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I don't know if you guys saw my video on my Tesla Model S speed test but there's a reason I did that video it's because the Tesla Model S for kids arrived and it's this massive box and it's like I need to do something with this right now because it's a huge box taking up a lot of space that said a couple more huge boxes have arrived this time from Corsair so I'm going to open these and show you guys what's inside cooler masters SK series mechanical keyboards help you keep a low profile with ultra flat double Schottky caps and a slim minimalist design available in full size trim as the sk 650 or the even more portable 10 keyless sk 630 these keyboards feel great thanks to genuine Cherry MX low profile mechanical switches they've also got a durable brushed aluminum top plate and a detachable and braided USB type-c cable so click the sponsor link in the description for more on the Coolermaster sk 630 and sk 650 just said i should go with the long skinny box first before the short wide box so i usually gets pretty good advice we're gonna stick with that this is from corsair and I already know vaguely what's inside here it's their hydro X series of open loop water cooling gear I actually have a mix of stuff in here because they are sending some of their existing products like fans because of course they're already makes like 90% of the parts in a computer maybe that's a little good taking a little bit too far but everything except like processors graphics cards and motherboards of course they're pretty much makes now they are expanding from just doing all in one closed-loop liquid coolers like their existing hydro series to the hydra x-series of open-loop coolers and they are going all out with this which means everything from the liquid coolant inside to the pumps the blocks the reservoirs the fittings you can now get directly from corsair so these are the parts of course there's actually designed and manufactured themselves they're doing a bunch of collaboration with a lot of the different parts because there's quite a few established water cooling parts manufacturers that are out there and Corsair has sort of taken on some of their stuff select the fittings for example I made my bits power the coolant is done by Mayhem's the radiators are by Hardware labs and the blocks and the pumps of course there has been doing themselves so we have a couple blocks here XG seven RGB the blocks that they are producing for GPUs are going to have a range of compatibility with higher end graphics cards because that's really all you should be bothering to water cool they're supporting twenty seventy twenty eighty s and twenty eighty T is when it comes to in videos are txseries they're also supporting 1080 T eyes if you look at the last generation from Nvidia and then for AMD they're supporting the Vegas 56 and vegas 64 not sure about the Radeon seven and then I'm hoping that they will update to also support the Navi cards when they come out but we'll wait and see on those so I have two of the x g7 RGB GPU blocks I also have two of the CPU blocks the XC 9 and the XC 7 because they have two different variants of these @ XC 7 basically is for mainstream water cooling so it's gonna fit your Intel LGA 1150 whatever so pretty much any current generation Intel mainstream socket that should fit and then for AMD you have a.m. for compatibility hooray so you can use these with horizon first second or third gen NEX c9 is a Big Daddy so this one's going to support LGA 2066 as well as AMD socket thread Ripper TR 4 or the thread Ripper socket so if you're cooling a high-end desktop then you'll want the XC 9 and then finally the pump reservoir combo unit the XD 5 RGB which uses a lanky v for the pump and then the actual housing and reservoir are all manufactured and designed by corsair uses actually nylon rather than acrylic for the housing so they say that has some benefits to it for example you don't get some of the micro cracks that you can get if you're using an acrylic housing then the final piece of this that Corsair has put together on their website is a configuration software or just a web-based configuration utility because they're trying to sort of open up the open-loop water cooling market to people who might have been a little bit intimidated by it before for that purpose the online configurator will allow you to go and choose your case and then get the parts you need to get all the pieces to put together a loop like this and I think I'm going to try that later on in this video to sort of see how it works because it is now available and you can now use it but let's get into a little bit more detail by opening up these things where should I start so here's what's included with the pump the xd5 RGB we got an installation manual and warranty guide we have some screws these are the little thumb screws they look pretty nice so having a nice finish and everything is going to be I think one of the key points of course there's trying to hit here because let's face it if people are doing the extra lengths to water cool with an open loop in their system there's probably at least a little bit of an aesthetic concern going on apart from just the improved cooling so having nice fittings is good for that a couple more screws here for