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now it's not very often that this happens but Corsair literally sponsored

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this video to show off how off the rails

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crazy they've gone they finally did it they have launched their full lineup of

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custom water cooling solutions they're calling it their hydrox series and

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they've got over 60 skus like this is the thing that i

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was always thinking there's no way they're never going to do it because you

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can't just launch a CPU block and call that good enough you need CPU blocks GPU

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blocks reservoirs pumps mounts fittings tubing and we're going to take you guys

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all the way around the booth and have a look at everything that they've done

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here let's start with the CPU block naturally since it's Corsair they're

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going to want something that's going to look great in any showcase pc so they've

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got a couple of different models here the xc7 RGB and the xc9 RGB now they

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look nearly identical on the surface

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except for the difference in color we've got black on this one and silver on this

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one but under the hood they are a little bit different so the xc7 uses .25

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millimeter fins and the xc9 uses 0.2

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millimeter fins giving it a slight edge in terms of performance so the reason

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for that is that the xc9 is designed for threadripper and Intel's hddt platform

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and then this one is for your more mainstream am4 and lg 115x

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for the GPU cooler we've got a look that is quintessentially Corsair so they've

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got an extruded aluminum shroud with a machined acrylic window over here

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they've got an included aluminum back plate and then they've got a bunch of

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really nice to have features there's a flow indicator here they've got

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pre-applied thermal compound and thermal pads which is a time saver compared to

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like cutting out the pads and then aligning them all yourselves really nice

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to have and then the really stand out one to me is actually this right here so

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their cooling engine uses the same skivved copper manufacturing process as

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their CPU block and that's really unique for a GPU because normally that would be

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quite cost prohibitive the way that they got around this is by mass producing

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this piece and then you can actually see it over here and then screwing it in and

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using a rubber o-ring to attach it to the rest of the cooler quite clever

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Corsair quite clever at launch they'll have blocks for the 1080 1080 ti 2070

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2080 2080 ti those are all founders edition as well as ASUS strix 2080 and

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2080 ti and for the AMD fans out there

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Radeon vega 56 and 64. now this next one

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threw me for a bit of a loop the CPU block is xc the GPU block is xg the

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radiators are xr but for some reason the reservoir pump combo unit is

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xd now there's actually a good reason for this because Corsair is using a genuine

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d5 pump and we're talking the full RPM pwm controlled one which i think is an

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absolutely fantastic choice and they are offering nothing else which i also think

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is an absolutely fantastic choice the d5 has a well-deserved reputation for its

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reliability and its near silent operation and this is just

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such a not being afraid to spend more money to

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deliver a better quality product move from them that i absolutely have to

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commend they include a bunch of different mounting options 120 or 140

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millimeter fan mounts as well as a bottom mount or a back mount for the

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case and this is a nice touch they include a 24-pin jumper so that you can

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quickly cycle your power supply on and off to get bleed the air out of your

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loop as well as a temperature sensor now

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one unusual thing is that the reservoir is made of the same clear nylon

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injection molded plastic as the CPU block and this was apparently done for

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durability as well as resistance against crappy coolants

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purposes so that's uh that's a very unusual move that must

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have cost a pretty penny and of course like with anything Corsair these days

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the customization with RGB lighting is basically endless they've got full

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integration with their iq software for different lighting profiles so here i'm

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going to have my friend hp show me some of the different setups he can do with

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the 16 leds that are in both the CPU and GPU block and the 10 that are integrated

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into their reservoirs and perhaps more importantly it's integrated from a

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cooling perspective as well now lots of different cooling softwares actually do

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have support for creating fan profiles

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that correspond to the temperature of your system but there's a fatal flaw

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whenever you're using water cooling with most of these setups because they're

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designed to use your CPU temperatures and they're also designed to set RPM

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ranges that are more designed for fans than they are for pumps so Corsair went

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and created a couple of profiles that set more realistic both fan and separate

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pump rpms that correspond to your coolant temperature because it's using

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that built-in temp sensor that's integrated into their pump and reservoir

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combo it's a nice little touch and it's the kind of thing that makes life a lot

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simpler compared to the old days of getting one of those m cube t balancers

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hoping you can find the freaking drivers that work and then dialing everything in

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manually now that's it for the components that Corsair engineered for

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themselves from the ground up but quite frankly with the partners that they've

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chosen for some of these other components there's absolutely no shame

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in collaboration so for the radiators they've got 120 millimeter thick

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radiators in triple double and quadruple

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sizes right here they've got 140 millimeter slim radiators in triple

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double and single and then 120 millimeter radiators in triple double

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and single sizes they all use sort of a medium fin density so they should

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perform quite well with low to medium RPM fans and they worked with hardware

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Labs on these so you can expect the kind of quality that you'd get from someone

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with literally decades of experience building water cooling radiators for pcs

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on the fitting side of things as well as tubing again the partnership makes a ton

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of sense to me they've got four different colors available and most of

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the popular models in gold

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black white and chrome and they worked

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with bits power on these for two different sizes of hardline tubing

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fittings and then a single size that goes with their 10 millimeter id 13

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millimeter od soft tubing now i would

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have preferred a thicker wall tubing but

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i also understand that not everybody likes the look of that and what you do

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achieve with the thin wall tubing is very little of that clear halo around

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your colored coolant so for their coolant they've partnered with mayhem

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and they're offering i believe it is five different colors is that right

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including clear there you go so they've got their green blue clear purple and

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red so there you have it guys irrefutable

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proof that Corsair doesn't care how small or how niche a market is if it

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exists in the pc space they will go after it so thanks Corsair

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for sponsoring this video and thanks to you guys for watching it if you disliked

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