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where's H 115 I Pro launched alongside the H 150 I pro the first two closed-loop liquid coolers to use the ASA tech sixth generation pump as we said in the H 150 I Pro review Mesa Tech didn't do Corsair any favors here the new pump isn't much different from the old one and primarily focuses on RGB implementations akin to NZXT T's custom work on the X x-2 series regardless courser has taken this and used it as an opportunity to bundle their new CLC's with silenced focused fans the ML 120 pro fans before that this video is brought to you by thermal grizzly makers of the conductor hot liquid metal that we recently used to drop 20 degrees off of our temperatures thermal grizzly also makes traditional thermal compounds we use on top of the IHS like cryo not and hydronaut pastes learn more at the link below this review is pretty basic it's not too hard to go through or digest but let's recap a couple of the main differences with the ASX sixth-generation pump so the 6th gen pump is one that we tore down previously with the h 150 i pro this one right here it's a 360 cooler it should be priced at 150 260 USD this one's 140 now I say the 360 should be because checking new egg there was one third-party marketplace seller who listed the H 150 I Pro for six hundred and fifty dollars basically the cost of well I would say graphics card but we all know how that goes so the cost of a 1050 right now anyway though that's supposed to be 150 160 this is 140 Price certains 10 bucks not a big difference for 360 versus 280 now as far as performance Corsair basically focused their fans used on these devices the ML 120 s to be more silence driven they don't spin up that fast then all on 20 pros really only go up at 140 millimeters to about 1050 1100 rpm somewhere in that range and that means you're gonna be limited on your cooling performance but if the focus is silent and not cooling then we need to focus more on how does it perform for acoustics as far as the AC tech pump to get everyone back up to speed when we did our teardown of this cooler the primary difference is where the actual impeller inside of the pump block so the impeller is now a metal impeller that more resembles the old Dyna Tron impellers that were used in an Tex 1250 series coolers it's more similar to those it's a bit higher quality than the three-pronged plastic impeller that was used in ASA tech forth 4.5 and 5th gen products including the previous H 150 and I not to be confused with the HT 115 I pro both are 280 milliliters the fans are significantly different and the pumps are one generation or so apart might be two at this point but the ASA tech contributions though basically different impeller and the different impeller is part of an effort to maintain low permeation of the tubes and of the liquid leaving the loop over time so you have slightly different aging characteristics between the pumps six gens not been out long enough to really fully gauge those yet it should theoretically be better in terms of noise and cooling performance and pump speed things like that a sec hasn't changed a whole lot of course hair dictated most of the design the coat plates a little bit smaller things like that but the primary differences really do come down to the impellers different and there's built-in RGB integration now with the ACE tech stock coolers which we have footage of the ASA tech stock ones before they get branded as well let's get into testing though for full testing methodology as always click the link in the description below for the full article which has testing notes as indicated there's a silence focused its loudest noise output for full system the way is with two 140 ml pros is only thirty seven ish DBA as we'll get to which means that for noise normalized thermals which we do at 40 DBA we run into a bit of a problem but we'll talk about that in a moment for standard flat out thermal testing the coarser h 115 i pro lands about fifty to sixty percent of the way down our full chart the flat out speeds for the h 115 i pro operate right around EVGA c LC 280 at equivalent RPMs in terms of thermal performance EVGA spins a lot faster but when we match them to the same RPMs they're not too different at 39 degrees above ambient h 115 i pro is operating at 37 decibels DBA something we'll discuss later and lands just three degrees warmer than the 360 millimeter H 150 I pro at 40 DB a position versus the EVGA CLC 280 performance is similar at ten fifty rpm but other factors enter play EVGA is CLC 280 cost about $140 the same as the H 115 I Pro and takes a much different visual approach EVGA fans can spin up significantly faster as well but will hit 57 DBA when maxed basically unusable at that noise level unless in very specific use cases other competitors adjacent to the 115 I pro include the X 40 to 140 cooler at much higher fan speeds of 1700 rpm and of course higher noise levels and the Ice Bear 420 at lower fan speeds and with anemic fans and an anemic pump moving on to noise testing the coarser H 115 I Pro again looked at silence we see that the out-of-the-box acoustics operating at 100% fan speeds land the H 115 I Pro at 37 DBA for total system noise in this testing this plants it within margin of error of the X 61 at 10:50 rpm and CLC 280 at 10:50 rpm the difference between these rankings is that unlike EVGA x ext Corsair is already at its maximum fan speed the included fans been at lower rpm and coarser does excellently