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today we're going to be having a look at the h90 and the h110 from Corsair these
are their new 140 mm radiator coolers so
I'm going to take the h90 and I'm going to compare it really quickly here to the
h80i so while the h80i uses Corsair link
and has Flagship features like 38 in tubes as well as their new magnetic
mounting clips so you can see the actual blocks themselves there are quite
different the h90 has the advantage of using a very dense fin Arrangement and a
larger surface are area radiator the H AI is also a little bit thicker that
gives it an advantage in performance versus other 120 mm products that are
thinner so the h90 has a lot of surface
area compared to the h8i the h110 similarly has much larger surface area
than the h100 so we wanted to look at how this translates to Performance now
this is something that's really important for these coolers because the h90 and the h110 come with fans that
aren't really anything special in terms of their radiator optimization whereas
the h8i and the h100i come with Corsair
well a derivative of Corsair's SP series static pressure optimized fans so these
the the the the larger radiator versions are going to get a bit of an advantage
in our testing compared to what you might see from other guys because we run
a test bench that uses standardized fans so we actually don't use the fans that
are included with any coolers because we want to find out how the performance of
the coolers themselves compares to each other so we only use NF F12 pwm fans and
I think what are they nf14 flx fans so that's a 120 mm and 140
mm pressure optimized fan design from
Noctua these are quiet fans we run the 120 Ms and the 140 Ms at around 1,000
RPM so it's a very quiet solution so in a system that I would consider to be
quiet enough for a high performance gaming system these days because there's
no reason for them to be loud this is how these coolers will perform we have a
3930k that's overclocked and overvolted so we're able to deliver a lot of heat
to these coolers so you can really separate the performance from each other
um in this case we also run a 580
graphics card so it's a GTX 580 and we run combuster during our load test to
simulate what it would be like if the cooler had to work inside a case that's
actually full of hot components as well so it doesn't necessarily just you know
work on an open test bench and get to suck fresh cool air through it no this
is how it will actually perform in a system that also has other components
that are generating heat we close up both side panels during our testing and
we let the coolers reach equilibrium before we take any of our measurements
and we measure the ambient temperatures at the intake of the case here using an
HH 506 ra multil logger thermometer that
allows us to make sure that whatever results we deliver you once we correct
them to 20° are going to be easily comparable from one cooler to another
because we're able to we can't control the ambients in here but what we can do
is we can monitor them monitor them and then correct for that so I think that
pretty much wraps it up in terms of the
uh the prologue to this so oh yeah so we
have the h110 in there if you guys wanted to see it this is a Corsair C70
so the h110 is I guess I'll spoil the surprise a little bit the highest
performing CPU Cooler that we've tested it's absolutely enormous and fills up
the entire top of this case so in spite of its quarter inch tubing and less
Advanced design compared to the H uh h100i come check out the performance so
load corrected to 20° C for the h110 in
a pole configuration is only 66° now we have a bit of an anomaly in
our data and that's that the Kraken x60 doesn't perform as well as the h110 in
spite of the fact that we're using the same fans but there might be an issue
with our Kraken x60 either way the h110 performed exactly the way that we'd
expect so the h90 actually puts up a
pretty good showing as well performing only about four degrees worse than the
h100i and then the yeah the h110 just kind of runs away with it it beats the
h100i by about 5° um so this is on a six core processor
so guys what you can do is you can download this chart you can actually
click the link below the video description if you want to check it out at your leisure and we're going to keep
updating it we're going to keep adding uh any notes that we have on our testing
methodology any notes we have on the coolers and any future coolers that we
test are all going to be on this master chart this is our test bench for the
foreseeable future so you guys will always know what to expect when you get
a cooler and especially if you're going to upgrade to your own pressure
optimized fans I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I don't have anything to hold and point at ah yes about the
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