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By Daz May 12, 2010
EK Supreme HF Full Nickel
Lack of major improvement with EK Classic Full Copper version comparing to vanilla Supreme LT, ensured lower expectations for Supreme HF Full (Copper) Nickel performance results; but let’s inspect block first.
There are larger differences between old Supreme and Supreme HF Full Nickel. The hold down plate is mounted from the bottom of the block pressing against massive copper top. As a result hold down plate sits much lover to CPU, then on regular Supreme HF models. The side effect of that – the block mounting screws looks unusually long.
The finish of the block’s top looks disappointingly unsmooth, especially comparing to impeccably polished bottom. To be fair, you can’t tell when block is installed, so this is more of the first "in your hands" impression.
By default the high performance plate # 1 was factory installed in our sample.
Flow rate of Nickel version of Supreme HF was slightly lower then Supreme HF with Acetal top in the same configuration, but test result were on par with Acetal version.
Ones again, full copper version of Supreme shows no special performance gains over Acetal (or Plexi) top model. The choice of ether version is strictly aesthetic decision to go nicely with a scheme of your build.
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