New EK blocks - Page 17

Originally Posted by Pinesse 

It's free. If you check their site, it includes it. Their store isn't fully updated yet. I've actually emailed them regarding these stuff.

Originally Posted by DEW21689 

I'm hoping that in the next 6ish months that someone over at EK has an epiphany and they come up with a new design or go back to the old one. I have a huge build I've been planning that with any luck will begin around the first of next year and I really don't want it made less awesome because I can't find water blocks for the components I'm using and I'm forced to use EK's hideous creations that should be locked away in a secret dungeon and never spoken of again but are instead on display for all to see the true face of horror (modding the case for an acrylic side panel and going to be using some form of internal lighting)
(Sorry for the over dramatization towards the end there, I just woke up and I was feeling bored/silly)

Originally Posted by Mr.Pie 

whats your build?
EK; true, they have the most diverse blocks but they suck for CS and aftersales.
Heatkiller, Aquacomputer and XSPC have been expanding their block lines recently so you might be able to find whatever you need for those.

Originally Posted by DEW21689 

It will be based on a mATX design using the Fractal Arc Mini case, I will be running 2 AMD 7850s in crossfire overclocked. Hopefully a Piledriver CPU but if those fail as badly as bulldozer did I will wait for Intel's socket 1150. Cutting out the bottom hard drive cage so I can mount a dual 120mm radiator to the top of the case as well as the front of the case, and I am going to be using super silent/low airflow fans and liquid cooling the CPU/GPUs and hopefully the motherboard. Mounting a 512GB Vertex 4 SSD with velcro and building a small server/nas for mass media storage. CPU will be undervolted and not overclocked since the goal of this build is to make it as tiny/powerful/silent/clean/energy efficient as possible and while overclocking the CPU will give me bragging rights... I will never see any real world performance from it really other than shaving a few seconds off of the occasional video format conversion thus I will instead undervolt the hell out of it to reduce temps/power and just overclock my GPUs.
But extensive details/mod photos and possibly videos will be saved for its own thread when I start the project... Back to the purpose of this thread... EK for the love of my future build I beg you change your waterblock design back to what it was, or something that at least looks decent so I can throw my money at you to make my build look epic (It would appear 80% agree with me)

Originally Posted by simonfredette 

what I dont like is that I use coolingconfigurator.com to see if there are compatible blocks for cards or mobos , but it only shows EK products , is there a website for the other brand blocks.

Originally Posted by Mr.Pie 


i doubt its going to be free........more items to charge milk people of their money

its free; but its still butt ugly.
But that doesn't matter to me since I'm effectively boycotting EK

Originally Posted by orinx 

What EK really should do is take five minites a delete the section of CNC programming that makes all the pokkadots and they would have nice simple blocks that would save money because A) less machining time and B) more people would buy the cards. As I'm planing on building a rig with a msi gtx680 lightning and it looks like EK is the only company making lighting water blocks I really hope they fix this soon.

Originally Posted by Mr.Pie 


ahhh
if its M-ATX unless you're using an Asus ROG board its highly unlikely anyways to have a full cover block available from anyone.

I actually honestly would recommend the XSPC Raystorm as it performs decently for its price. Its like $50? I can't remember. GPU blocks go for Aquacomputer or Heatkiller. IMHO they have sexy sleek looking copper blocks and they're RELIABLE unlike EK *cough nickel peeling and blaming it on water.