Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AiO 360mm RTX 3090/3080 mit Backplate

Alphacool hat seine All-in-One-Wasserkühlung für Grafikkarten um eine zweite Generation erweitert. Die Alphacool Eiswolf 2 ist eine vorbefüllte Wasserkühlung, die auf einer kompatiblen Grafikkarte montiert wird und dann sofort einsatzbereit ist. Im Vergleich zu klassischen AiO-Lösungen verspricht Alphacool aber eine Kühlleistung, die der einer Custom-Wasserkühlung nahekommen soll. Ob sie dieses Versprechen halten kann und wie sich die Kühlleistung im Vergleich zu einer Luftkühlung darstellt, schauen wir uns auf den kommenden Seiten an.

This review took place over several months, with a few days of hurried photography and testing followed by a few months of nothing for me. Those few months, however, were no doubt causing Alphacool a lot of anxiety. The Eiswolf 2 was all set to launch in May originally before COVID-19 struck globally, and the pandemic changed plans in many ways. The launch delay is no doubt the most obvious change, but arguably bigger is the limited number of SKUs at launch compared to what had been planned. Both of these are the result of manufacturing taking longer, forcing Alphacool to prioritize only the reference PCBs from the flagship gaming NVIDIA and AMD GPU offerings today, which people are more likely to pay extra to watercool. The added time also meant they were able to stock enough to meet their anticipated demand at launch.