attaching the pump to these brackets as well as this extension bracket here so we have a single bracket that the pump kind of sits down in that is the d5 pump down there at the bottom and then that can then attach to either of these brackets so you have a hundred and twenty millimeter for attaching it to a 120 millimeter mounting point on a radiator or directly to a fan nine hundred and forty millimeter and these are unreal so you can move the pump assembly up and down to position it where you need it to go more screws and washers for mounting the pump to the bracket mounting the bracket to the case we also have this little add-on which i think is pretty nice this is a temperature sensor so just a little GM one-quarter plug and then on the inside you get a temperature sensor so just going to attach that on an unused gianna quarter fitting here on the pump itself or you can put it elsewhere in your loop if you wanted as long as it's got water flowing over it then it's going to be able to tell you the temperature of your liquid and that's important in a water cooling loop because you don't usually want to make sure your liquid stays below about sixty degrees Celsius you got some additional plugs for capping off the ports that you don't use this is a plug tool which is just basically a flathead for screwing in or unscrewing those he's a plastic in case you're wondering they have included a power supply end cap for shorting your power supply so that you can test your custom loop once it's all set up without turning on power to your entire system because when your leak testing you don't want to have power running to your whole system you want to make sure you're just powering the power supply and the water cooling parts and then finally we have the pump and reservoir combo unit itself this is a little bracket this is metal it's got sort of a darkened chrome finish so that's nice as for the pump and reservoir unit itself one thing I kind of like about this is well I mean they're going with nylon and according to Corsair this is a very premium nylon that they've gone with instead of acrylic for the actual housing of the reservoir it does look clean and clear though there is a Corsair logo an array of sort of cross beams in there that's a baffle to prevent a whirlpool effect from happening there are multiple inlets and outlets they are not marked here but I imagine that would be indicated in the manual one on this side two on this side one more on this side there's only one blank spot on one side they're mounting points here are slightly rubberized so that should help to dampen some of the vibration and there's an LED array at the top here it looks like eight addressable LEDs that are in there as well as two additional inlets up here and one of them does have a downspout so you can prevent air from getting into that if you're going with a waterfall looks like the coarser logo on the top here should also shine through them light up with the LEDs connected and then this can be daisy chained one thing I do want to point out when it comes to the LEDs since they're all addressable and since this is Corsair they're all going to need to plug in to a corsair control unit such as the commander pro so that is something to take into consideration this does allow you to use the Corsair software which is pretty flexible I've been using it in my Riptide setup but just something you should keep in mind if you're planning on setting up a loop with this hardware and especially if you want those RGB effects to work let's take a look at these CPU blocks next so here the CPU blocks the xe7 right here and a black finish and then the XC 9 are they're both RGB here in the silver finish interesting thing about these I think is going to be the sort of a Sutekh ish mounting system or they have for the brackets here it's got a honeycomb pattern of pre-applied thermal paste that's on the bottom but if you've ever used one of course areas existing all-in-one liquid coolers but then asa tech mounts on it these are reminding me very very much of those so it's just got a bracket there that's the Insull one then it comes shipped with but if you want to swap over to a m4 for example you just grab this one install it like so and now you can fit that on an AMD socket another kind of cool thing about that mounting method is actually that you can rotate these so if you wanted for example to give yourself sort of a jaunty 45 degree angle by going like that gives you a little bit more flexibility as far as how you're installing the waterblock when it comes to orientation basically there's 8 different configurations you could put you could rotate it all the way around if you wanted to beyond that you've got your mounting hardware here manuals of course some very very thin little nylon spacers and then of course the backplate which is going to be universal for both AMD and Intel sockets you see the liquid flow as well as the RGB lighting shine through is injection molded nylon for these pieces again you have a light-up Corsair logo and there is a slight variation between these two this one here is a slightly smaller cooling plate with sixty micro fins that the liquid flows across to provide cooling and then this top piece here in black is also plastic with this one whereas with the LGA 2066 and