Der Test wird wiederholt, weil Thermalbench einen massiven Fehler beim Zusammenbau des Kühlers gemacht hatEr hat innen einen O-Ring nicht richtig eingesetzt, daher fließt nur ein Teil des Wassers tatsächlich über die Kühlfinnen und die Leistung sackt massiv ab. Es wiederspricht ja auch ansonsten jedem anderen Test
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Ein paar Impressionen aus unserem neuen Lager, da gibts natürlich auch eine menge Alphacool Zeug.150 Tonnen nur Wasserkühlungs Kram
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Der Test wird wiederholt, weil Thermalbench einen massiven Fehler beim Zusammenbau des Kühlers gemacht hatEr hat innen einen O-Ring nicht richtig eingesetzt, daher fließt nur ein Teil des Wassers tatsächlich über die Kühlfinnen und die Leistung sackt massiv ab. Es wiederspricht ja auch ansonsten jedem anderen Test
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Hi Eddy, perhaps my emails may have been misunderstood but I never open a block before any testing so that had no impact on my thermal test results unless the block arrived incorrectly assembled from Alphacool. As you know, the only reason I am re-testing using another sample is because of the error in the installation manual provided for LGA 2011(-3) CPUs you told me about and this means that everyone else who tested on these CPUs should also re-test as well if they followed the manual as I did.
So ein Lager könnten wir mal für Kühler-, Mainboards- und Gehäuse-Testmuster gebrauchen
Remark from another tester:
I did mount the Eisblock XPX (and the Eisbaer before) like shown in the manual as well and I did not find a negative impact on cooling performance. However PCGH-Tests are done at a lower, silent-compatible flowrate (143 l/h for the Eisblock) and Alphacool's new design might scale worse with the thermalbench flowrate than other coolers. For example the XSPC Raystorm Pro, which puts some emphasis on low flow restriction, did finish behind Kryos Next, Heatkiller IV and Anfi-Tec drei in my tests.
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Sorry for the use of English language, I tried Google Translate and it did a bad job converting my words to German.
Hi Eddy, perhaps my emails may have been misunderstood but I never open a block before any testing so that had no impact on my thermal test results unless the block arrived incorrectly assembled from Alphacool. As you know, the only reason I am re-testing using another sample is because of the error in the installation manual provided for LGA 2011(-3) CPUs you told me about and this means that everyone else who tested on these CPUs should also re-test as well if they followed the manual as I did.

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@Eddy: Come on man, I just told you over email that I had emailed before publishing you and only found out later that your email server was down due to the Aquatuning move to another location. Not sure why you are saying all this in public![]()
But maybe the mail got lost with the moving, don`t know. Stupid sitation, but we will wait for the next results. But the O-Ring was wrong, we can see that on the pic with the Imprint of the cooler. You get only that "round" imprint if the o-ring is not on the right position
I know, you think its about the screw nuts, but they are not the main problem.
Like i said in the last mail... never get that mailBut maybe the mail got lost with the moving, don`t know. Stupid sitation, but we will wait for the next results. But the O-Ring was wrong, we can see that on the pic with the Imprint of the cooler. You get only that "round" imprint if the o-ring is not on the right position
I know, you think its about the screw nuts, but they are not the main problem.
Well... let us wait for your next test![]()
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i think the most people here can at least read englisch, so that shouldn't be a problem ^^
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Yes, we can both agree on this
Sorry to everyone else for having hijacked this thread.

Make it like a few other websites..... one content for all countrys. You have only to translate the content
And thats not a big problem.
An das 5V Kabel würde ich dann direkt noch einen Gehäuselüfter mit anschließen.