Quote Originally Posted by blazarcher View Post
I'm a bit confused. How can you explain the EK (5870 waterblock) performing better than EVERYONE.
As Vapor pointed out, our original VID-AR587 didn't use microfins. The VID-AR587T2 (for later HD 5870's) does, though.

There are certainly other factors, like quality of contact, cold plate thickness, etc. But all things being equal, I will be surprised if the microfin coolers don't top out the list. ... And the Koolance 480 block uses microfins on both the GPU *and* VRM area.

Tim