welcome to my unboxing and first look at the nexos xt45 full Copper radiators from
alpha cool I actually had a funny conversation with slick where he saw the
box for these products and he was like
oh OC cool what brand is that and I was like you mean Alpha cool and he's like a
I see yes jokes aoy um so what's cool
about these radiators is the fact that they are as it says on the box extremely
I mean full um okay I didn't get far enough into saying that for you to
actually get the joke extremely heavy they are full Copper so they actually
weigh more than the brass aluminum or
copper or brass or aluminum or all aluminum or whatever other kinds of
radiator designs cuz copper is heavier than all of those other metals it
doesn't actually translate into being like that much he it's not like oh man I
got copper radiators in my system like oh I'm not going to be able to move around it's nothing like that but it
does add a little bit of a little bit of heft to them and once they're full of
water it should actually make even more of a difference now the main difference
between copper and aluminum is that copper conducts heat better while
aluminum is generally regarded as a better dissipator of heat so that's why
it's usually been an acceptable um an acceptable sort of shortcut to go with
copper tubes and then often brass end
tanks and aluminum fins whereas Alpha Cool's gone okay you know what we're
just going to go all freaking out and we're going to go all copper this is a
thick style radiator so it's um it's not
like it's not a slim radiator it's a silence optimized radiator so it uses
a not very dense thin array in order to
allow you to use even though the radiator's thicker uh lower RPM fans in
order to achieve the cool you need it's also got a ton of different options in
terms of mounting um some of which I actually don't even understand why you
would need so they've got inlets and outlets on both sides which means I mean
you could uh you could kind of like SLI them so you could put a fan in between
you could run multiple radiators like that so that'd be kind of cool actually
um alternately you could sort of you know you could have it mounted this way
or this way or you could have multiple devices going in and out so you could go
okay uh my CPU block and my GPU block and my something else
are all going to go in and then I'm going to have one Outlet so you could
actually use these radiators to split or join multiple different parts of your
Loop which is kind of cool as well uh parallel par parallel flow is generally
better than serial flow for uh for the
overall performance of the loop especially if there are components that are not particularly flow sensitive such
as GPU blocks where it might be the difference between a couple degrees
running three blocks in parallel versus running them in cereal but the pressure
drop for running them in Cal is much much more dramatic and can negatively
affect the performance of something like a CPU block so beyond that I don't know
how much there is to say in my case here
I've got one of their dual 120 mm radiators and one of their single 120 mm
radiator oh this is cool check this out they're going all out on this all copper
thing the mounting hardware for the fans is made of copper and look at this even
the plugs for the uh for the G1 quarter threaded holes at the top are made of
copper as well that's going to look really really sharp in a build that's uh
that's all copper themed so if you have exposed copper on your blocks um like
Plexi Toops or whatever else like that that's going to look really really good
so the single 120 mm version is just
more of the same except smaller it's the same thickness it's the same fin density
and it's the same mounting options for the uh for the bar and fittings
themselves so I think that pretty much
covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the alpha
cool nexos xt45 Co full Copper radiators
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