Alphacool NexXxos XT 45 FULL COPPER Radiator Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tipsa
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the nexos xt45 full Copper radiators from
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alpha cool I actually had a funny conversation with slick where he saw the
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box for these products and he was like
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oh OC cool what brand is that and I was like you mean Alpha cool and he's like a
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I see yes jokes aoy um so what's cool
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about these radiators is the fact that they are as it says on the box extremely
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I mean full um okay I didn't get far enough into saying that for you to
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actually get the joke extremely heavy they are full Copper so they actually
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weigh more than the brass aluminum or
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copper or brass or aluminum or all aluminum or whatever other kinds of
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radiator designs cuz copper is heavier than all of those other metals it
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doesn't actually translate into being like that much he it's not like oh man I
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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
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does add a little bit of a little bit of heft to them and once they're full of
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water it should actually make even more of a difference now the main difference
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between copper and aluminum is that copper conducts heat better while
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aluminum is generally regarded as a better dissipator of heat so that's why
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it's usually been an acceptable um an acceptable sort of shortcut to go with
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copper tubes and then often brass end
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tanks and aluminum fins whereas Alpha Cool's gone okay you know what we're
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just going to go all freaking out and we're going to go all copper this is a
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thick style radiator so it's um it's not
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like it's not a slim radiator it's a silence optimized radiator so it uses
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a not very dense thin array in order to
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allow you to use even though the radiator's thicker uh lower RPM fans in
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order to achieve the cool you need it's also got a ton of different options in
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terms of mounting um some of which I actually don't even understand why you
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would need so they've got inlets and outlets on both sides which means I mean
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you could uh you could kind of like SLI them so you could put a fan in between
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you could run multiple radiators like that so that'd be kind of cool actually
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um alternately you could sort of you know you could have it mounted this way
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or this way or you could have multiple devices going in and out so you could go
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okay uh my CPU block and my GPU block and my something else
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are all going to go in and then I'm going to have one Outlet so you could
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actually use these radiators to split or join multiple different parts of your
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Loop which is kind of cool as well uh parallel par parallel flow is generally
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better than serial flow for uh for the
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overall performance of the loop especially if there are components that are not particularly flow sensitive such
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as GPU blocks where it might be the difference between a couple degrees
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running three blocks in parallel versus running them in cereal but the pressure
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drop for running them in Cal is much much more dramatic and can negatively
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affect the performance of something like a CPU block so beyond that I don't know
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how much there is to say in my case here
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I've got one of their dual 120 mm radiators and one of their single 120 mm
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radiator oh this is cool check this out they're going all out on this all copper
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thing the mounting hardware for the fans is made of copper and look at this even
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the plugs for the uh for the G1 quarter threaded holes at the top are made of
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copper as well that's going to look really really sharp in a build that's uh
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that's all copper themed so if you have exposed copper on your blocks um like
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Plexi Toops or whatever else like that that's going to look really really good
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so the single 120 mm version is just
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more of the same except smaller it's the same thickness it's the same fin density
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and it's the same mounting options for the uh for the bar and fittings
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themselves so I think that pretty much
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covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the alpha
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cool nexos xt45 Co full Copper radiators
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