Alphacool's New Range Of GPU Blocks For Nvidia 7950 GTX and 8800 series Cards

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We have the inside scoop on Alphacool's latest range of ultra low profile waterblocks for the Nvidia 7950 GTX and 8800 series cards. I sooo wanna get my hands on one or four :D Could these find a home in your rig? Feel free to tell us about it below...

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These certainly look very interesting. According to Chris @ Alphacool these aren't restrictive...so we'll see when I have on in the labs :)
 
I'm with Ham. But I don't know how well they will cool for being so thin. Because thin = less water = less cooling ??
 
name='Ares210' said:
I'm with Ham. But I don't know how well they will cool for being so thin. Because thin = less water = less cooling ??

Big surface area though. And if theres alot of water going through them. Arg! When do you get one to look at kemp?
 
Hmm, looks interesting we will see I guess.

The only potentially deceptive thing is that a maximum flow is kinda dumb cause you need an incoming pressure or a pressure drop across the block to go along with the flow otherwise it is rather useless.
 
Can we get an internal shot? :)

They look terribly restrictive though. Hell, ANY full cover block will kill pressure and flow because of the 90* entry point alone.

IMO, full cover is only worth it for 8800's because of the mass amount of things that need to be sinked. For any other card, you're much better off with a GPU Block & some quality ramsinks.
 
Yea I'd like an internal shot of this block as well... I find it hard to believe they tout it as an unrestrictive block when it looks like it could fit two teaspoons an hour through it.

If it really does have good flow, and good performance, Alphacool hit a homerim because those are some deadsexy spacesavers for sure.
 
what is the point of making it that thin? Might as well just make it single slot size and there'd be no complaints. I bet it's just a flat block... maybe 1 or 2 ridges or 1 channel to divide the intake and outake
 
If they're still waiting on the patent they an't gonna be handing out internal shots willynilly tbh.
 
name='Kempez' said:
Well Alphacool say it's not restrictive and it is effective so we'll see

Well of course, it's not like they're gonna say, "yeah it's good for SFF, but it's restrictive as hell!" :o

name='spiritd' said:
Oh wow those look sexay.

Eh, they look like flattened pancakes on a GPU. :p
 
NickS said:
Well of course, it's not like they're gonna say, "yeah it's good for SFF, but it's restrictive as hell!"

Well how about we give them a chance to perform in a review before dismissing them totally. ;)
 
Hehe, OK :)

Are you guys gonna somehow test flow rate with the block in the loop vs. out of the loop?

Dunno exactly how that'd be done, but I'm sure it's possible.
 
Theres gotta be an instrument that tests flow. I know theres one that tests pressure (head), that could be useful too. I just dunno what it's called. I've seen it before though.
 
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