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it comes to CPU liquid coolers it's not exactly rocket surgery it's mostly a
function of how good are the fans and how much surface area can you throw at
it I mean there can be other factors for example with Corsair's h100i there's
excellent software integration with their Corsair links software for things
like monitoring liquid temperature uh monitoring fan RPM CPU temperature fan
control all that kind of cool stuff but those things tend to add cost to the
unit and tend not to necessarily contribute to Raw performance the h105
goes to the h110 school of product design which is a little bit more
barebones in terms of extra stuff but definitely targeting performance so
unlike the h100i the h105 features a
thicker radiator and unlike the h110
which features a thin radiator but with 140 millimeter fans the h105
features 120 mm fans on its red so it
should sit somewhere in between those two in terms of performance but if I had
to Hazard to guess I would say particularly at lower RPMs it's probably
going to be closer to the h110 because of the design of the
radiator with a little bit uh lower fin density than I'm used to seeing with
these all-in-one units which I think is actually probably a good thing because
as soon as you throw dual 120 mm fans at
cooling a single CPU even if it's quite a powerful one unless you're talking
about extreme overclocking it's pretty much enough so you might as well go
after silence and speaking of Silence the two included fans are pwm so this is
a bit of a nice touch here and they can operate from anywhere from 800 RPM to
2700 RPM so 800 RPM is going to be very
very quiet on a 38 mm thick radiator like this one that's compared to 25 mm
which is more the more typical thin thin radiator setup like what you'll find on
an h100i and then all the way up to 2700
RPM which for me would be uncomfortably loud and I probably wouldn't recommend
that so much now the included fans aside from being pwm and being good in that
way are pretty basic these are sp120 L
fans unlike the regular sp1 120s which
are available in a quiet Edition and performance Edition the meain the main
differen is there being that the sp1 120s have swappable color rings as well
as rubber isolating grommets in the corners and just generally feel a little
bit nicer overall in terms of build quality now if you did decide that you
weren't going to use the L Series fans and you were going to upgrade to SPS
there's another little cool thing so Corsair has changed the design of the
block and pump combo unit here they've add they've changed the ID and they've
added a little swappable ring so it comes with the same colors as you can
get in af and SP series fans you got blue and red but unfortunately not white
so there's a gray one on there by default they've also updated the mounting hardware Just a Touch so it
comes with the Intel hold down pre-installed now it comes with a
slightly updated back plate this is an acitech design so it's um not really
something we've never seen before but the little pieces are a little bit
easier to slide so whether you're mounting on LGA 115x 1366 or 2011 you're
going to be able to get it in the right position quite easily although remember
guys 2011 does have its own back plate built onto the motherboard just like AMD
sockets so same thing for the AMD Hardware you're just going to get a hold
down which can be swapped by just undoing these four little Clips right
here popping off the bottom ring just like that pulling off the retention or
pulling off the hold down and then swapping on the appropriate AMD one so
you can do that relatively easily and then it'll just screw directly into the
back plate that is built into your motherboard giving you compatibility for
FM sockets as well as am sockets the
last thing they've updated in terms of the ID is they have changed the thumb a
little bit and then other than that I think that's pretty much it for accessories you also get a pwm y cable
so this will allow you to plug both of the fans into your CPU fan header so you
can actually control both of them with pwm using a single fan header so that's
actually really handy that's from what I've seen the best way to do pwm control
because the CPU fan header tends to be the least broken of all the pwm
implementations on a on a given motherboard or in a given system it uses
quarter inch tubing but I'm not really convinced that that's going to be a
problem for it because these all-in-one liquid coolers don't tend to to have
extremely high flow rates to the point where 38 or even halfin tubing would
make much of a difference and other than that it's going to come down to the
radiator right here so 38 mm thick as I mentioned before a little bit lower fin
density than we've necessarily seen in the past and uh and the and well the
thickness well okay I've talked a lot about the thickness it's because that's the main difference here it's going to
affect performance and it's also going to affect compatibility so you're going
to want to make sure that if you plan to install the h105 in your case you have
enough clearance not only for a 25mm thick fan but also a 38 mm thick
radiator it comes with all the mounting hardware that you'll need to mount the fans on either side mount the radiator
directly to the case and then the fans to that or Mount the radiator through
the fan to the case from the top or whatever else you need to do you just
need to make sure you have enough room which leads us to Performance off to luk
for that all right so to start us off there's been a test bench change now we
are running an x79 deluxe from ASUS and a 4820k from Intel this was because in
the previous setup I was noticing some pretty major inconsistencies when trying
to test the h105 from Corsair and it wasn't testing the same every run and it
was kind of all over the place with massive Deltas so I thought there might
be something wrong swapped out hardware and now we're getting much more consistent numbers this was isolated to
just this test um so it must have been recently and I don't think it's going to
affect other videos that we've recorded so don't worry about that as for
installing it it was much better than h110 which has the kind of older
installation setup but it wasn't quite as good as an h100i which has the super
nice Magnetic Locking plates and all that kind of stuff that Corsair's put on
it but it was definitely in the higher Echelon of uh installation processes for
coolers that I have used and it performed pretty much exactly where we
expected it performed in between an h100i and an h110 now what I want in the
future as all of those things are fairly self-explanatory and you guys probably heard that from lonus previously because
he expected it and it was true um what what I want to see in the future is I
want them all to come together I want like essentially an
h15 i or an H awesome I or something I
don't really know but I want them all to come together I want the the size of the
h110 I want the thickness of the h105 and I want the Advanced Technologies and
connectivity and mounting system of an h100i what do you guys want what what do
you looking for in a cooler are you even looking for an AIO or are you more
focused still on air uh let me know in the comments below like and favorite the
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