Corsair H70 CPU Water Cooling Extreme Performance Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,631 words · ~8 min read
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I've received endless requests to unbox the corser h70 so here it is the corser
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h70 and I'm going to unbox it so let's start with the CPU compatibility you can
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see that right on the front it is compatible with LGA 775 1156 and 1366
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and it also comes with mounting hardware for am2 and am3 so it's compatible with
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every socket out there that matters right now they've got a nice little
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graph on the back that shows how it dramatically outperforms your CPU stock
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heat sink and uh I can tell you this they don't have this on their graph but they should
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because it's probably going to be quieter than your stock heat sink especially under load so here on the
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side we've got the full specs you've got the radiator Dimensions which is 120x
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152 by 48 mm you've got your fan
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specifications here so 50 to 61 CFM at
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26 to 31.5 DB so it's not super quiet
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but it's not that loud either and I mean really when you want maximum performance
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out of a CPU Cooler you sometimes have to make compromises as far as uh
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quietness goes so I'm just going to try and figure out how the Box opens exactly
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before I start cutting away at the shrink wrap here so I'm going to cut
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there and I'm going to cut here I've had quite a few questions about my new knife
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yes it is a Spyderco knife I don't know exactly which one it is but there's
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their little logo so uh just going to slice that open here
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now I think this is going to come up yes o look another little h70 logo there
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course there really is good at packaging I'll give them that so they've managed
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to take the h70 which is a a slightly
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bigger because it has an extra fan in it cooler uh it's a better performing
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cooler than the H50 and they put it in AER box it's like brilliant so here's a
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little Corsair Solutions guide they show you their memory cooling power supplies
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chassis and then on the other side you got Flash and storage with ssds they
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really do have a very complete lineup the these days it wasn't that long ago
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that uh they just had RAM basically so
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they want you to deal with their tech support okay instead of getting in touch
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with the store they have a quick start guide here which shows you how to set up
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the h70 in only seven easy steps so
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maybe we'll refer to this a little bit as we talk about the h70 here's the AMD
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mounting hardware okay so it's a little mounting
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ring thing we'll have a look at this when we actually see it here's
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775 so this shows you the part you need for LGA 775 here's 1156 and here is 1366
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so they show you which holes to use on the back plate and then how to configure
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it to uh to go in the right place on the hold down clip oh this says H50 on it no
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that's okay we understood what they meant we know it works for the
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h72 okay so here we've got a couple of little
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adapters because it has two fans uh you
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might want to use one of these so this way you can plug two two fans into your
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CPU fan header so you can see one of them just has power and the other one
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has power as well as an RPM monitor so that means that your fan header on your
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motherboard will pick up the RPMs from the one fan but it'll provide the same
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power to both fans so that way you can get all the information you need and
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power two fans in one Fell Swoop here are your little silencing adapters so
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you can throw those on there if you want the whole thing to run just a little bit
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quieter than it otherwise would have so there you go you plug those in like that
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and then you plug your fans into those so the whole thing comes off your motherboard like that I love how
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everything Corsair does is black so you got black wires black connectors black
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sleeving very nice okay next we have all
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of our mounting
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Hardwares here we go so this is a back
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plate for 775 1156 and 1366 you see
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they've got the three different holes and they've got them all helpfully labeled for which sockets you want to
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use uh next we have aha all the little
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pieces of Hardware that those diagrams were for so you put those through the
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Intel mounting plate okay in the way that is demonstrated on that uh on that
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helpful sheet and then you put your little uh your little foamy sticky bits
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on the back of the back plate which go here all right and then you put the
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little pegs which are finally here these little silver guys through the back of
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the back plate screw the whole thing together shouldn't take you longer than about 8 minutes that's my estimation
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here's your am oh no this is not am mounting hardware this is fan mounting
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hardware and then I guess AMD mounting hardware is also in there but you can
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see there's a Corsair back plate as well as an AMD hold down for the h70 or H50 I
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guess this would also work with based on uh how it works would work just fine for
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either here's all of our fan mounting hardware so we've got washers and screws
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and those screws will Bolt the fans onto
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the radiator which is the biggest Improvement on the h70 this radiator is
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very thick compar compared to the H50 the H50 is probably about this thick and
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the h70 is this thick now cooling is not rocket science I mean rockets need to be
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cooled don't get me wrong so there is cooling involved in rocket science but
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cooling isn't rocket science more surface area is better so Corsair
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instead of opting to increase the size
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of the radiator this way so you can have like a dual 12 mm 120 mm slim radiator
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Corsair has instead decided to go with thicker radiator maintain that 120 mm
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compatible Mount so that you can mount it in most cases but still get more fins
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in here more surface area and thus better cooling now one of the
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disadvantages of having a nice tight fin structure like this and a thick radiator
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is that it's highly resistant to air being pulled through it if you can't
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push or pull air efficiently through the radiator it's not going to cool very
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well so that's why Corsair has implemented a Push Pull system so that
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means when you mount the h70 in the back of your case you will mount it like this
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Corsair recommends you draw fresh air in from the outside although you can
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configure it either way but you'll have the one fan blowing fresh air through
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the radiator from the outside and then you'll have the other fan configured on
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the other side drawing that fresh air
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through the rad and then blowing it into the case so you see it's configured with
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one pushing air through and one pulling air through two fans so it ends up quite
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thick you're going to want to make sure you have enough clearance in your case to have something this large from the
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back of your case so it's going to maybe stick over your CPU socket a little bit
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but Corsair thought of that too and this is what's so clever because it's so
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thick it might have um you might have had issues with the original H50 CPU
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block pump unit uh clearing it now they have a nice lowprofile h70 CPU block and
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pump so it's got pre-applied thermal paste and from my testing uh with the h
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50 this stuff is really good so there's no need to replace that with an
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aftermarket paste uh on your first first installation once you've used it then
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you should clean it off and put on a new paste but you can see that the H50 is
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probably about this tall with the uh and then maybe even a little bit more once
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you have the tubing sticking out of it but the h70 is only about wow that's
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about an inch and change tall and then they've got the tubing coming out at a
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bit of an angle here and these are actually flexible look at that so you
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can mount this in like the smallest
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smallest profile possible like this so
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you can actually have the tubing coming out at an angle like that so you can
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mount it almost under anything and the pump is powered by just a three pin fan
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connector so you could plug that into just like a system fan plug and you'd be
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uh on your way it's got a nice little Corsair uh shiny badge on the front of
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it and I think that pretty much concludes my unboxing of the Corsair h70
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