I wish they made something like this when I started...

Well today we're going to talk about water cooling, not with all the drama going on, but we're going to talk about

something

new from Corsair. It's actually been a while since

they

put it together as an all-in-one box. kit if you will, to make it easier for the layman or the beginner or just the simpler wanting to have everything

they

need in one box to water cool their system, so today we're going to unpack it. To look at it, the model number on

this

is the xh 405i RGB Elite water cooling kit cable. Mod's new Stealth Sense technology eliminates the need for sense cables for your 40 series GPU.

Stealth Sense features a hidden jumper that signals to the GPU that the full 600 WS is available, all without the need for sense cables fragile that can easily come off resulting in a black screen and 100% fans to see the full list of specifications and supported power supplies follow the link in the description below so let's unpack

this

together it's been a while since I

made

one of these kits um and obviously because of their IQ link stuff which we'll talk about here in a second, but the IQ link stuff is supposed to really simplify it more oh that's right. literally a box within a box, okay, as you can see, it basically has everything you're going to need in there.

Let's talk about the IQ link real quick. There has been an error that has circulated out there. I guess a lot of the RGB didn't work, it was like flashing a red LED or whatever. I specifically waited to talk about this until the bug was fixed, so by the time this video was posted, an update should already be available. that addresses all the drivers that needed firmware updates and such, so I just want to point out that make sure you know that everything seems to be kosher regarding the community, uh, regarding the IQ link stuff, but unfortunately that's what deals When you have a completely new family and ecosystem of products.

Sometimes you need to fix some of these problems and errors. One of the main complaints I had about the previous IQ um Hydrox stuff was the fact that it didn't work. they all integrate completely so I really hope that's what we get this time, but we're going to find out right now the products that you get and we'll go through the box real quick, we get a CPU block pump, a combo radiator, QX 1220 fans RGB, four-way splitter and hub, we get, oh, actually, we get Hardline tubes, tools and cool stuff, this is a Hardline kit, obviously, it's half a millimeter or half a millimeter.

That would be a really short tube, they're half meter tubes, 10 x 14. My only concern about the length of these tubes is that if you try to do a single long run, you won't necessarily be able to do it. Depending on the size of your box and the length of the run you're trying to do, you may end up having trouble moving from one component to another. I feel like they should have

made

this box with longer, longer tubes for that reason. but anyway, we get the 14mm other. the pipe makes a double 90 or

something

like that.

The only thing it doesn't have are couplers, so if you have to go a longer way to put two tubes together and have a coupler, it doesn't come with any of that, so you'll have to get it on your own, but this is one of the first. kits that I know of that allow a person to go straight to the sale of Hardline water pipes and have everything you're essentially going to need, with the exception of a heat gun. I need a heat gun for that now the radiator this is the xr5 360 we had we have a bunch of these in the warehouse nothing changed with this one it's an all copper radiator it's 360mm long uh it actually has a total of 398 mm long including the end tanks, but then it's a 30mm thick red so it's pretty standard, good enough for a CPU and GPU running as if the original speeds were not overclocked.

I wouldn't use a 360 on let's say a 99 and a 4090, that's a lot. heat you are asking for a single 360 ​​for cooling but of course you can add more to this kit if you want to add another radiator You have to buy another radiator and two more accessories at a minimum to be able to add another component to your set, same with a block of GPU, if you want to add a GPU block every time you add a component, add two fittings for that too because you need fittings for those components, here is the tube I want to see if it is the clear or frosted tube, most likely they use pmma, that's what Corsair uses for their tubes.

I love pmma, it bends really hard without crushing and it takes more heat to bend, it's still acrylic but there's something different about pmma than standard. acrylic and you can get it INF frosted, although these are just clear tubes, so as you can see, they are transparent, which of course always has a nice look and then depending on the fluid color that you choose, this one includes fluid, um, That's going to be clear, but you can add special dyes and other things to those fluids that are not food coloring. By the way, never use food coloring in your Loop.

