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thinner so the H 90 has a lot of surface area compared to the H ATI the H 110 similarly has much larger surface area than the age 100 so we wanted to look at how this translates to performance now this is something that's really important for these coolers because the H 90 and the H 110 come with fans that aren't really anything special in terms of their radiator optimization whereas the H ATI and the H 100 I come with Corsair well a derivative of course there's SP series static pressure optimized fans so these the the larger radiator versions are going to get a bit of an advantage in our testing compared to what you might see from other guys because we run a test bench that uses standardized fans so we actually don't use the fans that are included with any coolers because we want to find out how the performance of the coolers themselves compares to each other so we only use n ff12 pwm fans and I think what are they nf a 14 FLX fans so that's a 120 millimeter and 140 millimeter pressure optimized fan design from Noctua these are quiet fans we run the 120 mils and the 140 mils at around a thousand rpm so it's a very quiet solution so in a consistent that I would consider to be quiet enough for a high-performance gaming system these days because there's no reason for them to be loud this is how these coolers will perform we have a 3930k that's overclocked and over volted so we're able to deliver a lot of heat to these coolers so you can really separate the performance from each other in this case we also run a 580 graphics card so it's a GTX 580 and we run combustor during our load test to simulate what it would be like if the cooler had to work inside a case that's actually full of hot components as well so it doesn't necessarily just you know work on an open test bench and get to suck fresh cool air through it no this is how it will actually perform in a system that also has other components that are generating Heat we close up both side panels during our testing and we let the coolers reach equilibrium before we take any of our measurements and we measure the ambient temperatures at the intake of the case here using an H age 506 are a multi logger thermometer that allows us to make sure that whatever results we deliver you once we correct them 220 degrees are going to be easily comparable from one cooler to another because we're able to we can't control the ambience in here but what we can do is we can monitor them monitor them and then correct for that so I think that pretty much wraps it up in terms of the the prologue to this so oh yeah so we have the H 110 in there if you guys wanted to see it this is a Corsair C 70 so the H 110 is I guess I'll spoil the surprise a little bit the highest performing CPU cooler that we've tested it's absolutely enormous and fills up the entire top of this case so in spite of its quarter inch tubing and less advanced design compared to the H H 100 I come check out the performance so load corrected to 20 degrees Celsius for the H 110 in a pole configuration is only 66 degrees now we have a bit of an anomaly in our data and that's that the kraken x 60 doesn't perform as well as the h 110 in spite of the fact that we're using the same fans but there might be an issue with our kraken x 60 either way the h 110 performs exactly the way that we'd expect so the h 90 actually puts up a pretty good showing as well performing only about 4 degrees worse than the h 100 i and then the yeah the H 110 just kind of runs away with it it beats the H 100 I by about 5 degrees so this is on a 6 core processor so guys what you can do is you can download this chart you can actually click the link below the video description if you want to check out at your leisure and we're going to keep updating it we're going to keep adding any notes that we have on our testing methodology and you notes we have on the cooler so many future coolers that we test are all going to be on this master chart this is our test bench for the foreseeable future so you guys will always know what to expect when you get a cooler and especially if you're going to upgrade to your own pressure optimized fans I hope you guys have enjoyed this video I don't have anything to hold and point at hi yes about the performance of the H 90 and H 110 from Corsair don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos