This is certainly something I dont think I have ever seen before, very striking ! I think the dust maintainance alone would give me concern, but really enjoyed the video and the timelapse subscribed!
Its like watching a master at work. epic fantastic ! It looked quite good at the start, but by the time you got finished, it was basically my dream build
Absolutely great build James! The choice of hardware and combining the carbon tubes was spot on. Great video as always. Love the watercooled builds!💪🏻👊🏻
Very dramatic - looks a bit busy for me, but then again its an open case and its carbon fibre, so its always going to look in your face - but its such a nice build, very clean, straight lines - nice hardware selection - super coolant which I assume is the fancy name EKWB give for red coolant - dont think Alphacool do that color, but I could be wrong - anyhow, super job James - very clean job ! 😎
Very nice build man ! That time lapse was so relaxing to watch ❤ I think that distro was the perfect occasion to use straight carbon tubes you nailed it
I would be cleaning this weekly , but such a great build James, I love watching you make a system, you think things out so well and pick great components and get it all matched up
James a masterpiece - I hope Alphacool fill the hole that EKWB left in the market. never hear much from them however - they dont seem to do much work - so good to see this one
I don't know why but I was not expecting the carbon fibre tubes for the loop, the build looks sick! If I didn't already have a full EK loop 7800X3D and 4090 with 3x360mm rads, and 10 T30s in my Lancool III I'd be super jelly!
Didn't have time to comment when this video published but I've been dying for someone to do a sick build using it and I can't wait for the final installment of the build from JCustom also using this case. He ran into the same issue with PSU sag which was no surprise after watching this but I've been tempted to save up for one of these. My only slight complaint is using an opaque coolant prevents seeing some parts from some angles but that's just personal preference. Looks amazing and you did the case justice. Pleased you also used the carbon fibre tubes to match everything
@@docbrody I like it from some angles, then other times I am not so sure. At least its different, right? so many fish tank cases now, getting old quickly
Is like a kit car style idea - its pretty creative in some areas, like the drive panels and some of the ideas on the paneling . Its very well put together and with the cost of proper carbon fibre I am shocked they could hit the sub 1000 euro price point to be perfectly honest.
Its certainly unusual - great choice of materials and it gets my vote for not being the usual run of the mill £150 box you get. James what is the Alpahcool gear like in 2024? I briefly went into some of their hardware years ago and found it a bit lacking in quality - has it improved at all?
That is pretty eye catching - wouldnt say I would rush out and buy it, my last expensive case was the hideous Level 10 by Thermaltake eons ago, but i enjoyed the content. Dont often see much happening from Alphacool and I figured they would be all over the EKWB failures to capitalise on the market.
Given the open-frame design and the use of carbon fiber and aluminum, how does this case perform in terms of thermal management, especially when under heavy load? Are there noticeable temperature drops compared to traditional closed cases?
The thing is it keeps both the CPU and GPU cool under full load with fans running under 1000rpm so the key thing is to make sure you set up custom fan curves
If I'd ever want or need a water-cooled pc, then this is it. Astounding build, one of absolute excellence. The only thing I wonder about, seeing the rog matrix platinum gpu by DerBau3r in this build :3
@KitGuruTech initially I wanted to criticize the "case" but as spent time watching the case design itself as a case became irrelevant when you look at the entire build
@@Safetytrousers do you turn off your pc when you're not using it? or you leave it on with the fans running all the time, and thats why there isnt much dust build up? trying to figure out the best way to prevent dust
@@kephalai I have it on all the time I am awake, and I turn it off when I got to bed. I only have fans on my radiators. I do blow the dust from my radiators out now and again.
No, but buying directly from Alphacool means prices are quoted in Euros. You can buy it from Watercoling UK here: www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Alphacool-Apex-Pro-Skeleton-Carbon-Case_83616.html But it's over £1000.
I would love this - my buddy has carbon fibre parts on his car, its such a nice material, especially if you get the new matte finish - looks legit carbon fibre too, you can usually tell the fake chinese wrapped stuff. well done alphacool ! the case world is so boring now with fish tank cases everywhere.!
That case is gorgeous, but while you where taking out the side glass panel and saying it is an old style design, I took a glance at the (99$) 8yr old NXZT S340 sitting on my desk... Alphacool did a worse job there than NZXT did 8 years ago! The S340 side glass panel mounts in a similar way, but the screw part is atached to the case with a rubber ring around it to help locate and hold the panel while you screw and unscrew the thumbscrews, I'm baffled by that design choice.
