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EKWB ASUS GTX 780 Ti DCII OC Full Cover Water Block Review

Cooling/VGA & Other Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2014-08-05

For those who haven't heard yet from Slovenian EK Waterblock company, must have been either computer-less for the last 10 years or maybe just started to get interested in some high end Do It Your Self water cooling gear. Forget about All In One if you are looking for the best cooling performance at a low noise ratio. The only way to achieve this goal is via equipping your favorite computer parts with high end water cooling parts. EKWB has been around for 10 years now and really have diversified their products from the rest through the years. One thing all of these water cooling blocks or complete kits have in common is high performance, solid craftsmanship and all this wrapped in a sleek looking design. The graphics card and processor are usually the most cooled solutions; but EKWB also has chipset, RAM coolers and even cooling gear for CAD/CAM setups in their lineup.

Test Setup

The Madshrimps tested comprises of the following parts:

MSI Z97 XPOWER motherboard
Intel i7-4770K OC'ed at 4500MHz 1.25 Vcore cooled by EK L360
Corsair Vengeance 32GB 2400MHz C10 rams
Samsung 500GB EVO SSD
Western Digital 2TB Green Caviar HDD
ASUS GTX 780 Ti DCIIOC video card stock / cooled by EK-780Tiwater block
Corsair HX1050W Power supply
SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 case
Ambient air temperature is 21°C

To stress the NVidia cardwe used 3 loops of Futuremark's 3DMARK Vantage, running the complete GPU suite.The card is first tested at stock speeds with the stock dual slot cooler versus the EK Full Cover Waterblock.

For the second test we use the ASUS GTX 780 Ti DCII OC at clock speeds:

GPU 954Mhz (boost 1020MHz)
RAM 1750Mhz

Last but not least we overclock the card with the MSI Afterburner tool, maximizing the voltage at +075mV. Instead of using Vantage as stress test we opted to test the card in a daily scenario: multiplayer Battlefield 4. DICE's latest sibling is very strenuous on the graphics core. Any instability leads to graphic corruption, freezes or return to dekstop. 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 SilentiumPC Aquarius X90 case.

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