Nice.
How about some links to the full size Photos?
I would like to zoom in on them.

Nice pictures and a very cool looking waterblock. Are you concerned that getting the EVGA PCB wet will damage the card?

Don't worry about damage to the cards, but thanks your asking anyway... of course, we do not recommend to treat a GPU card like that. The cards we used for the photos were non-working cards that were provided to us by EVGA. 

Thanks for all your feedback so far… A couple of days later, the sun was shining very bright and we went out to the same location. The direct sunlight created some amazing effects in combination with the splashing water.
 

 

 

 
A railway bridge not too far away turned out to be another interesting location:
 

 
This is just a brief summary of what we have done until now.
 
We are currently building our new benchtable system with an SLI system with two cards. We plan to use Mayhems Aurora for the acrylic waterblocks and take some more pictures with that.

Hot damn! The Germans sure do know how to make some sexy hardware.
Great photos hitzestau!
http://shop.watercool.de/epages/WatercooleK.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/WatercooleK/Products/15548

 
! was going to buy 4 of these.
http://shop.aquacomputer.de/product_info.php?products_id=3141

 
Then ! thought maybe ! should keep my liquid cooling setup all EK (excluding the reservoirs).
http://www.ekwb.com/shop/ek-fc780-gtx-ti-nickel.html

Now that !'ve seen these new Heatkillers ! don't know what to do.
Question is, which one cools the best? The heat killers definitely have the best looking backplates.
! suppose ! could sandblast then polish the outer face of the other 2 brands backplates.
 
Of course there is this potential issue (@least for me anyways):

see watercool link 
 
Nice look but watch out if you have a Rampage 4 Black edition!!! 1 screw cant be on it with the backplate because of the standard cooling block of the outputs on the motherboard.

 
Decisions, decisions. Reminds me of my birthdays as a child standing for hours on end in the toy store trying to decide what ! really truly want. (Ha! !'m such a weirdo)

 

hitzestau
GPU waterblocks HEATKILLER GPU-X “Acryl Edition” by the German manufacturer Watercool.

 
http://watercool.de/en/company-details
 
Still undecided, availability may have some impact on my decision.
And yes ! am aware it's for the reference design cards.
Not my issue yet. It's an issue raised by a Watercool customer in their reveiw of the water block.
See link below, is this not the manufacturer you refer to?
 
http://shop.watercool.de/epages/WatercooleK.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/WatercooleK/Products/15548
 

Yes this is exactly the waterblock we are referring to,
 
maybe you can send me the link to the review and I can the check this afternoon on our motherboard, if we have the same issue or not. 
 
 
UPDATE: I just found the short review on the watercool.de page! 

@D3V!rum3tM^ch!n^  I got your PM, thanks, I cannot reply to them because I don't have the right to do that yet (too few posts in the forum), sorry.

The next big step for our photoshooting was to set up a special watercooling rig on a benchtable to photograph the waterblocks as part of a working system. Since we planned a new benchtable system anyway, these two projects started to “overlap”.
 
At the lower level of the benchtable - a Phobya WaCoolT Benchtable by the way - we planned with a reservoir and a D5 pump at the front. At the left and right side, there are two radiators. The radiators are at the same position as in our previous benchtable build.
 

 
For the benchtable build, we also decided to switch from the two cards, EVGA had provided for our photo shooting to our own cards. With the cards from EVGA, we had been able to ta take picture on the fountain with water splashing all over it. But on the motherboard, we thought it would be better to use our own cards (EVGA 780Ti SC). This meant again some additional work hours. Photography is a time-consuming undertaking – but you sometimes forget how much time you also need to put in for preparations like mounting waterblocks or building together a benchtable rig.
 

 
These are the waterblocks and GPU's finally assembled, including the backplates:
 

 
One challenge was to build a connector with two tubes to connect our two GPU’s. In addition, we used an EVGA SLI bridge.
 


To measure the exact length of the tubes, we used adhesive tape…
 

 
…and put it on the tube to cut the exact length we needed.
 


In the end, it look very good and the tubes were neither too long or too short, which would have applied pressure to the PCB.
 


In addition, we added some sleeved cables (BitFenix Alchemy) , an SSD and a PSU in order to make it look like a real working system.
 