Thanks for that great video James! I just got that case and would have two queations: On which ports did you connect the coolers and radiators to the distro? there are quite a few. And, are carbon tubes more difficult to handle than 'normal' hard tubes? Thanks again and cheers from Vienna
Carbon tubes were as easy to use as acrylic i thought. It took some thought with the tubing but what I did was go out from the front rad to one of the bottom ports on the distro - out of the distro to the gpu - back to the distro from gpu - then out of distro to cpu - back to distro from cpu - then out of distro to top rad - from top rad to front rad to complete the loop.
That 'rear 120mm' fan looks like it's blocking the IO. I think I would have used that lower drive plate for a Slim SAS drive (I want the X870E Crosshair) then mounted something on top of that drive.to support the Power Supply. Oh, and I never use Opaque fluid, the potential for leaving deposits in the blocks is too high.
I always will love watercooling. By the way, do you plan on making a non rgb all whiteout build? Back in the day, the NZXT N7 Motherboard was very nice. But now, i don't understand why they changed the minimalism.
Very nice. I'm sure I'll find that 1000ish Euros down the back of the sofa. 🤪 Apart from the wobbly PSU mount this looks excellent. I'm sure that 2200 watt PSU is at peak efficiency when pulling ~500watts from the wall. 😇Honestly, what on earth would need that kind of power when we only have 1x CPU and 1x GPU to play with? Whose GPU anti-sag support did you use? It didn't look terribly out of place. 12/10👌Mint, mate.
i think you solved the cases problem with the gpu mount to hold up the psu. If you did not say anything people would have thought that's how the case comes.
Looks great, but also doesn't, too busy, too open, have fun with the dust, not even that much radiator or fan support, not that great or many placement options for things, just carbon and aluminium. Wish i could afford it, but i'd definitely build something else. Of course taste is personal, but i feel you can get better with more options for everything for less.
I really do like Alpha cool stuff the rads and blocks are quality, that case is on the pricey side, though, and would have expected a 140 option on the rear fan (does it actually provide any benefit in an open case?) and a much better way to fill the distro plate, looked very tortured and non optimal. Very much has the feel of a version 1. Not sure that PSU would work in in the US on their neutered 110v and 16 amps supply (max 1760w). Shame.
Its certainly a statement piece- not sure its 100% practical but I like companies who try to break out of the norm., which right now is aquarium cases.
Can you please help me, I am building the same case and have the same CPU block. I can see that you went from OUT on distro to OUT on CPU (lower hole on CPU block). and then from IN on CPU (upper hole on CPU block) to IN on distro, which goes after that to the upper radiator. So, I guess it is not a problem to swap IN and OUT this way on the CPU block?
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Thanks James, I do enjoy your videos, dont really post much as I have generally very little to say - but keep up the good work ! (groans)
Thanks 👍
@@KitGuruTech Welcome!
That coolant in that stands out a mile, like those clever photos you see all black and white and then they put some red flower in the middle
Well I wasnt expecting to see a 1000 euro case today, thats something else !
Not too many of them around 😉
@@KitGuruTech 😘
The choice of coolant is nice, would have liked to see a white liquid too, would have looked just as good, but more monochome
This is certainly something I dont think I have ever seen before, very striking ! I think the dust maintainance alone would give me concern, but really enjoyed the video and the timelapse subscribed!
Great point!
@@KitGuruTech Yeah!
Just in time for the weekend, perfect thank you
Thanks James, great build
Glad you like it
@@KitGuruTech Welcome!
Thanks Kitguru, great showcase build of what you can do in this case - not sure my own build would look this good, thats for sure !
Glad to help
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The choice of hardware is very well done, bravo james
Thanks !
@@KitGuruTech Welcome!
On a lighter note the timelapse was super relaxing, nice music choice :)
I think I briefly saw this in leos coverage from an event many months ago - took some time to get a show build up for it - looks incredible
I love your watercooling style. That Alphacool block looks high quality and beautiful.
Its like watching a master at work. epic fantastic ! It looked quite good at the start, but by the time you got finished, it was basically my dream build
Thanks, I'm glad you like it.
