Thursday, October 6th 2016
EK Unveils ASUS Rampage V Edition-10 RGB Monoblock
EK Water Blocks, Slovenia-based premium computer liquid cooling gear manufacturer, is excited to announce its latest liquid cooling solution for ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard with full AURA Lighting Control RGB support.
Following the August release of the EK-FB ASUS R5-E10 Monoblock, we are now announcing the EK-FB ASUS R5-E10 Monoblock RGB Edition! This Monoblock is a complete all-in-one (CPU and motherboard) liquid cooling solution for Intel LGA-2011-v3 socket CPU and ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard, with full ASUS AURA Lighting Control RGB support. This water block uses the award-winning EK-Supremacy EVO cooling engine to ensure best possible CPU cooling. The monoblock directly cools Intel LGA-2011-V3 socket type CPU, Intel X99 Express southbridge (PCH) and power regulation (VRM / MOSFETs) module as water flows directly over all critical areas (southbridge is passively cooled). It is a very high flow water block that can be easily used with systems using weaker water pumps.
The base of the monoblock is made of nickel plated electrolytic copper while the top is made of quality POM Acetal material with the addition of decorative tiles with ROG insignia made out of brushed aluminum. The block features RGB LEDs that illuminate the ASUS ROG logo and Rampage V Edition 10 caption. The RGB LEDs are fully compatible with ASUS AURA Lighting Control and the 4-pin RGB female connector can be connected directly to the motherboard RGB header.
Availability and pricing
This monoblock is made in Slovenia, Europe and is available for pre-order through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network. The product will start shipping on Monday, 17th of October, 2016!
MSRP: 169.95€ (incl. VAT).
Following the August release of the EK-FB ASUS R5-E10 Monoblock, we are now announcing the EK-FB ASUS R5-E10 Monoblock RGB Edition! This Monoblock is a complete all-in-one (CPU and motherboard) liquid cooling solution for Intel LGA-2011-v3 socket CPU and ASUS ROG Rampage V Edition 10 motherboard, with full ASUS AURA Lighting Control RGB support. This water block uses the award-winning EK-Supremacy EVO cooling engine to ensure best possible CPU cooling. The monoblock directly cools Intel LGA-2011-V3 socket type CPU, Intel X99 Express southbridge (PCH) and power regulation (VRM / MOSFETs) module as water flows directly over all critical areas (southbridge is passively cooled). It is a very high flow water block that can be easily used with systems using weaker water pumps.
Availability and pricing
This monoblock is made in Slovenia, Europe and is available for pre-order through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network. The product will start shipping on Monday, 17th of October, 2016!
MSRP: 169.95€ (incl. VAT).
26 Comments on EK Unveils ASUS Rampage V Edition-10 RGB Monoblock
When do we get full motherboard water blocks? my sound chip and southbridge need water cooling too!
I think it looks pretty nice, problem is really that it's for an OTT platform that games worse than a z170 Skylake 6600k chip. To me the issue is more like putting awesome alloys on a Ducatti Tractor. This block should be released for the Z170 platform. Leave the 2011v3 platform to the creative rendering crowd.
Anyway, seeing as you two don't like pretty hardware, I guess your PC's look like Mother Theresa's Y fronts. :D
For one, a completely watercooled PC doesn't necessarily have decent airflow inside the case, so every component that produces heat will eventually get warmer than it would be in an aircooled case.
Adding to that, the lifetime of those components in a VRM may be longer when operated at an ambient temperature than it probably would be when said components are constantly being heated up and cooled down considerably depending on changing loads. Sure they are specified for that (sort of), but when doing high end overclocking, everything counts and having more stable temperatures without much variation infact helps stabilizing things.
Then there is this nasty correlation between temperature and resistance: the hotter an component gets, the higher is its electrical resitance which leads to this component getting even hotter / drawing more power*.
Again to clarify these statements: Under normal load, you may have a point, but for heavy overclocking (this board is designed especially for that purpose), you will have to consider cooling the environment besides the CPU as well. An heavily overclocked CPU can easily pull 300+ watts alone (even if specced for 130W TDP), maybe even more depending on how keen you are reaching a stable overclock. All this current has to flow through the VRM and it will heat up considerably!
[*] I'm no physicist, so forgive me my amateurish explanation. ;)
I keep reading this from different people, but I fail to see why. As long as one have a dedicated VRM water block and a dedicated CPU water block in the same loop opposed to a monoblock (necessarily the same loop), where is the difference?
The only thing I can think of is that the heat transfer from the CPU to the block is not optimal for monoblocks because of them being considerably larger. As such the pressure onto the CPU is not the same as for dedicated blocks which means thicker layer of TIM between the block and the CPU and thus inferior heat transfer, but I guess that can be solved with better construction of the monoblock up to a point where tolerances from the mainboard / CPU / VRMs get in the way.
Well, you still find people using nitrogen on overclocking competitions, so there will always be the need of some extra cooling for getting higher clockings.
However, except for those weird circunstances, WCing chipset the chipset brings you close to nothing.
Gone are the days of the nForce 780, when you needed a fan mounted on it just to prevent it from melting you system even if idling...
In that case the base plate of a cooler has to be considerably hotter than the cooling liquid itself, which should easily be measureable.
I guess i'll give that a try, this is interesting. :rolleyes:
While it is true what he's saying (combined heatload) you will still get much cooler temps than air with a properly raded loop and using that monoblock. As I said already, it's not needed on modern boards, just looks good...but with certainly improve temps, again assuming enough radiator in the loop.
Smokingman really made this unnecessarily complicated as it matters so little...
If you are, for whatever reason, after every degree C, you are right...but it's just not something to worry about, really.