here for focusing on limiting the noise output and has managed to build a set of fans that operate at a competitive noise and thermal level with other 280 millimeter closed-loop coolers when have similar noise levels on this chart barring the ek predator that was manually tuned to the lowest rpm it could sustain the H 115 I Pro is technically the quietest 280 cooler to be fair though it is within margin of error of others that have been manually tuned down to lower speeds we didn't have the same highly audible pump whine as we did with the H 150 I pro but each cooler uses an AC tech 6 gen pump we'd imagine this is more to do with manufacturing tolerances in variants than anything in our H 115 I Pro came a bit later so it might be from a different production batch maybe retail as opposed to pre-production or something like that for noise normalization it doesn't really work here like it normally does in order to hit 40 DBA on the 115 I Pro we'd have to use it louder and faster fans on the cooler typically this is a test of 40 DB a output with stock fans Corsair operates below that natively even with full system noise factored in so we'll keep this in mind for future noise normalization benchmarks and might do an additional lower DBA noise test regardless just for perspective h1 15 I pro at 37 DB a functionally handicapped versus the others and a 3 DB a difference which is there for entering noticeable territory lands between the EK flute gaming at 240 and the original h 115 I unit not the pro just to be clear here and then it all comes down to price the H 115 I pro is $140 the H 150 I pro should be 150 160 in that range not a big price difference you do get a bit more flexibility on fan tuning it with the 360 rad instead but it comes down to whether you want to actually do that type of thing and also does it fit in the case in question EVGA CLC 280 is also about 140 these days and the H 159 on Pro is 130 $240 X 52 $131 they're all about the same in terms of price it's a 10 maybe $20 variants for all these coolers in terms of cooling performance if you're willing to change the fan speeds the thermal performance can be made about equal the out of the box acoustics as opposed to the out of box thermals is the bigger question here if you're not willing to do any fan speed tuning or any custom fan curves and you just run it flat out the H 115 I Pro will start you at a much lower noise level and still perform completely adequately for basically any CPU under reasonable conditions ie not the hashtag rip LTT CPU benchmark we recently ran because that was a lot of wattage but up until crazy points like that it's pretty good it will perform slightly behind in terms of thermals when matched against things that are louder or allowed to operate louder like the EVGA CLC 280 at max fan rpm but at max fan rpm that cooler is about 57 DBA in our testing so you enter territory where it's kind of unusable for a lot of people it'll come down then to how you feel about the noise and how you feel that doing work fan curves this doesn't really leave you much room to do much tweaking because it's already more or less operating at its optimal level in terms of noise to performance so you don't have a lot of room to play there you can lower the RPMs if you want it even quieter but there's no room to go up and that think pretty much wraps up the cooler overall the H 150 I Pro I think somewhat disappointed us it was not an intensely large improvement over previous coolers that Corsairs made the main differences are things that we can't see I think that's kind of why it's easy to be disappointed by the new pro series of coolers that use six gen pumps because if most of the improvements are things like improving reliability on ASA tax end and decreasing permeation slowing down the rate of permeation improving the pump in a way that air pockets or hot spots in the tubing don't form as much or hot spots in the pump housing don't form and cause plastic to deform over time stuff like that that's basically mostly improvements as ASA tech has informed me in the past so if those are most the improvements that stuff you can't really see and in terms of warranty they're not all that different I think it might be a difference of a year or something that most but either way primarily invisible improvements doesn't mean they're not there it just means that it might not be something you'd ever notice because it's something you'd have to have old and new simultaneously and function and also lots of them to eliminate variance but that's that's it if you're looking at buying an H 115 I we still like that cooler a lot you can get a $10 cheaper the fans run faster and therefore it can cool better however it uses the old generation pump which may be completely irrelevant we need time to tell and it uses faster fans so you have to do a bit of tuning and that's that's really all there is to it it comes down to how you feel about the noise so that's it for this one as always patreon link in the description below go to patreon.com/scishow and access alves that directly make sure you subscribe to get additional reviews we have some other CLC's coming up and other thermal testing that you all will be interested and go to store in I cameras Nexus net to make sure you buy one of our mod mats that are now going to be I think in stock within a couple days of this video going live they're not in stock at that time so pick one up thanks for watching I'll see you all next time