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por ser raptor k 40 keyboard and m/45 mouse are designed to provide best-in-class features and performance for gaming click now to learn more when it comes to cpu liquid coolers it's not exactly rocket surgery it's mostly a function of how good are the fans and how much surface area can you throw at it I mean there can be other factors for example with Corsairs h100 i there's excellent software integration with their course or link software for things like monitoring liquid temperature monitoring fan rpm CPU temperature fan control all that kind of cool stuff but those things tend to add cost to the unit and tend not to necessarily contribute to raw performance the H 105 goes to the H 110 school of product design which is a little bit more bare-bones in terms of extra stuff but definitely targeting performance so unlike the H 100 I the H 105 features a thicker radiator and unlike the H 110 which features a thin radiator but with 140 millimeter fans the H 105 features 120 millimeter fans on its red so it should sit somewhere in between those two in terms of performance but if I had to hazard a guess I would say particularly at lower rpms it's probably going to be closer to the H 110 because of the design of the radiator with a little bit lower fin density than I'm used to seeing with these all-in-one units which i think is actually probably a good thing because as soon as you throw dual 120 millimeter fans at cooling a single CPU even if it's quite a powerful one unless you're talking about extreme overclocking it's pretty much enough so you might as well go after silence and speaking of silence the two included fans are PWM so this is a bit of a nice touch here and they can operate from anywhere from 800 rpm to 2700 rpm so 800 rpm is going to be very very quiet on a 38 millimeter thick radiator like this one that's compared to 25 millimeters which is more the more typical thin thin radiator setup like what you'll find on an H 100 I and then all the way up to 2700 rpm which for me would be uncomfortably loud and I probably didn't recommend that so much now the included fans aside from being PWM and being good in that way are pretty basic these are SP 120 L fans unlike the regular SP 120 s which are available in a quiet addition and performance Edition the mean the main differences there being that the regular sp1 20s have swappable color rings as well as rubber isolating grommets in the corners and just generally feel a little bit nicer overall in terms of build quality now if you did decide that you weren't going to use the L Series fans and you were going to upgrade to SPS there's another little cool thing so Corsair has changed the design of the block and pump combo unit here they've add they've changed the ID and they've added a little swappable ring so it comes with the same colors as you can get an AF and SP series fans you've got blue and red but unfortunately not white so there's a gray one on there by default they've also updated the mounting hardware just a touch so it comes with the Intel hold-down pre-installed now it comes with a slightly updated back plate this is an ASA tech design so it's not really something we've never seen before but the little pieces are a little bit easier to slide so whether you're mounting on LGA 1150 X 1366 or 2011 you're going to be able to get it in the right position quite easily although remember guys 2011 does have its own backplate built onto the motherboard just like AMD sockets so same thing for the AMD Hardware you're just going to get a hold down which can be swapped by just undoing these four little clips right here popping off the bottom ring just like that pulling off the retention or pulling off the hold down and then swapping on the appropriate AMD one so you can do that relatively easily and then it will just screw directly into the back plate that is built into your motherboard giving you compatibility for FM sockets as well as a.m. sockets the last thing they've updated in terms of the ID is they have changed the thumb screws a little bit and then other than that I think that's pretty much it for accessories you also get a PWM Y cable so this will allow you to plug both of the fans into your CPU fan header so you can actually control both of them with PWM using a single fan header so that's actually really handy that from what I've seen the best way to do PWM control because the CPU fan header tends to be the least broken of all the PWM implementations on a on a given motherboard or in a given system it uses quarter inch tubing but I'm not really convinced that that's going to be a problem for it because these all-in-one liquid coolers don't tend to to have extremely high flow rates to the point where 3/8 or even 1/2 inch tubing would make much of a difference and other than that it's going to come down to the radiator right here so 38 millimeters thick as I mentioned before a little bit lower fin density that we've necessarily seen in the past and and the fan belt the thickness well okay I've talked a lot about the thicknesses because that's the main difference here it's going to affect performance and it's also going to affect compatibility so you're going to want to make sure that if you plan to install the h 105 in your case you have enough clearance not only for a 25 millimeter thick fan but also a 38 millimeter thick radiator comes with all the mounting hardware that you'll need to mount the fans on either side mount the radiator directly to the case and then the fans to that or mount the radiator through the fan to the case from the top or whatever else you need to do you just need to make sure you have enough room which leads us to performance off to Luke 4 that all right so to start us off there's been a test bench change now we are running in x79 deluxe from a soos and a 48 20 K from Intel this was because in the previous set up I was noticing some pretty major inconsistencies when trying to test the h 105 from Corsair and it wasn't testing the same every run and it was kind of all over the place with massive Delta's so I thought there might be something wrong swapped out hardware and now we're getting much more consistent numbers this was isolated to just this test so it must have been recently and I don't think it's going to affect other videos that we've recorded to don't worry about that as for installing it it was much better than H 110 which has the kind of older installation setup but it wasn't quite as good as an H 100 I which has the super nice magnetic locking plates and all that kind of stuff that Corsair is put on it but it was definitely in the higher echelon of installation processes for coolers that I have used and it performed pretty much exactly where we expected it performed in between an H 100 I and an H 110 now what I want in the future as all of those things are fairly self-explanatory you guys probably heard that from Linus previously because he expected it and it was true what what I want to see in the future is I want them all to come together like essentially in h1 15i or an H I or something I don't really know but I want them all to come together I want the the size of the h1 10 I want the thickness of the H 105 and I want the advanced technologies in connectivity and mounting system of an H 100 I what do you guys want what are you looking for in a cooler even looking for an AI o or you more focus still on air let me know in the comments below like and favorite the video depending on whether you run air or water and as always subscribe to Linus tech tips you