Absolutely great build James! The choice of hardware and combining the carbon tubes was spot on. Great video as always. Love the watercooled builds!💪🏻👊🏻
Very dramatic - looks a bit busy for me, but then again its an open case and its carbon fibre, so its always going to look in your face - but its such a nice build, very clean, straight lines - nice hardware selection - super coolant which I assume is the fancy name EKWB give for red coolant - dont think Alphacool do that color, but I could be wrong - anyhow, super job James - very clean job ! 😎
You said it better than I could, 100%
Pretty sure that is EKWB coolant yes.
Im glad you liked the build, coolant is a special mix 😄
A special mix. Tell us more 😉
James - legend - nuff said
Thanks !
@@KitGuruTech Welcome!
Nice ! Congratulations !
Hi from all of us over here in Frankenmuth, Michigan !
Very nice build man ! That time lapse was so relaxing to watch ❤
I think that distro was the perfect occasion to use straight carbon tubes you nailed it
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. 😊
I would be cleaning this weekly , but such a great build James, I love watching you make a system, you think things out so well and pick great components and get it all matched up
I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😊
Has great access points. I think it might be easier than having it fully enclosed.
James, very happy to see you using my CPU ! amazing build - one of the most interesting ive seen in years. very industrial/modern and evil looking
Thanks, I'm glad you like it. 😊
One of the best looking builds I've seen....awesome!
Wow, thanks!
Yeah thats wicked . wish I had the abililty to do the hard loop - wish you could do a guide for doing a hard loop system - no good guides on youtube
James what a build ! Speechless
Thanks !
A work of art - cant argue that. amazeballs Mr Dawson !
There are, i think 10 other cases that are like that.
Thanks!
Is that Alphacool coolant? never seen that before - have you got a link for me? would love to use it
It's not Alphacool, it was a custom mix. 😊
@@KitGuruTech Right!
James a masterpiece - I hope Alphacool fill the hole that EKWB left in the market. never hear much from them however - they dont seem to do much work - so good to see this one
Alphacool has some great products, worth checking them out.
Stunning build James. I love this case. I’d never buy it but I can certainly admire it 😮
Well at least that’s something then 👌🏻
That red liquid looks almost orange at times, but I love a good blood red build!
Think it's just the video lighting, it's quite a deep red really.
It always looked red on my screen.
@@KitGuruTech Right!
Think if you're already spending 650 euros you may as well go for it and but the pro version with the custom distro plate.
Gosh what a build! Amazing job buddy
Thanks.
I don't know why but I was not expecting the carbon fibre tubes for the loop, the build looks sick! If I didn't already have a full EK loop 7800X3D and 4090 with 3x360mm rads, and 10 T30s in my Lancool III I'd be super jelly!
Glad you like it!
Didn't have time to comment when this video published but I've been dying for someone to do a sick build using it and I can't wait for the final installment of the build from JCustom also using this case. He ran into the same issue with PSU sag which was no surprise after watching this but I've been tempted to save up for one of these. My only slight complaint is using an opaque coolant prevents seeing some parts from some angles but that's just personal preference. Looks amazing and you did the case justice. Pleased you also used the carbon fibre tubes to match everything
Thank you appreciate the comment !
Cant imagine not doing a vertical GPU with a build like this.
Delightful build. Yes my young daughter loves that word so I thought I’d use it myself today ❤
Love that!
Looks amazing ! too expensive for me, but impressive
1000 euros, they must be mad - looks great for 400-600 max
Agreed, but now I’m not sure I even like the look - it’s kinda busy.
@@docbrody I like it from some angles, then other times I am not so sure. At least its different, right? so many fish tank cases now, getting old quickly
Carbon fibre - the proper stuff anyway--- aint cheap !
Exactly its just too much.
Is like a kit car style idea - its pretty creative in some areas, like the drive panels and some of the ideas on the paneling . Its very well put together and with the cost of proper carbon fibre I am shocked they could hit the sub 1000 euro price point to be perfectly honest.
Beautiful build.
Thank you!
Literally looking at this case yesterday even though I don't need it xD
Are you sure this is real carbon fibre and not some kind of glued on cover material? what weight is the case?
I would love one of these cases its the sort of thing that you can keep basically forever.
wow - that is stunning
Good choice on colour for the coolant.
I think so too!
Its certainly unusual - great choice of materials and it gets my vote for not being the usual run of the mill £150 box you get.
James what is the Alpahcool gear like in 2024? I briefly went into some of their hardware years ago and found it a bit lacking in quality - has it improved at all?
