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I've received endless requests to unbox the corser h70 so here it is the corser

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h70 and I'm going to unbox it so let's start with the CPU compatibility you can

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see that right on the front it is compatible with LGA 775 1156 and 1366

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and it also comes with mounting hardware for am2 and am3 so it's compatible with

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every socket out there that matters right now they've got a nice little

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graph on the back that shows how it dramatically outperforms your CPU stock

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heat sink and uh I can tell you this they don't have this on their graph but they should

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because it's probably going to be quieter than your stock heat sink especially under load so here on the

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side we've got the full specs you've got the radiator Dimensions which is 120x

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152 by 48 mm you've got your fan

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specifications here so 50 to 61 CFM at

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26 to 31.5 DB so it's not super quiet

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but it's not that loud either and I mean really when you want maximum performance

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out of a CPU Cooler you sometimes have to make compromises as far as uh

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quietness goes so I'm just going to try and figure out how the Box opens exactly

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before I start cutting away at the shrink wrap here so I'm going to cut

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there and I'm going to cut here I've had quite a few questions about my new knife

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yes it is a Spyderco knife I don't know exactly which one it is but there's

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their little logo so uh just going to slice that open here

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now I think this is going to come up yes o look another little h70 logo there

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course there really is good at packaging I'll give them that so they've managed

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to take the h70 which is a a slightly

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bigger because it has an extra fan in it cooler uh it's a better performing

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cooler than the H50 and they put it in AER box it's like brilliant so here's a

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little Corsair Solutions guide they show you their memory cooling power supplies

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chassis and then on the other side you got Flash and storage with ssds they

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really do have a very complete lineup the these days it wasn't that long ago

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that uh they just had RAM basically so

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they want you to deal with their tech support okay instead of getting in touch

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with the store they have a quick start guide here which shows you how to set up

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the h70 in only seven easy steps so

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maybe we'll refer to this a little bit as we talk about the h70 here's the AMD

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mounting hardware okay so it's a little mounting

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ring thing we'll have a look at this when we actually see it here's

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775 so this shows you the part you need for LGA 775 here's 1156 and here is 1366

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so they show you which holes to use on the back plate and then how to configure

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it to uh to go in the right place on the hold down clip oh this says H50 on it no

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that's okay we understood what they meant we know it works for the

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h72 okay so here we've got a couple of little

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adapters because it has two fans uh you

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might want to use one of these so this way you can plug two two fans into your

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CPU fan header so you can see one of them just has power and the other one

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has power as well as an RPM monitor so that means that your fan header on your

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motherboard will pick up the RPMs from the one fan but it'll provide the same

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power to both fans so that way you can get all the information you need and

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power two fans in one Fell Swoop here are your little silencing adapters so

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you can throw those on there if you want the whole thing to run just a little bit

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quieter than it otherwise would have so there you go you plug those in like that

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and then you plug your fans into those so the whole thing comes off your motherboard like that I love how

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everything Corsair does is black so you got black wires black connectors black

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sleeving very nice okay next we have all

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of our mounting

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Hardwares here we go so this is a back

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plate for 775 1156 and 1366 you see

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they've got the three different holes and they've got them all helpfully labeled for which sockets you want to

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use uh next we have aha all the little

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pieces of Hardware that those diagrams were for so you put those through the

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Intel mounting plate okay in the way that is demonstrated on that uh on that

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helpful sheet and then you put your little uh your little foamy sticky bits

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on the back of the back plate which go here all right and then you put the

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little pegs which are finally here these little silver guys through the back of

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the back plate screw the whole thing together shouldn't take you longer than about 8 minutes that's my estimation

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here's your am oh no this is not am mounting hardware this is fan mounting

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hardware and then I guess AMD mounting hardware is also in there but you can

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see there's a Corsair back plate as well as an AMD hold down for the h70 or H50 I

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guess this would also work with based on uh how it works would work just fine for

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either here's all of our fan mounting hardware so we've got washers and screws

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and those screws will Bolt the fans onto

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the radiator which is the biggest Improvement on the h70 this radiator is

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very thick compar compared to the H50 the H50 is probably about this thick and

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the h70 is this thick now cooling is not rocket science I mean rockets need to be

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cooled don't get me wrong so there is cooling involved in rocket science but

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cooling isn't rocket science more surface area is better so Corsair

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instead of opting to increase the size

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of the radiator this way so you can have like a dual 12 mm 120 mm slim radiator

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Corsair has instead decided to go with thicker radiator maintain that 120 mm

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compatible Mount so that you can mount it in most cases but still get more fins

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in here more surface area and thus better cooling now one of the

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disadvantages of having a nice tight fin structure like this and a thick radiator

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is that it's highly resistant to air being pulled through it if you can't

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push or pull air efficiently through the radiator it's not going to cool very

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well so that's why Corsair has implemented a Push Pull system so that

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means when you mount the h70 in the back of your case you will mount it like this

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Corsair recommends you draw fresh air in from the outside although you can

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configure it either way but you'll have the one fan blowing fresh air through

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the radiator from the outside and then you'll have the other fan configured on

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the other side drawing that fresh air

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through the rad and then blowing it into the case so you see it's configured with

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one pushing air through and one pulling air through two fans so it ends up quite

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thick you're going to want to make sure you have enough clearance in your case to have something this large from the

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back of your case so it's going to maybe stick over your CPU socket a little bit

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but Corsair thought of that too and this is what's so clever because it's so

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thick it might have um you might have had issues with the original H50 CPU

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block pump unit uh clearing it now they have a nice lowprofile h70 CPU block and

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pump so it's got pre-applied thermal paste and from my testing uh with the h

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50 this stuff is really good so there's no need to replace that with an

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aftermarket paste uh on your first first installation once you've used it then

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you should clean it off and put on a new paste but you can see that the H50 is

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probably about this tall with the uh and then maybe even a little bit more once

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you have the tubing sticking out of it but the h70 is only about wow that's

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about an inch and change tall and then they've got the tubing coming out at a

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bit of an angle here and these are actually flexible look at that so you

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can mount this in like the smallest

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smallest profile possible like this so

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you can actually have the tubing coming out at an angle like that so you can

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mount it almost under anything and the pump is powered by just a three pin fan

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connector so you could plug that into just like a system fan plug and you'd be

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uh on your way it's got a nice little Corsair uh shiny badge on the front of

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it and I think that pretty much concludes my unboxing of the Corsair h70

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