 


For the filling of the loop, we used a second pump and reservoir, which we could disconnect with two Koolance QDC couplings. As a colour, we chose an NIVIDIA type of green, a slightly darkened version of the “Mayhems Aurora Extinction Green”.
 


When we took the first test shots, we realized, that the front waterblock had some ugly little scratches that became clearly visible under the flash lights. As we didn’t want more “repair work” than necessary in Photoshop, we decided to switch the two cards. To do that, we had to get rid of most of the liquid inside the waterblocks and the tubes. The whole thing came quite close to open heart surgery, but it worked without spilling liquid onto the motherboard.
 

 
So we were finally able to continue with our actual photography of the waterblocks in a working system. But that proved to be a whole new challenge for us. Lighting and all kinds of reflections made it very difficult for us to achieve proper results. I will tell you more on what we did in the next post, but after a lot of working hours, we were able to produce images like these two:
 

 

As I told you in the last post, shooting the waterblocks on the benchtable system proved to be quite a challenge, which took us several days in the end.
 
The first test shots showed us several things: First, without proper lighting, the waterblocks looked rather flat and uninteresting. And the shiny surface reflected almost everything in the room, including ourselves with the camera. An oversized light tent might have been useful in this moment :)
 

 
This is one of the first pictures we took:
 


We just used one spot flash, the dark surroundings gave more focus on the waterblock itself, but the label “Heatkiller” was not readable. We experimented a little with a second flash against the wall, to get some additional light on the front of the waterblock and the mainboard. What you also see in this picture are some ugly scratches on the waterblock. That was the reason why we had to switch the two GPU, as we had described in the previous post.
 
Here are some pictures of other components on the benchtable, the PSU from Enermax and a SSD:
 

 

 
The next day, we came up with an idea to minimize reflections and improve the lighting of the waterblock, as you can see below:
 


Initially, we used the cover of one of the softboxes from our flash lights. Like this, we really achieved some improvements, although we had to work around it with the camera.
 

 
More or less by accident, we discovered this perspective, which we liked immediately.
 

 
The following day, we experienced something, which must have happened sooner or later: An afternoon where nothing worked – and we broke up after one hour, but we were completely frustrated anyway. This is one of the pictures we took:
 

 
It wasn’t easy to find self-confidence again the day after. We had identified several problems we needed to solve:
1. Find a better way to remove dust from the waterblocks and the benchtable
2. In many pictures you could see the white walls in the background, although there was hardly any light
3. The tucks of the softbox cover mirrored in the waterblock, which gave an unwanted effect
 
This meant, we had to come up with a completely new setup. Instead of the spot flash, we used a flash with barn doors. In addition, we covered the walls and parts of the floor with black paper. To remove the dust, we used our air compressor.
 

 
As a reflector, we used a large sheet of white paper which had an even surface.
 

 
These changes proved to be very effective. We had finally found a setup which allowed us to shoot the two waterblocks from different angels. For some pictures, we used a second flash as a spot. This was a very good combination. This picture represents what we had tried to achieve for three days:
 

 
We took over 900 picture during two subsequent afternoons. Here are some more images, that still lack final editing:
 

 

 

 
But also this new setup was no guarantee for good pictures. We still struggled with reflections on some parts of the waterblocks, which just were too bright:
 

 
The last setup we did was to put a flash light right behind the bench table.
 

 
This looks pretty easy, but it took us over an hour until we got everything right.
 

 
This is also the "offical end" of our photo shooting. We again thank EVGA for providing us the two GPU which we could take outdoors. For us, the next steps are choosing the best pictures and editing them. I will tell you more about this in the next post.

Your photos are indeed art.  Thank you for sharing.
 
Any chance that some thermal images could be taken of the working waterblocks?

For a while I was doing our product photography and man it took me a long time to get it all down. To keep reflections to a minimum, keep the nickel "flat", not losing any plexi in the white backdrop, and have absolute even lighting on the large acetal tops; not easy stuff. Good photos guys.

Wow looking really nice but pictures 9 and 10 of the first set of pictures almost gave me a heartattack and some , did that GPU work after ?  

This thread just makes me want to buy a DSLR.  S5 takes ok pics but even on a tripod it can't hold a candle to the ultimate quality of a larger sensor camera.

 Wow! That is one sick waterblock! makes me actually want to W/C my GPU's! Awesome photos btw, and thanks for sharing!