Corsair Hydro Series H105 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅22-02-14
Installation Process

In order to demonstrate the installation process for H105 we are installing the cooler on the Intel LGA2011 socket.

The first step in the installation process is to attach the four standoff screws to the socket plate. Once these are tightened the radiator and cooling fans can be installed. Installing is simple, a set of extended screws pass through both the radiator and the cooling fans to typically mount at the top of the computer chassis. Depending on the clearance you may need to have the cooling fans inside the main area and the radiator hidden in the roof – this is the route we took, but even so, because the radiator is now thicker (38mm thick) the removable fascia does not fix in place on the 500R unfortunately. (See picture at bottom of this page). Once the radiator and fans are tightened and in place the only thing left to do is attach the block/pump to the CPU. We recommend tightening each screw in a diagonal succession and tighten by one turn until you have each screw attached and then fully tighten to apply even pressure to the CPU. It’s also worth noting, we could not use the CPU fan header for the 3-pin pump cable because it does not supply 12V so a SYS fan header had to be used instead.












NOTE:

As you can see, the 38mm thickness of this new H105 steps out of the roof cavity on the 500R and thus the fascia cover will not fix in place. We are assured that newer Corsair cases now have allocation for this thicker radiator.



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