Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “A surprising performance boost! – AlphaCool @ Computex 2023”.
Normally, Innovative products come from years of smart people. Doing detailed engineering and stuff like that. Alpha cool does have some products like that here at their computex Booth, but the best thing was a simple happy accident. This right here is the alpha cool metal fan and they came up with this idea very simply because marketing wanted it. They wanted a metal fan, and you know it’s made out of zinc.
So it’s not all that expensive. It looks really cool and then turns out. It’S amazing. So if we look at the structure of this thing, so we have the zinc housing and then a plastic sort of bearing carrier with an O-ring that goes around it. It’S all sandwiched together and what they found out is it works, fan freaking tastic. No pun intended, they aren’t totally sure why, but this is an incredibly quiet fan they tested in their lab and they were like that seems like it’s wrong and then they sent the Igor’s lab and he was like yeah.
This thing is incredible, so this fan right here is currently running at 2900 RPM, and even though it’s it’s loud here, you can’t tell this sounds like a 900 RPM fan. It is absolutely crazy. They aren’t totally sure why this is, but their guesses are that first of all, the metal has a lot of mass. It can stop transferring vibrations. Also, the O-ring. There is probably like a decoupling layer of sorts, but either way the results do not lie. I want a bunch of these on my case, because not only does it look cool, but it works so darn well to connect to your PC, it’s a very simple daisy chain. None of this over complicated nonsense, just a very simple fan header that goes in something like this.
They are considering doing an RGB version in the future – probably just a little Center bit here, but I really like just the classiness of the metal, no RGB when it goes on sale. The fan is expect to be only 29 US Dollars which for the performance and the looks, seems like an absolute steal. They have three versions here, so the chromed out one white one and, of course the black, but because of the modular design.
It’S super easy for either them or just the user, to make this any color that you want the next product that we have here is the complete opposite. When I saw this carbon fiber on top of this 40 90 water block, I just completely assumed that it was marketing BS and they’re, like no they’ll, just make it pretty carbon fiber cool, but there’s a really good reason for this. Typically, it just is not possible to fit this kind of Hardware into a one new chassis, because Delrin would mean that you have to do an additional 10 millimeters of thickness to hit the stiffness that is required for a water block dang.
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They say that that drop temps by 10 whole degrees, but the most interest testing thing is that it just looks freaking great, very recurring theme. This right here is in white, but then they’ve diamond cut the edge right around here, and it looks absolutely fantastic now. Of course, it’s being Alpha cool, they love cooling, servers and they’ve, taken all of their learnings from the core one and put it into a 1u block.
I said it was a huge pain in the ass because you have to go in here. You can’t have fittings on the top of course, and then it goes up over and then down onto the fins that cool your CPU and, of course you get some cool functional carbon fiber right here. But, of course, if you’re cooling a server, you don’t want some piddly CPU that gets cooled by something like this.
You want the big monster, and this right here they said. Basically what it is, is it’s four of these guys, but just slapped around like that. You can really see it in this one right here where it goes down and it’s just channeled out in each Direction like that. I think it’s collected around and back out, but of course functional carbon fiber only gets you so far.
Let’S look at some carbon fiber. That’S there just to be fancy with the Apex Pro skeleton case. This thing right here is packed to the gills with carbon, fiber, water, cooling, stuff and all of these little pieces right here or CNC machined. You might be thinking this would be insanely expensive and at 900 dollars it kind of is, but that’s not too bad, given that for that you still do get the distribution plate vertical, GPU Mount and all of well. This craziness right here.
If you want a more Bare Bones version, it does come in at more like 400 Euro, but if you haven’t water cooled before, it can be rather scary and Alpha cool has a couple of things to help you out, starting with the core distribution plate. If we look here normally on something like this, you just have tapped holes straight into the acrylic and it’s a little bit scary, because if you tighten it too much, you can have Micro cracks that will lead to leaks or you can just strip it out. And I don’t know if she’s done return it to fix this Alpha cool has the G1 quarter threading in metal and then, if you look very closely, they have two O-rings on the inside of it.
So, although it’s not impossible to screw up, I’m sure someone will find a way. It’S a lot harder than before. Another way that you have a very bad day is, if you over, tighten the screws that hold your distribution plate in place to overcome that they have.
These little push pins here, so you screw one side into your radiator or case and the other one into your distribution plate. This right here stops at a certain amount, so you can’t over tighten and blow everything up and then you can just push it on and it’s just way simpler than the normal way that you have to do it, of course, you’re a skilled Craftsman, you’re, not scared About accidentally cracking your acrylic blocks, you’re scared of some time down the line something coming loose and your computer getting filled with water, but Alpha cool has a solution for that right. Here we have a prototype and they don’t have it named yet, but I want to call it the alpha cool, save your bacon.
Let’S have a look here this right here. It’S currently pressurized to minus 420 millibar nice, and if we come over here, we can take this tube that has water flowing through it at the moment and if we give it a little cut, not all the way through, of course, well just a little cut. Am I through? Oh there we go, you can see that happening. You can see that it is sucking in air and it’s getting very mad, but no water is coming yet, which is absolutely fantastic. Even though we are sucking in air. There is still some water flow.
So your components aren’t going to just fry themselves and you can do a proper shutdown, a couple more small things. They have a radiator that has RGB on it now very cool. Apparently it also has two more cooling channels, so it works very good also over here. You can see that they have a water cooled server. What they said, they’ve actually been doing, is 3D scanning client Server Chassis and then designing them a completely custom water, cooling setup.
This can be very, very critical if you have like a one use, Server Chassis, it’s having even a little bit extra tubing can be enough to pop it up and then uh. What do you know top doesn’t go on, doesn’t slot in bad time. What, hopefully, wasn’t a bad time, though, was you watching this video huge thanks for watching hit like get subscribed? Just have a great whole day, see you later .