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Flipin

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Someone school me on the quad SLI FC Terminal. How does it work? How many fittings do i need to order?

My understanding is that you just need the GPU water blocks which you take off the top connector part and then attach to the terminal. You then just need the 2 G1/4 fittings for in / out. Have the parallel triple one ordered (needed for spacing of cards) with a blanking plate for the middle fitting. Have the terminal already but blocks I hope will arrive before the weekend.

Thanks flip. Just saved me from ordering extra fittings I didn't need

kot0005

Xyzibit
My block just arrived :)
I'll mount it tomorrow and try it with the EVGA Backplate and hope to give positive feedback...

do it now !!!

Xyzibit
EVGA Backplate is NOT compatible with the EK Waterblock!
 
The EVGA Backplate uses both screws and holes of size 2.5 while the EK Waterblock uses screws and holes of size 3.
The size 3 screws from the WB do not fit through the holes and fittings of the BP and vice versa the size 2.5 screws don't fit into the WB.
While trying to assemble the WB I actually considered the solution of expanding the BPs holes to make the size 3 screws fit but even the screws heads wont fit into the fitting when expanding the hole itself... I actually gave up and will now send the BP back to EVGA...

EK_Luc

Xyzibit
EVGA Backplate is NOT compatible with the EK Waterblock!
 
The EVGA Backplate uses both screws and holes of size 2.5 while the EK Waterblock uses screws and holes of size 3.
The size 3 screws from the WB do not fit through the holes and fittings of the BP and vice versa the size 2.5 screws don't fit into the WB.
While trying to assemble the WB I actually considered the solution of expanding the BPs holes to make the size 3 screws fit but even the screws heads wont fit into the fitting when expanding the hole itself... I actually gave up and will now send the BP back to EVGA...

But if you find longer size 3 screws and that you let them sit on top of the backplate it might work.
 
I did that with my 670FTW.  Here's a picture that might help explain what I did.

Xyzibit

EK_Luc

Xyzibit
EVGA Backplate is NOT compatible with the EK Waterblock!
 
The EVGA Backplate uses both screws and holes of size 2.5 while the EK Waterblock uses screws and holes of size 3.
The size 3 screws from the WB do not fit through the holes and fittings of the BP and vice versa the size 2.5 screws don't fit into the WB.
While trying to assemble the WB I actually considered the solution of expanding the BPs holes to make the size 3 screws fit but even the screws heads wont fit into the fitting when expanding the hole itself... I actually gave up and will now send the BP back to EVGA...

But if you find longer size 3 screws and that you let them sit on top of the backplate it might work.
 
I did that with my 670FTW.  Here's a picture that might help explain what I did.

Although I really have plenty of screws to choose from I didn't had exactly the ones you seem to have there and after waiting ages for that block I doubt you really want me to order those things somewhere online and wait for them again, do you?! If that's a known issue why the hell don't EK add them to the package or even choose to take screws of size 2.5 since EVGA uses them originally?

EK_Luc

Xyzibit

EK_Luc

Xyzibit
EVGA Backplate is NOT compatible with the EK Waterblock!
 
The EVGA Backplate uses both screws and holes of size 2.5 while the EK Waterblock uses screws and holes of size 3.
The size 3 screws from the WB do not fit through the holes and fittings of the BP and vice versa the size 2.5 screws don't fit into the WB.
While trying to assemble the WB I actually considered the solution of expanding the BPs holes to make the size 3 screws fit but even the screws heads wont fit into the fitting when expanding the hole itself... I actually gave up and will now send the BP back to EVGA...

But if you find longer size 3 screws and that you let them sit on top of the backplate it might work.
 
I did that with my 670FTW.  Here's a picture that might help explain what I did.

Although I really have plenty of screws to choose from I didn't had exactly the ones you seem to have there and after waiting ages for that block I doubt you really want me to order those things somewhere online and wait for them again, do you?! If that's a known issue why the hell don't EK add them to the package or even choose to take screws of size 2.5 since EVGA uses them originally?

First, we never make our block to be compatible with the companies backplates because we don't have the backplates in hands and when they fit it's just a happy thing for the customers.
 
Second, all our gpu blocks uses the same thread size screw why would we do something special for EVGA? What happen if MSI would decide to use M4 or 6-32 would we have to have special standoff to be specific to every GPU brand out there??
 
Third, the initial purpose of a waterblock is too cool a graphics card. To achieve this you put the card to it's bare PCB. So all we have to do is to have our screwing points to align with the screw holes on the PCB. The backplate is not a priority when a block is made.

Mangofire
Nice work EK! Cards are now very cool, only had an hour to do some quick testing last night and I think 34C was the highest temp a saw with 1.45V. Spent most my time rebending two new acrylic tubes for the gpu loop. I took some quick pics this morning, sorry they suck but I was tired after the install last night. I did notice the back plate gave me trouble in slot one. Very close to the memory slots. Good thing I did a test fit with one card before hand. There seems to be almost no clearance to the memory slots. MB is a Rampage V Extreme X99. Over all very pleased with the quality and performance.[/URL]
 
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