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Corsair H150i Pro & H115i Review - 360mm Rad with QUIET(!) Magnetic Lev Fans

2018-01-09
- left me here we have two brand new coolers from Corsair one being the H 115 I Pro and that is kind of like the Big Brother to the H 110 which is already the big brother to the H 100 and then we've got after that the H 150 I Pro which is another big brother over the H 115 I pro so that's a lot of Big Brother's here but today we've got a 360 mil rad with three magnetic levitating fans so these things are extremely quiet and I'll let you guys take a listen at a hundred percent max load so that noise test wouldn't mean a whole lot if we didn't have something to compare it to so let's put up the H 110 I with its fans on 100% max speed so from those noise tester you can see that those ml fans are making a huge difference for noise and you don't lose a whole lot in temperatures yes the previous fans will blow a little bit more air but they run so with being a lot more noisier so I'll let you guys take a look at the results here and when we have the 360 mil rad Corsair asked me specifically with this cooler to test it on some real big heat so I decided to put the 7900 X have 4.5 gigahertz under this cooler and it handled it absolutely fine we go up to 91 degrees and keep in mind this is in a 30 degree ambient environment and then I put the H 115 I Pro on and that's got around about 94 degrees so what's 3 degrees hotter than the 360 mil hate 150 I Pro and the H 110 with its fans scored in the 91 degrees as well but when I changed over to the magnetic levitating fans that scored in at 94 degrees as well so there isn't really a whole lot of the difference between the H 115 and the H 110 not much of a difference besides the obvious RGB if you look at the b-roll already yes both these coolers the H 115 and the H 150 carry an RGB on the base plate itself now you can control this vehicle says link software and this will bring up temperatures and you connect a little USB port into the cooler and then attach it to a USB 2 out on your motherboard and this enables you to control things like the different colors now probably on 2 sides of the fence you really like RGB you can set the color and call it coordinate at to your build or you don't like RGB you think it's gimmicky but if you're one of those people who thinks a gimmicky this one has a really cool feature with relations to temperatures got three different levels there you can set the degrees in manually and also with that you can put a max level so for instance if I don't like my cooler getting over 95 degrees on the CPU I can set that to purple so if I see my cooler light up purple then I know something's in trouble I should stop doing whatever I'm doing and maybe think about turning my computer or the settings down and tuning that cooler as well so that was the coolest thing and no pun intended on that one with both these brand new coolers the RGB is also functional as well as being good on the aesthetics and also with that the corsair link software you can leave that up to your keyboard mouse case and everything in tandem and have really cool lighting effects this is just another link in the chain if you need it though as we saw what those other two coolers the deep cool and also the gigabyte the air cooler I started throwing the mix here they both failed on the X 299 set up the 7900 X was just too overwhelming the deep cool almost past got about 15 minutes into the test but the Gigabyte cooler almost failed instantly and keep in mind I was testing all these temperatures at a hundred percent fan speeds across all different models to give you guys an apples-to-apples comparison so you know the max potential of these coolers now onto installation with both these coolers it is just a breeze it's so easy it's so straightforward the instruction manuals laid out really well you can also download the instruction manual if you need to it fits practically all sockets that are relevant even LGA 1366 this thing will fit you've got a m4 support as well for brand new AMD motherboards and the tr4 if you need a bracket for that because it is a specialized bracket you can message Corsair and get that bracket sent out with this cooler now talking a little bit more about both these models they both have braided cables and they are quite sturdy and also at the base of the cooler itself you get an aluminium base plate and Corsair tell me that they have improved the pump to be more efficient in that it makes lessen noise than the previous H 100 and the H 110 and in practice I really couldn't notice a difference I thought the H 100 and the H 110 were already really quiet serveral both these coolers are really impressive especially for all-in-one units that you just get out of the box install them with these and they'll give you really good temperatures coming close to even that of custom water coolers and beating air coolers by quite a bit especially with those higher thermal package CPUs like the 7900 X that we tested here today this thing will keep it under control at 4.5 gigahertz which is a pretty good overclock for the tank or 7900 X though with that said the H 159 product comes in at 140 retail in USD the 360 Milverton the H 150 I Pro that's coming in at a hundred and seventy US dollars so in that and if you are in Australia the good news is the pricing is a little bit better than it was in some of the previous generations cor says products so 199 USD for the H 115 I approach and 239 AUD for the H 150 I pro so what you're getting for the money is actually pretty good considering you're getting those magnetic levitating fans they do a great job of remaining quiet and pushing a lot of air through although they did lose a few degrees in performance especially compared to those 140 mm fans on the H 110 they did come in with a lot lower noise the 140 mm fans on the H 159 Pro did an extremely good job that only ran three degrees in terms of lower in the overall package and keep in mind this is on a 70 900 X if you were to put this on an 80 700 K the difference would be even less so the magnetic levitating fans I'm a big fan of them oh pun intended and the H 150 I pro the 360 Milverton that thing is a beast of course the 120 mil versions of the fans they do run a slight bit louder and also with that they do push a little bit less air but you do get three of them and you do get a big radiator with the H 150 I Pro and hence that allowed it just to edge out the H 115 and also one more thing that I haven't mentioned yet it with the H 115 a pro just like the H 110 is it is actually a 280 Miller ad not a 240 and with that it's a hundred and forty mil so sometimes it can't fit in cases where the 240 ml rad will actually fit especially at the top of the case this won't fit I'll actually have some problems as witnessed when I've done builds in the past with the 570 X for example and even quite recently with the fractal define r6 so it does need a special case if you want to mount it to the top but a lot of times it will mount to the front of the case with ease it's just you'll have to rework the fan configuration but with that said two great coolers coming with some pretty aggressive pricing especially for what you're getting with the Maglev fence anyway guys that's about it for today if you enjoyed this video then be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below what you think of the RGB and the magnetic levitating fence is this a cooler that you could use in one of your builds I'll probably be using one of these in the near future in a build especially that's three-sixty milk rad and there's three ml fans there really whisper quiet and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye
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