NVIDIA and AMD are complicating the adoption of liquid cooling blocks to a great extent lately. And it is that with the launch of more PCBs than usual, manufacturers are having problems to support the GPUs through water blocks. Alphacool is aware of this problem and if we do not want to run out of block for our model now it offers us to make one totally free under certain conditions.
After the death of SLI and CrossFire by AMD and NVIDIA, it seems that both companies want to end with custom liquid cooling, or so it seems, since in their new GPUs the number of PCBs that are coming out is much higher to previous architectures.
In addition, we have the problem of having to deal with the improvements that are allowed from both companies to certain PCBs, for example in its standard version or also called reference. How can we hit the chosen block? What to do if our GPU is not supported by any block manufacturer?
Alphacool “gets wet” by users
Although there have been some companies that have offered to make blocks for free for certain users due to the imposition of common manufacturers to leave certain GPU models unsupported, these techniques have not usually worked with the general public.
Whether due to ignorance or mistrust, good intentions remained in borage water and in some cases the water reached the GPU instead of the river. The problem with providing your hardware, your GPU, which can cost from hundreds of euros to thousands is that finally the block does not meet the minimum required to cool the card.
Or worse, that the block arrives with various problems. Those of us who have spent half our lives in liquid cooling have had experiences of all kinds in this field and although it is true that there have been very professional people with finishes according to expectations, others have not been so much and the lost time has not made up for the block received.
Therefore, the ideal is to go to one of the best companies in the sector to receive a consistent, quality product, with design and without failures, and this is where Alphacool comes in with its new proposal.
Send your GPU and receive a water block for it totally free
If we have a GPU and there is no compatible block, Alphacool comes to the rescue by offering a compatible block, which is not custom or specially designed. This is important because the concepts for the block in question should not be confused, since what the company offers is to make a block compatible with the GPU that we send, which will arrive with it back, but nothing more.
To do this, we have to follow the following instructions:
- First check here to see if Alphacool already has a compatible block for our graphics card.
- If this is not the case, then we must complete this document and await your response and confirmation.
- We will ship our hardware including the customer statement.
- Once done, it takes 10-20 business days to measure the hardware.
- After this they will send us the hardware in the same conditions in which we sent it.
- In return, we will receive the new FREE block for our GPU. Note that Alphacool reserves the right not to produce single-block variants. However, we will be able to decide between the colder variants that are produced.
As a final note, this service is only offered in Europe, so the rest of the world will have to wait. To fill in the corresponding form we have to enter this website , where we can follow the steps described above.