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everyone so our H 150 I Pro review the Corsair 360 millimeter cooler that one live during CES that's when the embargo listed which means that honestly that's probably the one video recently where I don't think I've even looked at the cons because it went live during the show that also means that we didn't really get a good chance to dig into the cooler this is the first ASA tech sixth-generation pump product and that means it's worth taking it apart so we're gonna do a teardown of the H 150 I Pro see what changes have happened if any underneath the pump housing and look at what ASA Tech's done for this generation 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 coffee leak temperatures thermal grizzly also makes traditional thermal compounds we use on top of the IHS like cryo not and hydro not pastes learn more at the link below so a few key things here the ASA tech sixth-generation pumps are not that different in terms of performance from their 5th gen or even their 4.5 jan or their 4th gen how much can you really advanced moving liquid around a series of tubes and radiators so it's not significantly different than it different in thermal performance the biggest difference comes from the fans on the radiator which is provided by coarse hair not by ASA tech however from what we understand other than the PCB on here and the RGB LEDs that wrap around the thin form we understand the biggest difference is primarily pertain to optimizing the cooler the flow of the liquid to reduce hotspots in specific areas of the cooler so it should reduce potential for exceeding the thermal spec in very specific areas because even if your liquid temperatures reading under 60 C per spec for the sensor which is located in the pump body even if that's reading fine it's possible somewhere else in the loop you're over 60 C and if that's the case you're exceeding spec and there's potential for damage down the line or melting plastic or boiling liquid or whatever so ASA Tech has tried to correct some of that I don't have the specifics on how they did so but we can start tearing the see the other big difference here is the cold plate this is a Corsair spec thing so this cold plates couple millimeters smaller than the fifth-generation cold plates which means that theoretically on on larger heat spreader devices like on the x99 cpu we tested you might have some slight loss in performance and in our testing this pump generation four generation is seemingly slightly worse in performance and I say seemingly because we're really kind of right up against the margin of error there so best case no real advantage worst case marginally worse so the main changes have been for reliability and endurance that's what ace attacks been trying to drive home and then LEDs so let's take it apart this one looks pretty straightforward it's got two four six eight Torx screws and I think that's probably a TR nine or eight or something that's about right yes so they moved two Torx screws I'm hoping these are easier to remove than the previous ones as well because historically a synthetic colours have been really annoying to take apart so the reason they've been annoying this by the way is different as well you used to be able to torque these plates a little bit easier you can still bend it if you really try it I mean I just did but I think it's slightly more durable doesn't feel quite as easy to bend in one hand anymore so that's good I could definitely still bend it it would right now but not really relevant because you're never gonna be doing that so just revealed a couple other small Torx screws underneath let's get these out first so the ASA tech coolers the biggest concern with disassembly is stripping stuff because they put the screws in crazy tight which to their credit is because it's a device that contains liquid so you don't want anything to leak out the sides this is going to take a while good Jay this is much easier than the previous ones I feel it weak you know cool okay let's start with the cold plate so that's come off actually much easier than normally and in terms of orientation there's three divots on the sides so let me get our bearings here so the one that has a divot on the top and at the bottom is where we orient the in and the outlets so you can see there's three right there so I'll just kind of keep that for future reference but the split area is going to be up here in your the top divot let's remove this gasket so there's your gasket and basically this is just to help with pressure and containing the liquid making it go through where we want it to go through so you can see that Inlet is in here or that one of them and the other ones are up at the sides here and the liquid is going to flow in to the micro fins so lots of micro fins it looks like about the same fin density as previous AC tech products I'm not really sure though I'd have to and I don't have tools that can measure with that level precision but there's a lot of micro fins it's what you want for increasing surface area it spreads the heat over a larger area of course this is brand new so it's not conked up or anything like that but we can set this aside and start looking at the the rest of the pump so far though the in and the out it's a bit different they've redesigned that I think I might be able to show it better once we get in to the next layer okay so four screws these were dr six size outer plastic doesn't do anything oh okay something just popped out but here's the hot glue gross here's that nameplate yeah Corsair cable obviously and that's just what our LED is shining through and also the led around the sides so not too important although one of the major changes with these tech pumps I will say okay so here's our PCB and we're still not really to the central part of the pump but it is a new PCB you can tell by looking at it compared to the old ones it's also got LEDs in the in several locations