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For me, they have totally priced themselves out of my consideration, whereas I used to almost exclusively buy their parts, but being 2-4 times the price for no real benefit means they can go in the bin.
EKWB in trouble?
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EKWB in trouble?
Bykski are killing them! Half the price and better. I've fitted 2, 7900xtx on MBA cards and they are performing amazingly well. They're decent, the only thing that gets me with these China brands are the instructions are usually non existent. I did a barrow block for someone recently and the...
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I had a very bad experience with Alphacool and the Radeon VII block. The flow is the wrong way on there blocks currently. What temps are you managing with your block currently? A user in the owners page was having a poor experience with his alphacool block.
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Not to mention not paying their employees for months at a time. Crazy times.
My mistake!
I used to like AquaComputer's blocks and used a few in the past but then they went a bit weird, their other kit is excellent though. I have an EK Velocity2 CPU block and it performs admirably but Watercool make the best GPU waterblock imo (I'm biased, see sig
).As for will EK recover from this who knows, however the irony of their assets being illiquid is not lost.
Yeah I went off him over time, ended up being frustrated with a lot of his reasoning or apparent brand loyalty that a reviewer shouldn't really have, at least not to that extent. I may have imagined it, but I also suppose wearing it on his sleeve is better than hiding it.
I also don't really think he's all that knowledgeable
.Yeah I went off him over time, ended up being frustrated with a lot of his reasoning or apparent brand loyalty that a reviewer shouldn't really have, at least not to that extent. I may have imagined it, but I also suppose wearing it on his sleeve is better than hiding it.
I also don't really think he's all that knowledgeable
I unsubscribed when he moaned about not having an AMD review sample for some CPU.
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My order of trust(from best to worst) in WC parts after ~20 years of watercooling is mostly:
Watercool -> Aquacomputer -> Bitspower -> Optimus -> Bykski/Barrow -> EK -> Alphacool -> Thermaltake
So EK is pretty average, but almost the most expensive of them all.
Still be kinda shame losing them, as the ones better than them(apart from Bykski) are slow as f... in releasing GPU Waterblocks.
Watercool -> Aquacomputer -> Bitspower -> Optimus -> Bykski/Barrow -> EK -> Alphacool -> Thermaltake
So EK is pretty average, but almost the most expensive of them all.
Still be kinda shame losing them, as the ones better than them(apart from Bykski) are slow as f... in releasing GPU Waterblocks.
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Not watched this yet. Kitguru also had involvement in testing a collaboration with EK and Roman. Be interesting if you do a statement too.
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Did he do a quick sidestep about ek
Owing money to thermal grizzly ?
Everything else was pretty much here's the facts
That thermal grizzly bit kind of
Stood out to me
Owing money to thermal grizzly ?
Everything else was pretty much here's the facts
That thermal grizzly bit kind of
Stood out to me
Caporegime
Yup watercooling has generally priced itself into a niche that is never going to massively profitable.
AIO on the CPU is about £70/FE GPU with a big cooler is cheaper than AIB and you're pretty sweet these days. No maintenance or faff at upgrade time.
Given overclocking is pretty limited too I don't miss custom WC at all.
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Was that really a problem for the "money is no issue for top performance" crowd though? This pricing could almost be down to those people.
That's quite a high failure rate on the direct die blocks, 11%, and for an issue that should have been picked up during manufacturing and QC
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In a nut shell really, they paid so ek kept feeding on it.
Looks like its snowballing too with derbauer ending the partnership with them.
Maybe a 3080 block with intentionally mismatched backplate will go as low as £150 in the fire sale!!! Woohoo!! Take my money!!
What's been happening with ek has been pretty nuts so but considering how much they charge for water blocks now as mentioned by GN. I was actually planning on using ek blocks But when I saw the prices of current blocks I think I'll be sticking to what I have for now.. I remember the days when GPU blocks were £80 to £100, At least I think that's how much I paid for the last gpu I water cooled...
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i paid £75 for a 3090 block. EK wanted £200 but TBF is did look nice just not that nice
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