Despite it being a mid-range board, you can use a water block for the GPU now

May 15, 2014 08:43 GMT  ·  By

Most of the water cooling equipment from Ljubljana-based premium water cooling gear manufacturer EK Water Blocks is made for high-end video cards, but there are exceptions, like the EK-FC750 GTX.

It's not the graphics card part that is the exception, because the product is still made for a video board, one from NVIDIA to be precise.

No, the exception here is that the new product is made for a pretty mild-mannered, modest video card instead of some monster.

The video board in question is none other than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, though this is easy enough to guess from the name alone.

Anyway, the EK-FC750 GTX is made from Acetal material (quality POM Acetal material are EK's own words) and ships with thermal pads, the mounting mechanism (with screw-in brass standoffs) and 1 gram of EK-TIM Ectotherm thermal grease.

The customary very high flow design is employed here, like on more or less every EK water block these days.

It allows the coolant to spread evenly across the whole water block and keep a high performance even if your water cooling system has a weak pump.

Of course, there isn't much “area” for the coolant to spread over, because unlike high-end water blocks, the EK-FC750 GTX only cools the GPU (and apparently memory chips), not everything else on the PCB.

On the flip side, if you buy a mid-range board, you probably aren't about to purchase a super water cooling system either.

Ergo, you're likely to have one of those weaker pumps we have mentioned before, so the very high flow design is worth it for that alone.

That said, EK didn't discount the possibility of multi-card setups, as bizarre as it is in this case. You're more likely to build a SLI computer with GTX 760 or better boards, since the GTX 750 doesn't support it for some reason, but EK made certain that the EK-FC Terminal was supported anyway, for dual-, triple- and quad- water block connections (the EK-FC Bridge & Link system isn't supported though).

In case you need a reminder, the GeForce GTX 750 is NVIDIA's Maxwell board based on the GM107 GPU. The GeForce GTX 750 Ti adapter is supported by the EK-FC750 GTX too of course.

The EK-FC750 GTX should already be shipping for a price of €60 / $82, give or take. Shipping taxes and VAT might add a fair bit though (depending on the country where the retailer is based), so keep than in mind when you place an order.

Update July 29, 2014: Strange though it is, the GeForce GTX 750 doesn't support SLI, it turns out. Thanks to Roger X for pointing it out.

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