EK Water Blocks TITAN Full Cover Block Kit Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2013-07-18

The Nvidia TITAN card is one serious monster gaming graphics card. Maximum performance awaits you if you are able to pay the atmospheric price tag. For those that want the fastest single GPU graphics card at the moment, this is the right one for you. But it's not all roses here for Nvidia's fastest GPU. The TITAN card is seriously limited by an average power design, allowing almost no extra headroom for that little extra crunching power. Secondly the stock heatsink is also running on its toes to keep the card just below throttling temperature. The latter is where watercooling comes to the rescue. Slovenian EK Waterblocks was so kind to send us one of their full cover block TITAN versions bundled with the backplate. A newer XL version of this full cover block also has popped up in the EK online shop. Time to unpack one of EK's marvels.

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Test Setup and Methodology

The Madshrimps testbed comprises of the following parts:

To stress the TITAN card we used 3 loops of Futuremark's 3DMARK Vantage, running the complete GPU suite. The card is first tested with the stock reference cooler and at stock speeds. Then we overclock the card with the ASUS GPU Tweak tool, maximizing the voltage to 1.21VGPU. Again the overclocked card has to complete 3 times 3 loops of Vantage GPU tests to be called stable. Slowly we max out the card in terms of clockspeed till the Vantage benchmark crashes. Similar stress testing is done with the EK FC installed.

For the monitoring software we use GPU-Z, as it allows us to track the minimum, maximum and average temperatures of the GPU. The output results in the charts are the average out of three runs. Here are some more shots of the complete watercooled build inside the great Corsair Carbide 540 AIR case.

 

 

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