As part of the EK EXPO, water cooling manufacturers presented, among other things, the already known water cooler for the new GeForce RTX – 30 – and Radeon-RX – 6000 – cards, but also concepts for a water-cooled backplate and the MSI MPG CARBON Z 590 EK X with pre-assembled water cooling block.

In addition to the water-cooled backplate, EK Water Blocks is also working on other concepts that should facilitate the use and operation of a water cooling circuit. Among other things, one wants to make the cooling more flexible, which previously usually meant that AiO cooling was used. Depending on the case manufacturer, there are often special models or devices that facilitate the use of water cooling.

Among other things, an external housing has been developed, which under a Lian Li O 11 Dynamic should fit. This housing contains the most important components of the water cooling circuit – pump, expansion tank and radiator (s). The actual coolers are located on the components in the O 09 Dynamic.

Such solutions would of course always be tailored to exactly one housing, because very few housings share the same dimensions. Housings, which are particularly popular with water cooling fans, would of course be a possible target group for such products, even though the housings are suitable for water cooling, precisely because they offer sufficient space or provide special devices for installing a pump. With a kind of external housing, they would no longer need this advantage. For this very reason, EKWB is currently evaluating such a product.

Another concept shows an open housing, which can be mounted on the wall using a VESA bracket. If you need more mounting options for a radiator, you can mount a corresponding bracket. There is still very little information about this project and the possibility of mounting a housing on the wall is not really a novelty – a few open housings or those with a glass cover can already be mounted on the wall, although not using a VESA Bracket.