Alpenfohn Black Ridge Review

Alpenfohn Black Ridge CPU cooler is 47mm in height and features 6 copper heat pipes for cooling. The Black Ridge only supports Low Profile RAM with max height of 35mm. An additional 120mm fan can be mounted on top of the Black Ridge cooler, giving a max height of 62 / 72mm dependant upon the top fan thickness.

SPECIFICATIONS

MODEL Alpenfohn Black Ridge (rev.C)
DIMENSIONSL: 122 x W: 122 x H: 47mm (including 15mm fan)
MATERIALS6x copper heat-pipes, copper base ( black nickel plated), aluminium cooling fins
COMPATIBILITYIntel: 115X/1200/1700
AMD: AM4
FANS1x 92x15mm (2800RPM)
RAM CLEARANCE37mm
THERMAL COMPOUND (INCLUDED)N

TEST SYSTEM

Testing was completed on BC1T Open Testbench using the following hardware in 20°C room ambient temperature. CPU cooler fans were set to fixed 35dB(a) noise level at distance of 50cm.

CASEBC1 Mini v2 (Open Testbench)
MOTHERBOARDRog Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (paid link)
CPUR5 7600X / R7 7700X (paid links)
CPU COOLERAlpenfohn Black Ridge (paid link)
PSU Extreme 850R (paid link)
RAM32GB Gskill DDR5, 6000MHz, CL30 (paid link)

THERMAL BENCHMARKS

We use Cinebench R23 multicore (stability test), for CPU thermal testing. This provides worse case scenario for given CPUs thermal output.