The food coloring will grow because it is food grade material and guess what else bacteria loves about food grade stuff. microbials and all kinds of other things, so we get a total of six of these 1/2 meter long tubes. I highly recommend you buy more, especially if you have never curved before. Six seems like a lot, you won't get more, this is our three pack. of the qx20 RGB fans, let's take a look at these, real quick, nothing has really changed with these in regards to the fact that they have been selling them independently for a while, it's nice to see them come in a kit, they do this magnetically. tie in the daisy chain, which is the whole point of the link

when

it comes to Corsair, and it will allow us to have less cables and less clutter, which is never a bad thing, so it's just a pretty standard standard three. package put in a box, you can see right here, they're even already connected, but they literally just have these little, um, what would you call them, but they're just little adapters, little jumpers, it's like a big version of a BIOS reset. jumper on a motherboard, but it transmits the full signal due to the fact that this is 12V power and not 5V, meaning you can have many more devices on a single line, including powering the fans, including all the RG AR argb and all the communication you need for the RGB to do all the effects and everything you want. 12vt is necessary. 5vt wouldn't do the job, so I like the fact that Corsair went with 12vt.

Something else you may not have noticed about their fans. a temperature sensor on each fan so you can use the IQ software to have multiple fans in your settings Speed ​​up and slow down based on temperature. What's amazing about this is the fact that for the first time, you can balance the intake and exhaust fans based on temperature. so if you notice that the exhaust is starting to get hot because the temperature going through the fans is giving you the temperature going through the fan is exactly equal to the highest temperature in the essentially CU case, you are running out, are you running out of gas?

TRUE? I'll tell you where most of the heat is and what that temperature is, so if you notice that the exhaust fan temperatures are rising, you can speed up the intake fans and you can also speed up the exhaust fans if you want. you can do it based on the fan temperature, the GPU temperatures load that's all part of the IQ um system that Corsair has done a lot of work on over the years, the problem with RGB and the integrated software and so on is the made into what it has become, there are so many different ones, true, but this is an ecosystem and that is one of the reasons why

when

you talk about IQ, it is important to know that the only way to gain full control over these devices is to use them.

IQ and this, as you can see, comes with the new mini Hub, this Hub here has a power port, it has a communication port and then it even has a temperature probe here as well that you can put. different temperature sensor somewhere on the C if you want, so the Hub can also control the fans and pump speeds and such based on how much temperature is read even through that sensor. What I love about this. I don't have any steel here to show you, but this is magnetic. You'll notice there are no mounting screws or anything like that.

It literally just magnets to your case. If it's steel, if you have an aluminum chassis, you'll have to use double-sided tape or something like that. And then you can see here that it also comes with some of the fan headers, we already have 600mm length of 180 and 90, which is good because let's say here are your fans, all you have to do. to connect all of this just plug it into this other end either to the other device or to the hub it's like USBC so it works in either direction and those fans would now be fully connected so the fans cable is a bit thick because there's a lot of cables that have to be here in terms of handling all the RGB communication, all the power delivery, the grounding, any of the sensors and so on, and the data cable, all that stuff here, um , it's kind of important, so the cable is a little bit thick and then we have a little bit of 90° to 90°.

I think this is like 100mm or something, maybe 150mm. I think it's a 150mm jumper cable so this could then let's say you have another fan like you have two on the top and one on the back of your case. You could connect them together. You know, this way it simplifies the wiring. This is nothing new. We talked about this more than a year ago. ago I guess I love the simplicity of what it offers because my biggest complaint and I love that this is a result of so many people like me and the community complaining about the mess of RGB fan systems is that if you had a fan cable. which was like for the fan itself, the P, the four pin pwm plug and an RGB cable for each fan.

If you had, for example, 11 fans in your system like mine, you would end up having 22 cables coming out just for the fans, so this is just a four-way splitter. This allows us to split the cables in multiple directions if you want, so you have this splitter more in the middle of your case and you would like to go to the case fans, maybe a radi, not the radiator, but the pump, strip RGB separately or something separately and then you can go from the splitter to the hub like down here, so it gives you another simplified touch point to be able to plug everything in and then go in. the hub, so these are our compression fittings, they measure 14mm x 10mm which is the size of our tube.

They have multiple O-rings on the inside, so they have two O-rings that not only provide a compression fit but also a seal. so no leaks, they are a semi-gloss finish type, not a matte, semi-gloss type, so we have eight of the compression fittings and we have two from the 90s, so the 90s should be here too, yeah, there are. the 90 swivels right there so they're really useful when it comes to getting off the blocks and as you can see this is very stiff which is nice you can spin it it's called a swivel attachment. I like it when they're stiff because sometimes they want to sag, if they're not stiff they sag and then they don't stay where you put them so I like them to be nice and stiff and they stay where I put them yeah so we have ourselves , an xc7 RGB Elite block.

