While AMD's latest dual-GPU powerhouse comes with a rather beefy-looking liquid cooling system out of the box, the team at EK Water Blocks have nonetheless created their own full-cover block for the Pro Duo, which is now available in a pair of versions.
"Radeon™ has done it again by creating the fastest gaming card in the world. Improving over the Radeon™ R9 295 X2, the Radeon Pro Duo card is faster and uses the 3rd generation GCN architecture featuring asynchronous shaders enables the latest DirectX™ 12 and Vulkan™ titles to deliver amazing 4K and VR gaming experiences. And now EK Water Blocks made sure, the owners can get the best possible liquid cooling solution for the card as well!"
Nickel version (top), Acetal+Nickel version (bottom)
The blocks include a single-slot I/O bracket, which will allow the Pro Duo to fit in many more systems (and allow even more of them to be installed per motherboard!).
"EK-FC Radeon Pro Duo water block features EK unique central inlet split-flow cooling engine with a micro fin design for best possible cooling performance of both GPU cores. The block design also allows flawless operation with reversed water flow without adversely affecting the cooling performance. Moreover, such design offers great hydraulic performance, allowing this product to be used in liquid cooling systems using weaker water pumps.
The base is made of nickel-plated electrolytic copper while the top is made of quality POM Acetal or acrylic (depending on the variant). Screw-in brass standoffs are pre-installed and allow for safe installation procedure."
Suggested pricing is set at 155.95€ for the blocks (approx. $177 US), and they are "readily available for purchase through EK Webshop and Partner Reseller Network".
Needed because of the shitty
Needed because of the shitty AMD Engineered Cooling Solution.
you mean the water cooled
you mean the water cooled graphics card?
Mom’s-basement-dwelling
Mom’s-basement-dwelling Nvidrone spotted!
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(nuked for profanity / racism)
Lying because you think it
Lying because you think it makes you look better, doesn’t make you look better. It just makes you look like a liar.
Of course, nobody has to point out your bigotry. You wear it like a badge of honor. It’s no wonder you have to lie to try to get people to like you.
Gaming GIT alert, mindless
Gaming GIT alert, mindless gaming GIT alert!
The AMD Radeon Pro Duo, I
The AMD Radeon Pro Duo, I want this SKU and the Full-Cover Water Block! I’ll install the pro graphics drivers and do some very long Blender rendering jobs where each frame will take some minutes, with the ray tracing sampling turned way up on all the lights and the AA and AO/other feature settings turned way up. AMD has some great ray tracing software/middleware for accelerating ray tracing workloads on the GPU! So long to the pricy Xeon SKUs I’ll be able to stick with the lower cost versions. $1500 is a bargain for this SKU just to get access to the pro graphics drivers that usually require the purchase of a more costly FirePro SKU!
Now with Pascal/Volta(from Nvidia) and Polaris/Vega(From AMD) please the both of you GPU markers, and others, continue getting more of the functionality in your GPUs’ micro-architectures that was once only available on a CPU, so graphics card owners can totally tell the CPU to kiss-off when it comes to any graphics related workloads, and that includes, at some future time, some dedicated Ray Tracing units in the GPUs hardware!
DUMBASS. These have ultra
DUMBASS. These have ultra high failure rates, and those drivers are TOTAL shit.
Gaming GIT alert, mindless
Gaming GIT alert, mindless gaming GIT alert!
“These have ultra high
“These have ultra high failure rates”
Cite your source, liar.
WOW! Dual-GPUs in a single
WOW! Dual-GPUs in a single slot, impressive!
If AMD had released it with a
If AMD had released it with a single slot block, I think some of the reviews would have been slightly more favorable.
Yeah… that would have been
Yeah… that would have been an interesting niche. Not sure if the Pro Duo market overlaps heavily, if at all, with the "replace your GPU cooler" market, though.