OC3D Review: EK FC8800 GTS waterblock
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.I know it's actually meant to be a review article PV, but that's a great installation guide you've written there!
No doubt it will help a few people.
I agree about the EK blocks being pieces of art, it's just too bad they are mounted where they can't be seen!
@PV: Since the EK fullcover block has a much bigger 'footprint' than the MCW60, did you find it any more difficult to get a good flat mount over the core and all the RAM?
I agree about the EK blocks being pieces of art, it's just too bad they are mounted where they can't be seen!
@PV: Since the EK fullcover block has a much bigger 'footprint' than the MCW60, did you find it any more difficult to get a good flat mount over the core and all the RAM?
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The EK blocks are easy to get a good mount - mine worked 1st time just tighten all the screws good 
Yeah she's a beaut alright!name='Doddsy' said:
Hi mate, and thanks! The EK was easy to get a good mount the first time around once you had the screw holes lined up.name='Allsorts' said:I know it's actually meant to be a review article PV, but that's a great installation guide you've written there!No doubt it will help a few people.
I agree about the EK blocks being pieces of art, it's just too bad they are mounted where they can't be seen!
@PV: Since the EK fullcover block has a much bigger 'footprint' than the MCW60, did you find it any more difficult to get a good flat mount over the core and all the RAM?
Thank you! Yes I must admit at feeling the same as I was always under that impression too. But that being said, I felt that the testing portion of the review was enough to provide conclusive and verifiable results. Of course there is always the element of user error; i.e TIM application, getting a consistant block mount and temp measurement etc (I was only able to take water temps at the top of my 'T', where the res would have been preferred). Regardless, the temps and performance that I saw during the review have been posted as they were.name='Nagaru' said:
Agreedname='Kempez' said:The EK blocks are easy to get a good mount - mine worked 1st time just tighten all the screws good
I am just observing here, but it would appear that there are some slightly unexpected results. What I am referring to is that I would assume that if the GPU temperature were higher on the Swiftech, and it doesn't have the heat dump of the ram the water temperature would have a lower delta with ambient but it is in fact higher. The only explanation I can think of is that some of the heat on the EK block is being dumped into the ram and mosfets, but that is hard to believe. Please don't take this as a criticism I am mainly trying to understand and figure out which is best considering I might get an 8800 at some point.
It wasn't criticism, sorry to cause you work. 
Thanks for looking into it.
Edit: I was just thinking that since the EK has a slightly lower flow it should need to add more energy to a unit volume of water since it spends more time in the block. This probably isn't significant though.
Thanks for looking into it.Edit: I was just thinking that since the EK has a slightly lower flow it should need to add more energy to a unit volume of water since it spends more time in the block. This probably isn't significant though.
Now to make it worse you tell me you are working on a public holiday, thanks doubly then mate. I was just reading about the coolant used and noticed that it said you used 10% Prestone coolant concentrate, is this antifreeze? If so maybe that contributed to it since it has a high viscosity maybe they wavy design of the Ek is more effective opposed to the smaller "pins".
