Coming from Europe, Alphacool is no stranger to
Virtual-Hideout as we have had their water cooling blocks on our test bench not too long ago and did
pretty well with their machine channeled copper construction. Alphacool has had some recent
water block revisions that look really great and appear to provide much improved
performance. In fact, reported benchmarks and temperatures has been validated by
many others.
This particular kit in the round up is the
Alphacool Complete Retail Unit. These kits are still carried among many web
based retailers and can be found for a good price of around $200. Thanks to
our friends at Sharka
Computers we get to see how Alphacool's Complete Water Cooling Kit performs.
Specifications:
Description:
The Alphacool NexXxoS complete
water cooling kit is the flagship base system for
practically any PC setup. This kit includes the NexXxoS XP
Light copper CPU water block which features parallel
channels in PCF(c) construction type. This provides an
accelerator built into the plexglass top that forces the
water to spray over the center cross section of the copper
base producing tremendous cooling results on the hottest of
CPUs. In addition, this kit comes with the SNB Northbridge
and SP GPU nickel plated water blocks with all the mounting
brackets necessary for just about any standard
configuration. The radiator is an Alphacool (Black Ice)
Xtreme 120mm copper radiator with dual pass cooling. The
Eheim compact 600 pump is submersed into a plexiglass
reservoir sealed to prevent any water leakage. The pump is
also configured with a 12V power connector that plugs into
any PCI slot. To top it off, there is a 500ml bottle of
Tec-Protect water additive which is a pre-mixed ready-to-use
coolant designed to protect against corrosion and galvanic
reactions from metals.
Details:
NexXxoS XP Light clear
plexiglass top and copper base.
2 Pass Xtreme radiator: 170 x
135 x 46mm (L x W x H), 900g
AGB-Eheim 600: 80 x 102cm, 600
l/h, 1.3m lift, 11W
Tec-Protect anti corrosion
formula - 500ml
CPU:
The NexXxoS XP Light comes
with an assortment of mounting brackets:
1) AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754/939, Opterion Socket 940 and AM2
2) Intel LGA775 Socket T
3) AMD XP+ Socket A
Northbridge:
The
stainless-steel mounting brackets can be used for any Intel
motherboard with 8xx chipset and 2- or 4- metal eyelet mounting.
GPU:
GPU stainless-steel mounts for
standard graphics cards including Geforce 4TI, 4xxx and Geforce
FX5200-5600.
2-hole cross mounting for ATI
9xxx series and Geforce 2 & 3.
4-hole cross mounting for
Nvidia Geforce 6800, 7800 & 7900 series and ATI X1800 & 1900
series.
Features:
1) NexXxoS XP
Light CPU cooler and mounting for AMD A64 754/939/940 AM2, Intel
LGA775, & AMD Socket A
2) SNB nickel
plated copper Northbridge cooler with "A" & "I" type mounting
4) Eheim 600
compact pump and reservoir combo with 12V connector
5) NexXxoS
Xtreme 120mm radiator
6) Alphacool
120mm fan
7)
Tec-Protect water additive - 500ml
8) Eight 8x1
G1/4 compression fittings
9) Two 8x1mm
tube elbow adapters
10) 8mm ID x
10mm OD clear tubing
11) Mounting
parts & instruction manual
Fan Specifications:
Dimensions:
120 x 120 x
25mm
Speed:
1,300 RPM
Noise Level:
~14 dBA
Connector:
3 Pin
Air
Flow:
43.5 CFM
Power Input:
1.0 W
Fittings:
This kit comes
with 8x1mm G1/4 threaded fittings for all the water blocks, pump
reservoir, and radiator (8 total) and two 8x1mm elbow connector
fittings to use with a 1m segment of 8mm ID x 10mm OD clear
polyurethane tubing.