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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the nexus dos xt 45 full copper radiators from alpha cool I actually had a funny conversation with slick where he saw the box for these products and he was like oh OC cool what brand is bad and I was like you mean alpha cool he's like oh I see yes jokes ahoy so what's cool about these radiators is the fact that they are as it says on the box extremely high being full okay I didn't get far enough into saying that for you to actually get the joke extremely heavy they are full copper so they actually way more than the brass aluminum or copper or brass or aluminum or all aluminum or whatever other kinds of radiator designs because copper is heavier than all of those other metals it doesn't actually translate into being like that much have it's not like all men I've got copper radiators my sister like I'm not going to be able to move around it's nothing like that but it does add a little bit of a little bit of half to them and once they're full of water should actually make even more of a difference now the main difference between copper and aluminum is that copper conducts heat better while aluminum is generally regarded as a better dissipater of heat so that's why it's usually been an acceptable an acceptable sort of shortcut to go with copper tubes and then often brass end tanks and aluminum fins whereas alpha cool is gone okay know what we're just going to go all freaking out and we're going to go all copper this is a thick style radiator so it's it's not like it's not a slim radiator it's a silence optimized radiator so it uses a not very dense thin array in order to allow you to use even though the radiators thicker lower rpm Femmes in order to achieve the cooling you need it's also got a ton of different options in terms of mounting some of which I actually don't even understand why you would need so they've got inlets and outlets on both sides which means I mean you could you could kind of like SLI them so you could put a fan in between you could run multiple radiators like that so that'd be kind of cool actually alternately you could sort you know you could have it mounted this way or this way or you could have multiple devices going in and out so you could go okay my cpu block and my GPU block and my something else they're all going to go in and then I'm going to have one outlet so you could actually use these radiators to split or join multiple different parts of your loop which is kind of cool as well parallel I'd parapet parallel flow is generally better than serial flow for for the overall performance of the loop especially if there are components that are not particularly flow sensitive such as GPU blocks where it might be the difference between a couple degrees running three blocks and parallel versus running them in serial but the pressure drop for running them in serial is much much more dramatic and can negatively affect the performance of something like a CPU block so beyond that I don't know how much there is to say in my case here I've got one of their dual 120 millimeter radiators and one of their single 120 millimeter 8000 this is cool this out they're going all out on this all copper thing the mounting hardware for the fans is made of copper and look at this even the plugs for the for the G 1/4 threaded holes at the top are made of copper as well that's going to look really really sharp in a build that's that's all copper theme so if you have exposed copper on your blocks like plexi tops or whatever else like that that's going to look really really good so the single one twenty millimeter version is just more of the same except smaller it's the same thickness it's the same fin density and it's the same mounting options for the for the barbs and fittings themselves so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Alpha cool Nexus xt 45 called full copper radiators don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from lawn boxing's reviews and other computer videos