EK Unveils ASUS Rampage V Edition-10 RGB Monoblock

[btarunr]

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).

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[m1dg3t]

Oh yay! A cod piece for my epeen

 

[Farmer Boe]

Sick looking block! Although I'd expect nothing less for a motherboard of this caliber.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Water-cool ALL THE THINGS!

When do we get full motherboard water blocks? my sound chip and southbridge need water cooling too!

 

[Chaitanya]

Now EK has gotten sick by the RGB bug, it seems like a viral disease.

 

[Hood]

Oh yay! A cod piece for my epeen

How can you say that? This is an expensive water cooling part, precision engineered to the most exacting standards. This is a temperature reduction module of the most intricate sort, with actual Asus Aura RGB control! This was conceived, designed, and manufactured with the latest high-tech hardware and software by EKWB's crack team of engineers, and is not to be taken lightly or made fun of. It's made for us professional water cooling technicians, to precisely regulate temperatures in the CPU, VRM, and chipset areas. So show some respect... Besides, this cod piece is for MY epeen!

 

[m1dg3t]

How can you say that? This is an expensive water cooling part, precision engineered to the most exacting standards. This is a temperature reduction module of the most intricate sort, with actual Asus Aura RGB control! This was conceived, designed, and manufactured with the latest high-tech hardware and software by EKWB's crack team of engineers, and is not to be taken lightly or made fun of. It's made for us professional water cooling technicians, to precisely regulate temperatures in the CPU, VRM, and chipset areas. So show some respect... Besides, this cod piece is for MY epeen!

You have articulated your sarcasm masterfully, well done sir. Now, could you please pass the Grey Poupon

 

[the54thvoid]

Oh yay! A cod piece for my epeen

How can you say that? This is an expensive water cooling part, precision engineered to the most exacting standards. This is a temperature reduction module of the most intricate sort, with actual Asus Aura RGB control! This was conceived, designed, and manufactured with the latest high-tech hardware and software by EKWB's crack team of engineers, and is not to be taken lightly or made fun of. It's made for us professional water cooling technicians, to precisely regulate temperatures in the CPU, VRM, and chipset areas. So show some respect... Besides, this cod piece is for MY epeen!

Ya know what? Some people like pretty things. There's fuck all wrong with wanting to spend money to make something look cooler or more 'designed'. It's not epeen if you're not dragging it around to Lan Partys or posting shitty, 'look what I bought' mods threads.

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.

 

[RejZoR]

Now EK has gotten sick by the RGB bug, it seems like a viral disease.

Feels like 2005 again

 

[thesmokingman]

Too much monoblock.

 

[the54thvoid]

Feels like 2005 again

What happened in 2005 dude? Is this a personal story?

 

[Hood]

You have articulated your sarcasm masterfully, well done sir. Now, could you please pass the Grey Poupon

Thank you, sir, and glad I am that some can see the lighter side of this dark hobby. Some of us take these toys way too seriously, probably because they spent way too much money. @the54thvoid - If you're in a room full of laughing people, and you're the only one not laughing, they're probably laughing at you... My rig is very pretty, thank you - that doesn't mean I can't laugh at myself for spending over $3000 on it. And at others who do the same and worse. Lighten up, man, nobody is dissing your appreciation of 'pretty things', we just like to make fun of things we can't afford and wouldn't buy even if we could...like the $600 board that goes with this little pretty.

 

[lorraine walsh]

Nice looks, but WCing anything but CPU is close to nonsensical today.

 

[Breit]

Nice looks, but WCing anything but CPU is close to nonsensical today.

What did you mean by "...anything but CPU..."? I don't get it.

 

[galta]

What did you mean by "...anything but CPU..."? I don't get it.

Once she copied and pasted my comment @Guru3D, I can tell you for sure that what I meant is that only CPUs are worth getting WC today. But for bragging rights, it does not make sense to WC chipsets and even GPUs.

 

[atomicus]

Monoblock does not WC enough. I want full room block to watercool my environment. Must be solid one piece nickel, approximately 10ft x 10ft... of course I will need space for my chair to fit inside, but I'll need block for that too. And my mouse and keyboard. With RGB LED's. When will this be available?

 

[Breit]

Once she copied and pasted my comment @Guru3D, I can tell you for sure that what I meant is that only CPUs are worth getting WC today. But for bragging rights, it does not make sense to WC chipsets and even GPUs.

This isn't entirely true if you ask me.
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.

 

[EarthDog]

The hardware on that board can handle 300W with case cooled air. These aren't needed, but look great and keep the components cooler.

 

[thesmokingman]

The hardware on that board can handle 300W with case cooled air. These aren't needed, but look great and keep the components cooler.

Well, it will cool the vrms at the cost of hurting the cooling on the cpu. That's the problem with monoblocks and the rub because we don't absolutely need to cool the vrms and in this case at the cost of the cpu. Monoblocks biggest advantage is simplifying the routing and connections albeit with the mentioned drawbacks.

 

[Breit]

Well, it will cool the vrms at the cost of hurting the cooling on the cpu. That's the problem with monoblocks and the rub because we don't absolutely need to cool the vrms and in this case at the cost of the cpu. Monoblocks biggest advantage is simplifying the routing and connections albeit with the mentioned drawbacks.

Is it really that bad?
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.

 

[thesmokingman]

Is it really that bad?
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.

How bad it is depends on your goals I suppose. The monoblock means both vrm and cpu will share the same heat conductor so their individual temps will be a combination of both heat sources. If you're ok with spreading the heat load across both points, the advantage is that plumbing both will be a lot easier, two ports versus four ports.

 

[galta]

This isn't entirely true if you ask me.
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.

No need to aplogize.
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...

 

[Breit]

The monoblock means both vrm and cpu will share the same heat conductor so their individual temps will be a combination of both heat sources.

So just to understand that correctly, you are saying that with a monoblock, both CPU and VRM will get hotter opposed to the situation with dedicated blocks for CPU and VRM but still them being in the same loop? And that supposedly is because of the base plate of said cooler is transferring heat more efficiently between both heat sources than it is conducting heat to the cooling liquid?
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.

 

[EarthDog]

It won't be hotter than air, no...

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...

 

[thesmokingman]

It won't be hotter than air, no...

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...

It's really simple actually and is the same fundamental with fullcover gpu waterblocks vs gpu only waterblocks. Gpu only blocks out perform fullcover waterblocks because they do not cool the vrms. It depends if that matters to one or not...