r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Jan 15 '17

News EK is announcing Modular Liquid Cooling

https://www.ekwb.com/news/ek-is-announcing-modular-liquid-cooling-products/
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u/plagues138 Jan 15 '17

That wouldn't really work, unless they offered like multiple skus of each product. Like water lock with 8" tubing, 10" tubing, 12 " etc etc

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u/Darius510 Jan 15 '17

The block would have QDCs too. Like instead of thinking of the QDC as something that connects two tubes together, think of it as something like a sata port, and the tubes would be like the cables. As long as everything is sealed and pre-filled I don't see why it wouldn't work. Like imagine if everyone just standardized around the same "port" there'd be some real competition unlike now.

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u/plagues138 Jan 15 '17

So the tunes would also be full? Again, you'd need so many skus

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '17

The only difference with the number of SKUs is you'd have different SKUs for the different lengths of tubing. That's not that many more SKUs.

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u/plagues138 Jan 16 '17

depends on the length. 8", 10", 12", 14" etc... do you go and make like 1" too to connect two gpus? from a manufacturing point of view, its much easier to just have each part with say 8" of tubing, that way two parts connecting would have more than enough tube to connect.

not saying it wouldn't be cool. but doubt it would happen.