socket thread your perversion you get an aluminum top piece there so it is metal and they get a slightly larger cooling plate here with 70 Micro cooling fins instead of the sixty that you get with the XC seven so those are the premium features for the high-end desktop version the XC 9 compared to the XC 7 does seem to have pretty much the same mounting hardware and then again pretty much the same reconfiguration method you have here this is the Intel socket for LGA 2066 and then for thread refer they have included this bracket which you would simply swap out both of them have a nice sort of dark chrome finish oh and one last thing to add is that both of these have 16 addressable LEDs arrayed in there and again they still have the courser required connection system next is the XG 7 RGB GPU blocks and these are slightly reconfigurable from Corsair site so this one here for example is set up for an RT X 2080 founders Edition this one is set up for the RT X xx atti founders Edition they should be very similar otherwise though let's start with the xx atti and like I said there's not gonna be a whole lots difference between these it's just a matter of changing up the jet plate on the bottom I believe along with the block itself we have some more caps here as well as one of those cap screwing tools we have a little product manual they do include a backplate so that's nice you don't to buy that separately this is aluminum here as well as the exterior housing on the GPU block itself so there's an internal part here which is actually a block that covers not just the GPU but power delivery and memory components as well so for me you can see this is basically all nickel plated copper and then the exterior part that is black is all aluminum aside from that it's all some wires here for the addressable RGB LEDs there's 16 of those and then it's a CNC milled copper heat plates underneath this machined acrylic top section there's also a flow indicator you should be able to see that spinning while your loop is up and running so you make sure you have water flowing through your graphics card and you can kind of see there's a sort of a Dominator Platinum kind of style I feel like termination here for your inlets and your outlets and you can of course go top or bottom for either of those so again just providing some flexibility for how you configure your loop once you have everything set up again there's a Corsair logo on the side as well as GeForce r-tx logo and those thermal pads being pre applied hey that's nice you know cutting little thermal pads to size is one of those sort of tedious tasks for installing a GPU block and then we also have thermal paste pre applied under that little cover as well and here's a quick look at the back plates got sort of a matte section the hydro ex logo and the Corsair sails beneath that and then brushed aluminum finish then when it comes to the 2080 basically the accessories and everything else that is included is exactly the same and now I've kind of figured out how they're doing this so this entire section right here it can be swapped out depending on the GPU that they're configuring it with so the top here is gonna look pretty much the same and fairly Universal and they'll swap that out depending on which GPU they're setting it up for so we have a slightly different layout here for the 2080 as compared to the 2080 Ti and now the remainder of the parts and again a lot of this stuff was done in collaboration with some other existing water cooling manufacturers that are on the market so I will repeat that as we came to each one but I wanted to get at least each of these out of the box so we could take a quick look starting with the tubing this is acrylic tubing not ptg course there's not currently planning to do PE TG this is 10 millimeter inner diameter and 14 millimeter outer diameter and one of these packs comes with three tubes no not too much else to say about that it's PMMA if you wanted a more specific type of acrylic that's being used of course there's also doing soft line tubing so this is a clear PVC 10 millimeter inner diameter 13 millimeter outer diameter this just provides some flexibility because there are benefits to either option I would say the acrylic is more of an aesthetic choice soft line tubing can give you a bit more flexibility yes that's kind of a pun but it is also more flexible and this will also allow you to do some maintenance on your system if it's a bit more easily that is why the only system that I am currently running that's water-cooled that I use on a regular basis that I'd be very upset if it didn't work properly is Riptide and that uses soft tubing as well quick disconnects so that if I ever had anything go wrong I could at least get things reconfigured to have the system up and running and I wouldn't have too much downtime that said we have a bunch of different fittings and adapters here so I'll open those up and show you a few of those but before that here is their liquid this is called xl5 and they have sent me the clear liquid the coolants they're actually working with Mayhem's and mayhem says a lot of experience doing coolant it's going to be available in green red blue purple and this clear and then they might add pastels in the future depending on the response and how many they sell basically