I have been impressed with some of the recent Alphacool gear. They seem to have stepped up their game with the new GPU blocks and distro plates.
That is pretty eye catching - wouldnt say I would rush out and buy it, my last expensive case was the hideous Level 10 by Thermaltake eons ago, but i enjoyed the content. Dont often see much happening from Alphacool and I figured they would be all over the EKWB failures to capitalise on the market.
I like this. Using high quality materials, nicely designed and very unusual. Only problem is that it’s out of my price range.
Like the way you torqued down that graphics card to the water block.
10:19 Well, that's gonna run a couplemof Mac Minis :D
great to see them not just using carbon fibre wrap over metal. bonus points 🤑
Hate that stuff it looks so pretend. Maybe dipped carbon fibre but even that is just pretending.
Given the open-frame design and the use of carbon fiber and aluminum, how does this case perform in terms of thermal management, especially when under heavy load? Are there noticeable temperature drops compared to traditional closed cases?
No I don't think so. Modern PC cases can be so well designed in terms of airflow that they perform as good as an open frame.
Would need to make sure you picked the fans well in this one - could get very loud as an open case
The thing is it keeps both the CPU and GPU cool under full load with fans running under 1000rpm so the key thing is to make sure you set up custom fan curves
I am usually not a huge fan of the carbon esthetic, but this is looking sick.
If I'd ever want or need a water-cooled pc, then this is it. Astounding build, one of absolute excellence.
The only thing I wonder about, seeing the rog matrix platinum gpu by DerBau3r in this build :3
Thanks and yes good gpu !
Thank you for this video. This crazy case is just too expensive for me. But I love it.
top quality content, well done
Looks like it should be show in some futuristic museum
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Masterpiece 👌🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thankyou 😁
@KitGuruTech initially I wanted to criticize the "case" but as spent time watching the case design itself as a case became irrelevant when you look at the entire build
That bistro plate is very nice.
Really fun video to watch, thank you.
1000Euro to showcase the amount of dust it collects in 2 months :D
Glad you enjoyed it!
Having a back cover for the motherboard is a good idea to enable you to hide most of the wires.
The weight is really good, carbon fibre is so light. I cant afford carbon fibre for my car. amazed they are doing it for pc now!
Far too expensive a material for most people. isnt the roof on the M Series M5 BMW competition carbon fibre? I think its a £12k extra
I can’t even imagine trying to keep dust out of a case like that 😂😂
Wrap it in cling film? 😊
it'll be full of dust in 2 days?
2 days is optimistic 😂
@@CatherineMitchell-br8dx would remain clean for 2 hours in my dorm 🥲
It wont be. I have my build in an open Core P3 and I hardly ever need to dust it. Vertical things gather very little dust.
@@Safetytrousers do you turn off your pc when you're not using it? or you leave it on with the fans running all the time, and thats why there isnt much dust build up? trying to figure out the best way to prevent dust
@@kephalai I have it on all the time I am awake, and I turn it off when I got to bed. I only have fans on my radiators. I do blow the dust from my radiators out now and again.
Do you use Euro's in the UK?
No, but buying directly from Alphacool means prices are quoted in Euros.
You can buy it from Watercoling UK here: www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/p/Alphacool-Apex-Pro-Skeleton-Carbon-Case_83616.html
But it's over £1000.
Loads of thought has gone into this but for the price you would expect that wouldnt you.
PC PRON - love it
I would love this - my buddy has carbon fibre parts on his car, its such a nice material, especially if you get the new matte finish - looks legit carbon fibre too, you can usually tell the fake chinese wrapped stuff. well done alphacool ! the case world is so boring now with fish tank cases everywhere.!
That case is gorgeous, but while you where taking out the side glass panel and saying it is an old style design, I took a glance at the (99$) 8yr old NXZT S340 sitting on my desk... Alphacool did a worse job there than NZXT did 8 years ago! The S340 side glass panel mounts in a similar way, but the screw part is atached to the case with a rubber ring around it to help locate and hold the panel while you screw and unscrew the thumbscrews, I'm baffled by that design choice.
Thanks for that great video James! I just got that case and would have two queations: On which ports did you connect the coolers and radiators to the distro? there are quite a few. And, are carbon tubes more difficult to handle than 'normal' hard tubes? Thanks again and cheers from Vienna
Carbon tubes were as easy to use as acrylic i thought.
