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of course here's h100 I Pro is the third corsair product to use ASA Tech's sixth generation pump solution ASA tech didn't push performance in significant ways with the Gen six pump but instead focused on endurance improvement and reducing hot spots that encourage permeation of the tubes this time just to keep things sort of interesting we'll talk about how pump speed impacts the performance of this particular cooler and how these stock thermal paste application can also impact performance a topic we've explored with previous gen 5 coolers from other vendors before that this video is brought to you by thermal takes view 37 case the vo 37 focuses on highlighting custom PC builds with its fall panoramic window and tinted front acrylic and our thermal testing the view 37 performed reasonably well when considering its looks focused build which is partly thanks to the airflow design and the removal of a bottom power supply shroud for a balance of looks and performance check the link in the description below for the view 37 so a quick overview of how all this works Gen 5 and gents pumps are from ASA tech a supplier that makes the pumps and radiator solution we're basically all the closed-loop liquid coolers on the market not a hundred percent of them but pretty darn close and their main competitors are people like Dino Tron who don't do a whole lot these days used to do the anti cooler coolers the other competitors would be enter max or a pol tech or people like that there aren't a whole lot of them cool it or quality we prefer make some of course here's other coolers as well so most of the market probably two-thirds or greater at this point would be ASA tech made that's the supplier courser had a significant hand in designing the gens expose the first client to use the Gen 6 pump and so it has a couple of there changes on it one of them is more RGB and integrated RGB PCB to handle all the LEDs something that NZXT had sort of pioneered with their kraken series and later was brought over to other coolers like EVGA s and so forth another thing that Corsair worked on with their specific version of the Gen 6 coolers is a smaller cold plate by a little bit it's not a whole lot smaller they have a our pump housing and pump plate overall so everything's just a little bit smaller and they were also responsible for making the fans which is something that basically all the manufacturers have to do to have any kind of difference between one cooler or another so there's a primary differences with Gen 6 Gen 6 really was just driving to improve the endurance so asa tech had a couple of known hot spots in the Gen 5 coolers where with higher liquid temperatures 60 C+ you start having plastic deformation or plastic melty and or other issues with just permeation of the tubes where the liquid seeps into the tubes and it never comes out again so you'd have to refill it really to keep it peak operation and that's an issue of the liquid not moving through the different ins and outs of the cooling solution in a way that would keep the temperature sort of uniform around the tubes the plastic and keep the liquid at the temperature that it should be which is under sixty degrees Celsius so that's mostly been improved unfortunately this means that the performance has not really changed to be fair it's hard to make performance any better with a liquid cooler when you're working with this form factor but you're not there's no reason to expect significant off lift in performance versus say an H 100 IB 2 which is the predecessor to this one and the H 100 iv1 before that before getting into some of the thermals and stuff like that another quick explanation of what's going on with those names so the H 100 I the v2 version was basically the offspring of an IP issue intellectual property issue with the radiator specifically as far as we understand it so H 100 v1 had a slightly different radiator than H 100 IV - that's the difference and then H 400 IPRO the one we're looking at today is the gen 6 pump and that's all that's different there so if you have an H 100 I already and it's working fine there's no reason to even consider this but if you don't have a liquid cooler then that's where our testing comes in and it might be worth your consideration the H 100 I Pro is 120 bucks so it's continuing the trend of more expensive coolers in the Gen 6 Department it's most closest competition would be something like page 115 the H 159 - their product so of course there's 280 CLC from Gen 5 ace attack poms is about five dollars more than this one which is a 240 CLC it's got to 120 fans and that's something we'll be talking up more towards the conclusion we look at the value proposition of everything so let's get into the thermals we're gonna start with pump speed thermals and look at how the pump speed impacts it this cooler has three options if unless you want to customize it it's silent balanced and full performance and then it also technically is one of the first Corsair or the first Corsair H series cooler that has a zero rpm mode and all that means is that under low loads the fans won't spin if you allow it to do that so that's it's not that special it means that it'll be quieter when idle basically and then when the liquid temperatures tick to a certain point or the CPU temperature takes to a certain point it'll kick the fans on but other than that it's another H 100 T's cooler so let's go through the thermals for the pump speed and for the stock pace application versus our own application as always for testing methodology check the link in the description below for the full article where we define how we test these coolers the pump speed thermals are up first the best way to look at pump speed impact on temperature is to plot the temperature chart over time rather than using our steady-state charts plotted against time the full speed and balance speed pump settings equate one another one idle generally at around six to eight degrees celsius delta T over ambient whereas the silent pump speed sits closer to 10 to 11 degrees over ambient as the workload ramps and cools part of our test shows how well the equals can soak thermal changes we see the balanced and silent pump speeds perform roughly equally plus or minus one degree of each other the full speed test is consistently cooler at times by as much as four to five degrees this is the entirety of the difference generally speaking these fans at 100% speed are moving fast enough to deal with the heat without needing the extra help from a pump there is a difference but it tends to be in heaviest load periods and only on the order of four to five degrees the pump itself is inaudible over the fans in this configuration but a particularly whiny pump which sometimes happens in normal manufacturing variants might have audible frequency noise that are up pitched versus the normal lower hum if that's the case drop it into balanced speed will help minimize these