EK get a water block.......... FOR A QUADRO K6000

[brownninja97]

 

Not really sure as to what the heck they were thinking, honestly i think this is a very bad move, few people/companies use this gpu and even fewer are going to be willing to buy a aftermarket water block.

 

 

The potential benefits however are that it will be cooler, a lot cooler, this monster has 12gb vram, it has 2880 cuda cores, it can render chuck norris in 4k. This cooler is a lot smaller then standard cooler and it doesnt make much noise(remember its a loop so there is a pump somewhere).

 

http://videocardz.com/48712/ek-announces-nvidia-quadro-k6000-water-block

 

What do you think about custom coolers for the quadro series of cards.

[wng_kingsley7]

Damn...That sounds soo cool and sexy for a quadro card. 

[joelthezombie15]

I agree. Bad business move. But they look nice. I like simplistic and EK does that very well.

[gatecrasherlok]

I agree. Bad business move. But they look nice. I like simplistic and EK does that very well.

I agree, simplistic is the best. it just gets horrible when they put circles with EK all over it.

[Samdb]

Pointlessly gorgeous.

[Glenwing]

I suspect it's because they themselves needed it, perhaps some of them run with these cards in their workstations they use for modelling their products

[brownninja97]

I suspect it's because they themselves needed it, perhaps some of them run with these cards in their workstations they use for modelling their products

Bit over the top but each to their own i guess, i think they will sell 5 at most.

[TheRetiredSlave]

can render chuck norris in 4k.

This is, in fact, the greatest compliment of a GPU that I have ever read..

Anywhoo, if that waterblock only takes up a single slot, couldn't they technically fit more cards onto a board (if someone did something about the second DVI port taking up a second slot)??

[Skylark]

I wouldnt risk voiding a warranty on a $5000 GPU

[miyabwah]

 why would you watercool a workstation? i thought watercooling was done mostly for gaming...

[applebook]

That's a lie. Chuck Norris cannot be captured at 4K or at any known resolution. 

[onionring]

guys common, workstation gpus are the same PHYSICALLY as many gaming cards.

they just found a waterblock that fitted on the k6000 and added it to the compatibility list, they didn t custom design a cooler for it.

[Skylark]

guys common, workstation gpus are the same PHYSICALLY as many gaming cards.

they just found a waterblock that fitted on the k6000 and added it to the compatibility list, they didn t custom design a cooler for it.

I saw a thread somewhere on another forum that said 6xx series cards (I think 680 specifically) can be converted to a quadro by minor hardware modifications and flashing the BIOS

[Glenwing]

guys common, workstation gpus are the same PHYSICALLY as many gaming cards.

they just found a waterblock that fitted on the k6000 and added it to the compatibility list, they didn t custom design a cooler for it.

 

They all use GK110 cores which are physically the same, yes, but let's not confuse GPUs with graphics cards.  Water blocks are designed to fit graphics cards, and the PCB layout for the K6000 is entirely different from the Titan/780/Ti.  GTX 780 water blocks wouldn't fit, they had to design a new block for this.

[Tataffe]

Could be an apprentices work, for practising purposes ...

[Sidiox]

I think its also most likely for their own cards, but don't forget there are a lot of companies which use these cards and cooling is important to them, and they all buy in batch. Imagine Pixar needing some new workstations with these GPU's and just buying 200 of these blocks. 

[zip2k4]

it can render chuck norris in 4k.

 

 

OT: for 121.95 euros... does anyone even OC that card? better yet, does that card hit thermal limit yet?

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

 why would you watercool a workstation? i thought watercooling was done mostly for gaming...

 

What if some gamers ends college as an arquitechs? haha

[ACatWithThumbs]

 

OT: for 121.95 euros... does anyone even OC that card? better yet, does that card hit thermal limit yet?

Nobody will OC a workstation card that expensive.

They are supposed to hold long without failing and overclocking it would risk failing in a render.

And somebody that needs a $5000 card has 100% no space for a fail.

This card is build for people that make CGI in movies like Monster Inc. or Transformers.

 

[zip2k4]

Nobody will OC a workstation card that expensive.

They are supposed to hold long without failing and overclocking it would risk failing in a render.

And somebody that needs a $5000 card has 100% no space for a fail.

This card is build for people that make CGI in movies like Monster Inc. or Transformers.

 

yup, it was a rhetorical question - pretty much saying why do they even do this

[ACatWithThumbs]

yup, it was a rhetorical question - pretty much saying why do they even do this

Water cooling will hold the card so cool that the risk of fail gets even lower.

So it does make sense and it's also better for rooms with a lot of PCs in it so the room temp doesn't get that high.

And it reduces noise.

[Cwazywazy]

I guess if you can afford a card that good for professional use, water cooling it might be a pretty good idea. (It'll run cooler and quieter as said above.)

[TheMissxu]

So it does make sense and it's also better for rooms with a lot of PCs in it so the room temp doesn't get that high.

That isn't how it works... The water block just removes heat from the GPU core; where do you think that heat goes? Only if the radiator was outside the room would the room temps be lower.

 

Otherwise, your other two reasons, noise and cooler card, are basically why someone would do this.

[jscho]

I like it that EK have done this. There may only be one person in the world who would want to watercool their monster of a GPU. Good on you EK. It may be a bad business move and have cost a fair bit in R&D, but if that small minority wants to, they can. I really like that about EK. They make waterblocks for everything. I don't see how it's a horrible thing to do. There are companies that make LN2 pots for everything, and how many people on this earth have the time (or money for that matter) to do LN2 OCing? But you know, people make that shit.

I love EK for this. +10 respect

[TheNinjaNextDor]

I dont see it as a waste. Cooler temps can only make the card more stable. The only problem I see is having the custom loop running for as long as the card is along with custom loop maintenance and things like leaks happening during a render. I know that leaks are very rare but when you are doing things with a $5000 card you may not want them to have any possibilty of failure (they are important to not screw up). Otherwise I think its cool... hehe... ok...