is where that comes from Corsair says the coolant works with copper brass and nickel and has advanced non-toxic anti corrosion inhibitors as well as anti bacterial growth suppressors so you should be able to use this cool it without adding anything else and you won't have any any icky stuff growing in your loop or corrosion of course versions bed just make sure you're not including any aluminum parts in your loop the touch water because mixed metals is bad radiators I almost forgot the radiators these are actually being done in collaboration with hardware labs and they say they're gonna have a pretty wide range of these available they sent me the XR five of the card app called XR 5 is simply the 240 millimeter and 360 millimetre accessory-wise they've set you up with enough screws to do a push-pull configuration or a push or pull with short screws on the other side for mounting to the case and this looks to be a pretty standard looking radiator does have sort of a matte paint finish on the outside which i think looks pretty nice of course there are logos of course I'm gonna say medium fin density here it's not looking too dense but not too loose either such should give you a balance between airflow and actual heat dissipation got two G and a quarter fittings on the ends for inlet and outlets and then a pretty standard 240 millimeter layout this one obviously has a black finish no note on whether Corsair is going to do any other colors for these I would I would think maybe they'll do a white line up at some point but again that's gonna probably depend on the popularity of these parts when they actually hit the market and regular sizes and thicknesses should be available so 120 millimeters should go all the way up to 480 millimeter or 4 by 120 or all the way down to single 120 and then 440 millimeter rads that'll go up to 420 millimeters so 3 by 142 by 140 or 1 by 140 should be available and here's the 360 millimeter variance which is one longer isn't it here are the fittings and adapters that Corsair sent over for hard line tubing they have these low-profile ones these comes in packs of four they also have 90 degree adapter fittings here which are nice to have if you're working in a narrow space they these come in packs of two these are all gonna have the chrome finish by the way but the fittings will be available in black silver white or polished brass again more might be available depending on market reception these are adapters so we got some 45-degree rotary adapters and some 90-degree Rodya adapters these come in packs of two we have a ball valve that you could use for a drain or something like that we have a fill porch that you could install into a case single packs of those we have a Wye splitter adapter just a single pack of that as well then the compression fittings over here for soft tubing these come in packs of four and here's a quick look at our fittings and adapters and I will say that I could not agree more with Corsairs decision to partner with bit's power for these because bit's power in my experience makes really good fittings and adapters that you can just tell by sort of the tightness with which these rotary fittings actually go together so these are the chrome ones and you might notice that Corsair has fairly limited branding this one actually has the Corsair logo on a couple sides it's just a little Y adapter here's a fill port as well and again I can just kind of tell by how smooth the threading is and nice type fitting with the o-rings there as well but that's just pretty simple fill port here is the ball valve of course our logo on the side there there's a bit more room there so they were able to display that all the way just give it a twist closes it off twist it that way opens it back up here's a compression fitting you can see the barbs on this side and this is for the soft tubing this one has sort of the rough textured area around the outside so that's helpful for gripping here are our angled adaptors and I've used quite a few of these from bits power and I actually love that these do not have logos on them when I've used bits power fittings in the past I've sometimes felt like man there's a bits power logo everywhere so now you can kind of like get bits power fittings which can be a little bit harder to come across in the US without bits power logos on them and just buy them directly from Corsair with corsair warranty and support and everything I just attached these two together there's a 90 degree and a 45 degree then finally we have our hardline fittings here and these are for the 14 millimeter outer diameter and I like how low-profile these are because that can be a challenge with hard line tubing is getting the right length and depending on how you're doing your measurements and everything sometimes having a low profile fitting that's already on there can give you a little bit better idea of how to line things up and measure it appropriately as you can see a ring goes on there and then you got the cap that fits on the top of course your compression tubing would go in there as well so it is nice that they're able to keep these as low-profile and small as they are then here's the 90 degree adapter for the hard-line tubing and this basically has fittings on both sides so if you're doing a build that you're not doing a