There are a few dozen great closed-loop liquid coolers available in the market for your beloved processor.
Closed-loop liquid coolers are maintenance-free, quiet, easy to install just like air coolers; it most likely take up to 10 minutes of your build time and practically lasts for the life of the computer (unless something dramatic happens such as a drive by shooting’s bullet hit one of the coolant tubes).
When it comes to heat dissipation, these self-contained liquid coolers are far more efficient than air cooler; hence in the similar trend to Solid-state drives today, self-contained liquid coolers are slowly moving from a should-have to a must-have for most mid-tier or high-end system builds.
Now since you’re thinking of getting your PC a closed-loop liquid cooler, you are on the right page today. Most of the articles on Custom PC Guide.net are fairly long because sometimes I wanted to bring the best technical details in every products comparison. But today, there isn’t much talk.
Because first of all, Corsair is obviously a reputable company in the BYOPC market; thus the quality of these kits isn’t a significant question. Second, everything else that matters has been simplified and set straight to the points. You only have to compare and choose the model that 1) fits your chassis based on radiator dimension and 2) fits your CPU socket and budget. Is that it? Well, maybe the design of the cooler for your own personal reference.
On a more serious note, the entry-level liquid-cooling model only lags behind the top-end model by less than 10°C in many extreme overclocking scenarios; hence you probably won’t notice a major difference in temperature of your processor during daily activities. Plus any liquid cooler would already be far better than air coolers in any test.
So, I thought let’s just keep it simple.
1. Side by Side Compare
2. Price Comparison
3. Corsair liquid-cooling kit’s tubing 2011 vs. 2013/Newer
2013 Edition has larger diameter (14.3mm) tubing and manufactured with proprietary rubber. It provides a firm and better flexibility, higher coolant flow and very low evaporation rate. The cold-plate on the water-block is also an improvement in term of heat dissipation over older generations.
4. Corsair USB Digital Link
5. Benchmarks
i7 3770K @ 4.6GHz 1.2V – Idle
Corsair H60 | |
Corsair H75 | |
Corsair H80i | |
Corsair H90 | |
Corsair H100i | |
Corsair H100i (Quiet Mode) | |
Corsair H105 | |
Corsair H110 | |
Hyper 212 EVO |
i7 3770K @ 4.6GHz 1.2V – 100% Load
Corsair H60 | |
Corsair H75 | |
Corsair H80i | |
Corsair H90 | |
Corsair H100i | |
Corsair H100i (Quiet Mode) | |
Corsair H105 | |
Corsair H110 | |
Hyper 212 EVO |
Noise Level in dBA @ Full Load
H60 | |
H75 | |
H80i | |
H90 | |
H100i | |
H105 | |
H110 | |
Hyper 212 EVO |
Corsair h110 is the latest version with respect to before generations. There are a bunch of things available on the market that beat it.
This is such a great review. Now I know which one is better. Thanks so much for this helpful article!
Hello and thank you for the Awesome review!
Keep up the good work, will be keeping an eye on your stuff going forward.
I recently bought an H60 that came with a 3 pin pump connector and 4 pin fan connector. Could you have gotten these values the wrong way around in the data above?
Corsair known to update production revision all the times (just like Gigabyte). Thanks for the info, I’ll update the main post!
Thanks for this article… You missed out the static pressure of the fans, which is an important factor in cooling. Especially as the fans are next to the radiators. CFM is all very good, but without knowing the SP rating, it can be very misleading. I changed my stock fans on the H110 because of the noise and to double the SP and thus the cooling. The Akasa Vipers 140mm I fitted are much better. I don’t know why better fans aren’t fitted in the first place…
^ Great advice Jon, I’m actually typing up a small article about the Corsair fans that should be out in the next few days.