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alright so welcome again to the harbor connects wish list segment today we're taking a look at the corsair h50 all-in-one water cooling solution let me see what this is meant for is people who want the benefits of a traditional water cooling system whether it's the lower temperatures or the quieter system and they either aren't familiar with how to assemble a water-cooling system or they don't want to have to go through the hassle in the increased cost of doing so it rings in between 75 to 100 dollar so it's meant to compete more with the higher end of the air cooling solutions and I wouldn't say it's meant for serious overclockers so we're going to open it up check it out assemble it in our system and see what kind of improvements we can get all right so we're going to do the obligatory unboxing here up at the top we have the paperwork with a giant stop sign which is advertising for the Corsair RMA service and their help support their tech support we also have the instructions for AMD mounting 4am to an am3 sockets and then intel socket 775 1156 and 1366 and then we have the Quick Start Guide here which there's not a whole lot to it it's basically just a rundown of how to install it also then we have the unit itself now what does cool is this unit is a cpu block and a pump all in one that makes it really simple it's just two piece operation which will notice here is there is a copper base and it already has the thermal grease on it what we have here is the radiator which is like I said it's very simple you have the radiator here you have your it's about a foot long worth of tubing and then you have the block / / pump up at the top now it's all powered by a cpu fan header the traditional 3 pin style instead of a molex connector also in the packaging we have our fans screws we also have all the mounting hardware here for all of your different socket types so that is what is included very simple packaging now let's find out how tough it is to actually install as for the instructions we attach the plastic back plate which is much easier if you have a case with a rear cut out and then the metal retaining ring gets screwed in the cpu socket so after getting the bracket installed the next step is to figure out exactly where we're going to put the radiator actually this is something you probably should have figured out before you even buy the unit but the best part is usually going to be over the rear 120 millimeter exhaust fan which most cases do have now of course they're actually recommends that you install the fan as an intake fan so you'll have their logo pointing towards the radiator and because the screws are only this long that is why you can't install a larger fan than the one they've provided because it goes right through the case straight through the fan and into the radiator without damaging any of the fins as you can see the process of installing the radiator isn't all that difficult it's just a matter of making sure that you properly line up the screws and you don't damage any fins on the radiator make sure it's secured tight and from there the next step is to install the pump and water block so in order to actually install the block the clip should be a little loose and what it actually uses is a sort of a teeth style system and you just going to make sure that the teeth match up with the holes in the block and then you take your screwdriver and you secure it all down and that's all there is to it so for our stress test we're using prime95 eight iterations because it's four cores eight threads for the CPU we're using the core i7 920 CPU which runs natively at 2.66 gigahertz and then we're going to be overclocking it to three point three gigahertz which isn't terribly stressful but it's a modest overclock without getting too aggressive now at stock speeds the temperatures with stock cooling just the regular couva it comes with the CPU is just sitting under 60 degrees on most of the cores so it is a little high under full load but it's nothing unexpected so we're going to change it up overclock it a bit and let's see what we get so out of three point three gigahertz overclock we're sitting at a high of about a little over 70 degrees there which isn't all that bad with stock cooler however we're going to throw in the corsair water cooler will test it out at stock speeds and then overclock it as well and see what kind of benefits we can get so even just with the stock clogs we managed to drop our temperatures by about 10 degrees hopefully that will carry over when we overclock it will see just as much if not more of an improvement and this is where water cooling really shines overclocked a three point three gigahertz you can see that it's hovering right around 55 degrees and we've hit highs of just under 60 degrees that's 10 to 15 degrees cooler than with our stock cooling all right so that wraps up our look at the corsair h50 water cooling system now I realize there's a lot more we could have done with this like comparing cooler to popular air coolers or other systems etc but you know what I think that's best left to a full review and analysis rather than sort of this short video overview nevertheless the h50 really seems to pull its weight for the relatively low cost and ridiculously easy setup you really do get a lot of value out of it and it's a great first step for somebody who's looking to dive into the world of water cooling and that's it guys don't forget to subscribe if you enjoyed our videos and you want to see more and please leave us feedback in the comments section about this cooler or if you have any requests for future topics thanks for watching