Introduction

Founded in 2003, EK has since risen from its humble beginnings to become a dominant player in the PC water-cooling market. In fact, the brand is nearly synonymous with PC water-cooling itself. The company provides solutions to meet every need, be it cooling your CPU, motherboard VRM, or graphics cards. However, not content to rest on its laurels, the company has continued to expand into new markets, such as all-in-one liquid coolers and even powerful workstations. Needless to say, if you ever thought about water-cooling your computer, EK was likely one of the first companies to catch your eye.


Today's review will focus on the EK Fluid Works S5000 workstation. Rather than being known for just water cooling, EK is now on the path of providing complete, fully liquid-cooled workstations designed to handle any and all tasks. That isn't just bravado as the Studio series S5000 has some serious specifications to back it up. Our test system comes equipped with an AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X 64c/128t processor, 128 GB of DDR4 memory, and two NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics cards. Add the custom liquid cooling and fancy chassis and you have a complete system that crunches serious numbers and looks damn good doing it without excess noise or heat. So let's get down to business and see what this behemoth of computing power can do!