TL;DR: EK H2o Blocks has brought a stack of incredible new designs to CES this year, which vary from innovative to amusing. Whether it needed water cooling or non, EK have done it.

Beginning upwardly is the QuantumX Delta TEC (Believe it or not, this is the well-nigh normal product EK announced today). A TEC is a thermoelectric cooler, and it's an idea companies have mulled over for a while. EK sent out a few applied science samples to reviewers for feedback tardily terminal year.

Physically, a TEC is a small ceramic plate that draws heat upwards when a voltage is practical to information technology. EK partnered with Intel to put TEC tech inside a CPU waterblock. The result is the Delta TEC; an ungainly slab of copper and circuitry that can drop an i9-10900K to zero degrees in three seconds.

Its purpose is to make the processor more stable at higher clock frequencies. In a medium intensity workload like gaming, the Delta TEC can permit an i9-10900K encounter or exceed 5.5 GHz.

Dissimilar a regular waterblock, the Delta TEC is unable to dissipate a constant and intense oestrus. In a rendering workload, for case, the Delta TEC would bottleneck the processor. That'south ane of the disadvantages. It'll merely dial upwardly the clock speeds if the workload is lightly threaded.

Some other disadvantage is power consumption. At idle, information technology consumes nada (though the residual of the cooling loop will consume power). On the variable mode, which EK and Intel suggest is the optimal style, information technology consumes 50W to 150W. Fully unlocked, information technology can consume 200W.

The last disadvantage is the price. It costs $360 and requires additional cooling chapters in the rest of the custom loop too. Only for the overclocking enthusiast with deep pockets (and an Intel processor), the Delta TEC is bachelor for pre-gild now and will transport soon.

Next is a crunchy sandwich: two graphics cards, one copper waterblock.

I of the limitations of compute servers is their estrus density. Swapping out air cooling for water cooling means y'all tin can ditch the heat spreaders and airflow channels. Only if you desire even more density, you can press two graphics cards into the one waterblock to double your compute power.

But actually, yous tin can't – EK is only making sandwiches for their partner 2CRSi. Bummer.

Assuming you like it when your figurer(s) cost every bit much equally your machine, you can purchase the side by side product. EK is introducing water cooling to the professional workstation world with EK Fluid Works. It's a cantankerous between a build-it-yourself design and a pre-congenital.

When you order a Fluid Works desktop PC, it comes with a fully equipped custom loop that'south set up to get. Merely every component is connected to a distribution cake with a dozen or more quick-connect ports. And then if you want to swap out a part, or add a new ane, information technology's as unproblematic as 2 plugs.

The systems come nether iv categories. The S3000 tin can be equipped with Core i9 or Ryzen 9 processors and ii AMD Radeon or Nvidia GeForce GPUs. The S5000 can handle Xeon Due west and Threadripper processors and up to four Nvidia GeForce GPUs. The X5000 has the same processor options only upgrades the GPUs to Quadro models.

Lastly, the X7000 tin can be equipped with Xeon Scalable or AMD Epyc processors. The Intel system can handle upward to v GPUs, including Nvidia Quadro and Tesla models. The AMD system can accept up to seven GPUs because it has more than PCIe lanes.

Before ending their presentation, EK teased something called the Apartment PC. (The name is a work in progress.) It'due south a compact organisation for automotive applications. It contains two graphics cards and a workstation processor. Information technology uses brazed waterblocks and automotive components that are resistant to harsh conditions. It uses an external radiator enclosure for cooling. EK hope to release it in Q2.

Rounding out EK's strange announcements are actively cooled backplates for GPUs, an external radiator enclosure for the Lian Li PC-011D, and a gold Fluid Gaming kit (below). More details about them will come tomorrow, EK says. In the meanwhile, take a look at their virtual showroom.