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today's video is brought to you by alpha cool and aqua tuning whether you live in the US Canada or Europe be sure to check them out at aqua tuning us all your water cooling and modding needs hey guys you're watching Jays two cents and I've already brought you a review of the full Copper Nexus water block from alpha cool and today we're going to take a look at the Nexus XT 45 full copper radiator a lot of radiators on the market are made of a mixture of brass and copper and some of them even have aluminum indent one of the things that sets alpha cool apart is the fact that this is a full copper radiator tubes the tanks and the fins on this radiator are copper copper isn't much better heat conductor than breast so when you can get copper in here it's a much better conductor of heat and it's going to move all of the unwanted heat away from your CPU this model I'm holding here is the Nexus X T 45 and the reason why it's called the X T 45 it's because it is 45 millimeters thick this is a pretty thick and pretty heavy radiator because of its full copper construction on the end tanks here you can see that you have multiple options here for mounting of Barb's you've got two on the front two on the bottom and two on the top so wear guard las' is where you put this in your case whether it's front mounted bottom mounted top mounted or side mounted on something like a 900 d or maybe a TJ o 7 from silverstone you're going to have all sorts of mounting options now when it comes to hardware they do include full copper mounting screws for your fans it's pretty unique the fact that they are full copper here they also do include four full copper plugs here for the four holes that you end up not using when it comes to the mounting options on this radiator now the fin design I'm not sure what the FBI is on this but it will just fins per inch however you can see right through the radiator so you know that airflow is going to really flow nicely through this radiator so they're optimized for medium and low speed fans now the mounting screws on here our standard spacing for 120 millimeter fan obviously this is the triple 120 or the 360 version of this radiator but what I do like is that down underneath the screw holes here even though these holes line up with some of the runs or the tubes that are in this radiator on cheaper radiators if you screw in too far the screw goes right into that channel it puts a hole in your tube in your radiator zone however the alpha cooled radiator here does have a plate that goes all the way around the mounting screws that keep you from screwing too far into your radiator tube so that's a really nice addition for those that are maybe not quite as aware of how far their screws are going down into their radiator and that's going to save you from destroying a very nice radiator such as this other than that there's really nothing in the box other than some bubble pops and so if you like the copper things it's a hours and hours of enjoyment and fun so let's go ahead and get this thing inside my machine so how well it cools my 3770k and my GTX 680 this is my first full copper radiator and I'm really excited to see how it performs compared to the brass radiators that I currently have installed so let's get over here and let's tear this thing apart you okay so let's go ahead and talk about the system it's cooling it is an Intel 3770k overclocked to 4.7 gigahertz at one point to six volts now we are talking about core temperatures here so the brass and copper radiator with three 120 fans had a twenty eight Celsius idle average and a sixty eight Celsius max average on the cores however on the full copper radiator core temperature idle was 27 degrees Celsius and max on the cores was sixty-two degrees Celsius that's a six degrees Celsius average drop by simply switching to a full copper radiator and when it comes to my gtx 680 overclocked to 1300 six megahertz the story is no different we had a 32 degrees Celsius idle average and a forty eight degrees Celsius max average however with the full copper radiator the changes were even more apparent with a twenty eight degrees Celsius idle and a forty-one degrees Celsius maximum average on the GPU now before anybody says but J you have a thicker copper radiator versus a thinner brass radiator that's just not fair let's go ahead and keep in mind that the full copper radiator only has ten fins per inch versus the brass copper radiators twenty fins per inch so as twice as many cooling fins on the brass so there you have it guys that's been J's two cents regarding the nexus xt forty five full copper radiator from alpha cool I've been using the thing for about five days now and it truly is amazing what a difference a full copper radiator can make the full copper design and the amount of thermal conductivity that this radiator has to allow me to bump up my overclock just a little bit more making my thermal threshold just that much higher this is definitely a radiator to consider if you're building a full custom loop make sure to check it out Alvah cool xt 45 the nexus full copper radiator and once again we have to give a very big thank you to aqua tuning for setting me up with this radiator allowing me to do this review and i will see you guys in my next video but don't forget subscribe like favorite follow do all that fun stuff and we will see you guys next time when we see