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Hey so I've been putting the ek water blocks on my 980's and am not convinced about the placement of the thermal pads. Anyone else been through this lately?

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What do you mean by not convinced? They go on all the RAM chips as well as the chokes and MOSFETs. Nice foxhound picture btw :)

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Hey so I've been putting the ek water blocks on my 980's and am not convinced about the placement of the thermal pads. Anyone else been through this lately?

 

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Post some pics so we can see if anything is wrong :) if they are covering all the vrms and vram then it's fine.

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They cover all the VRAM and the mofsets but not the chokes. There was definetly more TIM on the stock cooler. I'll post some pics in a sec.

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Ok, here are some pics:

 

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PC's up and running like a charm with good temps all over and NO LEAKS!

 

Would really like to hear from someone else who's installed this water block though as I'm still a bit worried something is getting hot under all that metal.

 

Cheers

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Ok, here are some pics:

 

attachicon.gifBare Card.jpg

 

attachicon.gifInstructions.jpg

 

attachicon.gifMy Interpretation.jpg

 

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PC's up and running like a charm with good temps all over and NO LEAKS!

 

Would really like to hear from someone else who's installed this water block though as I'm still a bit worried something is getting hot under all that metal.

 

Cheers

If the intructions didn't show any thermal pads on the chokes (which they didn't), then it's fine. The chokes might be making direct contact with the block or something. They may just not need cooling.

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If the intructions didn't show any thermal pads on the chokes (which they didn't), then it's fine. The chokes might be making direct contact with the block or something. They may just not need cooling.

AFAIK chokes need little cooling. The mosfets how ever do. 

 

In the case of my Z77X-UP7: e9e2cee737b618788c5ee24cebe42876.pngYou can see that the chokes have no heatsink coverage at all. Whats under the heatsink are mosfets. 

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EK is VERY thorough on their instructions - so just believe them

 

they've always been the best performing waterblock designs for years, so I would just relax instead of challenging their experience/expertise

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