An extraordinary line of flagship graphics cards designed for overclocking enthusiasts and demanding gamers and modders who are unimpressed by the air-cooling performance of flagship NVIDIA RTX graphics cards. Instead of a traditional heatsink with three fans, they are equipped with compact water blocks that completely cover the PCB of the graphics card, effectively cooling the GPU, memory chips and power circuit elements.


At the same time, it cannot be said that Asus EK are extremely powerful video cards that are immediately ready for the Olympic overclocking games. Yes, they accelerate well, but the idea here is a little different. Recently, many enthusiasts have begun to look towards custom water blocks, which provide more efficient cooling than a traditional system with a heatsink and cooling fans, while taking up less space in the case and looking much more attractive. Therefore, according to Asus' idea, users get video cards from the "install and forget" category out of the box, which do not require fuss with dismantling the Cooling system and replacing the radiator with a water block.

Now about the Asus EK lineup. Series updates occur only when new versions of NVIDIA and Radeon video chips enter the market. Therefore, at the time of this writing (note: April 2022), Asus has announced only 3 variations of EKWB - EKWB GeForce RTX 3070, EKWB RTX 3080, and RTX 3090. neat, not too catchy address lighting. Usually, the upper part of the water block is made of transparent acrylic, through which the movement of the coolant is visible, accompanied by spectacular lighting.