It took some thought with the tubing but what I did was go out from the front rad to one of the bottom ports on the distro - out of the distro to the gpu - back to the distro from gpu - then out of distro to cpu - back to distro from cpu - then out of distro to top rad - from top rad to front rad to complete the loop.
@ Thanks a lot for the answer James and keep going.
I love it, cant afford it, but nothing new there :(
Any connection to the Cougar Panzer Max G case? The overall shape and some features such as the thumb screw side panel look near identical
That 'rear 120mm' fan looks like it's blocking the IO. I think I would have used that lower drive plate for a Slim SAS drive (I want the X870E Crosshair) then mounted something on top of that drive.to support the Power Supply. Oh, and I never use Opaque fluid, the potential for leaving deposits in the blocks is too high.
Correction: vertical GPU mount is also excluded from non-pro version, not just distroplate.
Does carbon fibre improve performance, make it lighter so you get better FPS in gaming?
Not really 😊
I always will love watercooling. By the way, do you plan on making a non rgb all whiteout build? Back in the day, the NZXT N7 Motherboard was very nice. But now, i don't understand why they changed the minimalism.
With a 2.2 KW PSU, it removes the need to turn on your heating in winter, I suppose...
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Very nice. I'm sure I'll find that 1000ish Euros down the back of the sofa. 🤪 Apart from the wobbly PSU mount this looks excellent. I'm sure that 2200 watt PSU is at peak efficiency when pulling ~500watts from the wall. 😇Honestly, what on earth would need that kind of power when we only have 1x CPU and 1x GPU to play with? Whose GPU anti-sag support did you use? It didn't look terribly out of place. 12/10👌Mint, mate.
i think you solved the cases problem with the gpu mount to hold up the psu. If you did not say anything people would have thought that's how the case comes.
Love that GPU water block.
As del boy would say. Lovely jubbly 🎉
You plonker 🤩
This looks like InWin D-Frame
Really nice and clean build, hats off. Looks great.
It’s pretty cool. Could have gone the extra mile with an LCD display though.
Yes an LCD could look good in this.
Carbon fiber and aluminium? Definitely a statement piece - right?
Yep!
Looks great, but also doesn't, too busy, too open, have fun with the dust, not even that much radiator or fan support, not that great or many placement options for things, just carbon and aluminium.
Wish i could afford it, but i'd definitely build something else.
Of course taste is personal, but i feel you can get better with more options for everything for less.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts 👍🏻
Looks like they took inspiration from Cougar. I like it.
Am I missing them or does this have no dust filters?
No dust filters.
So this must be a hand made case. It is a limited edition run too?
I really do like Alpha cool stuff the rads and blocks are quality, that case is on the pricey side, though, and would have expected a 140 option on the rear fan (does it actually provide any benefit in an open case?) and a much better way to fill the distro plate, looked very tortured and non optimal. Very much has the feel of a version 1.
Not sure that PSU would work in in the US on their neutered 110v and 16 amps supply (max 1760w). Shame.
The fan would have been best placed blowing across the backplate of the GPU.
I'd buy it but the case is extremely exposed to dust. It's not fully sealed is it?
if your doing all the extra work for water cooling I want to see the liquid in the pipes, there is enough Carbon on the frame
Fair enough. 😊
Mmmmmm carbon fiber 🤤💚
Its certainly a statement piece- not sure its 100% practical but I like companies who try to break out of the norm., which right now is aquarium cases.
2 liters of water?! That's a lot of of heat capacity!!!
Can you please help me, I am building the same case and have the same CPU block. I can see that you went from OUT on distro to OUT on CPU (lower hole on CPU block). and then from IN on CPU (upper hole on CPU block) to IN on distro, which goes after that to the upper radiator. So, I guess it is not a problem to swap IN and OUT this way on the CPU block?
Hi, I asked Alphacool this exact question and they assured me it is OK to use either port as in/out, the effect on performance is minimal.
@@KitGuruTech great, thank you, you saved me. I was even thinking going for another cpu block.The option is also to turn arround the block.
Not sure why it’s so expensive. Is carbon fibre really that costly?
If they were 140mm instead of 120mm fan mounts I might be interested.
Unusual.
For me Carbon Fiber where it does not need to be, is like Gold on Burgerbun.
That makes the Burger 100$!
finger prints!!! its triggering me! good work👍
Thank you! Cheers!