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hey guys Jays two cents here if you remember where we kind of last left off I had done some benchmarking of the GTX 780 the vanilla version here from EVGA I talked about taking it to the next level because I'm a water cooler so we're gonna be sticking ek water block on this thing this is their EK f c7 ATG t-- xti water block now i know some of you are going uh TI what the hell you said you weren't getting a TI it's not a TI it's of vanilla they use the exact same PCB and the GTX TI base model also has three gigabytes which this card does as well so we're gonna go ahead and take a look at this block that's a pretty big box for a full cover water block PK also sent me the ek fc7 eighty g t-- xti backplate in black so we're gonna put a back plate on there as well which is kind of new for me because I've never even put a back plate on any of my water-cooled graphics cards ever so that's gonna be kind of fun so we're gonna go ahead and do an unboxing here of the block and take a look at that and we're install it we'll see how the temperatures look before and after and then we will give some final thoughts when you flip it open here you're met with your instructions this is one of the few times I certainly recommend reading the instructions have to read the instructions you're dealing with an expensive piece of componentry you don't want to up and I mean that with every sense of the F word ek started including their own thermal paste which i think is really good you get your thermal pads here for your VRMs and your chips or your memory chips you have the tool the o-rings and all of the screws that go along to melting it to your cart inside here we have well foam high tech foam we all know I like to eat that and then here is the block right here so as you can see on the card cooler here it's just single piece of machined as our acetal I guess is the type of plastic they're using there it's got a little ek logo and it right here for a GTX Ti so I can pretend to have a 780ti I guess the machining on here is very very very smooth I mean you can see some machining marks in there but don't let that fool you this is extremely smooth I mean this is very polished and it looks like an awful lot of quality and craftsmanship went into this I mean even the acetal is polished on the bottom side now the backplate it's designed to do two things it's designed one to add a little bit of passive cooling to the back of the card and it also allow it gives more rigidity to the card as a whole so here's the back plate you can kind of see in the camera there it's got some really neat like the intentionally left perfect machine marks in there I don't know how else to explain it it is there are machine marks in it but it's actually part of the aesthetics of the card and it looks very cool so there's not really any hardware or anything that goes along with the backplate really because well I guess there is there are screws on here it looks like these are just longer screws that might replace the screws that you use to install just the block so I'll make sure I read the manual and check up on that so there it is guys there is the block and the backplate we're gonna go ahead and install this see how the temperatures look and we'll come back and give you guys my final thoughts there she is guys installed into my main system here the temperatures on this are fantastic at stock clocks before I over volted and overclocked this graphics card I was kidding a max temperature of 35 degrees Celsius now a little bit of a disclaimer because you guys know I'm a little bit outside the norm in more ways than one I do have some massive cooling going to this I mean I have a 45 millimeter thick 480 millimeter rad and a 45 millimeter that's hard to say and a 45 millimeter thick 360 red so I have seven times 120 millimeter worth of radiator so it does have a lot of cooling but I just want to point out that I passed the point of diminishing returns on radiator surface area a long time ago so you could get very similar results with a single 360 with the CPU Loup with no problems now when I overclocked this thing and unblocked the voltage and move the voltage all the way up on the GTX 780 I got a max temperature of 41 degrees Celsius ambient temperature in this room right now is about 73 degrees Fahrenheit you have to do the conversion into Celsius I'm sorry guys I'm American we just again that thing about being different so there you go guys the ek full cover waterblock here for the GTX 780 you can expect similar performance for any graphics card that they carry water blocks for whether it be the r9 series that 700 series whatever it may be ek water blocks I've been using them guys for about eight years in fact the graphics card hanging on the wall that you guys have asked about in the past is an 8800 Ultra 8800 GT X ultra from Nvidia back in 2006 I believe that I use an ek waterblock on was fantastic so guys there you go if you're looking at water cooling your graphics card consider ek water blocks the performance is great the style is there and hope you guys have enjoyed this video and hope it taught you something when it comes to water cooling or GPU and kind of what to expect when you do put your graphics card under water and as a added benefit to the temperatures it is 100% silent the graphics card makes absolutely no noise so there you go guys spin J's two cents showing you the ek water block and back plate as always I will see you guys in my next video