And the newbies who as in those forums and want to go with "just a little water cooling for the noise" usually get recommended (and convinced of) good air coolers like the Silver Arrow. Working closely with the Italian interior design team Hot Lab this yacht oozes style from stem to stern. In the next section, we will be testing this fan to see if it is an improvement over the original fan. Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Box Limited acts as a broker and offers finance from PayPal Credit. So I had to remove the Coolit fixing frame (and the glue that attached it to the motherboard), as well as cleaning the old paste off the CPU.

We also have to wonder if using the same bracket for both AM3 and AM4 was a wise decision on Corsair’s part. All that being said, the Corsair Hydro H60 (2018) is a great new addition to the liquid cooler market. First, as illustrated in the manual, the fan is mounted on the inside face of the radiator, which would put it in a “pull” orientation if used as in intake and massively limit airflow. Yes, your CPU temps will drop, but you’ll cook the rest of your components, including your motherboard.In fact, if you compare the original H60 with the old fan (CF12S25M12AP) against the new H60 and the new fan (31-000408), the new revision has a 2 °C cooling advantage over the original. I have to say that installation is simplicity itself and a perfect fit on my 9th gen Intel CPU though the installation kit provided covers a range of Intel and AMD processors. We are excited to continue our long partnership with world class designer Germán Frers, once again testing the boundaries of performance, functionality and quality for bluewater cruising yachts.

It’s the ideal first step into liquid cooling for novice builders, given that it’s reasonably quiet at load and offers great compatibility with compact cases. We’ve installed a lot of liquid coolers, many of them several times as we’ve rotated them through for testing, and the H60 fell somewhere in the middle in terms of time required for installation, at 25 minutes. The most noticeable change to the H60 is the move to much larger diameter rubber tubing to aid in efficiently transferring the heat from the CPU to the radiator. This should give us a clear idea of how the new revision compares to the original Corsair H60 across a range of fans. The PCB is much larger, and although it makes the pump look bigger as well, the pump is actually about the same size.The new heat sync sits on top of the CPU neatly and the pack includes fastening straps for both AMD and Intel CPUs. Today we're going to take a look at the Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance, H80 High Performance, and H100 Extreme Performance liquid CPU coolers. However, in our experience, when a fan is running at very low RPMs, the fan speed is very inconsistent. With a waterproof layer you can charge devices near swimming pools or beaches without the fear of getting your devices wet.

The radiator itself has not been changed much, but the included fan has been upgraded to a newer model. It is an updated design based on the previous model, yet with a new cooling block and regulated control for pump and fans. Whoever put together this package did not consider the likelihood of someone having a slightly thicker casing than usual as the short bolts provided did not reach the radiator!We used different pieces of software for our testing, to stress the CPU we used Prime95 with the Blend Preset, 3DMark Time Spy's CPU Test and Aida64 CPU+FPU, which is an AVX based load, to push the coolers as far as we could!

from other retailers at the time of writing this review making it very competitive against the likes of CoolerMaster, EVGA and Antec who all have 120mm AIOs on the cheaper end of the market.It took me a lot longer to fit the fan and radiator than I had anticipated and this was exacerbated by the difficulty of getting the bolts into the thread on the radiator- I assume because of enamel on the threads.