I'm sure you've noticed that these are basically off-the-shelf parts that were included in a kit, but I love that for the fact that it means it requires 95% of the guest training. with another Link cable right there, 90° on one side and 180 on the other, we have our Intel retention bracket and we also have our AMD brackets in there and this is also an IQ Link device but it doesn't daisy chain yet, which Really I was hoping maybe they would have implemented it, well we have our opinion here for our enlightenment. This does nothing but bring illumination to this like the cable.

This is no, it's just a bomb or block, it's not a bomb or anything like that. there's no data signal, no temperature sensor or anything here, as far as I can tell, it's still very disappointing that this isn't a daisy chain part because, for me, one of the biggest selling points of the daisy chain is when They connect well. So this is the xd5 RGB Elite pump exactly the same as the one we had before. It comes with the mounting bracket and everything is bronze in color. There are 22 RG rgb here. It's 22. I think it's 22 again.

This doesn't daisy chain either. It's something I'm going to criticize Corsair for until they regret it and finally make their Hydrox products chainable. It's a pretty decent sized unit. It has some kind of rubber protection on the acrylic right here tothat when you place it it does not break. it scratches everything, so if it looks a little cloudy, that's why there's some kind of rubber like little protective sleeve there so you can screw it right on, like say the bottom of a case, if you want, and these brackets. Here they are made of rubber. I don't know if you can tell that they move a little.

They are rubber. That is to stop any vibration from the pump reaching the chassis and then resonating. But there is our only link. This is kind. Well, at least for the bomb. If the pump doesn't connect I can daisy chain it. I can pass it because this has to carry a significant amount of power for the pump much more than the fans and then so many rgbs and then have the data circuit here so you can speed up and slow down the pump based on its speeds. I'm okay with it being a single plug due to the fact that this is going to draw a lot of power from that line anyway, but it's still coming from the same place which is that Hub now that Hub connects directly to a connector right here that connects to PCI Express on your six-pin power supply, not SATA, so you're getting a better power supply for this than you would through SATA. line, so this can do a pretty good job of delivering the power that would be needed, for example, your water pump right here, okay, what do we have left here?

We have coolant, this is the xl8 performance coolant and of course I have actually used it. this coolant in quite a few of our builds, I think Phil's builds, even using it, it's a solid coolant, it has anti-growth, it has growth inhibitors built in, so there won't be any algae growth and stuff in there. which keeps the pH where it should be it is also anti-corrosive even though all of our parts here are pretty much copper or nickel plated, there is no aluminum at all so galvanic corrosion shouldn't be a problem, I've never had any of that .

My systems that are running this formula get dirty or have strange floats or anything that falls off or even the light color changes, sometimes the clear things change color when they pick up solder flux from radiators or other components that are having some kind of reaction, so I've never had that happen to me with any of our super cold coolants and then the last thing here should be our tool kit. Oh, and you get a squeeze bottle filler which is nice. You'd be surprised how long I went without using one of these and then once I did it was like everything changed, although I think everything for me now is going to be full on emptiness, to be honest, after we did it, Are you ready for it to fill the system?

Yeah, full, but this still makes it really nice, especially if your reservoir is like, let's say, it's near the top of the box and you can't fit anything in there to pour, you can just put this in there and say, and If we take a look at the tools, exactly the same standard tool kit available on the shelf. they already sell, which has a bender, a vise to cut the tube and then, of course, a hacksaw, a drill bit and a chuck to obtain bends without crushing. The thing about bending the tube is that if you don't put something in it, it doesn't do it.

It doesn't matter if it's steel like for exhaust systems or plastic for anything else, if you don't put something inside the tube when you bend it, it will just collapse on itself and it's a solid wire. I want to point out that sometimes it is hollow and can still give a little, which means that the tube squishes a little because it is solid, which means that when you bend the tube you will get a nice circle along the entire curvature, the diameter inside and the shape will be keep it as a circle, so there's our mandrel, um, there's some instructions if you want here.

