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what's up guys you're watching Jase two cents and if you couldn't tell we had a lot of a water cooling theme going on lately on my channel you guys have been asking and we're taking a look at all the things necessary and putting together an awesome water cooling build and keeping that tradition in that series alive we're taking a look today at the Alpha cool Pro 25 LT reservoir okay guys today we're taking a look at the Alpha cool 25 LT I believe this is 2500 2500 oh my god it'd be like gallons of fluid inside of your system this is a 25 250 milliliter reservoir the packaging it comes in I love Alpha Cole's packaging it's all the same as you can see here when you look at other alpha cool boxes like we have the rads over there it just I just like the packaging it looks kind of nice when you open it up bar on top here inside of a very high-tech ziplock baggie is your retaining brackets and by the way I've never figured out how to open a ziploc bag quickly so just bear with me here you have your retaining brackets here for your reservoir and they work just like that just like any regular clamp so you put the resin there and it clamp shut and there you go and it's got your hardware that you need to screw it in there in fact it's got a little nut a little nut that screws in or pops in right there and then you screw in from the back of wherever you're gonna drill this to mount it so you've got your retaining brackets high tech foam more high-tech foam another plastic bag and then you have your reservoir and nothing else in the box the reservoir here is made of acrylic and this is actually a version 2 of this reservoir they had one out before but it lacked one thing that a lot of people kind of complained about and that one thing being this inner tube right here which I might add is kind of scratched looking but it's not really a problem it's just aesthetics and it is threaded so that you can move it to different ports inside of the top of the reservoir here now the cool thing about this reservoir is that it does have multiple ports on the top so if you're gonna be doing a build where you need to have multiple inlets and outlets actually only have one Inlet or outlet on one side it is branded alpha cool on the top on the bottom here you get your brass plugs for it and you also get your threaded hole right here for your fitting now a lot like I mentioned in the water cooling the water block these fittings are awfully close together so if you wanted to have say a giant half inch inner diameter compression fitting like this because of these two plugs right here this is not gonna fit there's not at all as you can see right there it hits the plugs which means you can't tighten it down so it's kind of unfortunate but there is a little bit of a fix for that if you were to use an extension now keep in mind guys this is because we're going with half inch do the biggest fittings they have if you go with something smaller like a 3/8 inner diameter you probably won't have that problem but you can use this extension fitting like this on the top which would then allow us to install a fill port or return port or whatever you want with that but as I started to mention earlier and before I got sidetracked the reason why this tube on the top is important it's because if you're gonna have a loop like mine in my 900 D where you want the return to the res coming in on the top you can't let the water just cascade down into the into the reservoir and bubble around you're gonna aerate your fluid and you're gonna have bubble and air nightmares inside your tank inside your entire loop so what this tube does is it pushes the fluid down into the fluid level so that you could still have room on the top a little bit of air on the top so you have a place for the air to bleed out this is absolutely necessary if you're gonna be running a return on the top of your reservoir now if you wanted to have a fill port on the top and you're using like this and you have the inlet and outlet on the bottom then your fill port can be right here on the top and that can drip down in there with no problem at all so because this is a 50 millimeter wipe and they break everything on the table because this is a 50 millimeter wide tank and not a 60 millimeter wide which is more common like with bits power and whatnot this fits in a lot more tight spaces that's kind of what she said but anyway because we're gonna be putting this in a smaller full tower case we're gonna be putting this in a switch NZXT 8 10 this is going to be perfect now unfortunately as I mentioned earlier because the fittings are so close together on the bottom if you wanted to do Inlet outlet on the bottom you're gonna have to use fittings that have a curve to them like this 45 millimeter fitting here that way you can as you can see now you could fit multiples of these together without any problems at all in fact let me take off one of these other plugs so you can see exactly what I mean the last thing you want to do is have these giant fittings which look really cool because half inch tubing being nice and big you know we all know bigger is better right in most situations they would clearly be a fitment issue there but if you were to go with two of these 45s like this you can see that we have absolutely no fitment problems whatsoever so you could have this mounted in the back wall of your tank and they could have this really cool kind of a really Spacey look coming out of it so this is required if you're gonna be using big compression fittings like that if you're using Barb's there's not gonna be problems at all Barb's will fit next to each other without any sort of problems so we're gonna go ahead and get this installed in of our build and we're gonna see just how this thing performs at holding fluid I mean really it's just holding fluid with it as long as it doesn't leak we're good right so let's go ahead and get in there there you have it guys the loop is installed it's complete 250 milliliter reservoir that does the job gives us plenty of mounting options upside down right side up tons of different port options and it holds our fluid without leaking who could ask for more so if you're doing a custom water cooling loop you definitely want to consider this reservoir at just about 30 bucks it is absolutely unsurpassed performance a price ratio so there you have it guys if you liked what you saw today hit subscribe hit like if you didn't you know what to do check out all the information down the description Twitter Facebook all that stuff if you have any about this product or any of the water cooling questions from this whole series that we're doing and as always I'll see you guys in my next video