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7970 LTG WATERBLOCK IS NOW IN PRODUCTION!!
Ready for sale by 27th of July, great news as the steam sale and broken PSU's will have finished demolishing my bank account.
Edit: It also looks like we don't have to shell out for EK backplates either, pictures show the block fitted with the MSI backplate/reactor core. Its also one of the most full covering blocks I've ever seen
Poor cleeecooo.....acetal only blocks!
Hi res images on EK's FB page.
Might just go for GPU only blocks TBH
Dissapointed.
Are you referring to the EK Lightning block? What's to be disappointed about? This thing looks like a beast. Larger than some dual-GPU single card coolers.![]()
Copper/Acetal works for me as that is the one I wanted in the first place lol. It will be interesting to see what these cards will do on a beast liquid cooling setup and/or hooked up to my future chilled Geo-thermal cooling loop.
Copper acetal....
Nickel acetal I can live with...
Geothermal doesn't always mean "hotter" than something else. IE: a reference temperature.
The system is based off of sub-surface conductive heat transfer, but it is still Geothermal cooling.
http://www.earthtoair.com/how-geothermal-heating-and-cooling-works.php
Geothermal heat pumps
Even in regions without large high temperature geothermal resources, a geothermal heat pump can still provide space heating and air conditioning. Like a refrigerator or air conditioner, these systems use a heat pump to force the transfer of heat from the ground to the application. In theory, heat can be extracted from any source, no matter how cold, but a warmer source allows higher efficiency. A ground-source heat pump uses the shallow ground or ground water (typically starting at 10–12 °C, 50–54 °F) as a source of heat, thus taking advantage of its seasonally moderate temperatures.[9] In contrast, an air-source heat pump draws heat from the air (colder outside air) and thus requires more energy.
Switching the direction of heat flow, the same system can be used to circulate the cooled water through the house for cooling in the summer months. The heat is exhausted to the relatively cooler ground (or groundwater) rather than delivering it to the hot outside air as an air conditioner does. As a result, the heat is pumped across a larger temperature difference and this leads to higher efficiency and lower energy use.
They key to the system for cooling a computer is that the ground water temperature is always below the temperature of the interior of the home, the temperature is very stable, the ground can absorb tons of energy in a properly sized cooling loop, and the only energy used in this type of cooling system is the liquid pump. So during all seasons of the year my computer will be fed 10-14 C water.
Sounds interesting Vega. So how do you do it then, bury a huge radiator 6 feet under?
the word geothermal literally means heat produced from within the earth
just because an american company obviously doesn't know the meaning of the word doesn't necessarily make them right
running some pipes in the ground to dump heat away from a home / PC isn't geothermal, it's just thermal, they've chucked the geo in their just because it's sounds more high tech than "well yeah we're going to bury some copper pipe in your garden and pump water through it"
Cleee to go universal you would need to leave the heatsink plate on and add airflow to cool the memory and vrms.