welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair h110 this is a
280 mm liquid cooler from Corsair it is
an all-in-one pre-filled liquid cooler which means it's pretty much zero
maintenance uh within its reasonably expected lifespan of how long you would
have that computer and it is simple to install as long as you pick out a case
that it is compatible with as we open up the box we find everything packed in a
neat eco-friendly package so this is using sort of brown paper cardboard
rather than going heavy on the foam even things like the radiator itself are not
packed in foam it's just a a paper recyclable material which I do like to
see also you have a warranty card that tells you not a whole lot but it's okay
because on the duration of warranty well it depends anywhere from 2 years to
Lifetime it's okay though because tells you right on the outside of the box that
it is a 5-year guarantee from Corsair
Inside the Box we find a number of things including two 140 mm fans it
should be noted that unlike the Corsair 100i these are not Corsair designed fans
I mean they're Corsair fans but they don't have the flat blades like the SP
Series so they're using more of what we saw on Corsair's last generation liquid
coolers in terms of the blade design okay they are four pin pwm fans however
and they do have uh black ribbon cables so they're going to go well with your
system pretty much no matter what I mean Corsair is uh is so good at making sure
that their components are not only high performance but also are held to a
different standard in terms of Aesthetics for mounting hardware you've
got everything you need for pretty much every socket you could possibly need
including fm1 fm2 am3 am3 plus am2 am2
plus LGA 1156 LGA 1155
lga775 LGA 1366 and LGA 2011 the
instructions that are included are very straightforward and again we're used to
seeing this and if you've installed something like a Corsair h70 or H50 in
the past you'll pretty much already know how to use all of this stuff one of the
challenging things with the Corsair 100
or rather h110 is case compatibility so there are
some Corsair cases compatible with this particular cooler uh I mean even some of
the cases that they don't say are compatible actually ended up working for
example uh we found that we could install it in a Vengeance C70 which is
right over there and that is not listed as compatible we did this without any
cutting all we had to do was get some washers and put them uh between the
screws and the case itself because the holes were a little bit wide so that was
the only issue so with a little bit of Ingenuity if you've got a dual 140 mm
fan mount in the top and enough clearance to have not only the radiator
but also the fan itself without interfering with any of the components
of your motherboard you shouldn't run into too much difficulty the radiator
itself is as you'd expect about 36% larger than an h100i or an h100 due to
the larger fan design it is still a fairly slim radiator so this is
necessary because the last thing you want to do with a product like this
that's not compatible with every case out there is go and make it thicker so
that it's compatible with even fewer cases because it's so wide you're not
going to be able to do what some case manufacturers have done and that is to
offset the 120 mm mounting holes in the
top so that there's room for the motherboard on the side rather than centering it with something this large
the tubing is a very very flexible quarter-inch tubing so that's another
option that hasn't been carried over from the h100i and addition to Corsair
link software not being included with the h110 at this time so the h100i has
38 tubing whereas the h100 when these
are very confusing model names h110 does not have 38 in tubing it has 1/4 inch
tubing it also lacks uh here we go uh
rather no it doesn't lack it uh oh yeah it also lacks lighting effects on the
Block itself but it does have the same swiveling connectors here so that you're
not going to have any difficulty regardless of where your CPU socket is
situated on your motherboard making sure that the tubing is not sort of at a
weird angle that puts unnecessary strain on the connectors the design for
mounting is the traditional sort of ring mounting bracket that we've seen many
times in the past with a copper base that has a highquality thermal compound pre-applied
to it and the pump here we go is powered
by a black ribbon cable that is a three
pin connector so that'll plug into either a pwm CPU fan connector or a
legacy 3 pin connector but you'll only be able to use DC control if you wanted
to lower the speed of the pump but I really really wouldn't recommend doing
that in 95 cases out of actually 100
cases out of 100 just don't do that thank thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the h110 from
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