EK Releases EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix Full-Cover Water Block

👤by Michael Pabia Comments 📅20.04.2017 10:11:13


Water cool your ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card with the new EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix full-cover water block. With the superior cooling performance of water cooling, high-end graphics cards such as the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti can achieve higher boost clocks for better gaming performance and other GPU intensive applications without straining the graphics card.

The EK Water Block EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix
The full-cover water block offers direct cooling too all critical components of the graphics card including the GPU, RAM and VRMs. The superior cooling to these components allow users to attain higher overclocks and run higher boost clocks for improved performance in gaming and other GPU intensive applications. The water block also works flawlessly with reserved water flow and will not affect the cooling performance of the water block. Also, the water block is designed to also handle water cooling systems with weaker pumps and yield efficient cooling performance.

EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix – Nickel


EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix – Acetal+Nickel


The EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix comes in two variants – the Nickel and Acetal+Nickel water blocks. The base of the water block is made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper. Top can either be acrylic material for the Nickel variants or POM Acetal material for Acetal+Nickel variant. The acrylic top features two pre-drilled slots for 3mm LED diodes for illumination. Note that there are no performance difference between the two variants.



The EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix water block also features a special plastic cover over the block terminal EK Water Blocks introduces with the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti full-cover water blocks. See compatibility list below:

Compatible Models:
- ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-11G-GAMING 11GB GDDR5X (90YV0AM1-M0NM00)
- ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING 11GB GDDR5X (90YV0AM0-M0NM00)


Pricing and Availability
The EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix water block is now available for pre-orders at the EK Webshop and partner reseller networks, shipping this coming April 26, 2017. Both the EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix – Nickel and EK-FC1080 GTX Ti Strix – Acetal+Nickel blocks have an MSRP of €129.95/$149.99.



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