About EK

EK® is a premium liquid cooling solutions provider, bearing the name of its founder Edvard König. The brand started with one man’s enthusiasm and his first ventures into water cooling back in 1999. Officially founded in 2003, the company is considered an early pioneer in PC liquid cooling. It quickly became synonymous with innovative product design, quality engineering, and premium aesthetics, gaining a reputation among PC enthusiasts for transforming ordinary computers into extraordinary machines.

From its humble beginnings more than two decades ago, EK steadily grew to become the global leader in the development and manufacturing of high-end liquid cooling solutions for the end-user, as well as various industrial applications.

Today, EK is the most comprehensive provider of premium, high-quality custom liquid cooling loop products, expanding its portfolio to AIO coolers, plug-and-play gaming PCs, and professional workstations.

EK has also become a trusted expert and partner for many of the industry’s top names and different computer technology brands. In collaboration with many partner companies, EK co-designs, co-develops, and co-brands solutions that push performance boundaries through liquid cooling.

With continuous research and innovative design, EK constantly strives to bring the best possible liquid cooling experience to its customers all around the world.

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1999-2003

Early Edvard König days (1999-2003)

In 1999, Edvard König bought his first computer. Soon he had realized that air cooling is not enough to cool his highly overclocked computer. So he tried to find an appropriate substitute. He found out about water cooling and shortly after he had a great desire to make his own water block. He spent days, nights and weekends developing sketches of water blocks.

In early 2003, Edvard’s dream came true. He finally designed and machined his first prototypes called the EK-1, EK-2 and EK-3. Edvard’s friend David joined the team to create their first CPU die simulator. Simulator helped the duo to find the best design with the tools they had at their disposal.
In 2003, Edvard designed the EK-4 from the experiences learned in the past.
By late 2003, the EK-6, derived from EK-4, became Edvard’s first mass produced CPU water block.
EK-7 never seen mass production.

2004-2007

The Personal Company Era (2004-2007)

In January 2004, EK Water Blocks presented a new evolution of water blocks. The blocks were named EK-WW (Wave Water).
In February 2004, EK Water Blocks introduced company’s first value oriented CPU and GPU water blocks, namely the EK-S (Spiral) the EK-VGA1(a).
By the summer of 2004, EK Water Blocks introduced the slightly modified successor to the EK-WW called EK-WWA (Wave Water Accelerator) which became one of the world’s best performing CPU water blocks on the market. Using the same cooling engine the EK-VGA-NW (New Wave) GPU water block was born.
In 2004, EK Water Blocks released the very first sandwich-type Full Cover water block for the ATi Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card using the new WWA cooling engine. This product was the baseline for the upcoming VGA Full Cover water blocks. The cooling engine remained in use with VGA Full Cover water block until early 2011.
In 2005, EK Water Blocks entered the International market for the first time. A new era begun with new Sales & Development Executives joining the company.
In 2005, EK Water Blocks released the first water cooling solution for then popular NVIDIA® nForce® 4 platform motherboards by releasing universal chipset & VRM water blocks.
In 2005, EK Water Blocks released the Full Cover water block for NVIDIA® GeForce® 6800 series graphics card which in hybrid copper & aluminium design. The general design was quickly adopted and recognized by the industry and is still in use some 7 years later.

In 2005, EK Water Blocks released a new CPU water block called EK-MCW (Micro Channel Wave) which has outperformed all predecessors in both cooling performance and aesthetics.
In 2005, EK Water Blocks also produced world’s first production series water block (EK-MCW) made out of pure silver. Only two samples were made.
In 2006, EK Water Blocks engineered the most advanced and multi-featured reservoir called the EK-Multioption RES. The industry has immediately had adopted it’s design.
In 2006, EK Water Blocks offered VGA Full Cover water blocks for the both NVIDIA® GeForce® 7800 series as well as ATi® Radeon® X1800/X1900 highest performance graphics cards. Both solutions were available shortly after launch for the very first time, thus setting the standard for the years to come.
In 2006, EK Water Blocks introduced company’s first VGA Full Cover water block for dual-processor, dual-PCB graphics card (NVIDIA® GeForce® 7950 GX2).
In 2007, EK Water Blocks released various motherboard specific VRM and chipset water blocks for the very first time.
In 2007, EK Water Blocks introduced the ultimate performance EK-Supreme CPU water block. The newcomer outperformed all current competition and became one of the most popular CPU water blocks.