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welcome guys to my comparative test between the h100 I the all-new liquid cooler from Corsair and the original H 100 so I have built myself a little test bench here and I'd like to explain my methodology I'm going to keep things pretty simple both of these coolers are going to be in their stock configurations so that is I used the original course our fans for the H 100 and I'm using the all new updated corsair fans for the h 100 i remember these are based on their static pressure series fans so they should perform significantly better at least in terms of fans and that's not even counting accounting for any of the improvements that have been made with the increased diameter tubing as well as the pump and the block I don't think they've actually made any changes to the radiator so I want to show you guys my test config really quick there's a GTX 580 in there x79 board with a 39 60 X I believe 3930k must be a 3930k 3930k in there got some power supply we got a/c 70 case so this represents I paste with fairly good airflow so I'm making a couple assumptions here I'm assuming that you know gamers configuring their machine for you know gaming have a decent graphics card and I'm also assuming that gamers configuring machine for gaming have bought it themselves a decent chassis especially as they're planning to put an age 100 or an age 100 I into their computer so let's go ahead and yeah I wonder if this is going to work I haven't actually turned the system on yet so there's only one way to find out for sure and CPU rememory change ah one to run setup okay so we're gonna run setup and I am going to make some changes to the configuration of this system so now first things first is I am going to adjust the CPU ratio and we are going to clock the CPU at like 4 gigahertz or something so not not very high not very high I mean one of the things that kills me about the marketing that Corsair does for coolers like the H 100 is they give you these numbers at stock speed on a CPU I'm like well yeah but that doesn't even allow it to differentiate itself from some of the some of the crappy or coolers that it gets compared against so what we really need to do is we need to go and find AHA turn our video you know let's just leave that alone okay so all we really need to do then is turn up the CPU a little bit that's not going to affect heat much though then we're going to go ahead and we're going to find our CPU voltage which I can't even find and we're going to crank that baby up so we're going to actually put some voltage into the CPU to help separate the men from the boys when it comes to these coolers so let's go up to a sort of one point three seven five volts and see how this six core processor is handled by the h 100 versus the H 100 I now it's very cold in this room it is 13 degrees in this room right now 13 degrees Celsius that is accurate and that is being measured at the Corsair logo at the intake of the case so what does that mean I am going to be correcting the results to 20 degrees Celsius sort of approximately room temperature the reason I'm doing that is because I want the results to be somewhat comparable to what you guys will achieve at home now before you guys sort of run in cry foul and say well what is it's such a cool room so you know the results are there no no it doesn't work that way the way it works is whatever temperature I get if I get sixty degrees on the CPU and I want to correct 220 then all I do is I add six and a half degrees to my results trust me it scales exactly linearly linearly there will be no issues so we're going to go ahead find out how things go I'm going to just boot off that vertex SSD in there that you guys can't really there you go now you can see it boot off that and get into the OS and see how things go off right right right right okay so I'm going to do two readings and I'm not I'm not going to crank these things I'm going to use them the way I would use them so on sort of middle settings there we go to set it to middle settings with the fans plugged in to the motherboard so we're using actually no no no let's call middle settings we're going to apples to apples here so middle settings on the one hundred mill settings on the one hundred I idle will be at the desktop with the CPU idling and load will be running twelve instances of prime95 on the CPU with fur mark running on the GPU so that things will heat up as much as possible I'm going to close up this case so that we get a realistic scenario as well all right so I'm starting to take down some data here guys I'm just sort of making some notes on my standardized heatsink test bench since I've never really had one before methodology wise it's going to be pretty simple so besides the corrections that I'm doing so these are my raw numbers here these are my corrected to 20 degrees numbers I'm going to make notes for which fans I'm using I'm going to be switching to using standardized fans on all coolers rather than using the stock ones that come with them that way we can eliminate the factors of you know crappy fans that come with some of them I mean from my perspective anyone spending 50 60 bucks on a heatsink should probably be buying decent fans for it as well methodology wise I'm going to be taking the highest court or the second highest core temperature and real temp GT and if there's any fluctuation so you can see here that when you open up real Tim TG there's some some movement they kind of move around a little bit I'll be taking the higher of the two so if this was the second highest core I'd be taking 27 not 27 not 26 so just kind of look at it for a while and well saw it hit 29 for a second there let's see if the temperatures change in the room because that's a factor no it's still 13-point and I'll be rounding up the room temperature as well so rounding up to the nearest half so