- Normally, innovative products come from years
of smart people doing detailed engineering
and stuff like that.
AlphaCool 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 AlphaCool metal fan
and they came up with this idea
very simply because marketing wanted it,
they wanted a metal fan and 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
that'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 to Igor's lab
and he was like "Yeah, this thing is incredible."
So this fan right here is currently running a 2,900 RPM,
and even though 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 overcomplicated 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,
this fan is expected 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 4090 water block,
I just completely assumed
that it was marketing BS and they were like
"No, it'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 that 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, it does look really cool though.
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- Up next, we've got the new Core 1 CPU Cooler.
They said that their old version wasn't quite able
to keep up with the 13900 K just because
the dye is getting so big,
it's outputting so much heat,
it's absolutely a ridiculous CPU, I love it.
But the new one right here,
you can sort of see
that they have greatly increased the amount
of fins and the area of those bins.
They say that that drop temps by 10 whole degrees,
but the most interesting thing is
that it just looks freaking great.
Very recurring theme.
So right here is in white,
but then they've diamond cut the edge right around here
and it looks absolutely fantastic.
Now of course as being AlphaCool,
they love cooling servers and they've taken all
of their learnings from the Core 1
and put it into a 1U block.
Said it was a huge pain in the arse
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.
It gets 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
were CNC machined.
You might be thinking this will be insanely expensive,
and at $900, 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 AlphaCool 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,
she's done, return it.
To fix this,
AlphaCool 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 can have a very bad day is
if you overtighten 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 overtighten 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 (indistinct) clocks.
You're scared of sometime down the line
something coming loose
and your computer getting filled with water.
But AlphaCool has a solution for that.
Right here we have a prototype,
and they don't have it named yet,
but I wanna call it the AlphaCool 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,
but 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 out, which is absolutely fantastic.
Even though we are sucking in air,
there is still some water flow
so your components aren't gonna just fry themselves
and you can do a proper shutdown.
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 1U server chassis,
because having even a little bit extra tubing
can be enough to pop it up.
And then 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.
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