Corsair H110 Water Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair h110 this is a
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280 mm liquid cooler from Corsair it is
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an all-in-one pre-filled liquid cooler which means it's pretty much zero
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maintenance uh within its reasonably expected lifespan of how long you would
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have that computer and it is simple to install as long as you pick out a case
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that it is compatible with as we open up the box we find everything packed in a
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neat eco-friendly package so this is using sort of brown paper cardboard
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rather than going heavy on the foam even things like the radiator itself are not
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packed in foam it's just a a paper recyclable material which I do like to
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see also you have a warranty card that tells you not a whole lot but it's okay
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because on the duration of warranty well it depends anywhere from 2 years to
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Lifetime it's okay though because tells you right on the outside of the box that
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it is a 5-year guarantee from Corsair
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Inside the Box we find a number of things including two 140 mm fans it
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should be noted that unlike the Corsair 100i these are not Corsair designed fans
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I mean they're Corsair fans but they don't have the flat blades like the SP
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Series so they're using more of what we saw on Corsair's last generation liquid
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coolers in terms of the blade design okay they are four pin pwm fans however
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and they do have uh black ribbon cables so they're going to go well with your
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system pretty much no matter what I mean Corsair is uh is so good at making sure
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that their components are not only high performance but also are held to a
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different standard in terms of Aesthetics for mounting hardware you've
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got everything you need for pretty much every socket you could possibly need
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including fm1 fm2 am3 am3 plus am2 am2
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plus LGA 1156 LGA 1155
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lga775 LGA 1366 and LGA 2011 the
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instructions that are included are very straightforward and again we're used to
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seeing this and if you've installed something like a Corsair h70 or H50 in
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the past you'll pretty much already know how to use all of this stuff one of the
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challenging things with the Corsair 100
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or rather h110 is case compatibility so there are
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some Corsair cases compatible with this particular cooler uh I mean even some of
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the cases that they don't say are compatible actually ended up working for
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example uh we found that we could install it in a Vengeance C70 which is
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right over there and that is not listed as compatible we did this without any
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cutting all we had to do was get some washers and put them uh between the
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screws and the case itself because the holes were a little bit wide so that was
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the only issue so with a little bit of Ingenuity if you've got a dual 140 mm
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fan mount in the top and enough clearance to have not only the radiator
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but also the fan itself without interfering with any of the components
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of your motherboard you shouldn't run into too much difficulty the radiator
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itself is as you'd expect about 36% larger than an h100i or an h100 due to
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the larger fan design it is still a fairly slim radiator so this is
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necessary because the last thing you want to do with a product like this
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that's not compatible with every case out there is go and make it thicker so
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that it's compatible with even fewer cases because it's so wide you're not
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going to be able to do what some case manufacturers have done and that is to
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offset the 120 mm mounting holes in the
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top so that there's room for the motherboard on the side rather than centering it with something this large
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the tubing is a very very flexible quarter-inch tubing so that's another
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option that hasn't been carried over from the h100i and addition to Corsair
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link software not being included with the h110 at this time so the h100i has
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38 tubing whereas the h100 when these
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are very confusing model names h110 does not have 38 in tubing it has 1/4 inch
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tubing it also lacks uh here we go uh
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rather no it doesn't lack it uh oh yeah it also lacks lighting effects on the
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Block itself but it does have the same swiveling connectors here so that you're
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not going to have any difficulty regardless of where your CPU socket is
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situated on your motherboard making sure that the tubing is not sort of at a
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weird angle that puts unnecessary strain on the connectors the design for
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mounting is the traditional sort of ring mounting bracket that we've seen many
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times in the past with a copper base that has a highquality thermal compound pre-applied
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to it and the pump here we go is powered
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by a black ribbon cable that is a three
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pin connector so that'll plug into either a pwm CPU fan connector or a
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legacy 3 pin connector but you'll only be able to use DC control if you wanted
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to lower the speed of the pump but I really really wouldn't recommend doing
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that in 95 cases out of actually 100
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cases out of 100 just don't do that thank thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the h110 from
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