EK Launches Reference Design Waterblock for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Accelerators
The Slovenian company EK Water Blocks, a well-known developer of liquid cooling systems, has announced a water block for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series graphics accelerators, made in accordance with a reference design. It should be noted here that NVIDIA video cards of the Founders Edition series this time have motherboards with a non-standard design.
The novelty was named EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3080/3090 D-RGB. It should be noted right away that this solution is not suitable for Founders Edition video cards.
The water block is a full-coverage solution: heat is removed from the GPU, memory chips, and power elements of the power subsystem. The design provides for the presence of a rather thick copper base – its thickness is 11.2 mm.
The Open Split-Flow architecture provides high cooling performance even at relatively low fluid flow rates. This allows the use of not too powerful pumps as part of the system.
The novelty is equipped with a multicolor D-RGB LED backlight based on 12 LEDs. They can be controlled directly from a motherboard with MSI Mystic Light Sync, ASUS Aura Sync, GIGABYTE RGB Fusion, or ASRock Polychrome Sync.
The following models are named among the compatible video cards:
- Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phoenix;
- Gainward GeForce RTX 3080 Phoenix GS;
- Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phoenix;
- Gainward GeForce RTX 3090 Phoenix GS;
- GALAX GeForce RTX 3080 EX Gamer;
- GALAX GeForce RTX 3090 EX Gamer;
- KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG 10GB (38NWM3MD99NK);
- KFA2 GeForce RTX 3090 SG 24GB;
- Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro (NED3080019IA-132AA);
- Palit GeForce RTX 3080 GamingPro OC (NED3080S19IA-132AA);
- Palit GeForce RTX 3090 GamingPro (NED3090019SB-132BA);
- Palit GeForce RTX 3090 GamingPro OC (NED3090S19SB-132BA);
- PNY GeForce RTX 3080 10GB XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan Edition (VCG308010TFXPPB);
- PNY GeForce RTX 3090 24GB XLR8 Gaming EPIC-X RGB Triple Fan Edition (VCG309024TFXPPB);
- Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3080 Trinity (ZT-A30800D-10P);
- Zotac GAMING GeForce RTX 3090 Trinity (ZT-A30900D-10P).
The price of the EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3080/3090 D-RGB water block starts from 150 euros.
