Thursday, June 25th 2015
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EK Water Blocks Ready with its Radeon R9 Fury X Water Block, Single-slot Capable
Slovenian liquid-cooling giant EK Water Blocks gave us a sneak-peek of its upcoming full-coverage water block for the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X. When launched, the block will likely come in two material options - exposed copper and nickel-plated copper; and a choice of clear acrylic and acetal tops. The block features a common coolant channel for the GPU and the VRM areas, and features a dense micro-channel lattice over the GPU area. The company may also separately sell a single-slot bracket for the card's display I/O.
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31 Comments on EK Water Blocks Ready with its Radeon R9 Fury X Water Block, Single-slot Capable
Nvidia doesnt have a clue on how to build such a thing, they cling on to their DVI like morons that they surely must be ! At least the top of the line GPU should be free of this pestilential connection that breaks the singleslotedness of the card, but somehow they still dont seem to get it, Anno 2015. No they dont, at least concerning NVIDA, there isnt a single top of the line nvidia GPU single slot ready from the get go, ever made, well unless you count riva tnt models, that is.
My fears are close to being full realized. Now that gloves are off, nVidia can (will?) simply wipe the floor with it's 2nd Gen HBM. They do have the R&D means, manufacturing muscle and bags of cash. Everything that AMD doesn't. To some extent if nVidia do what AMD did - re-brand of 2xx to 3xx - just with HBM, even old Maxwell would be instant win. Imagine GTX980Ti with one slot cooling + half the length of usual 305mm (12") behemoths I would jump on it in a blink of the eye.
For me deal breaker is not the price (within reason of course) but length of the top cards which reached ludicrous proportions in like last 10 years.
I recommend learning how split-phase power works.