Corsair H50 Hydro Series CPU Water Cooler Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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657 words · ~3 min read
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so today we've got the Corsair Hydro series CPU Cooler so this is the H50 so
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basically what you've got here actually let's have a look at the picture on the
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front you've got a 120 mm radiator with a fan and then a couple of4 in tubes
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running to a CPU block and pump Allin
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one sort of unit now this is meant to be sort of a lowcost liquid cooling
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Solution that's meant to compete with the high-end air coolers and all the
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while maintaining the ease of installation and the uh the the case
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compatibility of a high-end air cooler so if we can figure out oh I think this
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is actually one of their power supply boxes now that I look at it it looks
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like they've they've redone the artwork on a power supply box so that's kind of
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clever um okay so let's we've got the unit open here let's uh get going here
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so you take off your first plastic cover take off yet another plastic cover wow
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I'm totally not going to remember how this goes back in okay so here we have
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it this is the CPU block and and pump
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unit itself here so let's get this uh
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let's get this protective packaging off so what this
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prevents is it prevents the little plastic cover which has the thermal
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compound from coming off so you can see here that's where the actual surface of
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the CPU block is and then this housing here actually contains the pump which
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circulates the fluid into the radiator so we can cover that back up here is our
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quick start guide so the quick start guide shows you the basics of uh how to
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install the radiator how to install the retention ring in the back plate and
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yeah basically gets you started pretty quickly so what's next here is that in
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other more different languages so we're not really interested in that okay so
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here's our LGA 775 back plate here's our
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LGA 775 I think uh hold down or that
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might be 1366 anyway okay it includes a 1366 and a 775 retention ring and back
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plate and then I believe that soon they're going to be shipping with an
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1156 retention ring and back plate as well so here's the four screws for
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installing your radiator so why don't we actually pull out the uh the fan and
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radiator here for a minute so you can see there's a nice uh paper protective
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sleeve on the radiator that prevents these fragile fins from getting damaged
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in transit so you want to be very careful when you're handling the
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radiator cuz you don't want to bend these if you bend them you may not even
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impact performance but what can happen is you can create more turbulence when
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the Fan's blowing air through and it can make it a little bit louder so you got a
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nice sleeved power connector here this can actually plug into a fan header on
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your motherboard which is really convenient to see and then here is our 4
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pin pwm fan so the way Corsair
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recommends installing it is to actually put the fan installed backwards in the
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back of your case so you're drawing fresh air from the outside of the case
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attach the radiator either this way or
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upside down the other way and then you can run the CPU Cooler
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over to your CPU and use the back plate for installation now you use these black
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screws they go through the case through the fan and then right into the threaded
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holes here on the radiator so thank you for checking out my blog video on the
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Corsair H50 CPU Cooler