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Corsair Hydro Series H80i and H100i Liquid CPU Coolers Review

Cooling/Water Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2012-12-02

Corsair is renewing it's all in one liquid cooling solution series. After overhauling the high end AX series power supplies, their high end Hydro 80 and 100 models are getting a facelift too. Baptized as the H80i and H100i models; Without any clue what the i really stands for, however ignition or injection seem logic options. Most important upgrade is the inclusion of the new Corsair Air fan series, which already are renown for improving the cooling performance by a small margin. However that's not the only part where the new Hydro I series differ from their predecessors. Time to explore Corsair's latest addition.

Test Setup and Methodology

Our testbed comprises the following parts:

ASUS Sabretooth X79 motherboard

Intel i7-3960X OC'ed at 4500MHz 1.35Vcore

G.Skill 16GB 2133MHz C9 rams

Western Digital 1TB Green Caviar HDD

2 x ASUS Geforce GTX480 videocards

Corsair HX1000W Power supply

Corsair C70 Vengeance case

Prime95 is still our favourite CPU torture test. By selecting the Custom test and setting 12-12K we force the CPU to go straight flatout. After 30 minutes we verify in RealTemp the maximum load temperature results accross the 6 cores. For the idle temperatures we just let the sytem during 15 minutes warm up, practically doing nothing then just monitoring the temperatures.

For the motherboard readouts we trust the ASUS Sabretooth Thermal Radar application, included in the AI suite. Reading out chipset, PWM, mobo temperatures, all these being monitored during the CPU torture test.

Noise measurement done via Corsairs Reviewers' Guide, measuring the generated noise at 1 meter from the fan front. Fans were hooked up straight to a PSU via a molex adapter. Noise tests were only conducted at 12V.

Our testbed comprises of the following parts:

ASUS Sabretooth X79 motherboard
Intel i7-3960X OC'ed at 4500MHz 1.35Vcore
G.Skill 16GB 2133MHz C9 rams
Western Digital 1TB Green Caviar HDD
ASUS Geforce GTX480 videocards
Corsair HX1000W Power supply
Corsair C70 Vengeance case with Air Series FANs installed.

Prime95 is still our favorite CPU torture test. By selecting the Custom test and setting 12-12K we force the CPU to go straight flatout. After 60 minutes we verify in RealTemp the maximum load temperature results across the 6 cores. For the idle temperatures we just allow the system to warm up during a period of 15 minutes. Just basic idling at 4500MHz, doing nothing more then just monitoring the temperatures.

The monitoring software we use is RealTemp version 3. And the output results are the average out of three runs.

We compare the new Hydro80i and H100i with it's predecessors the H80 and H100 units, but also versus the two air coolers below: the single fan Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure and the Zalman XPS14

Noise measurement for the fans is done via Corsairs Air Fan Reviewers' Guide. Thus measuring the generated FAN noise at 1 meter from the FAN's front. Fans were hooked up straight to a PSU via a molex adapter. Noise tests were only conducted at 12V.

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