As we already mentioned, in this article we're going to have a closer look at the possible differences between a watercooled and an aircooled ASUS R9 280X DirectCU II. For this purpose EK Water Blocks shipped us one of their brand new EK-FC R9-280X-DCII fullcover waterblocks. First of all we're going to have a closer look at both, the water as well as the aircooler and afterwards we will run both cards through our set of recent games with stock clocks as well as overclocked to the coolers specific maximum. Apparently we will also show you some temperatures.