Selling modding toys for halo products in a market with limited demographics. That's a niche inside a niche inside a niche. Glad it's working out for them and someone is making their boat payment. The rest of us lesser mortals will just have to scrape by with peasant-class air cooling on our minimum wage GPUs from one to three generations ago. Woe is us!
I love EK stuff, best in my experience. Pricing is similar to pascal so im glad to see they didn't jack those up. But question : i know they were showcasing some new blocks at Computex , are these the new design? I see the jet plate being vertical as opposed to horizontal i wonder if thats part of their new design.
I paid $168 for my OG Titan nickel/acetal block, so I’d say, if the US price ends up being the same, good on them. However, in reality, there aren’t that many differences from block to block, so there shouldn’t be any price difference really, if not cheaper.
EK as always hits it out of the park but I have to ask at what point did they start selling the back plates for their water blocks by them selves at a extra cost or has it always been that way? I only ask because when I watch reviews on YT and they get sent EK stuff it always comes as a kit with back plate and I do not remember anyone ever mentioning block and back plate not being together as a full kit even when they are stating costs. It would only make sense they are together as a full kit because why would anyone just buy half of a cooler.
My 2 year old 1080 block from EK didn't come with a backplate. I'll have to check when I'm home to see if it installed without, or is using the one from the GPU itself.
Backplate was always separate. IIRC the backplate for my OG Titan was around $30. they *do* sell "kits" where you can get it bundled, but that obviously costs extra.
That is probably what I was thinking about. I seen them together in the reviews and I was sure they had them at one of the shops in the city all together as well so I just assumed that was how it was.
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PeachNCream - Thursday, September 6, 2018 - link
Selling modding toys for halo products in a market with limited demographics. That's a niche inside a niche inside a niche. Glad it's working out for them and someone is making their boat payment. The rest of us lesser mortals will just have to scrape by with peasant-class air cooling on our minimum wage GPUs from one to three generations ago. Woe is us!darckhart - Thursday, September 6, 2018 - link
unless you get FE, it looks like quite a few of the "OC" AIB cards on air are 2.5 slot....ikjadoon - Thursday, September 13, 2018 - link
I think it's working out for them, but just a year ago, EK's CEO, CTO, and Head of Marketing all departed around the same time.The CEO & CTO both ended up at Corsair: https://www.techpowerup.com/239706/corsair-opens-p...
I believe the founder took over CEO responsibilities, but it's a little unclear.
Hxx - Thursday, September 6, 2018 - link
I love EK stuff, best in my experience. Pricing is similar to pascal so im glad to see they didn't jack those up. But question : i know they were showcasing some new blocks at Computex , are these the new design? I see the jet plate being vertical as opposed to horizontal i wonder if thats part of their new design.Railgun - Thursday, September 6, 2018 - link
I paid $168 for my OG Titan nickel/acetal block, so I’d say, if the US price ends up being the same, good on them. However, in reality, there aren’t that many differences from block to block, so there shouldn’t be any price difference really, if not cheaper.rocky12345 - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
EK as always hits it out of the park but I have to ask at what point did they start selling the back plates for their water blocks by them selves at a extra cost or has it always been that way? I only ask because when I watch reviews on YT and they get sent EK stuff it always comes as a kit with back plate and I do not remember anyone ever mentioning block and back plate not being together as a full kit even when they are stating costs. It would only make sense they are together as a full kit because why would anyone just buy half of a cooler.DanNeely - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
My 2 year old 1080 block from EK didn't come with a backplate. I'll have to check when I'm home to see if it installed without, or is using the one from the GPU itself.darckhart - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
Backplate was always separate. IIRC the backplate for my OG Titan was around $30. they *do* sell "kits" where you can get it bundled, but that obviously costs extra.rocky12345 - Friday, September 7, 2018 - link
That is probably what I was thinking about. I seen them together in the reviews and I was sure they had them at one of the shops in the city all together as well so I just assumed that was how it was.evilpaul666 - Saturday, September 8, 2018 - link
I'm not sure about other AIBs, but EVGA updated their page with Boost Clock speeds for most of their cards.