now it's not very often that this happens but Corsair literally sponsored
this video to show off how off the rails
crazy they've gone they finally did it they have launched their full lineup of
custom water cooling solutions they're calling it their hydrox series and
they've got over 60 skus like this is the thing that i
was always thinking there's no way they're never going to do it because you
can't just launch a CPU block and call that good enough you need CPU blocks GPU
blocks reservoirs pumps mounts fittings tubing and we're going to take you guys
all the way around the booth and have a look at everything that they've done
here let's start with the CPU block naturally since it's Corsair they're
going to want something that's going to look great in any showcase pc so they've
got a couple of different models here the xc7 RGB and the xc9 RGB now they
look nearly identical on the surface
except for the difference in color we've got black on this one and silver on this
one but under the hood they are a little bit different so the xc7 uses .25
millimeter fins and the xc9 uses 0.2
millimeter fins giving it a slight edge in terms of performance so the reason
for that is that the xc9 is designed for threadripper and Intel's hddt platform
and then this one is for your more mainstream am4 and lg 115x
for the GPU cooler we've got a look that is quintessentially Corsair so they've
got an extruded aluminum shroud with a machined acrylic window over here
they've got an included aluminum back plate and then they've got a bunch of
really nice to have features there's a flow indicator here they've got
pre-applied thermal compound and thermal pads which is a time saver compared to
like cutting out the pads and then aligning them all yourselves really nice
to have and then the really stand out one to me is actually this right here so
their cooling engine uses the same skivved copper manufacturing process as
their CPU block and that's really unique for a GPU because normally that would be
quite cost prohibitive the way that they got around this is by mass producing
this piece and then you can actually see it over here and then screwing it in and
using a rubber o-ring to attach it to the rest of the cooler quite clever
Corsair quite clever at launch they'll have blocks for the 1080 1080 ti 2070
2080 2080 ti those are all founders edition as well as ASUS strix 2080 and
2080 ti and for the AMD fans out there
Radeon vega 56 and 64. now this next one
threw me for a bit of a loop the CPU block is xc the GPU block is xg the
radiators are xr but for some reason the reservoir pump combo unit is
xd now there's actually a good reason for this because Corsair is using a genuine
d5 pump and we're talking the full RPM pwm controlled one which i think is an
absolutely fantastic choice and they are offering nothing else which i also think
is an absolutely fantastic choice the d5 has a well-deserved reputation for its
reliability and its near silent operation and this is just
such a not being afraid to spend more money to
deliver a better quality product move from them that i absolutely have to
commend they include a bunch of different mounting options 120 or 140
millimeter fan mounts as well as a bottom mount or a back mount for the
case and this is a nice touch they include a 24-pin jumper so that you can
quickly cycle your power supply on and off to get bleed the air out of your
loop as well as a temperature sensor now
one unusual thing is that the reservoir is made of the same clear nylon
injection molded plastic as the CPU block and this was apparently done for
durability as well as resistance against crappy coolants
purposes so that's uh that's a very unusual move that must
have cost a pretty penny and of course like with anything Corsair these days
the customization with RGB lighting is basically endless they've got full
integration with their iq software for different lighting profiles so here i'm
going to have my friend hp show me some of the different setups he can do with
the 16 leds that are in both the CPU and GPU block and the 10 that are integrated
into their reservoirs and perhaps more importantly it's integrated from a
cooling perspective as well now lots of different cooling softwares actually do
have support for creating fan profiles
that correspond to the temperature of your system but there's a fatal flaw
whenever you're using water cooling with most of these setups because they're
designed to use your CPU temperatures and they're also designed to set RPM
ranges that are more designed for fans than they are for pumps so Corsair went
and created a couple of profiles that set more realistic both fan and separate
pump rpms that correspond to your coolant temperature because it's using
that built-in temp sensor that's integrated into their pump and reservoir
combo it's a nice little touch and it's the kind of thing that makes life a lot
simpler compared to the old days of getting one of those m cube t balancers
hoping you can find the freaking drivers that work and then dialing everything in
manually now that's it for the components that Corsair engineered for
themselves from the ground up but quite frankly with the partners that they've
chosen for some of these other components there's absolutely no shame
in collaboration so for the radiators they've got 120 millimeter thick
radiators in triple double and quadruple
sizes right here they've got 140 millimeter slim radiators in triple
double and single and then 120 millimeter radiators in triple double
and single sizes they all use sort of a medium fin density so they should
perform quite well with low to medium RPM fans and they worked with hardware
Labs on these so you can expect the kind of quality that you'd get from someone
with literally decades of experience building water cooling radiators for pcs
on the fitting side of things as well as tubing again the partnership makes a ton
of sense to me they've got four different colors available and most of
the popular models in gold
black white and chrome and they worked
with bits power on these for two different sizes of hardline tubing
fittings and then a single size that goes with their 10 millimeter id 13
millimeter od soft tubing now i would
have preferred a thicker wall tubing but
i also understand that not everybody likes the look of that and what you do
achieve with the thin wall tubing is very little of that clear halo around
your colored coolant so for their coolant they've partnered with mayhem
and they're offering i believe it is five different colors is that right
including clear there you go so they've got their green blue clear purple and
red so there you have it guys irrefutable
proof that Corsair doesn't care how small or how niche a market is if it
exists in the pc space they will go after it so thanks Corsair
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