My latest EK order! EAK

Danfoss2011 · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:07

EK-FC6970 - Nickel X3
EK-FC6970 Backplate - Nickel Plated X3
EK-RAM Dominator - Nickel

Thats going to add some weight to the case and a nice dent to the wallet!

Already have full mobo block and cpu block.

koooowweeee · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:12

why blocks for the ram???

bit of a waste of money and will add heat to the loop

Danfoss2011 · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:25

koooowweeee said:
why blocks for the ram???

bit of a waste of money and will add heat to the loop

Bling, show off, totaly silent system and my cooling setup can deal with it no problem at all. I have a 560GTX with 8 yates and 2 shoruds. Lots and lots of cooling power

koooowweeee · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:28

will admit it does look good.

got 8 yate's in my rig

but soon heats up with 2 gtx 480's lol

soon to be 3 ha ha just cant stop messing

edit do you have to cut the fins off your ram?

Danfoss2011 · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:33

Then fins are bolted on with some allen bolts, you unbolt them stick on some tim and bolt the ek block on!

I've 3 6950's flashed to 6970's

koooowweeee · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:35

what cpu do you have and rad(s(?

mjones1 · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:41

I thought Ek had stopped sellers from selling nickel plated blocks, personally i would cancel the order and go with copper blocks or other companies products since there is a issues with nickel plating flaking off and ruining loops.

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index....tail,0&cntnt01articleid=85&cntnt01returnid=17

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index....tail,0&cntnt01articleid=83&cntnt01returnid=17

koooowweeee · 24 Jun 2011 at 22:48

old news that and its happened to very few. ive just got another nickel block to ad the the two i had no problems at all

Danfoss2011 · 26 Jun 2011 at 09:49

koooowweeee said:
what cpu do you have and rad(s(?

Danfoss2011 said:
I have a 560GTX with 8 yates and 2 shoruds. Lots and lots of cooling power. X6 1100T

mjones1 said:
I thought Ek had stopped sellers from selling nickel plated blocks, personally i would cancel the order and go with copper blocks or other companies products since there is a issues with nickel plating flaking off and ruining loops.

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index....tail,0&cntnt01articleid=85&cntnt01returnid=17

http://www.ekwaterblocks.com/index....tail,0&cntnt01articleid=83&cntnt01returnid=17

He advised but i have friends in high places and they ordered them in for me. I've had EK Nickle from day one. Never had a problem. I use di water and mayhems dye

mjones1 · 26 Jun 2011 at 10:09

Danfoss2011 said:
He advised but i have friends in high places and they ordered them in for me. I've had EK Nickle from day one. Never had a problem. I use di water and mayhems dye

Their quality on their nickel plating has dropped recently but i'm just warning you since tests carried out on other forums show it's not up to scratch.

Danfoss2011 · 26 Jun 2011 at 18:49

mjones1 said:
Their quality on their nickel plating has dropped recently but i'm just warning you since tests carried out on other forums show it's not up to scratch.

I've had a full pc build with nothing but nickle out of his last batch without problems. Only the yanks and a few euro boys had problems as using poor collant and kill coil

Amidar · 27 Jun 2011 at 13:17

Danfoss2011 said:
I've had a full pc build with nothing but nickle out of his last batch without problems. Only the yanks and a few euro boys had problems as using poor collant and kill coil

People have had this problem using EC6,distilled water & kill coil,de-ionized water & kill coil,fesser 1 & various other mixtures.If plain distilled/de-ionized water & kill coil's are the problem then why has EK pulled the nickel blocks?

Poor plating is the problem they are just using water & kill coils as a poor excuse.

Martini1991 · 27 Jun 2011 at 16:32

Danfoss2011 said:
I've had a full pc build with nothing but nickle out of his last batch without problems. Only the yanks and a few euro boys had problems as using poor collant and kill coil

Distilled water here, my blocks are from November 2010 and they're starting to flake.

Witcher1979 · 27 Jun 2011 at 18:34

wow that is shocking.

Martini1991 · 27 Jun 2011 at 18:36

I can't remember when my CPU block was, I hope that isn't suffering too >.<

rjk · 27 Jun 2011 at 22:56

Martini1991 said:
Distilled water here, my blocks are from November 2010 and they're starting to flake.

pics?

koooowweeee · 27 Jun 2011 at 23:26

I would like to see some pics. Not saying your lying just want t see what it looks like.

Martini1991 · 28 Jun 2011 at 08:35

rjkoneill said:
pics?

I will do soon, I've got to undo my loop first.
I noticed it a while back, but never actually clicked as to what it was.