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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the most exciting dual 120 millimeter

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radiator pre-filled maintenance-free liquid cooler from Corsair

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since the h-100 this is

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the Corsair h100i and we are going to unbox it and we are going to find out

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what is better about it than the original 8100 because i can already tell

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you one thing based on the picture those fans are so much better than the ones

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that are included with the h100 that it is not even funny anymore those are

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looking like corsairs sp series fans and those are some serious business pretty

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cool fans so let's have a look at what we got on the outside of the packaging to start with here so okay extreme

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performance liquid CPU cooler i can believe that all right we got some cool

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specs bro and some sort of okay moving right along we've got some comparisons

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to the Intel box cooler which is just totally unfair to this cooler why do

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they compare to the Intel box cooler what's the point of that they should

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compare to other high performance coolers because it can show itself as

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being like pretty ass kicking at that level as well hydro series requires the

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case with two 120 millimeter fan mounts on top with 15 millimeter spacing for

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standard dual radiators okay magnetic mounting bracket and mounting hardware

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Corsair link cable those are two other very cool things that are included with

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this coolest so what is a magnetic mounting bracket i

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have no idea stop don't return it to the store and product solutions guide ah

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manual ooh warranty information notification for australian consumers

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this is a sample from Corsair so i guess they sent me an australian sample

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uh okay so you got some pretty cool instructions for how to install the back

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plate the fans and radiators the mounting bra oh cool i love it oh i'm

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super excited about this okay so let's start

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with the cooler actually i lied we're not going to start with the cooler we're going to start with other stuff we're

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going to get everything out of the box we'll be back in a moment all right so everything you see in front

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of me is extremely exciting because it's all part of this whole package deal

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thing that we got going on here so first things first

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the most boring possible part all the screws and mounting hardware and whatnot

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so you got all the screws you need to mount your fans to your rad you got all

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the screws you need to mount your Intel whatnots to your Intel other whatnots

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and then you've got these little pieces for for mounting on AMD these guys are for

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putting around your CPU sockets so this is pretty similar to what we saw on the

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original h100 except for the coolest thing ever check this out instead of a

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sort of no offense to the previous generation Corsair product but kind of

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horrible and total pain in the butt

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system that we had before now if you want to change what socket you want to

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mount on you just go like that and then you put your uh here so you put

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your little brackets under here if you want to mount on AMD just like that you

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put the screw on the top of it and it's done then you can just pull it off like

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this no big deal

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Intel mount just like this no big deal

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so awesome this is great for guys like me

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who are swapping uh sockets all the time and it's just oh

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just freaking awesome universal backplate for everything from lga uh 11

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55 and 11 56 to 1366 to 2011. actually

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sorry not uh 2011 2011 is done using

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these ones right here so it does uh doesn't this one is not needed but this

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piece will still be used for 2011. this is the universal one so pretty much any

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Intel socket you can imagine can be mounted to with this cooler and i'm

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actually going to check on the back of the box and see if they have support for

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looks like yeah no it doesn't go all the way back to 775. however quite frankly

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if you're spending over 100 on a CPU cooler for your 775 CPU then you need to

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adjust your priorities all right

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two things here check this out you can control not only the two fans that are

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included with the h100i using one of these little adapters right here that

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takes your four pin or three pin fan you can do whichever you want

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and uses the built-in Corsair link software

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that can be controlled from your desktop to adjust your fan profiles and monitor

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your coolant temperature and all kinds of cool stuff like that but you can also

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plug in another one totally optional you don't have to plug it in it's up to you

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the choice is yours you're the consumer and you can control an additional two

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fans just like that so cool love to see

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these kinds of options and Corsair is so good in aesthetics

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every wire is black it just looks perfect like everything

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about it is just just perfect just awesome Corsair link

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interfaces with your system using a simple usb connection so all you got to

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do is plug this guy into here so you're going to go ahead you're going to have that on your socket you're gonna

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run this around the back of your motherboard and plug it into your usb

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header on your motherboard oh and this looks way better than the older one as

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well actually this everything about this is better that looks fantastic let's go

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ahead and take this off so you guys can really see it nice glossy Corsair logo

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going on there very very very very sleek

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uh the fans let's talk about the fans that are included so these are kind of

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like a like a okay i hate to use this word but kind of

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like a cheapo version of the sps where they have the same blade design the same

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frame design but we lose the rubber mounts we lose the um the

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interchangeable colored rings so these are things that are just kind of too

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expensive for an included oem style fan this is kind of cool though there's

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little spots to mount what appears these look like led mounts but they don't go

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all the way through but slick was saying you could just kind of drill through and you could probably mount leds on it

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which would be pretty sweet and there's sort of an off color but it'll still

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look very sort of matching in high performance once

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they're spinning and they're on your uh they're on your rad like that it's gonna

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look outstanding so you get two of those these are way better than what was

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included with previous generation products because these broad blades and

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the way that they're swept aren't great for moving a ton of air in an open

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configuration like this but they're fantastic for moving enough air through

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a very very tight fin matrix like this

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you can check out my episode on the ncixcom channel where i

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uh introduced the sp series fans and talked about how much better they are

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for certain applications now let's get to the cooler itself the

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radiator hasn't changed much you got your standard radiator mounting size you

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got your these look like the same fin density so nothing's really changed here

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but Corsair has increased the size of

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the coolant hoses they've also dramatically improved the quality of

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them check this out even though this is 3 8 inch tubing you can do pretty much

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whatever you need to do with it to get it to your CPU socket this is way better

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than what we saw included on the h100 in fact i have an h100 over here that you

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guys can come have a look at so see this used a corrugated plastic that was um it

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wasn't going to kink or anything but it wasn't very flexible and it didn't allow

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you to manage it very easily so this is definitely way better nice and soft

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and we've still got these are rotating fittings so that you can get it wherever

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you need to get at the bottom is copper which it better be and it's got

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pre-applied very high quality thermal compound you probably won't even see

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much improvement from changing that out to something that's you know an aftermarket thermal compound so thank

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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair h100i i've

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recommended the Corsair h100 probably a hundred times on twitter or facebook or

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wherever else and i will do this exactly the same thing to this one because it is

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so much better than single radiator solutions and the build quality this

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looks just outstanding the Corsair link software is a bonus and the fact that it

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now includes very competitive performance fans where

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previously the h100 had fans that you'd probably want to replace don't forget to

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