Corsair H90 Water Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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and first look at the Corsair h90 it's part of their Hydro series it comes with
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a 5-year warranty it comes with a silver box which is something that we're not
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used to seeing with Corsair's liquid coolers in fact this was quite
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surprising to me it seems like a stupid thing to fixate on but hey when you
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unbox things for a living then you have to find things that are interesting
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about boxes so Corsair's packaging generally has been black packaging but
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we're not going to worry about that too much let's focus on what's interesting
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about the h90 number one is stop do not return this product to the store contact
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Corsair give them a chance to help you out that's very important because their
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customer service is pretty much legendary at this point oh what's this
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that is a 140 mm fan so unlike the previous generation h40 H50 h55 h60 h70
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and h80 the h90 uses a n h 90 a 90 mm
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fan for Extreme Performance a 140 mm fan
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now it uses a different design than Corsair's recently released h00 I and
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h80i it has thinner blades but the
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largess of it should make up for any kind of performance deficiencies from
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not using their SP pressure optimized fan design but I mean we'll see once we
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uh once we get this thing installed and test it out also inside we find aha the
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h90 cooler itself so in terms of case
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compatibility you do have to be a little bit more careful with a 140 mm radiator
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than you do with a 120 mil because even though a case is compatible with a 120
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mil at the back it won't necessarily work with a 140 at the back however
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corser gives you enough length on the quarter inch uh
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non-evaporative very flexible tubing that you should be able to even do
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things like mounted in the top of the case and then run it back over towards
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your CPU socket for example that will give you more options in terms of
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installation than you'd have with uh a
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limitation of just installing it at the back although it might not make for the
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same aesthetic so I would op I would definitely opt for a case with a 140 mil
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fan at the back and enough room for the tank at the top and the tank at the
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bottom in terms of clearance uh we find
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unlike the recently released h80i and h100i the h90 does not feature Corsair
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link and it doesn't have lighting effects on the CPU block itself so it's
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more of simple cooler it also goes with as I mentioned before 1/4 in tubing
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versus the 38 inch tubing on those other coolers but the additional surface area
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should give it some pretty interesting performance which we're very excited to
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uh to check out the bottom of the CPU block is looks like something pretty
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familiar so we've got that ring locking
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mechanism for mounting the block itself which allows you to take here we go one
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of these Rings whether it's fm1 fm2 am2
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am3 am 2 plus whatever you want any AMD
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socket from the last sort of couple Generations any Intel socket 775 1155
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1366 2011 and put the compatible hold
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down plate on top secured into place then use this retention ring which is so
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much better than the older systems that use the retention ring to lock the whole
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thing into place so you don't have to kind of have four different hands
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working on it in order to actually get one of these coolers installed it's
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quite simple now and comes with all the hardware you need as well as detailed
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instructions there they are from Corsair that include little pictures and all
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kinds of good stuff just like that for all the different
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platforms so in summary the h90 no
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Corsair link but massive surface area
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which should make it somewhere between a single 120 mm thin radiator cooler and
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something between sort of that and a dual 120 mm cooler probably somewhere in
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