and first look at the Corsair h90 it's part of their Hydro series it comes with
a 5-year warranty it comes with a silver box which is something that we're not
used to seeing with Corsair's liquid coolers in fact this was quite
surprising to me it seems like a stupid thing to fixate on but hey when you
unbox things for a living then you have to find things that are interesting
about boxes so Corsair's packaging generally has been black packaging but
we're not going to worry about that too much let's focus on what's interesting
about the h90 number one is stop do not return this product to the store contact
Corsair give them a chance to help you out that's very important because their
customer service is pretty much legendary at this point oh what's this
that is a 140 mm fan so unlike the previous generation h40 H50 h55 h60 h70
and h80 the h90 uses a n h 90 a 90 mm
fan for Extreme Performance a 140 mm fan
now it uses a different design than Corsair's recently released h00 I and
h80i it has thinner blades but the
largess of it should make up for any kind of performance deficiencies from
not using their SP pressure optimized fan design but I mean we'll see once we
uh once we get this thing installed and test it out also inside we find aha the
h90 cooler itself so in terms of case
compatibility you do have to be a little bit more careful with a 140 mm radiator
than you do with a 120 mil because even though a case is compatible with a 120
mil at the back it won't necessarily work with a 140 at the back however
corser gives you enough length on the quarter inch uh
non-evaporative very flexible tubing that you should be able to even do
things like mounted in the top of the case and then run it back over towards
your CPU socket for example that will give you more options in terms of
installation than you'd have with uh a
limitation of just installing it at the back although it might not make for the
same aesthetic so I would op I would definitely opt for a case with a 140 mil
fan at the back and enough room for the tank at the top and the tank at the
bottom in terms of clearance uh we find
unlike the recently released h80i and h100i the h90 does not feature Corsair
link and it doesn't have lighting effects on the CPU block itself so it's
more of simple cooler it also goes with as I mentioned before 1/4 in tubing
versus the 38 inch tubing on those other coolers but the additional surface area
should give it some pretty interesting performance which we're very excited to
uh to check out the bottom of the CPU block is looks like something pretty
familiar so we've got that ring locking
mechanism for mounting the block itself which allows you to take here we go one
of these Rings whether it's fm1 fm2 am2
am3 am 2 plus whatever you want any AMD
socket from the last sort of couple Generations any Intel socket 775 1155
1366 2011 and put the compatible hold
down plate on top secured into place then use this retention ring which is so
much better than the older systems that use the retention ring to lock the whole
thing into place so you don't have to kind of have four different hands
working on it in order to actually get one of these coolers installed it's
quite simple now and comes with all the hardware you need as well as detailed
instructions there they are from Corsair that include little pictures and all
kinds of good stuff just like that for all the different
platforms so in summary the h90 no
Corsair link but massive surface area
which should make it somewhere between a single 120 mm thin radiator cooler and
something between sort of that and a dual 120 mm cooler probably somewhere in
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