Corsair Teases Hydro X Series Water Cooling

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If you click over to Corsair's homepage, you will be presented with two hard-tubes with a purple coolant flowing freely through them, fashioned in a nice big X. Then you get "Hydro X Series, Just Add Water." Is Corsair telling us that they are using the talents they recently poached from EK, and putting those to use in preparing its own line of Corsair custom cooling loop products? Yeah, that is exactly what that means. Being that Cosair is using talent from EK, we at least know they have a grasp on what not to do when it comes to water cooling, and that is probably a good lesson to have in the bag. The only other thing of interest on the page, is "Coming Soon" text and a "Notify Me" button.
 
The X is really for experimental. I don’t trust AIOs too many possible points of failure. Corsair has a excellent marketing team though so I’m sure they’ll sell a bunch of these :)
 
EK has screwed the pooch twice to my knowledge.

First time was with their early nickel plated copper blocks in 2010-2011 that would start peeling if used with silver coils or copper oxide based biocides like PTnuke.

It was a boneheaded mistake as they should have done more galvanic corrosion testing in popular configurations.

Many people were turned off by this incident, as they didn't stand behind their products as strongly as they should have, blaming user misuse (due to corrosive biocides and silver coils) and not reimbursing users. On the flip side if they had it would likely have ended the company financially.

The good part here is that this is a historical issue. Their current nickel plated copper blocks use a different process and are very resilient.


Second time was with their first Threadripper block where they decided to take a shortcut and just put the fins from their smaller Supremacy EVO blocks on a larger Threadripper base plate rather than creating a larger fin arrangement for this huge CPU.

This too was boneheaded, but they probably assumed that it was going to be a nothing product with no real sales and it wasn't worth the added investment to make it good.

In this case they at least offered customers something and they later redesigned the block.

Other than these two instances the company produces some of the best blocks out there. I don't think anything beats their full cover GPU blocks and they make varieties for almost every high end video card, even specialty non-OEM board designs which is unheard of.

I do have some issues with their requirements for free advertising in exchange for review samples though. That is pretty shitty.
 
Gamer237 said:
The X is really for experimental. I don’t trust AIOs too many possible points of failure. Corsair has a excellent marketing team though so I’m sure they’ll sell a bunch of these :)
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One thing that gave me a comfort level before I bought my first AIO was to see how Corsair essentially bought one of our forum members brand new parts after one of their early AIO's failed catastrophically.

My take was that Corsair knows how to take care of their customers when things go wrong.

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I was searching for that thread to link here, but apparently the forum search function has a max number of hits, presenting them chronologically, so I can't get far enough back in time to find it. Would have been 2009-2011 some time I think.
 
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Zarathustra[H] said:
One thing that gave me a comfort level before I night my first AIO was to see how Corsair essentially bought one of our forum members brand new parts after one of their early AIO's failed catastrophically.

My take was that Corsair knows how to take care of their customers when things go wrong.
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They definitely have excellent customer service. I just don’t like coming home to a soaked computer after a long day of work and dealing with the issue that comes with it. But I’m also not trying to hit 5ghz with my 8700k .
 
Gamer237 said:
The X is really for experimental. I don’t trust AIOs too many possible points of failure. Corsair has a excellent marketing team though so I’m sure they’ll sell a bunch of these :)
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AIOs ar pretty safe these days, have been for years. I’ve seen fans and custom loop parts fail far more often than AIOs and none of those have happened often.
 
Have a Corsair AIO (H100i i think) that has been in fairly constant use for about 3-4 years now and no problems that i have seen. Not sure what i'm going to use on my next build though. May do air cooling this go-around. :woot:
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
One thing that gave me a comfort level before I bought my first AIO was to see how Corsair essentially bought one of our forum members brand new parts after one of their early AIO's failed catastrophically.

My take was that Corsair knows how to take care of their customers when things go wrong.

