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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair H 110 this is a 280 millimeter liquid cooler from Corsair it is an all-in-one prefilled liquid cooler which means it's pretty much zero maintenance within its reasonably expected lifespan of how long you would have that computer and it is simple to install as long as you pick out a case that it is compatible with as we open up the box we find everything packed in a neat eco-friendly package so this is using sort of brown paper cardboard rather than going heavy on the foam even things like the radiator itself are not packed in foam it's just a paper recyclable material which I do like to see also you have a warranty card that tells you not a whole lot but it's ok because on the duration of warranty well it depends anywhere from two years for lifetime it's okay though because it tells you right on the outside of the box that it is a five-year guarantee from Corsair inside the box we find a number of things including two 140 millimeter fans it should be noted that unlike the Corsair 100 I these are not Corsair design fans I mean they're Corsair fans but they don't have the flat blades like the SP series so they're using more of what we saw on Corsairs last generation liquid coolers in terms of the blade design okay they are four pin pwm fans however and they do have black ribbon cables so they're going to go well with your system pretty much no matter what I mean Corsair is is so good at making sure that their components are not only high performance but also are held to a different standard in terms of aesthetics for mounting hardware you've got everything you need for pretty much every socket you could possibly need including FM one FM 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 3 + a.m. 2 a.m. 2 + LGA 1156 LGA 1155 LGA 775 LGA 1366 and LGA 2011 the instructions that are included are very straightforward and again we're used to seeing this and if you've installed something like a Corsair H 70 or H 50 in the past you'll pretty much already know how to use all this stuff one of the challenging things with the Corsair 100 a or rather H 110 is case compatibility so there are some coarser cases compatible with this particular cooler I mean even some of the cases that they don't say are compatible actually ended up working for example we found that we could install it in a vengence c70 which is right over there and that is not listed as compatible we did this without any cutting all we had to do was get some washers and put them between the screws and the case itself because the holes were a little bit wide so that was the only issue so with a little bit of ingenuity if you've got a dual 140 millimeter fan mount on the top and enough clearance to have not only the radiator but also the fan itself without interfering with any of the components of your motherboard you shouldn't run into too much difficulty the radiator itself is as you'd expect about 36 percent larger than in H 100 I or an H 100 due to the larger fan design it is still a fairly slim radiator so this is necessary because the last thing you want to do with a product like this it's not compatible with every case out there is go and make it thicker so that it's compatible with even fewer cases because it's so wide you're not going to be able to do what some case manufacturers have done and that is to offset the 120 millimeter mounting holes in the top so that there's room for the motherboard on the side rather than centering it with something this large the tubing is a very very flexible quarter inch tubing so that's another option that hasn't been carried over from the H 100 I in addition to Corsair link software not being included with the H 110 at this time so the H 100 I has 3/8 tubing whereas the H 1 hunt when these are very confusing model names h 110 does not have 3/8 inch tubing it has 1/4 inch tubing it also lacks here we go rather known doesn't lack it oh yeah it also lacks lighting effects on the block itself but it does have the same swiveling connectors here so that you're not going to have any difficulty regardless of where your CPU socket is situated on your motherboard making sure that the tubing is not sort of at a weird angle that puts unnecessary strain on the connectors the design for mounting is the traditional sort of ring mounting bracket that we've seen many times in the past with a copper base that has a high quality thermal compound pre applied to it and the pump here we go is powered by a black ribbon cable that is a three pin connector so that will plug into either a PWM CPU fan connector or a legacy three pin connector but you'll only be able to use DC control if you wanted to lower the speed of the pump but I really really wouldn't recommend doing that in 95 cases out of actually 100 cases I've hundred just don't do that thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the H 110 from Corsair don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos you