EK Supreme HF Extreme Performance CPU Water Block Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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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