** EK Waterblocks RANGE FACELIFT - AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER - ONLY AT OCUK **
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cheers Cleee - have edited ours and forwarded to EK also
thats what happens when the Slovakians write our product descriptions
np
I love how there's always an exclamation mark at the end of "Europe." It's almost like they believe it's a surprise to everyone else that slovakia is a part of Europe
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Mlwood37 posted this last week
'Our CPU block the Plated ones are all show flaking and ware and tear around the pins and edges. All the gpu blocks show the same. This is Both Old plating and new EN version. Under Vegetable extract and Glycol based coolants and under Biocide (cu) and kill coil. looks to us as no matter what you do its going to fail earlier than expected. The glycol or vegetable extract only seems to slow it down and not prevent it how ever staining it still present on all blocks so as for EKs statement i think we may strongly disagree with what they have to say on the matter.'
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I quite like the look of some of these, not all of it looks good though, now if they had just left off the circles and just used that nice looking badge in the corner I think they would have a winning stylish design, if that badge and just the badge could have been lit using an LED it would have been a win.
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I like the idea of the blocks covering almost all of the graphics card, but not the circles and the frosted plexi
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ditto, but the circles are growing one me
Your the only person who seems to like the circles. I've been looking at other forums and it seems to be universal hate towards them. I think the design is just too abstract. It's only something people who like circles (lol) will like, everyone else would prefer a more neutral looking block with no patterns. It fits into the same category as those snail cases.
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isn't it the other way round? to Tefal
i was sure a read someones report that showed galvanic plating lasted much longer than the thinner EN stuff.
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that'd be correct, but the EN process is more expensive which is mainly why there's a thinner layer
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Costs probably balance out for the plating EN versus EP. EN should be better on complicated surfaces but there is more than one kind of EN.
Right....back on topic?
Right....back on topic?
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Definitely not a fan of the circles. They look silly on the CPU blocks where the inlet/outlet holes don't line up inside the circle pattern.
Clearly you didn't see the link of my 4 month old EN CPU base. Been polished and buffed and under a microscope you can see the nickel has clearly come off. You can even see it with the naked eye and can feel the edge of the nickel.
EK have asked for it back. So all this "there's nothing wrong with the EN nickel process." Im can assure you there is.
Clearly I didn't, hardware has problems sometimes and because ek had issues with their planting it is always under more scrutiny, regardless if it is just a one off or bad batch,
A company asking for a faulty product back is hardly the most shocking thing I have headed today.
Sometimes computer hardware goes wrong, motherboards, gpus etc. Same goes for watercooling. Just because your hardware had an issue does not mean that there is an inherent fault across the board for all products made in this way.
If this was the case, nobody would ever buy an OCZ ssd
I speak from experience, that and I can see returns figures on my system.
A company asking for a faulty product back is hardly the most shocking thing I have headed today.
Sometimes computer hardware goes wrong, motherboards, gpus etc. Same goes for watercooling. Just because your hardware had an issue does not mean that there is an inherent fault across the board for all products made in this way.
If this was the case, nobody would ever buy an OCZ ssd
I speak from experience, that and I can see returns figures on my system.
The only reason your on here saying if we got bad things to say go else where is because you just want to see big numbers on your sale sheets.
As for the SSD im 100% sure if i went anywhere and posted which SSD should i buy 99.9% would say M4. People who still buy OCZ clearly want to lose their data and enjoy BSOD lol.
As for the SSD im 100% sure if i went anywhere and posted which SSD should i buy 99.9% would say M4. People who still buy OCZ clearly want to lose their data and enjoy BSOD lol.
Not really, its due to the good relationships OcUK have with manufacturers that in turn give OcUK exclusivity and better pricing, if they allowed out-right public slandering of partner names in their own forum, surely that would be a bad move for business and business relationships. RJK makes a good point, everyone gets it wrong once in a while, be it a bad batch, an oversight in manufacturing or something else.
I'd guesstimate return figures over qty sold is less than 2%, maybe a little more if you throw cleee into the mixer
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lolI'd guesstimate return figures over qty sold is less than 2%, maybe a little more if you throw cleee into the mixer
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I am quite up to date on tech, I still went with OCZ Agility ssd, nothing wrong with it, most of the time it is user error that produces a lot of problems, not the hard ware it self.
Anyway RJ, any chance of EK releasing a plainer version of the CPU blocks do you think, without the circles?
You should let them know that people on OcUK are not too keen on there new design, should be pretty easy for them to do a run without circles and just put the naming and badge on the top