in a three variants, an aesthetic retention backplate is also available:

http://www.techpowerup.com/198943/ek-introduces-asus-r9-290-x-directcu-ii-water-block.html