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I was searching for that thread to link here, but apparently the forum search function has a max number of hits, presenting them chronologically, so I can't get far enough back in time to find it. Would have been 2009-2011 some time I think.
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In my experience, Corsair does take care of their customers. I'm sure it's one of those Your Mileage May Vary things, but from my experience and from what I've seen online, they are 6 dB better than their peers. They seem to give a shit about being in the game for the long term.
 
kamxam said:
Have a Corsair AIO (H100i i think) that has been in fairly constant use for about 3-4 years now and no problems that i have seen. Not sure what i'm going to use on my next build though. May do air cooling this go-around. :woot:
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I'm on my second H100i v2. Pump began to fail on the first one increasing temps and making noise. Second one has been much better but if this Corsair 250D case wasn't specifically designed for the H100 I'd rather just go with beefy aua cooling.

That piece of mind that it wont just fail again one day and break something would be real nice.
 
Derangel said:
AIOs ar pretty safe these days, have been for years. I’ve seen fans and custom loop parts fail far more often than AIOs and none of those have happened often.
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Maybe shit fans. I'm sure they are fine and I've never had a problem with an AIO dying on me, but I can't imagine those little cheap pumps lasting longer than a good fan like a GT.
 
Derangel said:
AIOs ar pretty safe these days, have been for years. I’ve seen fans and custom loop parts fail far more often than AIOs and none of those have happened often.
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The problem is that a big tower air coolers don't ever truly fail as you could probably run passive if there was a fan failure so you are not exactly picking up the AIO Just For Peace of Mind. AIO is much more susceptible to failure as it has more moving parts. It only takes one bad connection for fluid to spill out. Where you would never see that with a big air cooler. I've run both over the years. I never had a problem with an AIO either. Still running an h60 in my brother's computer. Full disclosure, I never built my own custom Loop.
 
kirbyrj said:
The problem is that a big tower air coolers don't ever truly fail as you could probably run passive if there was a fan failure so you are not exactly picking up the AIO Just For Peace of Mind. AIO is much more susceptible to failure as it has more moving parts. It only takes one bad connection for fluid to spill out. Where you would never see that with a big air cooler. I've run both over the years. I never had a problem with an AIO either. Still running an h60 in my brother's computer. Full disclosure, I never built my own custom Loop.
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That kind of my thing, I haven't seen or has one fail but potential chance of that makes me not want to run one on my main rig or other critical system. Coupled with the fact that overclocking lost its relevance to me due to generally already overpowered hardware, I felt it was saved to just do the air with a big ass cooler. It pretty much performs on par with many AIO. For custom loop I simply cannot justify the cost anymore. Last one I did was in early Core2 days where it did make a lot of difference.
 
Gamer237 said:
They definitely have excellent customer service. I just don’t like coming home to a soaked computer after a long day of work and dealing with the issue that comes with it. But I’m also not trying to hit 5ghz with my 8700k .
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Fair, but you do realize they have sold probably my hundreds of thousands of these things by now, and I've only ever heard of about 3 failures resulting in leaks

The risk is minute. Probably more likely that your house leaks on your computer than that you have a leaky AIO.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Fair, but you do realize they have sold probably my hundreds of thousands of these things by now, and I've only ever heard of about 3 failures resulting in leaks

The risk is minute. Probably more likely that your house leaks on your computer than that you have a leaky AIO.
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I have a h80i that my friend gave to me since he upgraded to a h100. I used it for about a week and replaced it with a cryorig r1, just cant shake the thought of that thing spraying water inside my case while im at work.
 
Gamer237 said:
I have a h80i that my friend gave to me since he upgraded to a h100. I used it for about a week and replaced it with a cryorig r1, just cant shake the thought of that thing spraying water inside my case while im at work.
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It's not u common for them to die, but usually it's because the pump dies or all the fluid inside slowly evaporates through the tubing and they are no longer effective.

These things sell in very large quantities and it is exceedingly rare for them to leak, to the point where the observed catastrophic leak failure rate is negligible.

I felt some unease like you do at first before I got my first one, what, 8 years ago(?) but over time I have come to trust them, at the very least the Corsair models.
 
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