Corsair H90 & H110 Liquid CPU Coolers Performance Review
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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today we're going to be having a look at the h90 and the h110 from Corsair these
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are their new 140 mm radiator coolers so
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I'm going to take the h90 and I'm going to compare it really quickly here to the
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h80i so while the h80i uses Corsair link
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and has Flagship features like 38 in tubes as well as their new magnetic
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mounting clips so you can see the actual blocks themselves there are quite
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different the h90 has the advantage of using a very dense fin Arrangement and a
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larger surface are area radiator the H AI is also a little bit thicker that
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gives it an advantage in performance versus other 120 mm products that are
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thinner so the h90 has a lot of surface
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area compared to the h8i the h110 similarly has much larger surface area
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than the h100 so we wanted to look at how this translates to Performance now
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this is something that's really important for these coolers because the h90 and the h110 come with fans that
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aren't really anything special in terms of their radiator optimization whereas
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the h8i and the h100i come with Corsair
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well a derivative of Corsair's SP series static pressure optimized fans so these
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the the the the larger radiator versions are going to get a bit of an advantage
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in our testing compared to what you might see from other guys because we run
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a test bench that uses standardized fans so we actually don't use the fans that
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are included with any coolers because we want to find out how the performance of
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the coolers themselves compares to each other so we only use NF F12 pwm fans and
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I think what are they nf14 flx fans so that's a 120 mm and 140
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mm pressure optimized fan design from
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Noctua these are quiet fans we run the 120 Ms and the 140 Ms at around 1,000
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RPM so it's a very quiet solution so in a system that I would consider to be
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quiet enough for a high performance gaming system these days because there's
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no reason for them to be loud this is how these coolers will perform we have a
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3930k that's overclocked and overvolted so we're able to deliver a lot of heat
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to these coolers so you can really separate the performance from each other
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um in this case we also run a 580
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graphics card so it's a GTX 580 and we run combuster during our load test to
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simulate what it would be like if the cooler had to work inside a case that's
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actually full of hot components as well so it doesn't necessarily just you know
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work on an open test bench and get to suck fresh cool air through it no this
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is how it will actually perform in a system that also has other components
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that are generating heat we close up both side panels during our testing and
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we let the coolers reach equilibrium before we take any of our measurements
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and we measure the ambient temperatures at the intake of the case here using an
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HH 506 ra multil logger thermometer that
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allows us to make sure that whatever results we deliver you once we correct
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them to 20° are going to be easily comparable from one cooler to another
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because we're able to we can't control the ambients in here but what we can do
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is we can monitor them monitor them and then correct for that so I think that
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pretty much wraps it up in terms of the
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uh the prologue to this so oh yeah so we
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have the h110 in there if you guys wanted to see it this is a Corsair C70
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so the h110 is I guess I'll spoil the surprise a little bit the highest
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performing CPU Cooler that we've tested it's absolutely enormous and fills up
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the entire top of this case so in spite of its quarter inch tubing and less
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Advanced design compared to the H uh h100i come check out the performance so
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load corrected to 20° C for the h110 in
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a pole configuration is only 66° now we have a bit of an anomaly in
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our data and that's that the Kraken x60 doesn't perform as well as the h110 in
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spite of the fact that we're using the same fans but there might be an issue
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with our Kraken x60 either way the h110 performed exactly the way that we'd
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expect so the h90 actually puts up a
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pretty good showing as well performing only about four degrees worse than the
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h100i and then the yeah the h110 just kind of runs away with it it beats the
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h100i by about 5° um so this is on a six core processor
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so guys what you can do is you can download this chart you can actually
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click the link below the video description if you want to check it out at your leisure and we're going to keep
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updating it we're going to keep adding uh any notes that we have on our testing
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methodology any notes we have on the coolers and any future coolers that we
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test are all going to be on this master chart this is our test bench for the
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foreseeable future so you guys will always know what to expect when you get
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a cooler and especially if you're going to upgrade to your own pressure
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optimized fans I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I don't have anything to hold and point at ah yes about the
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