EK Waterblock for Nvidia 5080 and 5090

[moocow]

May be they found new investors? If so and if I'm them, I would start cleaning house and pushing the old guards out. But given how the founder behaves, I find that a bit hard to believe it would happen. I suspect Thermal Grizzly could easily push out products that are on par with EK's performance. Don't forget EK's lead product engineer is now at Thermal Grizzly and de8auer himself has been making CPU blocks so he knows what he's doing.

 

[Jokester]

May be they found new investors? If so and if I'm them, I would start cleaning house and pushing the old guards out. But given how the founder behaves, I find that a bit hard to believe it would happen. I suspect Thermal Grizzly could easily push out products that are on par with EK's performance. Don't forget EK's lead product engineer is now at Thermal Grizzly and de8auer himself has been making CPU blocks so he knows what he's doing.

That's because he stole the block designer from Aquacomputers hopefully they make some interesting blocks in the future.

 

[moocow]

That's because he stole the block designer from Aquacomputers

I didn't know that. Anyway I wouldn't be surprise if EK's suppliers want payment upfront for any work at this point or on a very short payment terms.

 

[moocow]

5090 FE block is 330 Euro.

EK launches first waterblock for GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition, costs €330 - VideoCardz.com

EK has a waterblock for RTX 5090 Founders Edition, only for the bravest? If one is not scared by three-part PCB and liquid metal, this might be the solution. EK is the first company dedicated to cooling solutions, ready to introduce its own version of a cooler for the Founders Edition card by...

videocardz.com

 

[Jokester]

You would have to pay me to use an EK block.

 

[moocow]

Alphacool 5090 blocks seem to be all around 200 Euro with VAT. Not sure if they would drop the VAT if shipping to Canada or sub it with GST tho. Is there a reason to pay the EK premium? I thought Alphacool performance wasn't as good as EK in the past but not too far behind unlike Byski.