Real frozen cut? EK Waterblocks Vector Radeon VII review | igorsLAB

1 - Unboxing und Montage (mit Anleitungsvideo) 2 - Ergebnisse und Fazit

Test run and temperatures

I connect the graphics card directly to the chiller, the CPU is cooled separately in a different water circuit. Then I start Witcher 3 on maximum details at 3840 x 2160 pixels (Ultra HD). The control measurement showed approx. 293 watts over the measured 30 minutes for the graphics card alone, the water temperature was constant 20 °C and the room temperature was 22 °C. This means that the best conditions for later comparisons with other products are.

At a GPU temperature of 32 °C, I register under the socket on the back of the board just under 38 °C, which is really good. According to logging, the HBM2 memory modules are warm between 31 °C and 34 °C, which is also excellent. The voltage converters only get warm to a maximum of 30 to 31 °C, even better. .Overall, the board thus remains above average cool, which can only be welcomed.

And what about this extreme cooling? In order to overclock the map really perfectly, I changed the platform this time and repeated the whole thing again on a much more potent system, because there the achievable FireStrike points of the 3DMark are significantly higher.

There I can no longer make IR measurements, but overall all temperatures were still in the deep green range for the extreme OC. Up to 47 °C for the GPU at well over 400 watts can still be described as good, especially since the voltage converters always remained below 35 °C. Tjunction didn't even climb to the 80°C mark at the end, which is acceptable.

I had already described the whole thing in detail in a separate article "The Wall: Stable Overclocking of the AMD Radeon VII with Water Block and Chiller" and therefore only linked the video in question, which shows the achieved results very nicely.

Summary and conclusion

EKWB did a very good job with the Vector for the Radeon VII, even though I don't know the final price yet. But it is unlikely to be cheaper than the cooler for the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which means that it will be around. 150 euros. The bottom line, however, is that this is a very solid product without weaknesses, but with an above-average performance.

Cute RGB for the Illuminati is also on board, so nothing is missing. So you can buy and if I have to be honest, The moment i have to screw the original, very pretentious hair dryer back on, because I only have a sample, unfortunately.