so today I have a cold and my voice is probably not 100% but what are you going
to do I'm going to be unboxing and having a quick look at the EK Supreme HF
so this is basically like the old EK Supreme except better and what makes it
better is that it's higher flow and in theory it performs better it's available
in four different flavors copper Plexi copper acetel nickel Plexi and nickel
acetel so basically I'll explain what that means in a minute when we get the Block open you can see that um actually
I don't think I've ever un Bo an EK product on my blog but they have
dramatically improved their packaging from where it was a year or plus ago and
now you can see they've got like this they've got like this color-coded theme going so this is a CPU block but they
have like codes for reservoirs radiators
I don't know what these are maybe these aren't reservoirs I don't know something
else whatever but this is a block okay it's orange so it's
colorcoded okay yeah here we go extreme cooling performance standard G14 threads
for all standard flow systems low restriction and pressure drop mount
mechanism included and high quality materials used I mean at the end of the
day there's not a whole lot you can say in terms of marketing speech about something like a water block because it
either looks good and performs or it doesn't look good and doesn't perform
because that's all the water cooling guys really care about is how does it
look and what's the performance like so the first thing we've got in terms of
accessories is a standard bolt through mounting kit so you got four screws or I
mean pardon me four bolts four Springs uh eight washers and four thumb screws
or thumb nut so those you don't need a back plate in order to mount them but it
looks like EK has included back plates so I should just kind of stuff that in
there okay and then we've got five four
accelerator plates so the block actually includes one so depending on whether you
want more flow okay so this would be a higher Flow Design versus if you want a
more concentrated Focus design say for example if you have a smaller die and
you're not so much worried about the performance of other blocks in your system or there's a compromise here for
like a larger die you can actually tweak the way this block flows and they even
include a blank one that you can use to cut your own so that's pretty cool it
includes an instruction manual okay which gives you the basics for how to
install it you use your bolt through you do this you do that connecting the water
okay shows all of your different okay so the number three is the stock one so it
includes all of the other ones all right so let's uh have a look at the back
plate oh this is really nice EK never used to include back plates with their
blocks which is why I assume they didn't but it looks like in here we've got four
plastic washers as well as a very nice
uh rubber rubber piece here to to keep the back plate away from the back of
your board as well as a metal back plate very nice okay so let's get this out do
not forget other EK products so there that's what the codes mean all right
that's not so difficult okay now let's
get oh it comes with some MX2 thermal compound great I love seeing high
quality thermal compound included with cooling products okay so then we've
actually got the EK Supreme HF this is a snazzy looking block so the materials
basically okay so uh my battery ran out sorry about that either way basically
like I was saying we're looking at the base material here so as I mentioned
before this is a Plexi copper model so
this would be kind of a silver color if we were looking at the at the nickel
plated model and then the top would be
uh Plexi okay or it could be acle which would be like a black um a black solid
material rather than one that you can see through Okay so we've got like a
black hold down plate which is very nice it's powder coated so that's going to be
a very durable finish there and we should do the obligatory look how shiny
that is shot holy smokes look at that that is very nice you can like see all
around the cameraman's office here depending where I aim it that's pretty
cool anyway so that pretty much covers it I mean the performance of this block
is estimated to be around the same as some of the other top performing blocks
in the market so I do plan to have a look at that later on down the road
anyway thank you for checking out my quick unboxing and first look at the EK
Supreme HF