Gadgetory

so today I have a cold and my voice is probably not a hundred percent but what are you gonna 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 acetal nickel plexi and nickel acetal so basically i'll explain what that means in a minute when we get the block open you can see that actually I don't think I've ever unboxed an ek product on my blog but they have dramatically improved their packaging from where it was a year 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 color coded okay yeah here we go extreme cooling performance standard tea 1/4 threads for all standard flow systems low restriction and pressure drop mounting 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 the 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 are Siamese pardon me four bolts four Springs 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 here okay and then we've got 5 X 4 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 focused 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 instruction manual okay which gives you the basics for how to install it you could 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 ones that includes all of the other ones alright so let's have a look at the back plate oh this is really nice you can't ever used to include back plates with their blocks which is why I seemed they didn't but it looks like in here we've got four plastic washers as well as a very nice rubber rubber piece here to keep the backplate away from the back of your board as well as a metal backplate very nice okay do not forget other UK products are 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 a high quality thermal compound included with cooling products ok so then we've actually got the ek supreme HF this is a snazzy-looking block so the materials basically okay so my battery ran out sorry about that either way basically why like I was saying we're looking at the base material here so as I mentioned before this is a flexi 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 plexi okay or it could be acetal which would be like a black 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 gonna 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