Alphacool gpu blocks

red eye · 5 Mar 2020 at 11:48

I’m looking at
Alphacool Eisblock Aurora Plexi GPX-A AMD Radeon 5600/5700 XT MSI Gaming X

Anyone got one, are they any good?
Not used alphacool before so this will be my first

thanks

pastymuncher · 5 Mar 2020 at 13:41

Alphacool blocks are high quality so you don't have to worry about that. Performance wise most gpu blocks perform to within a couple of degrees of each other and until someone comes up with a new design that won't change anytime soon. I have a Alphacool Eisblock XPX cpu block and have had no problems with it.

Ross Thomson · 5 Mar 2020 at 17:48

I've got their red devil block. the attachment it not great (I had to use washers) and the thermal pads for the memory were too thin.

Joe Jones · 6 Mar 2020 at 15:43

I picked up the same block from OCuk a couple of weeks ago and very happy with it. I don't use RGB so can not comment on that section.

With 120.3 & 120.2 radiators in a single loop the block is cooling my overclocked 5700 running at 1.2v and a 4690K processor (also overclocked). Idle the GPU settles around 8c above ambient and load is about 20c on the GPU and 35c on hotspots.

I wouldn't have picked up the block at full retail and luckily found one on clearance which came as brand new.

Overall I'm really happy as the cooling side is silent.

red eye · 12 Mar 2020 at 12:30

Sorry for the delay I had forgotten all about ordering the block.

I was just a bit concerned with the look of the block. From the picture it’s doesn’t look high quality.
I think I’ll swap the rgb strip for a uv strip just need to find out where I got my current stip from.

but thanks for the reply guys