see one just for looks like maybe four LEDs so the motor really well the electromagnet anyway a couple copper wires that were sticking up and attached to the PCB I had to break those two separate it but here's the thermocouple so it's just coated in thermal paste this sits down into the chamber of the actual pump body and that's what gives you your liquid measurement in in the software of course our link or otherwise so that's the thermocouple for that we've got power coming in where all this black out cabling is and that's also going to be our fan splitter pump sort of communication and then pump powers right there that's the more important one so those are all going in here there's your pump power there is the pump rpm readout and then there's the fans it's a bit more complex along with the the controller and everything else for the chip what interests me and maybe someone can explain to me why this would be done this way there's this little I see it looks like just suspended in between a hole in the PCB and it's on both sides and it's attached by solder joints so my question to you if you know the answer why is it like that and I can ask A's attack they'll be able to get an answer for me that's kind of a low level thing for an engineer to they have to go hunt one down but if you know why someone would do that let me know I'm curious anyway let's let's get in further here so electromagnet and here's you're in and you're out valve so for future reference from the top with it oriented with the tubes up towards the top of the motherboard it would be coming in through the right tube and going out through the left tube which if we look more carefully it would mean actually gonna have to take more of this apart but I think we're coming it in through here and then I have to take out the next screw to see what else we can see hey that's a big difference okay now we're getting to the stuff that a stick actually changed this impeller is massively different let me get an old one to give you a comparison this is one of the EVGA coolers this is a Gen 4.5 pump which is actually a little bit different than a Jena 5 to the Gen 4.5 has a faster impeller but what we're looking at is actually does that remove - no it's got a screw on it okay well anyway without further dismantling it you can see the difference in the impeller is pretty clearly so this is similar to the Dyna Tron impellers I mean I don't know who ace tech sourcing forward or if they're making it themselves but the point remains it's similar it's just a little less thick and you can feel the poles so one two three four five six seven eight I think that's right one two three four five six seven eight yeah so eight magnetic poles in this one whereas this is I think these were and I actually remember these might be these might be four eight I can't remember exactly without we can look at other footage but I can't remember exactly how many magnetic poles this has but either way I look at that impeller it's plastic it's got three blades on it and then you've got the new one that's kind of a met and has a much better feel to it overall it's a larger know if I'm gonna be able to fish it out of there there we go cool alright so there's what goes and there is what it is this might be just a hardened plastic with some metal on the bottom side I don't really not positive the material composition it's kind of slimy right now so it's hard to really gauge but either way there's your impeller significantly different from the old one this is actually the coolest part of it for sure is that a stack I actually changed something I think I'm not sure but this might be partly to do with noise I have a feeling this probably makes less noise now that said the H 150 I Pro is quite a loud pump when you set it to a 100% rpm you can definitely hear the pump it just like all the other ones even more so potentially in some cases so I would not say the pump is particularly quiet check our review for information on that but it's definitely been revised in a lot of ways and that would that's pretty much all we can see from this this teardown today there might I think there's some changes in the barbs as well in here I'm trying to preserve this a little bit this time but I think there might be a change in the barb with the piano wire but I'm really not sure if you're curious to learn what's in these you can check our how a liquid coolers work video it's the same idea for all of them but I think we can conclude that there so that's the H 150 I pro but more importantly that's the first ace attack sixth-generation pump the impeller is quite a bit different the pump block size overall is a bit different the design for the in and the out is different so this 4.5 done pump you can see it's got just the one in and out right here whereas the new one has three different options or three different areas for the liquid going in and out so it's got like a split flow of some kind which I know I know cool it is big on split flow designs and I'm not sure how the the legal stuff works out there between them but that's it that's the sixth-generation a stack pump pretty cool stuff we will probably be testing more of these as they come out but Corsairs kind of got a lock on that market right now in terms of performance check our review it's not hugely impressive it's it's another liquid cooler a closed loop performs like all the other ones do for the most part they optimized for silence in the fans and it's 360 millimeters and those are the only two real deciding factors aside from price so that's it for now as always subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow stop us out directly and if you liked the Matt the surface I was working on that protects the table from everything you go to store dock gamers Nexus dotnet slash mod matte they are currently on backorder because we've sold out of the entire first production run so you 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