EK Supremacy VGA

Price – $53-80

This is the older, but still recent, EK universal gpu block which was replaced by the later Thermosphere design. It comes with the standard EK packaging:

It comes with all the mounting screws, TIM and instructions you need:

The block is quite compact and attractive:

There are only two ports, which may make it harder to connect to than some of the competition. However a replacement top that can be used with a terminal bridge instead is available for purchase – however at this price I would consider the Thermosphere instead if that is desired.

The good news is that the ports are angled away from the PCB slightly to improve compatibility with passive VRAM heatsinks. Like the EK CPU blocks, the base is cleanly machined and it is sealed with 4 screws:

The mount was easy to use consisting of some standoff posts which were screwed into the PCB. Then the block could be easily mounted to these stand off posts. The thumbscrews were very small and fiddly but had a hex bolt head so that they could be tightened with an allen key. This system was by far the best implementation of the “true universal” single block mounts.

Note that the mount was not fully completed in this photo.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Is there any reason why the Micro SW-X can not be used in combination with any other universal cooler? My choice would be the EK Supremacy VGA (mostly because it’s so tiny and should allow the use of VGA cooling pads compared to some other bigger models) with the Micro SW-X in series.

  2. Also, how where did you get that T-shaped VRAM – VRM heatsink? http://abload.de/img/mxlcv7010sd7.jpg Why is it T-shaped? Are the surface mount components beside the VRM higher than the VRM itself? Same problem like with the GPU – VRM? I am a bit worried about the VRAM – VRM temperature which has no temperature sensor.

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