EK Waterblocks, who have decided to go by EK for the brand presence in the retail stream henceforth, had a stronger showing at the virtual CES 2021 than most other brands, and showcased a good deal of new products amidst their EK Expo ongoing as of this post. The most interesting product to me at least was their upcoming actively cooled backplate solution, which is different from what Aqua Computer has done to date in that it has an actual cold plate and coolant going through a small block on the back rather than just a heatpipe. Now I will mention that Aqua Computer had shown off some renders of their own take of this, but this is the first time a retail solution has been shown off by a company.

EK says that the new backplate offering will come in either acetal or nickel-plexi variants, and will incorporate a thicker terminal that splits coolant flow to the front and back. The backplate, first coming for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/3090 reference PCB, will make direct contact with the components on the back as well, with freshly conducted internal testing showing VRAM cooling improvements in significant double digits already. The company plans to make this an option for other popular new GPU releases as well, except for the RTX 3090 FE that gets its own bespoke cooling solution with the backplate connected to the coldplate on the front via thermal pads for a more petite, semi-active cooling solution coming up soon. The first active backplate is due to release in a month, with cost on the order of a typical GPU block itself. Click past the break for more from EK at CES 2021!

Thermaltake, the leading PC DIY premium brand for Cooling, Gaming Gear, and Enthusiast Memory solutions, is excited to announce the launch of View 51 TG ARGB mid-tower and AH T600 TG open frame gaming chassis and will be showcased in Thermaltake booth in CES 2020. View 51 and AH T600 reflect the determination from Thermaltake to create a broader range of enthusiastic gaming cases which are based on gamers, modders and enthusiasts' demands. View 51 is designed to fulfill gamers who love hardcore water-cooling while AH T600 makes a bold statement as open frame chassis concept utilizing a leading-edge aesthetic and powerful air-cooling design.

View 51 that tailor-made for advance water cooling and features two 200 mm ARGB PWM fan at the front of the case and one 120 mm ARGB fan at the rear as a standard option. The case is wrapped in three sheets of 4 mm tempered glass panels for a transparent view into the front, side and top. Combined with support for quad 360 mm radiators at the top, front, side and bottom of the case, the smoked tempered glass and RGB fans contrast perfectly against the View 51's DUAL-CHAMBER design available in either black or white.