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so today I have a cold and my voice is probably not 100% but what are you going

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to do I'm going to be unboxing and having a quick look at the EK Supreme HF

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so this is basically like the old EK Supreme except better and what makes it

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better is that it's higher flow and in theory it performs better it's available

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in four different flavors copper Plexi copper acetel nickel Plexi and nickel

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acetel so basically I'll explain what that means in a minute when we get the Block open you can see that um actually

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I don't think I've ever un Bo an EK product on my blog but they have

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dramatically improved their packaging from where it was a year or plus ago and

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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

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have like codes for reservoirs radiators

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I don't know what these are maybe these aren't reservoirs I don't know something

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else whatever but this is a block okay it's orange so it's

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colorcoded okay yeah here we go extreme cooling performance standard G14 threads

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for all standard flow systems low restriction and pressure drop mount

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mechanism included and high quality materials used I mean at the end of the

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day there's not a whole lot you can say in terms of marketing speech about something like a water block because it

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either looks good and performs or it doesn't look good and doesn't perform

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because that's all the water cooling guys really care about is how does it

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look and what's the performance like so the first thing we've got in terms of

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accessories is a standard bolt through mounting kit so you got four screws or I

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mean pardon me four bolts four Springs uh eight washers and four thumb screws

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or thumb nut so those you don't need a back plate in order to mount them but it

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looks like EK has included back plates so I should just kind of stuff that in

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there okay and then we've got five four

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accelerator plates so the block actually includes one so depending on whether you

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want more flow okay so this would be a higher Flow Design versus if you want a

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more concentrated Focus design say for example if you have a smaller die and

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you're not so much worried about the performance of other blocks in your system or there's a compromise here for

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like a larger die you can actually tweak the way this block flows and they even

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include a blank one that you can use to cut your own so that's pretty cool it

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includes an instruction manual okay which gives you the basics for how to

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install it you use your bolt through you do this you do that connecting the water

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okay shows all of your different okay so the number three is the stock one so it

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includes all of the other ones all right so let's uh have a look at the back

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plate oh this is really nice EK never used to include back plates with their

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blocks which is why I assume they didn't but it looks like in here we've got four

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plastic washers as well as a very nice

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uh rubber rubber piece here to to keep the back plate away from the back of

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your board as well as a metal back plate very nice okay so let's get this out do

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not forget other EK products so there that's what the codes mean all right

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that's not so difficult okay now let's

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get oh it comes with some MX2 thermal compound great I love seeing high

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quality thermal compound included with cooling products okay so then we've

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actually got the EK Supreme HF this is a snazzy looking block so the materials

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basically okay so uh my battery ran out sorry about that either way basically

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like I was saying we're looking at the base material here so as I mentioned

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before this is a Plexi copper model so

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this would be kind of a silver color if we were looking at the at the nickel

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plated model and then the top would be

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uh Plexi okay or it could be acle which would be like a black um a black solid

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material rather than one that you can see through Okay so we've got like a

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black hold down plate which is very nice it's powder coated so that's going to be

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a very durable finish there and we should do the obligatory look how shiny

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that is shot holy smokes look at that that is very nice you can like see all

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around the cameraman's office here depending where I aim it that's pretty

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cool anyway so that pretty much covers it I mean the performance of this block

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is estimated to be around the same as some of the other top performing blocks

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in the market so I do plan to have a look at that later on down the road

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anyway thank you for checking out my quick unboxing and first look at the EK

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Supreme HF