noises but won't give a ton of performance up noise normalize testing is next this helps us evaluate the overall efficiency of the cooler and look at how good it is at cooling when considering the fans at the same noise level so by normalizing the noise to 40 DBA for all coolers tested we're able to kind of kick out the coolers that are only chart-topping by nature of having 50 or 60 DBA pads which is kind of cheating because no one's really gonna run them at that noise level to begin with so we equate the noise to 40 DBA for all coolers tested here and at a match noise level we can then compare the fan quality and pump quality without worrying about whether or not the coolers are sort of cheating with high noise fans so let's get into those and see how well this one does at 40 DBA when compared to its predecessor and some of its competitors the coarser h100 I Pro at 40 dB a required roughly 15 50 rpm fans fees for total system noise lending the cooler right around where the previous coarser h100 iv2 performed the H 100 IB 2 is near enough to the H 100 I pro that were bordering margin of error but just outside of it as we found previously the new ASA tech Gen 6 pump is slightly anemic when compared to Gen 5 there's not a huge difference and that manifests itself in marginal more or less immeasurable performance loss theoretically this is matched with endurance improvements but that will require years of user experience to really prove the EVGA a CL c 240 is a bit cooler at 40 dB a somewhat within the differences of Gen 5 and Gen 6 when combined with other variants and fan differences h 100 pro isn't doing anything particularly impressive in this benchmark but also isn't awful to be fair it's just fine and that's about it the cooler isn't offensive in its performance but it's also not exciting flatout thermal testing places the H 100 I Pro fairly far down the charts when left with the stock paste application by default ASA Tech's compound is well applied but doesn't cover the entire IHS or cold plate this reduces thermal performance particularly on large heat spreaders that are found on X 99 or X 299 CPUs completely stocked but at fall fan and pump speeds the H 100 I Pro performs that 41 degrees over ambience placing it near the X 42 140 millimeter cooler after applying paste manually as always we manually apply a layer of paste across the entire IHS for our tests unless otherwise stated and that does happen sometimes and that's where our performance Delta comes in the difference is that we wanted to demonstrate stock versus manual application for this round just to keep it interesting manually applied the cooler puts us closer to 38 degrees which is just shy of the original h100 IB to some of this is test variance and we aren't that far out of the range for error margins while the rest is attributable to two things one is fan RPMs these are 100 rpm slower on this particular unit which is within the 10% variance for fan manufacturing and the other thing is some reduction in performance attributable to a stag's pump this level of performance has the H 100 I Pro near the H 150 I at 40 DBA the X 72 with a silent pump both of which are 360 coolers and the 280 x LC at 1,400 rpm in terms of flat-out performance noise levels the H 100 I Pro landed at around 2400 rpm for its peak fan rpm and as usual again there's about 10% variance so yours may be faster or a bit slower these speeds had it slightly slower than the H 100 IV to be tested resulting in a proportional reduction in noise levels h 100 IV - operated at 54 DBA output at max fan RPMs with the H 100 I pro at about 51 DBA this has it comparable to the Kraken X 72 at full speed x' which is a three fan cooler and similar to some maxed out 280 coolers as usual you may adjust the fan speeds down to fit better performance or noise levels that your build targets just depends on what you're looking for so at 120 bucks the scene is a pretty tough sell to be completely honest of course there's our own h 100 IV - is 105 dollars and the EVGA CLC 280 which is a pretty good performer but not really a looker is 110 dollars the H 115 I is $125 and that's another corsair product and one that we've actually pretty highly recommended so at five dollars more really might as well get the H 159 not the 115 I Pro that costs proportionately more than this one but the old-school 115 I if you can find it if you're really looking for the things that this includes which is the ability to spin down to zero rpm and I guess more LEDs then it's a five-dollar difference the fans are smaller the noise is higher so if those things are okay with you I guess it's worth it for that specific set of features but for the most part $120 is just simply too much for a 240 millimeter cooler when considering how many options that are on the market just looking at other Asian tech coolers not even considering people like enter macs or silverstone people here's a politic or dinah Tron or any of the other vendors cool it just looking at ASA tech you've got the older Kraken models that are still somewhat affordable if you can find them a better choice would be something like Corsairs older models the H 100 IV 2 which is 105 bucks EVGA is models the CLC 280 which EVGA is signed for they're cheap because they're trying to establish a foothold in the market even though it's the same overall quality of cooler and then again the 115 I at 125 bucks so the cooler that the h1 are I Pro here it's fine there's nothing really wrong with it but it's not improved enough over the h1 100 IB 2 to really drive purchases unless you're looking for those few new features which is LEDs and the ability to spend down to zero rpm when not under any reasonable load and that you could do through other means if you really wanted to anyway so those are the options that uh that you've got I guess not the most impressive cooler on the market but hopefully some of the other testing has given you some a good look at performance for pump speeds and performs for thermal paste application the only thing here that really deserves one more note is although it's not a great value the $120 is too much for the performance the performance overall is okay so if this cooler comes down and price to say 105 dollars like the predecessor then that's perfectly fine by the H 100 IV 2 is actually a really good buy at its price and it's only overshadowed by a couple of 280 C LCS so if this comes down in price we're perfectly happy with it right now it's just a bit too much for 90% of the market but if you're in the 10% wants the new features go for it there's nothing really screamingly wrong with it so that's all for this one as always subscribe for more go to patreon.com/scishow Nexus helps I directly go to store that guarantees access net to pick up one of our mod Maps they are finally in stock again and shipping now so if you order now while it says Add to Cart you'll actually get one shipped within a day of 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