by popular demand this is my unboxing of
the Corsair h100 so this is I can tell you already
this is going to be one of if not the highest performance pre-filled
pre-sealed water cooling kits available on the market and Corsair actually this
this blew me away they do not do themselves jce at all with the numbers
that they're giving on the back of the box here so uh you know what I'll get
into those a little bit more after why don't I talk about what this product is
exactly so we're all familiar with the H50 the
h60 uh the H is there any there's an HD
h70 the h80 so these are all Corsair's
uh pre-filled liquid cooling solutions that are maintenance free so it means
you never have to fill it with water they are high performance they're also
light weight that's one of the advantages of these pre-filled liquid cooling systems versus a heat sink
because you can strap the huge heavy part of it the radiator to your chassis
instead of strapping it directly to your CPU socket which makes them more
shipping friendly it also means that you can carry the heat away from the CPU
much more efficiently and exhaust the heat directly out of your case rather
than exhausting it from the CPU socket area to the air around the CPU socket
area you can just kick it right out so General advantages of these water cooled
system systems are many they are fairly expensive but they do have the
performance to back it up so let's see what corser has to say for themselves on
the packaging here corser link Digital support is supported by the h100
so uh you can be in complete control of your cooling monitor a wide range of
parameters including pump speed coolant temperature and fan speed and customize
your own performance profiles requires the cors our link Commander which is
sold separately so there you go uh you will have to get the commander if you
want to take advantage of that particular functionality all right Box contents we'll get into
that when we open it up so don't worry too much about that CPU compatibility is
pretty much everything on the market right now 775
1155 and 1156 same same mounting holes
1366 am2 and am3 uh remember am2 and am3
um are also am2 plus and am3 plus in terms of heat sync compatibility cooling
performance for the most demanding systems this is True Performance times two see this is actually probably more
accurate than what they're saying over here control at your fingertip the
integrated pump and cool plate includes push button control so you can select the fan speed and cooling performance
setup that best suits your needs white LED display lets you know to glance
which profile is being used so let's have a look at this all right h100
they're saying is going to be good for 66.5 de C okay and they're saying the
h80 is at 68.2 De C let me tell you what
is wrong with this picture the h100 just by Merit of being a dual
radiator has far more usable surface
area for cooling than something like an h80 even though it uses a double thick
rad the reason that that test is so
flawed is that Corsair is only clocking
that CPU that core i7 CPU actually here
let me get all the stuff out of the box here first and then I'm going to go back
I'm going to show you that chart again they're only clocking that 1366 core i7
CPU at 3.8 GHz that means they're not
really dumping a whole lot of voltage into it now at 66.5 degrees
you still have room to put More Voltage into that CPU I would say you should be
able to get a significantly better overclock out of the h100 than either of
these other coolers and the reason is that as soon as you increase the heat
load that you are putting on the cooler a better cooler will start to distance
itself far more from an inferior one versus if you have a heat load that's
much smaller so if you were to take a stock CPU and show this graph I'm
willing to bet all the water cooling solutions would be about equal but but
as soon as you start to overclock the CPU more overvolt it more and dump in
more heat you're going to see dramatically better performance from any
cooler that either has faster fans or
more surface area that is what all cooling comes down to surface area and
air flow all right so let's look at the at the radiator unit itself in a moment
and let's start with the documentation so first thing here is we've got the
parts list of everything that's included as well as uh picture instructions of
how to mount the CPU block very nice
okay stop do not return this product to the store very nice little Solutions
guide 2010 oops guys it's 2011 now that's okay
um mounting hardware we find Ting
billion in one screws in here so those are going to help you mount it to
whatever socket it is that you need to mount it to we've got an Intel back
plate here okay so you can see these are adjustable for all the different sockets
you might need to mount it to and then we have the AMD hold down Hardware
here all right included fans I'm not oh
o These are nice okay I was about to say I'm not a big fan of the fans that are
included with the uh with the Corsair water cooling solutions typically but I
have not yet unboxed the uh the h60 or
the h100 which are the new uh kolet ones the kolet designed ones so this as far
as I can tell is just a Corsair sticker over what appears to be the same fan
that kolit used to use I can I'm just
I'm guessing here because the frame overall has very little Flex in it it
feels like a much better constructed fan than the ones that I've seen included on
previous corsera liquid cooling systems this is a very encouraging step in the
right direction and as we've come to expect from Corsair it's got nice black
cables on it which means it's going to look slick in your system all right so
let's look at the H itself we have
power as well as an RPM monitor so you
are going to need to plug these both in separately but you can separate them out
further if you need to Route them to separate parts of the case so and they
are black so you should be able to hide them fairly easily in any Enthusiast
looking system we've also got and this is related to the uh uh the separate fan
control that it does allow with the commander software we've also got other fan headers so we've got one four pin 2
four pin three four four pin pwm fan headers on the side of the CPU block
pump unit itself on this side we've also got a little proprietary plug right
there and then on the other side we have nothing except for the um rotating hose
fittings right there so what that allows you to do is wherever you've got this
radiator mounted in your case most cases are going to use this as a top mounted
rad you will be able to have flexibility
on the CPU block depending where your socket is located and you're not going
to put undue tension on the hosing itself which is 1/4 in and it is a
corrugated tough plastic that will allow reasonable flexibility but don't overdo
it because if you kink it there is a potential you could damage it all right
the block itself has thermal compound
pre-applied now I know for a fact this is a very high quality thermal compound
you actually won't get much benefit from replacing it with an aftermarket one
however once you've mounted it once and taken it off you will have to take this
off and reapply thermal compound again
okay just an FYI for you guys now let's have a look at the radiator itself so
this is a fairly typical uh thickness for a radiator it's a touch thinner than
something from a hardware Labs um but it's about I I'd say it's actually yeah
it's thinner than something from swifttech as well but just by Merit of
how large it is so let's hold up the 120 mm fan for comparison so this is a dual
12 mil rad you will get excellent performance out of it as soon as you
start dumping more heat into it so you can see actually you know what why don't
we do the iPhone comparison just so you guys can see this now I'm not going to
expect you to be able to eyeball whether this is going to fit in your case or not
just based on my video what you will need to do is do a little bit of
research now I'm going to tell you there's a few cases that it'll fit in no
problem it'll fit in the 800d um it'll fit in actually here maybe
crazy Russian knows if does it fit in the 650d yeah he says it fits in the
650d so anything that supports dual 120
Ms in the top has adequate spacing
remember not just for the radiator but
also for the fan has clearance for the
barbs to come out and has the correct spacing for the
120 mm fan mounts some cases actually
have dual 120 mm fans but they're spaced
out so what that means is that when you
go to mount your fans on here and then bolt your fans to the case you can see
Corsair uses a standard spacing which means that there's no gap between the
fans if your case has them like this
then it's not going to be natively supported and you may have to do some modding in order to make it fit okay
guys I think that's pretty much all that there is to say now I do want to do some
performance evaluation of this unit just to back up the claims that I'm making
about how it's going to perform very very well but I think that covers
everything I wanted to do with this un boxing thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Corsair h100 don't
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I'm going to do this before I cut the end of the video uh this button right
here is the one that allows you to see which profile you are using while the
device is turned on and it does have a white LED display or not display it has
a white LED backl behind it