 Whistle BANG Sound of a door opening Sound of a door closing Ding Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the most exciting dual 120 millimeter radiator Pre-filled maintenance-free liquid cooler from Corsair Since the H100 This is The Corsair H100i And we are gonna unbox it And we are gonna find out what is better about it than the original H100 Because I can already tell you one thing based on the picture Those fans are so much better than the ones that are included with the H100 That it is not even funny anymore Those are looking like Corsair's SP series fans And those are some serious business pretty cool fans So let's have a look at what we got on the outside of the packaging to start with here So, okay, extreme performance liquid CPU cooler I can believe that Alright, we got some cool specs bro and some sort of okay moving right along We got some comparisons to the Intel Box Cooler Which is just totally unfair to this cooler Why do they compare it to the Intel Box Cooler? What's the point of that? They should compare it to other high performance coolers Because it can show itself as being like pretty ass kicking at that level as well Hydro series requires a case with two 120 millimeter fan mounts on top With 15 millimeter spacing for standard dual radiators Okay, magnetic mounting bracket and mounting hardware Corsair link cable Those are two other very cool things that are included with this cooler So what is a magnetic mounting bracket? I have no idea Stop, don't return it to the store and product solutions guide Ah, manual, ooh, warranty information Notification for Australian consumers This is a sample from Corsair So I guess they sent me an Australian sample Okay, so you got some pretty cool instructions for how to install the backplate, fans and radiators Oh, cool, I love it Oh, I'm super excited about this Okay, so let's start with the cooler Actually, I lied, we're not going to start with the cooler We're going to start with other stuff We're going to get everything out of the box, we'll be back in a moment Alright, so everything you see in front of me is extremely exciting Because it's all part of this whole package deal thing that we got going on here So, first things first, the most boring possible part All the screws and mounting hardware and what not So you got all the screws you need to mount your fans to your rad You got all the screws you need to mount your Intel what nots to your Intel other what nots And then you've got these little pieces for mounting on AMD These guys are for putting around your CPU sockets So this is pretty similar to what we saw on the original H100 except for the coolest thing ever Check this out Instead of a sort of, no offense to the previous generation Corsair product But kind of horrible and total pain in the butt system that we had before Now if you want to change what socket you want to mount on You just go like that And then you put your, here, so you put your little brackets under here If you want to mount on AMD just like that You put the screw on the top of it and it's done Then you can just pull it off like this No big deal Intel mount just like this No big deal So awesome This is great for guys like me who are swapping sockets all the time And it's just, oh, just freaking awesome Universal backplate for everything from LGA 1155 and 1156 to 1366 to 2011 Actually, sorry, not 2011 2011 is done using these ones right here So it doesn't, this one is not needed But this piece will still be used for 2011 This is the universal one So pretty much any Intel socket you can imagine can be mounted to with this cooler And I'm actually going to check on the back of the box and see if they have support for Looks like, yeah, no, it doesn't go all the way back to 775 However, quite frankly, if you're spending over $100 on a CPU cooler for your 775 CPU Then you need to adjust your priorities Alright Two things here, check this out You can control not only the two fans that are included with the H100i Using one of these little adapters right here that takes your 4-pin or 3-pin fan You can do whichever you want And uses the built-in Corsair Link software That can be controlled from your desktop to adjust your fan profiles And monitor your coolant temperature and all kinds of cool stuff like that But you can also plug in another one, totally optional You don't have to plug it in, it's up to you The choice is yours, you're the consumer And you can control an additional two fans just like that So cool, love to see these kinds of options And Corsair is so good at aesthetics Every wire is black It just looks perfect Everything about it is just perfect, just awesome Corsair Link interfaces with your system using a simple USB connection So all you gotta do is plug this guy into here So you're gonna go ahead, you're gonna have that on your socket You're gonna run this around the back of your motherboard And plug it into your USB header on your motherboard Oh, and this looks way better than the older one as well actually Everything about this is better, that looks fantastic Let's go ahead and take this off so you guys can really see it Nice glossy Corsair logo going on there Very, very, very, very sleek The fans, let's talk about the fans that are included So these are kind of like a, okay I hate to use this word But kind of like a cheapo version of the SPs Where they have the same blade design, the same frame design But we lose the rubber mounts, we lose the interchangeable colored rings So these are things that are just kind of too expensive for an included OEM style fan This is kind of cool though, there's little spots to mount what appears These look like LED mounts, but they don't go all the way through But Slick was saying you could just kind of drill through And you could probably mount LEDs on it, which would be pretty sweet And they're sort of an off color, but it'll still look very sort of Matching in high performance once they're spinning and they're on your rad like that It's gonna look outstanding So you get two of those, these are way better than what was included with previous generation products Because these broad blades and the way that they're swept Aren't great for moving a ton of air in an open configuration like this But they're fantastic for moving enough air through a very very tight fin matrix like this You can check out my episode on the NCIXCOM channel Where I introduced the SP series fans and talked about how much better they are for certain applications Now let's get to the cooler itself The radiator hasn't changed much, you got your standard radiator mounting size You got your, these look like the same fin density, so nothing's really changed here But Corsair has increased the size of the coolant hoses They've also dramatically improved the quality of them, check this out Even though this is 3 eighths inch tubing, you can do pretty much whatever you need to do with it To get it to your CPU socket This is way better than what we saw included on the H100 In fact I have an H100 over here that you guys can come have a look at So see this used a corrugated plastic that was, it wasn't going to kinker anything But it wasn't very flexible and it didn't allow you to manage it very easily So this is definitely way better, nice and soft And we've still got, see these are rotating fittings so that you can get it wherever you need to get it The bottom is copper, which it better be And it's got pre applied, very high quality thermal compound You probably won't even see much improvement from changing that out to something that's, you know, an after market thermal compound So thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Corsair H100i I've recommended the Corsair H100 probably a hundred times on Twitter or Facebook or wherever else And I will do this, exactly the same thing to this one because it is so much better than single radiator solutions And the build quality of this looks just outstanding The Corsair Link software is a bonus and the fact that it now includes very competitive performance fans Where previously the H100 had fans that you'd probably want to replace Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos