WEBVTT 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:14.360 welcome guys to my comparative test between the 00:00:11.719 --> 00:00:20.080 h100i the all new liquid cooler from Corsair and the original h100 so I have 00:00:18.560 --> 00:00:23.760 built myself a little test bench here and I'd like to explain my methodology 00:00:21.840 --> 00:00:28.480 I'm going to keep things pretty simple both of these coolers are going to be in 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:33.360 their stock configurations so that is I used the original Corsair fans for the 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:38.000 h100 and I'm using the allnew updated Corsair fans for the h100i remember 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:42.280 these are based on their static pressure series fans so they should perform 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:47.520 significantly better at least in terms of fans and that's not even counting 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:52.000 accounting for any of the improvements that have been made with the increased 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:55.440 diameter tubing as well as the pump and the block I don't think they've actually 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:59.000 made any changes to the radiator so I want to show you guys my test config 00:00:56.879 --> 00:01:05.600 really quick there's a GTX 580 in there x79 with a 00:01:03.199 --> 00:01:12.720 3960x I believe 3930k must be a 3930k 3930k in there got 00:01:09.759 --> 00:01:15.640 some power supply we got a C70 case so this represents a case with fairly good 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:21.079 air flow so I'm making a couple assumptions here I'm assuming that you know Gamers configuring their machine 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:24.759 for you know gaming have a decent graphics card and I'm also assuming that 00:01:23.119 --> 00:01:27.400 Gamers configuring machine for gaming have bought it themselves a decent 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:35.159 chassis especially if they're planning to put an h100 or h100i into to their 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:37.000 computer so let's go ahead and uh y I 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:41.000 wonder if this is going to work I haven't actually turned the system on 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:44.439 yet so there's only one way to find out for 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:49.520 sure and CPU memory changed ah wanted to run 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:55.880 setup okay so we're going to run setup and I am going to make some changes to 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:57.840 the configuration of this system so now 00:01:55.880 --> 00:02:03.039 first things first is I am going to adjust the CPU ratio and we are going to 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:06.240 clock the CPU at like 4 gigz or something so not not very high not very 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:11.120 high I mean one of the things that kills me about the marketing that Corsair does 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:13.360 for coolers like the h100 is they give 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:16.360 you these numbers at stock speed on a CPU and I'm like well yeah but that 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:20.360 doesn't even allow it to differentiate itself from some of the some of the 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:27.040 crappier coolers that it gets compared against so what we really need to do is 00:02:22.959 --> 00:02:28.000 we need to go and find aha turn our V oh 00:02:27.040 --> 00:02:31.959 you know what let's just leave that alone okay so all we really need to do then 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.080 is turn up the CPU a little bit that's not going to affect heat much though 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:40.080 then we're going to go ahead and we're going to find our CPU voltage which I 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:45.599 can't even find and we're going to crank that baby up so we're going to actually 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:49.000 put some voltage into the CPU to help separate the men from the boys when it 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:56.040 comes to these coolers so let's go up to sort of 1.375 volts and see how this six 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:58.800 core processor is handled by the h100 00:02:56.040 --> 00:03:03.879 versus the h100i now it's very cold in this room it is 13 de in this room right 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:07.560 now 13° C that is accurate and that is being measured at the Corsair logo at 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:13.360 the intake of the case so what does that mean I'm going to be correcting the 00:03:09.239 --> 00:03:15.480 results to 20° C sort of approximately 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:19.000 room temperature the reason I'm doing that is because I want the results to be 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.920 somewhat comparable to what you guys will achieve at home now before you guys 00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:26.879 sort of run and cry foul and say oh well L us it's such a cool room so you know 00:03:25.239 --> 00:03:31.439 the results are no no no no it doesn't work that way the way it works is 00:03:29.280 --> 00:03:37.319 whatever temperature I get if I get 60° on the CPU and I want to correct to 20 00:03:34.200 --> 00:03:39.720 then all I do is I add 6 and2 de to my 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:43.799 results trust me it scales exactly linearly linearly there will be no 00:03:41.959 --> 00:03:48.120 issues so we're going to go ahead find out how things go going to just boot off 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:51.560 that vertex SSD in there that you guys can't really there there you go now you 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:54.560 can see it uh boot off that and get into the OS and see how things go ah right 00:03:53.239 --> 00:03:59.439 right right right okay so I'm going to do uh two readings and I'm not I'm not 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:04.079 going to crank these things I'm going to use them the way I would use them so on 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.360 sort of middle settings there we go just set it to Middle settings with the fans 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.720 plugged into the motherboard so we're using actually no no no no let's go 00:04:10.480 --> 00:04:17.560 middle settings we're going Apples to Apples here so middle settings on the 100 middle settings on the 100i idle 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:22.120 will be at the desktop with the CPU idling and load will be running 12 00:04:19.799 --> 00:04:25.600 instances of prime 95 on the CPU with firmar running on the GPU so that things 00:04:24.280 --> 00:04:31.560 will heat up as much as possible I'm going to close up this case so that we get a realistic scenario as well all 00:04:30.199 --> 00:04:35.360 right so I'm starting to take down some data here guys I'm just sort of making 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.840 some notes on my standardized heat sync test bench since I've never really had 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:43.280 one before methodology wise it's going to be pretty simple so besides the 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:46.840 corrections that I'm doing so these are my raw numbers here these are my 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:49.960 corrected to 20 degre numbers I'm going to make notes for which fans I'm using 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:53.600 I'm going to be switching to using standardized fans on all coolers rather 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:57.440 than using the stock ones that come with them that way we can eliminate um the 00:04:55.880 --> 00:05:01.320 factors of you know crappy fans that come with some of them I mean from my 00:04:59.320 --> 00:05:05.280 perspective Ive anyone spending 50 60 bucks on a heat sink should probably be 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:09.560 buying decent fans for it as well um methodology wise I'm going to be taking 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:14.720 the highest C or the second highest core temperature in real temp GT um and if 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:19.560 there's any fluctuation so you can see here that uh when you open up real temp 00:05:16.840 --> 00:05:23.000 GT uh there's some some movement they kind of move around a little bit I'll be 00:05:20.919 --> 00:05:27.240 taking the higher of the two so if this was the second highest score I'd be 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:33.560 taking 27 not 27 not 26 so just kind of look at it for a while and uh oh well I 00:05:30.919 --> 00:05:36.919 saw it hit 29 for a second there let's see if the temperature changed in the 00:05:35.039 --> 00:05:41.840 room though cuz that's a factor now it's still 13 point and I'll be rounding up 00:05:39.919 --> 00:05:47.800 the room temperature as well so rounding up to the nearest half 00:05:45.039 --> 00:05:51.840 so yeah you know what I think we'll probably have to go with I'll give it a 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:55.880 little while longer because you got to give these water coolers especially you got to give them some time for the water 00:05:54.479 --> 00:05:59.479 to heat up that might have been just an anomaly though so anyway there we go so 00:05:58.080 --> 00:06:05.560 I'm going to take down some data here get my idle and load for the h100 and 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:07.400 the H 100i and we'll see how it goes so 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:12.560 it's torture test time now guys you can see we're getting up near around 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:16.680 60° and uh the GPU temperatures are still climbing so once everything seems 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:20.639 kind of maxed out I'll probably give it a few more minutes here well quite yeah 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:24.680 I'll definitely give it a few more minutes to get maxed out then that'll 00:06:22.599 --> 00:06:29.199 give us some idea of what our load temperature is going to be for the 00:06:25.960 --> 00:06:31.639 system this way so this is different 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:36.199 from how I've always tested coolers in the past where I've always tested them 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:40.440 on them on an open platform now we're going with a closed case I mean a well 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:46.039 ventilated case mind you but a closed case and uh this should give a more 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:49.440 realistic representation of how it will perform in the real 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:53.400 world something that I've noticed already though is the fans have 00:06:51.880 --> 00:06:56.879 automatically ramped up so it'll be interesting to see how the h100 reacts 00:06:55.720 --> 00:07:03.280 compared to the h100i when the going gets tough 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:06.879 it's quite a bit louder already all right so it's gotten a little bit warmer 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:09.960 in the room but uh like I said we're going to correct our results so it 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:13.680 shouldn't really matter that much it's amazing how sensitive this thing is I'm 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:16.960 standing in the way and the temperature goes up a half a degree it's just crazy 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:21.520 so I'll move away from it when I take my reading but the h100 ey is in there now 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:25.479 you can see the big fat 38 inch tubes compared to the 1/4 inch tubes of course 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:29.759 their link is plugged in via USB there's no Hardware button to select a medium 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:32.960 fan profile this time around so I I'll be using the software to do that I've 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:37.160 updated to the latest firmware so the fans don't rattle so you can see there's 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:42.680 the radiator and this is something I really don't like about the uh the fans 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:45.479 corsairs including