I've received endless requests to unbox the corser h70 so here it is the corser
h70 and I'm going to unbox it so let's start with the CPU compatibility you can
see that right on the front it is compatible with LGA 775 1156 and 1366
and it also comes with mounting hardware for am2 and am3 so it's compatible with
every socket out there that matters right now they've got a nice little
graph on the back that shows how it dramatically outperforms your CPU stock
heat sink and uh I can tell you this they don't have this on their graph but they should
because it's probably going to be quieter than your stock heat sink especially under load so here on the
side we've got the full specs you've got the radiator Dimensions which is 120x
152 by 48 mm you've got your fan
specifications here so 50 to 61 CFM at
26 to 31.5 DB so it's not super quiet
but it's not that loud either and I mean really when you want maximum performance
out of a CPU Cooler you sometimes have to make compromises as far as uh
quietness goes so I'm just going to try and figure out how the Box opens exactly
before I start cutting away at the shrink wrap here so I'm going to cut
there and I'm going to cut here I've had quite a few questions about my new knife
yes it is a Spyderco knife I don't know exactly which one it is but there's
their little logo so uh just going to slice that open here
now I think this is going to come up yes o look another little h70 logo there
course there really is good at packaging I'll give them that so they've managed
to take the h70 which is a a slightly
bigger because it has an extra fan in it cooler uh it's a better performing
cooler than the H50 and they put it in AER box it's like brilliant so here's a
little Corsair Solutions guide they show you their memory cooling power supplies
chassis and then on the other side you got Flash and storage with ssds they
really do have a very complete lineup the these days it wasn't that long ago
that uh they just had RAM basically so
they want you to deal with their tech support okay instead of getting in touch
with the store they have a quick start guide here which shows you how to set up
the h70 in only seven easy steps so
maybe we'll refer to this a little bit as we talk about the h70 here's the AMD
mounting hardware okay so it's a little mounting
ring thing we'll have a look at this when we actually see it here's
775 so this shows you the part you need for LGA 775 here's 1156 and here is 1366
so they show you which holes to use on the back plate and then how to configure
it to uh to go in the right place on the hold down clip oh this says H50 on it no
that's okay we understood what they meant we know it works for the
h72 okay so here we've got a couple of little
adapters because it has two fans uh you
might want to use one of these so this way you can plug two two fans into your
CPU fan header so you can see one of them just has power and the other one
has power as well as an RPM monitor so that means that your fan header on your
motherboard will pick up the RPMs from the one fan but it'll provide the same
power to both fans so that way you can get all the information you need and
power two fans in one Fell Swoop here are your little silencing adapters so
you can throw those on there if you want the whole thing to run just a little bit
quieter than it otherwise would have so there you go you plug those in like that
and then you plug your fans into those so the whole thing comes off your motherboard like that I love how
everything Corsair does is black so you got black wires black connectors black
sleeving very nice okay next we have all
of our mounting
Hardwares here we go so this is a back
plate for 775 1156 and 1366 you see
they've got the three different holes and they've got them all helpfully labeled for which sockets you want to
use uh next we have aha all the little
pieces of Hardware that those diagrams were for so you put those through the
Intel mounting plate okay in the way that is demonstrated on that uh on that
helpful sheet and then you put your little uh your little foamy sticky bits
on the back of the back plate which go here all right and then you put the
little pegs which are finally here these little silver guys through the back of
the back plate screw the whole thing together shouldn't take you longer than about 8 minutes that's my estimation
here's your am oh no this is not am mounting hardware this is fan mounting
hardware and then I guess AMD mounting hardware is also in there but you can
see there's a Corsair back plate as well as an AMD hold down for the h70 or H50 I
guess this would also work with based on uh how it works would work just fine for
either here's all of our fan mounting hardware so we've got washers and screws
and those screws will Bolt the fans onto
the radiator which is the biggest Improvement on the h70 this radiator is
very thick compar compared to the H50 the H50 is probably about this thick and
the h70 is this thick now cooling is not rocket science I mean rockets need to be
cooled don't get me wrong so there is cooling involved in rocket science but
cooling isn't rocket science more surface area is better so Corsair
instead of opting to increase the size
of the radiator this way so you can have like a dual 12 mm 120 mm slim radiator
Corsair has instead decided to go with thicker radiator maintain that 120 mm
compatible Mount so that you can mount it in most cases but still get more fins
in here more surface area and thus better cooling now one of the
disadvantages of having a nice tight fin structure like this and a thick radiator
is that it's highly resistant to air being pulled through it if you can't
push or pull air efficiently through the radiator it's not going to cool very
well so that's why Corsair has implemented a Push Pull system so that
means when you mount the h70 in the back of your case you will mount it like this
Corsair recommends you draw fresh air in from the outside although you can
configure it either way but you'll have the one fan blowing fresh air through
the radiator from the outside and then you'll have the other fan configured on
the other side drawing that fresh air
through the rad and then blowing it into the case so you see it's configured with
one pushing air through and one pulling air through two fans so it ends up quite
thick you're going to want to make sure you have enough clearance in your case to have something this large from the
back of your case so it's going to maybe stick over your CPU socket a little bit
but Corsair thought of that too and this is what's so clever because it's so
thick it might have um you might have had issues with the original H50 CPU
block pump unit uh clearing it now they have a nice lowprofile h70 CPU block and
pump so it's got pre-applied thermal paste and from my testing uh with the h
50 this stuff is really good so there's no need to replace that with an
aftermarket paste uh on your first first installation once you've used it then
you should clean it off and put on a new paste but you can see that the H50 is
probably about this tall with the uh and then maybe even a little bit more once
you have the tubing sticking out of it but the h70 is only about wow that's
about an inch and change tall and then they've got the tubing coming out at a
bit of an angle here and these are actually flexible look at that so you
can mount this in like the smallest
smallest profile possible like this so
you can actually have the tubing coming out at an angle like that so you can
mount it almost under anything and the pump is powered by just a three pin fan
connector so you could plug that into just like a system fan plug and you'd be
uh on your way it's got a nice little Corsair uh shiny badge on the front of
it and I think that pretty much concludes my unboxing of the Corsair h70
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