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About to pull the trigger on a Threadripper build but can't find any water blocks for TR4 - any news?
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EKWB have already teased the blocks at previous compute shows probably have been waiting on the NDA lifting before launching
Most just needed a different back plate.
Shame the gigabyte ek mono won't fit their x399, I quite fancy a 16 core
Most just needed a different back plate.
Shame the gigabyte ek mono won't fit their x399, I quite fancy a 16 core
Yeah but TR is a much larger socket, I'd imagine they'd need a larger block rather than just a new backplate.
Was just listening to jaystwocents video about his thoughts. Did mention EK will apparently have day 1 support for threadripper at 10 min mark:
waits to see if true but with some teases and those comments, hopefully should not be too long either way.
AFAIK you don't need a backplate with TR4 because it has screw in coolers like LGA2011, you just need a new bracket and any EK block from the past decade should work.
They might introduce a bigger block
They might because bigger block = bigger price = bigger profit. However any one they have made in the last decade is large enough for a Threadripper chip (the heat spreader is bigger than the actual CPU area, it's there to stop it being crushed by retards during cooler installation).
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@ocuk - any idea when your stock of EK threadripper water blocks will be coming in?
They will be leaving EK around the 18th so usually within a week of that date.
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I think EK will be first. I have no ETA on XSPC blocks but I'm expecting them by the end of the month.
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Two weeks to complete a build, oh well.
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Ocuk - is eta of 25th aug still valid for the ek blocks? I have one on pre-order with you.