Huge EVGA Fail!!!! GTX 295 Hydro "copper" mixes ALU and CU in the same BLOCK!

[bot@xs]

by mixing metal they should recommend a special coolant, one that prevents corrosion.

[MomijiTMO]

LMAO, the 280 had a beautiful block so most would have assumed a similar part would be in this bundle.

[IanY]

And to think of it if they had a GTX 285 Hydro block for sale, I would have bought five of them already!! I was waiting impatiently for the Hydro block to be released!!

[IanY]

Didn't EVGA learn from its venture with Innovatek ??

Bad decision making... makes me want to avoid their graphics cards and motherboards as well.

Don't mean to be a stereotyping bigot, but the next German comes along touting their new "Copper" waterblock....

[just a noob]

i think mercury is the perfect corrosion inhibitor in this case

[IanY]

How about an incinerator or a landfill ?

[MomijiTMO]

It didn't say it was pure copper. . . ..

I can think of so many products that bend the truth. Just look at food items. eg Bacon dip [2% bacon, bacon flavour].

[SoulsCollective]

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The 280 block was great. WTF is this excrement?

[Anemone]

Yep this is pretty much a disaster. Even fools, will buy this card in very tiny amounts. All of us are going to steer clear. Probably they were afraid of the weight, or the cost of a copper/delrin or copper/acryl block, but even if they were, this is just a disastrous move.

Not so sure I believe all those "great service from EVGA" anymore when I see this kind of thing foisted off as a "great new product". Makes me a bit leery what weaknesses lie within the Classified, besides the Realtek lan chips (probably intentionally chosen to promote the new separate Lan cards).

I can't help but look at the review and get the creeps. This is a top end card, and likely to go in a top end system. Could you imagine the kind of havok that could be wrought on some 5k+ system by installing this piece of garbage? /sigh

[MomijiTMO]

Yeah weight would have been a big reason. The EK block is 1.3kgs.

[sirheck]

Every NV video card i own is an EVGA.
This wont be one of them.

[Eddie3dfx]

I haven't been too happy with Evga lately.
The sad part is, it's not like they are unaware of these issues.
Their staff is fully aware of the watercooling community and it's desires.
Yes, the old block is really nice... but this?

[Jor3lBR]

Fail it is, a 5 days old block already looks like it has suffered 5 years of corrosion!

[Planet]

And to think of it if they had a GTX 285 Hydro block for sale, I would have bought five of them already!! I was waiting impatiently for the Hydro block to be released!!

They did release an all copper/delrin block for 285. They are in stock as well.

[IanY]

They did release an all copper/delrin block for 285. They are in stock as well.

Thank you. It does look nice, and I am indeed going to buy. Thanks for letting me know.

[Hondacity]

where can i get one of these? i want the 720mhz gpu core

[Blacky]

Wow what happened to the total quality management department that looks awful...

[Chruschef]

for some reason, i almost kind of doubt this. it is fud, and eVGA machines their own waterblocks last time i checked. they've always machined them out of copper and delrin, all of them having the same identical design with the E's for a fin matrix; why would they so suddenly change from that? their hydrocopper cards have always been very expensive, i haven't ever seen eVGA get cheap on us. this product isn't even listed on their website yet, don't they usually have pre-order.
something just seems fishy. we'll see though when the products released.

$0.02

[Sly Fox]

for some reason, i almost kind of doubt this. it is fud, and eVGA machines their own waterblocks last time i checked. they've always machined them out of copper and delrin, all of them having the same identical design with the E's for a fin matrix; why would they so suddenly change from that? their hydrocopper cards have always been very expensive, i haven't ever seen eVGA get cheap on us. this product isn't even listed on their website yet, don't they usually have pre-order.
something just seems fishy. we'll see though when the products released.

$0.02

I hope you're right.

If only to save any potential buyers from this corrosion havoc.

[zlojack]

for some reason, i almost kind of doubt this. it is fud, and eVGA machines their own waterblocks last time i checked. they've always machined them out of copper and delrin, all of them having the same identical design with the E's for a fin matrix; why would they so suddenly change from that? their hydrocopper cards have always been very expensive, i haven't ever seen eVGA get cheap on us. this product isn't even listed on their website yet, don't they usually have pre-order.
something just seems fishy. we'll see though when the products released.

$0.02

Interesting point. I really hope you're right.

[MomijiTMO]

Yeah good point Chruschef.

Let's wait for someone to confirm.

[IanY]

zlojack,

The GTX 285 blocks are gorgeous in my eyes and most definitely solid copper (alike but different from the GTX 280 blocks). I'm buying those.

[zlojack]

zlojack,

The GTX 285 blocks are gorgeous in my eyes and most definitely solid copper (alike but different from the GTX 280 blocks). I'm buying those.

I took a look at them today and I agree with you. Very nice blocks

Which makes these all the more shocking!

[defect9]

it looks like nickel-plated copper that had black coolant run through it.

[Jokester_wild]

it looks like nickel-plated copper that had black coolant run through it.

no it looks like aluminum. nickel plating is not dull. its shiny very shiny, and it doesn't allow for colors to be absorbed in.