so today we've got the Corsair Hydro series CPU Cooler so this is the H50 so
basically what you've got here actually let's have a look at the picture on the
front you've got a 120 mm radiator with a fan and then a couple of4 in tubes
running to a CPU block and pump Allin
one sort of unit now this is meant to be sort of a lowcost liquid cooling
Solution that's meant to compete with the high-end air coolers and all the
while maintaining the ease of installation and the uh the the case
compatibility of a high-end air cooler so if we can figure out oh I think this
is actually one of their power supply boxes now that I look at it it looks
like they've they've redone the artwork on a power supply box so that's kind of
clever um okay so let's we've got the unit open here let's uh get going here
so you take off your first plastic cover take off yet another plastic cover wow
I'm totally not going to remember how this goes back in okay so here we have
it this is the CPU block and and pump
unit itself here so let's get this uh
let's get this protective packaging off so what this
prevents is it prevents the little plastic cover which has the thermal
compound from coming off so you can see here that's where the actual surface of
the CPU block is and then this housing here actually contains the pump which
circulates the fluid into the radiator so we can cover that back up here is our
quick start guide so the quick start guide shows you the basics of uh how to
install the radiator how to install the retention ring in the back plate and
yeah basically gets you started pretty quickly so what's next here is that in
other more different languages so we're not really interested in that okay so
here's our LGA 775 back plate here's our
LGA 775 I think uh hold down or that
might be 1366 anyway okay it includes a 1366 and a 775 retention ring and back
plate and then I believe that soon they're going to be shipping with an
1156 retention ring and back plate as well so here's the four screws for
installing your radiator so why don't we actually pull out the uh the fan and
radiator here for a minute so you can see there's a nice uh paper protective
sleeve on the radiator that prevents these fragile fins from getting damaged
in transit so you want to be very careful when you're handling the
radiator cuz you don't want to bend these if you bend them you may not even
impact performance but what can happen is you can create more turbulence when
the Fan's blowing air through and it can make it a little bit louder so you got a
nice sleeved power connector here this can actually plug into a fan header on
your motherboard which is really convenient to see and then here is our 4
pin pwm fan so the way Corsair
recommends installing it is to actually put the fan installed backwards in the
back of your case so you're drawing fresh air from the outside of the case
attach the radiator either this way or
upside down the other way and then you can run the CPU Cooler
over to your CPU and use the back plate for installation now you use these black
screws they go through the case through the fan and then right into the threaded
holes here on the radiator so thank you for checking out my blog video on the
Corsair H50 CPU Cooler