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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Corsair h80 I so this is the replacement for the Corsair h80 which is different from the H ATI in a couple of key ways so number one is that the H 80 is completely eyeless it has no eyes Wow where's Jo never right but that's what makes this channel great yes okay moving right along what is the key difference between the H Adi and the H ad number one poor Sara link so Corsair link is a software feature that Corsair has built in to the hardware that allows you to do all kinds of cool stuff like monitoring your coolant temperatures changing your fan speed cool cool stuff and if you have other coarser components like their ax 1200 I for example power supply then you can monitor all kinds of other stuff like you can monitor your power supply temperature your rails all kinds of neat stuff with Corsair link fans if you have the Corsair link module you can monitor and control your fan set fan control curves Quick Start Guide shows you how to do a bunch of cool stuff like mounting it to things okay that's important if you don't mount this to your CPU this product will be useless to you it is compatible with both Intel and AMD and it has a lot of plastic inside this stuff will kill your baby and there is a warning all over it plastic bags are not toys Corsair believes in not killing babies this message was brought to you by Corsair or something okay this is just a bad unboxing so far so don't worry I'm going to clean it up um the next cool thing about the itching the next cool thing about the H Adi is the inclusion of a way better mounting mechanism for switching between Intel and AMD so check this out all you got to do is you want to go oh yeah I want to put like some Intel CPUs in my system and you know you just kind of go like this and you're all eh yeah making this look harder than it is at this point in time there you go what BAM oh it's cuz the plastic here there you go so it's magnetic you take the Intel retention thing you put it on there boom done you want to be like oh shoot no no no I got an AMD CPU my bad my bad BAM AMD done no problem magnetic very cool very easy to hold things in place you don't mean remember the emember the original h 70 the mounting mechanism on that thing where you had to like hold the thing on the back and position the thing just right and have the little things in the little grooves and you get to like have a third arm coming out of your shoulder to like screw in the screwdriver no no no we're done with that magnetic mounting easy backplate all the hardware you need is included here and it's very stylish-looking hardware I might say check out these thumb screws those are just gorgeous see these are the little nice finishing touches that I appreciate LGA 2011 compatibility is provided by this these pieces right here and then all the other sockets are dealt with with the back plate which has adjustable width right here so you can do 775 1155 1156 and 1366 no big deal and then AMD is with two couple loops and a couple of thumbscrews it's it's complicated you guys wouldn't understand don't worry about it ah the third key thing about the H 8000 this is cool look at that I think they I think they increased the or decrease the FB I the density looks like it okay so this is a much more silence optimized radiator assuming I'm not completely incorrect and talking out of my you know bad thing it looks like this is a much more silence optimized radiator which means performance shouldn't suffer much at all because as long as you got a nice thick 120 mil radiator they're all going to perform pretty close once you start pumping some airflow through them and once you get down to lower rpms on your fans this will pull itself away from a denser 120 millimeter radiator so I said the radiator was a thicker style radiator this will perform significantly better than something like in aged 60 or aged 50 which has that thin radiator in fact most of the pre down water coolers on the market use thin rads because they do offer better compatible ability however the drawback for them is that they do not perform as well okay speaking of performance Corsair has upgraded the coolant pipes from 1/4 inch to 3/8 inch and they have kept these swiveling mounts right here which give you lots of flexibility in terms of where you want to sort of route the tubes and how you want to do that and you can twist these up as much as you want will not kink awesome awesome stuff love to see that so the finish on it has also changed a little bit as well also changed as well that's totally redundant that's totally redundant that's totally redundant that code no I'm just kidding okay see slick called me on it he brought the camera up here I could have gotten away with it for a couple more if you hadn't done that okay so on the unit itself the corsair link module is inside here as well as the pump and the cpu block so you can see the copper base so there spins in there and stuff pre-applied high-quality thermal compound and here we have a couple of different things so we've got some cables for this so I can show you guys check this out so there's a USB connector that plugs into your motherboard that is how your cooler interfaces with your computer and that is how the software controls everything next we've got this guy right here which is a breakout cable so you can plug in both of the fans that you want to wait hold on yeah there you go okay so those guys plug in here and you can actually get an additional one if you want you can plug in additional fans should you so desire but it comes with two of course there's new style fans so do that right there so you can plug in up to two four pin PWM fans without any additional hoopla going on the last thing that is a major improvement over the original h80 is these fans now these are slightly downgraded versions of Corsairs I can't find one but here's a box you'll have to sort of imagine that there's an SP 120 in there see there's a certain Neela I can find ya sound like okay nope wrong one yeah sounds like not Mon one you got to be kidding me here where are my SP 120 s slick did you take them okay there's an SP 120 okay so as people in 20s have color change rings around them they come with a few different rings they have rubber mounts up here see the full like corner is filled with rubber and I think that's pretty much the only key difference because the blade design is what's most important about a fan so these are slightly costed down because they don't have the rubber and they don't have the interchangeable blades but these are way better fans than would have been included on previous generation Corsair liquid cooling products they're awesome and you should use them in push-pull on your H ad as long as you have enough room in your chassis otherwise you can just use one they are pressure optimized fans so you don't have to worry about cranking up the RPMs in order to get great performance out of your liquid cooling unit and that's pretty much it what else is there to say about it so in summary Corsair link better fans well-designed radiator and thicker tubes and I guess that's actually oh yeah and the easier retention mechanism I think that is enough that they probably could have called it an H 85 or an H 90 if they'd really wanted to but who knows maybe they're you know saving that for something even more impressive either way thanks for checking out my unboxing of the H ATI from Corsair don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos