Why does EKWB make terrible quality thermal pads?

[Milos Sladic]

• EKWB is usually regarded as the most expensive watercooling company and they brand themselves with the greatest quality to justify their prices.
• Funny thing to me is that their GPU blocks which could cost up to 500 EUR for the 3090 FE sandwich all come with their thermal pads that have laughable conductivity of 3.5 W/mK. I mean wtf ekwb...
• My friend is having a business changing thermal pads for professional miners and with his custom ordered 20 W/mK pads he is reducing memory temps by 20c compared to stock and by 15c compared to EK.
• Why would they sell such low quality pads even thou you need to spend 500+ EUR in order to cool your GPU for example, and the main reason most of us do this is to have the best possible thermals on the plantet... and yet all that money and equipment is restricted by 3.5 W/mK pads...

[Moonzy]

does it overheat while using the waterblock? or you're just complaining for the sake of complaining?

[Milos Sladic]

9 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

does it overheat while using the waterblock? or you're just complaining for the sake of complaining?

What pointless reply is that?

Do air cooled components overheat? no
Do we still do custom water cooling? yes
Do I expect to get the best of the best and not some crap like stock pads if I pay 800 EUR to EKWB just to cool my GPU? yes I do

[shoutingsteve]

I think this is very similar to the Roles Royce window glass.  There is nothing special about it, except that it comes with that car.  If the GPU isn't overheating, then the thermal pad is fine.

[Moonzy]

5 minutes ago, MS1993 said:

Do air cooled components overheat? no

they, in fact, do

i own many 3090 and 3080, they definitely overheat on stock config

 

5 minutes ago, MS1993 said:

Do I expect to get the best of the best and not some crap like stock pads if I pay 800 EUR to EKWB just to cool my GPU? yes I do

then you have high expectations, there's nothing wrong with the product itself

feel free to buy aftermarket parts that meets your standards, then

[Milos Sladic]

Thank you for the info.

[Milos Sladic]

@CarolineTerrible reality it seems. Very unfortunate. Thank you for the info.

[fonzz1e]

that's why I went with bykski for my waterblocks

 

their thermal pads are just ok, but their prices are great  

 

also I have a strange suspicion that their supremacy classic waterblock is not suited for am4, it's strange my corsair xc7 gen1 is cooler by 5c

Edited November 23, 2021 by fonzz1e