I mean here so you 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:50.720 can see that they have a rounded shape to the frame so what that means is that 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:57.240 around the outside of a square object like a radiator see that you don't have 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:59.639 a seal see with a conventional uh square 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:02.599 frame fan you put it down on here and you have you have a seal so you don't 00:08:00.960 --> 00:08:06.360 have air leaking whether you're in push or pull it's an issue either way because 00:08:04.840 --> 00:08:10.199 it means like here let's say for example it's in pull the fan cannot draw air 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:14.960 from anywhere other than through the fins whereas if you had gaps here here 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:20.479 here here here here here and here then it could draw air from around it which 00:08:17.479 --> 00:08:23.240 would see right there see in gaps like 00:08:20.479 --> 00:08:26.639 right there which would obviously not help draw air through the radiator so 00:08:25.159 --> 00:08:32.560 that's a situation we're running into here where there are actually gaps where 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:36.839 can escape around the outside edges so I'm not a big not a big fan of that I 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:40.599 mean they're small but but it's all significant when we're talking about 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:45.519 optimizing pressure through a radiator so I've just got to go ahead and close 00:08:43.479 --> 00:08:48.120 up the side panel then I can take my idle temps and my load temperatures I 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:52.800 don't know if I ever showed you guys the load temperatures with the h100 but you 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:57.519 know they were good which is what I've come to expect from the h100 cuz it's an 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:03.279 awesome cooler so we go ahead and dial that down oh got real temp running here 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:05.519 got my Sky Drive opened up there we go 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:09.839 so load temperatures were corrected to about 70° under load so that should mean 00:09:07.760 --> 00:09:13.600 when we use air cooling heat sinks uh they'll they'll pretty much uh probably 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:19.200 either well I guess we'll find out what happens so here we go so we have our 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:23.640 results 58° on the hottest core I'd say once 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:31.360 again it's actually a touch louder than the original h100i so let's go ahead and close that 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.360 down go back to our 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:39.120 58° however it is about 3 and a half 4 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:43.279 degrees cooler than the original h100 so I'd say they're very similar but this 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:46.640 kind of stands to reason guys I mean was was I really expecting you know some 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:50.560 kind of huge revolution in terms of performance no uh I mean you still have 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:54.279 the same surface area you're still going to be limited by the fact that that's 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:59.480 your radiator that's your cooling surface area so we're getting what 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:01.720 appear to be probably better fans 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:05.600 because they are more pressure optimized although they do have that slight 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:09.880 leakage um and especially with the stock firmware they have a bit of a of a of a 00:10:07.880 --> 00:10:14.040 rattle but don't worry once you upgrade the firmware on your h100i it's fine and 00:10:11.959 --> 00:10:18.959 the process took like a couple minutes but the biggest benefit that you get is 00:10:15.920 --> 00:10:21.880 Corsair link software so Corsair link 00:10:18.959 --> 00:10:25.920 allows you to do all kinds of very cool stuff and if it would load up for me 00:10:24.360 --> 00:10:30.279 here then I would be able to show you that go ahead and oh another instance is 00:10:29.160 --> 00:10:33.880 our already running that's why it's not loading there we go let's fire up course 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:37.720 our link here it is in the background so you can do so much cool stuff so check 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:41.440 this out so your fans you can set all kinds of different modes and profiles 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:46.000 such as quiet performance custom fixed RPM default whatever else you want to do 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:50.639 you can group things so that you can have uh different zones in your computer 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:55.000 react differently you can actually rename them you can control different 00:10:52.760 --> 00:11:00.040 kinds of pumps although this is the h100 pump so there's not a whole lot here to 00:10:57.360 --> 00:11:06.160 be controlled you can see graphs of things like GeForce temperature for 00:11:03.160 --> 00:11:08.760 example um you could see the h100i 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:12.639 temperature one h100i pump you can see all kinds of different stuff you can lay 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:16.760 out the console however you want you can monitor your different groups so course 00:11:14.680 --> 00:11:20.680 our link very very very cool stuff you don't get it with the original h100 I 00:11:19.079 --> 00:11:25.720 think that pretty much wraps us up thank you for checking out my video on the 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:27.480 Corsair Hydro series h100i and how it 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:34.000 compares to the original h100 don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips from 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:34.000 un ing reviews and other computer videos