Corsair Hydro Series H100i Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅20-11-12
Installation Process

In order to demonstrate the installation process for H100i we are installing the cooler on the Intel LGA2011 socket.

To start, four stand-offs must be screwed down onto the outer mounting holes of the socket plate. Once these are tight its then time to install the radiator and cooling fans within the computer chassis. This part of the installation will differ depending on what case you have, we have used the Corsair 500R and due to the large heatsinks on the GIGABYTE X79-UP4 it isn’t possible to mount the radiator with fans on the inside of the roof because of collision. So instead, the radiator sits inside the top cavity found at the top of 500R and the cooling fans attach on the inside of the chassis. A set of extended screws are provided in the bundle which pass through fan and radiator. After the installation of radiator and fans (in push configuration) is complete, it’s time to fit the mounting bracket over the top of the pump and attach the pump to the motherboard/CPU. When in place, the screws must be tightened to provide a secure fitment. It’s advisable to tighten corner to corner gradually in order to apply even pressure. The finally steps after this are to connect to the fans with a Y-cable to the pump and connect the USB cable between the pump and a USB header on the motherboard and then the H100i is ready to go!

H100i requires a case with dual 120mm fan mounts with 15mm spacing for the 240mm radiator to fit. The overall size of the radiator is 275mm.

Usually we would show memory clearance in the next section of this CPU cooler review but since the H100i avoids this region completely there is no need to measure this.









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