yeah you know what I think we'll probably have to go with I'll give it a little while longer because you got to give these water coolers especially you got to give them some time for the water to heat up that might have been just an anomaly though so anyway there you go so I'm going to take down some data here get the idol and load for the H 100 and the 100 I and we'll see how it goes so let's torture test time now guys you can see we're getting up near around 60 degrees and the GPU temperatures are still climbing so once everything seems kind of maxed out I'll probably give it a few more minutes here well yeah I'll definitely give it a few more minutes to get maxed out then that'll give us some idea of what our load temperature is going to be for the system this way so this is different from how I've always tested coolers in the past where I've always tested them in on them on an open platform now we're going with a closed case I mean a well ventilated case mind you but a closed case and this should give a more realistic representation of how it will perform in the real world something that I've noticed already though is the fans have automatically ramped up so it'll be interesting to see how the h100 reacts compared to the H 100 I when the going gets tough it's quite a bit louder already all right so it's gotten a little bit warmer in the room but like I said we're going to correct our results so it should really matter that much amazing how sensitive this thing is I'm standing in the way and the temperature goes up a half a degree it's just crazy so I'll move away from it when I take my reading but the H 100 is in there now you can see the big fat 3/8 inch tubes compared to the 1/4 inch tubes of course their link is plugged in via USB there's no hardware button to select a medium fan profile this time around so I'll be using the software to do that I've updated to the latest firmware so the fans don't rattle so you can see there's the radiator and this is something I really don't like about the the fans Corsairs including I mean here so you can see that they have a rounded shape to the frame so what that means is that around the outside of a square object like a radiator see that you don't have a seal see with a conventional square frame fan you put it down on here and you haveyou have a seal so you don't have air leaking whether you're in push or pull it's an issue either way because it means like here let's say for example it's in pull the fan cannot draw air from anywhere other than through the fins whereas if you had gaps here here here here here here here and here then it could draw air from around it which would see right there see in gaps like right there which would obviously not help draw air through the radiator so that's a situation we're running into here where there are actually gaps where air can escape around the outside edges so I'm not a big big fan of it I mean they're small but but it's all significant when we're talking about optimizing pressure through a radiator so I've just got a go ahead and close up the side panel then I can take my idle temps and my low temperatures I don't know if I ever showed you guys the low temperatures with the H 100 but you know they were good which is what I've come to expect from the hundred cuz it's an awesome cooler so go ahead and dial that down up got real tempera in here got my SkyDrive opened up there we go so low temperatures could were corrected to about 70 degrees under load so that should be when we use air cooling heat sinks they'll they'll pretty much probably either boom I guess we'll find out what happens so here we go so we have our results 58 degrees on the hottest core I'd say once again it's actually a touch louder than the original h100 I so let's go ahead and close that down go back to our 58 degrees however it is about three and a half four degrees cooler than the original h100 so I'd say they're very similar but this kind of stands to reason guys I mean was I really expecting you know some kind of huge revolution in terms of performance no I mean you still have the same surface area you're still going to be limited by the fact that that's your radiator that's your cooling surface area so we're getting what appear to be probably better fans because they are more pressure optimized although they do have that slight leakage and especially with the stock firmware they have a bit of a rattle but don't worry once you upgrade the firmware on your age 100 I it's fine and the process took like a couple minutes but the biggest benefit that you get is Corsair link software so of course their link allows you to do all kinds of very cool stuff and if it would load up for me here than I would be able to show you that go ahead Oh another cool instance is already running that's why it's not loading there we go as far up Corsair link here it is in the background so you can do so much cool stuff so check this out so your fans you can set all kinds of different modes and profiles such as quiet performance custom fixed rpm default whatever else you want to do you can group things so that you can have different zones in your computer react differently you can actually rename them you can control different kinds of pumps although this is VH 100 pumps so there's not a whole lot here to be controlled you can see graphs of things like g-force temperature for example you can see the h100 eye temperature 1h 100 I pump you can see all kinds of different stuff you can lay out the console however you want to monitor your different groups so of course our link very very very cool stuff you don't get it with the original age 100 I think that pretty much wraps this up thank you for checking out my video on the Corsair hydro series H 100 I and how it compares to the original H 100 don't forget to subscribe to learn is tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos