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now it's not very often that this happens but course they're literally sponsored this video to show off how off the rails crazy they've gone they finally did it they have launched their full lineup of custom water cooling solutions they're calling it their hydro X series and they've got over 60 SKUs like this is the thing that I was always thinking there's no way they're never gonna do it because you can't just launch a CPU block and call that good enough you need CPU blocks GPU blocks reservoirs pumps mounts fittings tubing and we're gonna take you guys all the way around the booth and have a look at everything that they've done here let's start with the CPU block naturally since its course there they're gonna want something that's gonna look great in any showcase PC so they've got a couple of different models here the xe7 RGB and the xc9 RGB now they look nearly identical on the surface except for the difference in color we've got black on this one and silver on this one but under the hood they are a little bit different so the xe7 uses 0.25 millimeter fins and the xc9 uses 0.2 millimeter fins giving it a slight edge in terms of performance so the reason for that is that the XC 9 is designed for thread Ripper and intel's h EDT platform and then this one is for your more mainstream a m4 and LG 11 5x for the GPU cooler we've got to look that is quintessentially Corsair so they've got an extruded aluminum shroud with a machined acrylic window over here they've got an included aluminum backplate and then they've got a bunch of really nice to have features there's a flow indicator here they've got pre-applied thermal compound and thermal pads which is a time-saver compared to like cutting out the pads and then aligning them all yourselves really nice to have and then the really standout one to me is actually this right here so their cooling engine uses the same skived copper manufacturing process as their CPU block and that's really unique for a GPU because normally that would be quite cost prohibitive the way that they got around this is by mass producing this piece and then you can actually see it over here and then screwing it in and using a rubber o-ring to attach it to the rest of the quite clever Corsair quite clever at launch they'll have blocks for the 1080 1080 TI 2070 20 80 20 80 TI those are all founders edition as well as asus strix 20 80 and 20 80 TI and for the AMD fans out there radeon vega 56 and 64 now this next one threw me for a bit of a loop the cpu block is XE the GPU block is XG the radiators are XR but for some reason the reservoir pump combo unit is XD now there's actually a good reason for this because Corsair is using a genuine d5 pump and we're talking the full rpm PWM controlled one which i think is an absolutely fantastic choice and they're offering nothing else which I also think is an absolutely fantastic choice the d5 has a well deserved reputation for its reliability and it's near silent operation and this is just such a not being afraid to spend more money to deliver a better quality product move from them that I absolutely have to commend they include a bunch of different mounting options 120 or 140 millimeter fan mounts as well as a bottom mount or a back mount for the case and this is a nice touch they include a 24 pin jumper so that you can quickly cycle your power supply on and off to get lead the air out of your loop as well as a temperature sensor now one unusual thing is that the reservoir is made of the same clear nylon injection molded plastic as the CPU block and this was apparently done for durability as well as resistance against crappy coolants purposes so that's that's a very unusual move that must have cost a pretty penny and of course like with anything Corsair these days the customization with RGB lighting is basically endless they've got full integration with their IQ software for different lighting profiles so here I'm gonna have my friend HP show me some of the different setups you can do with the 16 LEDs that are in both the CPU and GPU block and the 10 that are integrated into their reservoirs and perhaps more importantly its integrated from a cooling perspective as well now lots of different cooling software's actually do have support for creating fan profiles that correspond to the temperature of your system but there's a fatal flaw whenever you're using water cooling with most of these setups because they're designed to use your CPU temperatures and they're also designed to set our PM ranges that are more designed for fans than they are for pumps so Coursera went and created a couple of profiles that set more realistic both fan and separate pump rpms that correspond to your coolant temperature because it's using that built-in temp sensor that's integrated into their pump and reservoir combo it's a nice little touch and it's the kind of thing that makes life a lot simpler compared to the old days of getting one of those Ncube t balancers hoping you can find the freakin drivers that work and then dialing everything in manually now that's it for the components that course are engineered for themselves from the ground up but quite frankly with the partners that they've chosen for some of these other components there's absolutely no shame in collaboration so for their radiators they've got 120 millimeter thick radiators in triple double and quadruple sizes right here they've got 140 millimeter slim radiators in triple double and single and then 120 millimeter radiators in triple double and single sizes they all use sort of a medium thin density so they should perform quite well with low to medium rpm fins and they worked with hardware labs on these so you can expect the kind of quality that you'd get from someone with literally decades of experience building water cooling radiators for pcs on the fitting side of things as well as tubing again the partnership makes a ton of sense to me they've got four different colors available and most of the popular models in gold black white and chrome and they worked with bits power on these for two different sizes of hard line tubing fittings and then a single size that goes with their 10 millimeter ID 13 millimeter OD soft tubing now I would have preferred a thicker wall tubing but I also understand that not everybody likes the look of that and what you do achieve with the thin wall tubing is very little of that clear halo around your colored coolant so for their coolant they've partnered with mayhem and they're offering I believe it is five different colors is that right including clear there you go so they've got their green blue clear purple and red so there you have the guys irrefutable proof that Corsair doesn't care how small or how nice your market is if it exists in the PC space they will go after it so thanks Corsair for sponsoring this video and thanks to you guys for watching it if you disliked it you know what to do but if you liked to hit like get subscribed or 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