welcome to my unboxing and first look at the most exciting dual 120 millimeter
radiator pre-filled maintenance-free liquid cooler from Corsair
since the h-100 this is
the Corsair h100i and we are going to unbox it and we are going to find out
what is better about it than the original 8100 because i can already tell
you one thing based on the picture those fans are so much better than the ones
that are included with the h100 that it is not even funny anymore those are
looking like corsairs sp series fans and those are some serious business pretty
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
performance liquid CPU cooler i can believe that all right we got some cool
specs bro and some sort of okay moving right along we've got some comparisons
to the Intel box cooler which is just totally unfair to this cooler why do
they compare to the Intel box cooler what's the point of that they should
compare to other high performance coolers because it can show itself as
being like pretty ass kicking at that level as well hydro series requires the
case with two 120 millimeter fan mounts on top with 15 millimeter spacing for
standard dual radiators okay magnetic mounting bracket and mounting hardware
Corsair link cable those are two other very cool things that are included with
this coolest so what is a magnetic mounting bracket i
have no idea stop don't return it to the store and product solutions guide ah
manual ooh warranty information notification for australian consumers
this is a sample from Corsair so i guess they sent me an australian sample
uh okay so you got some pretty cool instructions for how to install the back
plate the fans and radiators the mounting bra oh cool i love it oh i'm
super excited about this okay so let's start
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
going to get everything out of the box we'll be back in a moment all right so everything you see in front
of me is extremely exciting because it's all part of this whole package deal
thing that we got going on here so first things first
the most boring possible part all the screws and mounting hardware and whatnot
so you got all the screws you need to mount your fans to your rad you got all
the screws you need to mount your Intel whatnots to your Intel other whatnots
and then you've got these little pieces for for mounting on AMD these guys are for
putting around your CPU sockets so this is pretty similar to what we saw on the
original h100 except for the coolest thing ever check this out instead of a
sort of no offense to the previous generation Corsair product but kind of
horrible and total pain in the butt
system that we had before now if you want to change what socket you want to
mount on you just go like that and then you put your uh here so you put
your little brackets under here if you want to mount on AMD just like that you
put the screw on the top of it and it's done then you can just pull it off like
this no big deal
Intel mount just like this no big deal
so awesome this is great for guys like me
who are swapping uh sockets all the time and it's just oh
just freaking awesome universal backplate for everything from lga uh 11
55 and 11 56 to 1366 to 2011. actually
sorry not uh 2011 2011 is done using
these ones right here so it does uh doesn't this one is not needed but this
piece will still be used for 2011. this is the universal one so pretty much any
Intel socket you can imagine can be mounted to with this cooler and i'm
actually going to check on the back of the box and see if they have support for
looks like yeah no it doesn't go all the way back to 775. however quite frankly
if you're spending over 100 on a CPU cooler for your 775 CPU then you need to
adjust your priorities all right
two things here check this out you can control not only the two fans that are
included with the h100i using one of these little adapters right here that
takes your four pin or three pin fan you can do whichever you want
and uses the built-in Corsair link software
that can be controlled from your desktop to adjust your fan profiles and monitor
your coolant temperature and all kinds of cool stuff like that but you can also
plug in another one totally optional you don't have to plug it in it's up to you
the choice is yours you're the consumer and you can control an additional two
fans just like that so cool love to see
these kinds of options and Corsair is so good in aesthetics
every wire is black it just looks perfect like everything
about it is just just perfect just awesome Corsair link
interfaces with your system using a simple usb connection so all you got to
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
run this around the back of your motherboard and plug it into your usb
header on your motherboard oh and this looks way better than the older one as
well actually this everything about this is better that looks fantastic let's go
ahead and take this off so you guys can really see it nice glossy Corsair logo
going on there very very very very sleek
uh the fans let's talk about the fans that are included so these are kind of
like a like a okay i hate to use this word but kind of
like a cheapo version of the sps where they have the same blade design the same
frame design but we lose the rubber mounts we lose the um the
interchangeable colored rings so these are things that are just kind of too
expensive for an included oem style fan this is kind of cool though there's
little spots to mount what appears these look like led mounts but they don't go
all the way through but slick was saying you could just kind of drill through and you could probably mount leds on it
which would be pretty sweet and there's sort of an off color but it'll still
look very sort of matching in high performance once
they're spinning and they're on your uh they're on your rad like that it's gonna
look outstanding so you get two of those these are way better than what was
included with previous generation products because these broad blades and
the way that they're swept aren't great for moving a ton of air in an open
configuration like this but they're fantastic for moving enough air through
a very very tight fin matrix like this
you can check out my episode on the ncixcom channel where i
uh introduced the sp series fans and talked about how much better they are
for certain applications now let's get to the cooler itself the
radiator hasn't changed much you got your standard radiator mounting size you
got your these look like the same fin density so nothing's really changed here
but Corsair has increased the size of
the coolant hoses they've also dramatically improved the quality of
them check this out even though this is 3 8 inch tubing you can do pretty much
whatever you need to do with it to get it to your CPU socket this is way better
than what we saw included on the h100 in fact i have an h100 over here that you
guys can come have a look at so see this used a corrugated plastic that was um it
wasn't going to kink or anything but it wasn't very flexible and it didn't allow
you to manage it very easily so this is definitely way better nice and soft
and we've still got these are rotating fittings so that you can get it wherever
you need to get at the bottom is copper which it better be and it's got
pre-applied very high quality thermal compound you probably won't even see
much improvement from changing that out to something that's you know an aftermarket thermal compound so thank
you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair h100i i've
recommended the Corsair h100 probably a hundred times on twitter or facebook or
wherever else and i will do this exactly the same thing to this one because it is
so much better than single radiator solutions and the build quality this
looks just outstanding the Corsair link software is a bonus and the fact that it
now includes very competitive performance fans where
previously the h100 had fans that you'd probably want to replace don't forget to
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