Corsair H80i CPU Liquid Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair
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h80i so this is the replacement for the
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Corsair h80 which is different from the Hadi in a couple of key ways so number
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one is that the h80 is completely eyess
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it has no eyes wow worst joke ever right but
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that's what makes this channel
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great yes okay moving right along what
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is the key difference between the Hadi and the H number one Corsair link so
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Corsair link is a software feature that Corsair has built in to the hardware
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that allows you to do all kinds of cool stuff like monitoring your uh coolant
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temperatures changing your fan speed cool cool stuff and if you have other
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corer components like their ax1200i for
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example power supply then you can can monitor all kinds of other stuff like
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you can monitor your power supply temperature your rails all kinds of neat
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stuff with Corsair link fans if you have the Corsair link module you can monitor
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and control your fan set fan control curves quick start guide shows you how
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to do a bunch of cool stuff like mounting it to things okay that's
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important if you don't Mount this to your CPU this product will be useless to
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you it is compatible with both Intel and
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AMD and it has a lot of plastic inside
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this stuff will kill your baby and there is a warning all over it plastic bags
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are not toys Corsair believes in not
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killing babies this message was brought to you by
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Corsair or something okay this is just a
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bad unboxing so far so don't worry I'm going to clean it up um the next cool
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thing about the H the next cool thing about the Hadi is
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the inclusion of a way better mounting
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mechanism for switching between Intel and AMD so check this out all you got to
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do is you want to go oh yeah I want to put like some Intel CPUs in my
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system and uh you know you just kind of
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go like this and you're all like yeah I'm making this look harder
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than it is at this point in time there you go what bam oh it's cuz the plastic
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here there you go so it's magnetic you take the Intel retention thing you put
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it on there boom done you want to be like Oh shoot no no no I I got an AMD
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CPU my bad my bad bam AMD down
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no problem magnetic very cool very easy
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to hold things in place you don't I mean remember the guys do you remember the
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original h70 the mounting mechanism on that thing where you had to like hold
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the thing on the back and position the thing just right and have the little
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things in the little grooves and you have to like have a third ARM coming out of your shoulder to like screw in the
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screwdriver no no no we're done with that magnetic mounting easy back plate
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all the hardware you need is included here and it's very stylish looking
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Hardware I might say check out these thumb screws those are just gorgeous see
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these are the little nice finishing touches that I appreciate um LGA 2011
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compatibilities provided by this these pieces right here and then all the other
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sockets are dealt with with the back plate which has adjustable uh width
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right here so you can do 775 1155 1156
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and 1366 no big deal and then AMD is
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with a couple loops and couple thumb screws it's you know it's complicated
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you guys wouldn't understand don't worry about it uh the third key thing about
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the h80 oh this is cool look at that I think they uh I think they
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increased the uh or decreased the fpi the density looks like it okay so this
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is a much more silence optimized radiator assuming I'm not completely
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Incorrect and talking out of my you know that thing um it looks like this is a
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much more silence optimized radiator which means performance shouldn't suffer
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much at all because as long as you got a nice thick 120 mil radiator they're all
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going to perform pretty close once you start pumping some air flow through them
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and once you get down to lower RPMs on your fans this will pull itself away
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from a denser 120 mm radiator so I said
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the radiator was a thicker style radiator this will perform significantly
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better than something like an h60 or H50 which has that thin Radiator in fact
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most of the pre-done water coolers on the market use thin RADS because they do
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offer better compatibility however the drawback for
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them is that they do not perform as well as well okay speaking of performance
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Corsair has upgraded the coolant pipes from 1/4 in to 38 in and they have kept
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these swiveling mounts right here which give you lots of flexibility in terms of
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where you want to sort of Route the tubes and how you want to do that um and
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you can twist these up as much as you want will not Kink awesome awesome stuff
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love to see that so the finish on it has also changed a little bit as well also
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changed as well that's totally red
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that's totally redundant that's totally
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redundant that's to no I'm just kidding okay see slick called me on it he
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brought the camera up here I could have gotten away with it for a couple more if he hadn't done that okay so on the unit
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itself the Corsair link module is inside here as well as the pump and the CPU
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block so you can see the copper base so there's spins in there and stuff
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pre-applied high quality thermal compound and here we have a couple of
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different things so we've got some cables for this so I can show you guys check this out so there's a USB
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connector that plugs into your motherboard that is how your cooler
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interfaces with your computer and that is how the software controls everything
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next we've got this guy right here which is a breakout cable so you can plug in
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both of the fans that you want to wait hold on this for the yeah there we go
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okay so those guys plug in here and you can actually get an additional one if
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you want you can plug in additional fans should you so desire but it comes with
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two of Corsair's new style fan so do
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that right there so you can plug in up to two four pin pwm fans without any
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additional hoopla going
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on the last thing that is a major improvement over the original h80 is
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these fans now these are slightly downgraded versions of
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corsairs yeah I can't find one but here's a box you'll have to sort of
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imagine that there's an SP 1220 in there see there's a sort you know what I can
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find one there I found one okay no wrong
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one there I found one no wrong one you
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got to be kidding me here where are my SP
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1220s slick did you take them okay
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there's an sp120 okay so SP 1220s have
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color change rings around them they come with a few different Rings they have
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rubber mounts up here see the full like corner is filled with rubber and I think
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that's pretty much the only key difference because the blade design is
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what's most most important about a fan so these are slightly costed down
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because they don't have the Rubber and they don't have the interchangeable blades but these are way better fans
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than what have been included on previous generation Corsair liquid cooling
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products they're awesome and you should use them in push pull on your h80 as
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long as you have enough room in your chassis otherwise you can just use one
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they are pressure optimized fans so you don't have to worry about cranking up
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the RPMs in order to get great performance out of your liquid cooling
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unit and that's pretty much it what else is there to say about it so in summary
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Corsair link better fans well-designed
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radiator and thicker tubes and I guess
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that's actually oh yeah and the easier retention mechanism I think that is
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enough that they probably could have called it an h85 or an h90 if they'd
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really wanted to but who knows maybe they're you know saving that for
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something even more impressive either way thanks for checking out my unboxing
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