bunch of bends in your hardline tubing and you're doing the fittings for doing the 90 degree angles everywhere these are actually pretty handy for that because you've got the fittings on both ends whereas sometimes you have to use like an adapter and then a fitting on the end of the adapter and in that case you're paying money for the adapter as well as the fitting on the end so that might be I don't know maybe slightly more cost effective depending on the type of build you're doing so if you're looking at all this and you're like hey that sounds good sign me up or if you just want to see how much it would cost because hi big boy you're such a special boy you are so if you're looking at all this and you're like hey that sounds great sign me up or if you just want to speculate and see how much it would cost for you Corsair has a configuration utility over in their website I will link it down in the description and I'm just going to go through with the stuff that I have here and see how much it all would cost of course you got to start by choosing your case and I'll be honest I originally thought hey course there's just gonna have Corsair cases to choose from but they also have other brands too so good on you of course therefore not forcing people to just use your cases and just as a proof of concept I'm going to use the fantex and to evolve X I guess the configurator will actually show you your system once you've set it up but it only does that with the Corsair cases not third-party cases so in order to show that I guess I'm going to go back and choose a Corsair case I'm just gonna go up to 570 X because it's it's very clear and there's lots of stuff in there and I'm really just gonna choose very quickly different things so after choosing your case motherboard CPU and graphics card they automatically set you up with what they think is an ideal configuration so let's see what their recommended setup is for the waterblock here we have the X c7 that's too surprising for the GPU block we have the XG 7 not surprising either cooling performance ah we have a 360 millimetre radiator in the front we also have some options for a 240 or let's do do a radiator we got a 120 in the back as well hey this thing actually seems pretty smart it's deducting the number of fans that the case comes with and only giving you more fans to fill everything else out of course they're sent me these ml ones though so I guess I better choose those I'm style the one that they have will choose that here's where we choose between soft and hard tubing they have sent me both I'm gonna choose the hard tubing though because that's probably what I'll build with and they sent me the 1014 stuff so we'll choose that as well clear coolant and chrome fittings is what I have so let's go ahead with that we do need something to connect up all of our RGB stuff they sent me a commander Pro so look the fan pack already has IQ integration so that's not been included I can add more controllers on though such as a commander Pro oh and a lot of course there are cases come with control hubs as well so that's nice and then it looks like they also kick you out with kind of the basic number of fittings that they think you will need in order to set up your loop including the hardline tubing the XL 5 coolant that's also included and then you've got some four packs of compression fittings as well as some rotary adapters could add some 45 degrees as well if I wanted to and I do have some of those I'll add one on and there we go this is my configuration 880 dollars is what it's going to cost me which might be a bargain if you do a lot of liquid cooling stuff or it might be very expensive if you're comparing it to the cost of like all-in-one loops or air coolers for example but water block is 75 bucks GPU block is 150 these two radiators together 115 the fans are very expensive that's adding a hundred and forty so cutting down on those would definitely cut down on the price the pump and reservoir combo unit is one hundred and fifty five dollars all of my fittings and whatnot are about 120 my fittings tubing and liquid is about a hundred and twenty bucks it's another 70 for the commander Pro and then another sixty or so for the addition of some adapters I did find the fill bubble you can add that on for $2.99 so I haven't tested this out too much by throwing extra stuff in there but it seems like a pretty well thought-out and easy-to-use online utility for figure what you need to go in your liquid cooling setup but that is gonna wrap it up for this video though guys I am going to be doing a build with this stuff although I still I'm not a hundred percent sure of all the rest of the parts I'm gonna put in there obviously I should be using an RT X 2080 or 2080 TI in order to use the GPU blocks that I have I got a wide range of choices when it comes to CPUs let me know in the comment section down below what type of system you think I should be putting together you guys want intel or AMD and I will do my very best to accommodate what you request no promises though of course thank you so much for watching this video I hope you enjoyed it hit the thumbs up button if you did and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel for more videos coming at you real soon thanks again for watching we'll see you next time