welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair
h80i so this is the replacement for the
Corsair h80 which is different from the Hadi in a couple of key ways so number
one is that the h80 is completely eyess
it has no eyes wow worst joke ever right but
that's what makes this channel
great yes okay moving right along what
is the key difference between the Hadi and the H number one Corsair link so
Corsair link is a software feature that Corsair has built in to the hardware
that allows you to do all kinds of cool stuff like monitoring your uh coolant
temperatures changing your fan speed cool cool stuff and if you have other
corer components like their ax1200i for
example power supply then you can can monitor all kinds of other stuff like
you can monitor your power supply temperature your rails all kinds of neat
stuff with Corsair link fans if you have the Corsair link module you can monitor
and control your fan set fan control curves quick start guide shows you how
to do a bunch of cool stuff like mounting it to things okay that's
important if you don't Mount this to your CPU this product will be useless to
you it is compatible with both Intel and
AMD and it has a lot of plastic inside
this stuff will kill your baby and there is a warning all over it plastic bags
are not toys Corsair believes in not
killing babies this message was brought to you by
Corsair or something okay this is just a
bad unboxing so far so don't worry I'm going to clean it up um the next cool
thing about the H the next cool thing about the Hadi is
the inclusion of a way better mounting
mechanism for switching between Intel and AMD so check this out all you got to
do is you want to go oh yeah I want to put like some Intel CPUs in my
system and uh you know you just kind of
go like this and you're all like yeah I'm making this look harder
than it is at this point in time there you go what bam oh it's cuz the plastic
here there you go so it's magnetic you take the Intel retention thing you put
it on there boom done you want to be like Oh shoot no no no I I got an AMD
CPU my bad my bad bam AMD down
no problem magnetic very cool very easy
to hold things in place you don't I mean remember the guys do you remember the
original h70 the mounting mechanism on that thing where you had to like hold
the thing on the back and position the thing just right and have the little
things in the little grooves and you have to like have a third ARM coming out of your shoulder to like screw in the
screwdriver no no no we're done with that magnetic mounting easy back plate
all the hardware you need is included here and it's very stylish looking
Hardware I might say check out these thumb screws those are just gorgeous see
these are the little nice finishing touches that I appreciate um LGA 2011
compatibilities provided by this these pieces right here and then all the other
sockets are dealt with with the back plate which has adjustable uh width
right here so you can do 775 1155 1156
and 1366 no big deal and then AMD is
with a couple loops and couple thumb screws it's you know it's complicated
you guys wouldn't understand don't worry about it uh the third key thing about
the h80 oh this is cool look at that I think they uh I think they
increased the uh or decreased the fpi the density looks like it okay so this
is a much more silence optimized radiator assuming I'm not completely
Incorrect and talking out of my you know that thing um it looks like this is a
much more silence optimized radiator which means performance shouldn't suffer
much at all because as long as you got a nice thick 120 mil radiator they're all
going to perform pretty close once you start pumping some air flow through them
and once you get down to lower RPMs on your fans this will pull itself away
from a denser 120 mm radiator so I said
the radiator was a thicker style radiator this will perform significantly
better than something like an h60 or H50 which has that thin Radiator in fact
most of the pre-done water coolers on the market use thin RADS because they do
offer better compatibility however the drawback for
them is that they do not perform as well as well okay speaking of performance
Corsair has upgraded the coolant pipes from 1/4 in to 38 in and they have kept
these swiveling mounts right here which give you lots of flexibility in terms of
where you want to sort of Route the tubes and how you want to do that um and
you can twist these up as much as you want will not Kink awesome awesome stuff
love to see that so the finish on it has also changed a little bit as well also
changed as well that's totally red
that's totally redundant that's totally
redundant that's to no I'm just kidding okay see slick called me on it he
brought the camera up here I could have gotten away with it for a couple more if he hadn't done that okay so on the unit
itself the Corsair link module is inside here as well as the pump and the CPU
block so you can see the copper base so there's spins in there and stuff
pre-applied high quality thermal compound and here we have a couple of
different things so we've got some cables for this so I can show you guys check this out so there's a USB
connector that plugs into your motherboard that is how your cooler
interfaces with your computer and that is how the software controls everything
next we've got this guy right here which is a breakout cable so you can plug in
both of the fans that you want to wait hold on this for the yeah there we go
okay so those guys plug in here and you can actually get an additional one if
you want you can plug in additional fans should you so desire but it comes with
two of Corsair's new style fan so do
that right there so you can plug in up to two four pin pwm fans without any
additional hoopla going
on the last thing that is a major improvement over the original h80 is
these fans now these are slightly downgraded versions of
corsairs yeah I can't find one but here's a box you'll have to sort of
imagine that there's an SP 1220 in there see there's a sort you know what I can
find one there I found one okay no wrong
one there I found one no wrong one you
got to be kidding me here where are my SP
1220s slick did you take them okay
there's an sp120 okay so SP 1220s have
color change rings around them they come with a few different Rings they have
rubber mounts up here see the full like corner is filled with rubber and I think
that's pretty much the only key difference because the blade design is
what's most most important about a fan so these are slightly costed down
because they don't have the Rubber and they don't have the interchangeable blades but these are way better fans
than what have been included on previous generation Corsair liquid cooling
products they're awesome and you should use them in push pull on your h80 as
long as you have enough room in your chassis otherwise you can just use one
they are pressure optimized fans so you don't have to worry about cranking up
the RPMs in order to get great performance out of your liquid cooling
unit and that's pretty much it what else is there to say about it so in summary
Corsair link better fans well-designed
radiator and thicker tubes and I guess
that's actually oh yeah and the easier retention mechanism I think that is
enough that they probably could have called it an h85 or an h90 if they'd
really wanted to but who knows maybe they're you know saving that for
something even more impressive either way thanks for checking out my unboxing
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