I still use this thing, believe it or not, you can put it on the edge like this and then you can use this to hold the tube if you want. I honestly wouldn't use these screws because they can scratch and mar the plastic, which is the whole tube, it's acrylic, so if you know, try to put them like this tight against the tube, you'll scratch it, so I don't use them at all. I tend to put my hand like this holding the tube and then cut, speaking of cutting, here's our hacksaw, not much to say about this 90° bender.

I don't usually use this. but this allows you to have stops and what I mean by this is you can push the tube down and if you know where you need the bend to be, you can push and put the plug there, push the tube down to where it stops the heat. up and then you can bend it here so you can and there are marks there to show you 45 90 um whatever and then whatever so I forget about the ink and it's kind of nice because it allows you to be able to get perfect 90° bends. , if you want, I do it the old school method, where I just hold it up to the corner of the table and do 90° based on that, but if you wanted to do it like that, you absolutely can and this.

If you have a tool available to do that, we have our deer tool that has an internal deer and an external deer or an external deer where once you cut you will have teeth, so you take the pointed one inside the tube. and you go back and forth with it, it will soften, take the outside on the outside of the tube. I'm not going to do this on my finger, it would hurt a lot because those are blades and then you just go back and out and you get rid of all that that way, when you push the tube into its connector, it doesn't cut the O-ring.

Cutting the o-ring would lead to a very bad day, so that's it, that's all in the box, except for the squeeze bottle that I threw in there, it had some paper in it, this could be, I think, one of the first kits of Hardline tubes that I've seen on the market, which is good because if I'm thinking about this right now with the amount of builds I've done, what do people tend to mess up with the most appropriate compatibility sizes, making sure to have the correct size fittings to work with the correct size pipe what do you have if you had to make some type of adjustment to this? kit, it would probably be what I already said, which would be to make sure you have enough tubes and I think you would use more tubes than they gave you and that's just because of the fact that they have to, I think for shipping reasons, the box it had to be shorter, that's why you don't get 1M long links, which you can get online.

The tubes are not expensive, as Corsair sells 1M long tubes and you go up to Amazon. I get a lot of my tubes from Amazon. so I would definitely recommend doing more tubing practice with some spare tubing or something or an extra piece to get used to what temperature it needs to be at, which tends to be the main thing that people get wrong when they do it. when it comes to bending the tubes, they don't get the temperature right so they try to bend them when it's too cold which will cause them to bend or they're trying to make it so you can never repackage things or they understand that too.

It gets hot and then blisters form, so I recommend practicing with a spare tube, that way you'll have an idea of ​​when you know the temperature is right. The nice thing about the link is the fact that it's pretty simple in terms of wiring this up, like I said. I'm not a big fan of the fact that the only thing that will necessarily be daisy chained in this whole setup will be the uh fans, nothing else has a daisy chain aspect to it, but you know what this will make things a lot simpler and clean due to the fact that you can have a cable coming out of each device and if you do add more fans to your system you can daisy chain them like I already showed but if you have overhead fans and then it says wall fans from the motherboard or something, then you'll probably end up needing more cables and more adapters than they offer.

You get the four-way adapter, which is a nice bonus. I'll show you real quick, it's pretty simple, this is not a smart device, it's just a hub, so the hub, as you can see, gives you 1, two, 3, 4 and then one input. you get four extra leads from this and then if you wanted you could have more than one Hub there if for whatever reason multiple hubs are recognized in IQ allowing you to control them independently of each other so I really like it see this because as someone who wants to bring many people's concerns about water cooling to a realistic and manageable state of anxiety, because putting coolant in a computer for most people creates a lot of anxiety and I have seen a lot people commenting on any of my videos where I talk about water cooling and saying: why would you do that?

Why would you put liquid in your computer? It seems like a terrible idea. it's generally safe, it's generally safe and as there are products like this that are designed to ensure that things work compatible with each other in the best possible opportunity so that an error doesn't occur, I'm all for that, this is a very Good start and it's expandable due to the fact that they have their CPU blocks as well as other water blocks and stuff. Now I'm waiting to see what they come out with for things like newer GPUs because I'm still not a fan of their hybrid blocks, we've covered that, but they've made very good full coverage blocks in the past.

I'm waiting to see them come to the Link product line, but I think with how many SKS you have to cover with how many blocks there would have to be for all the GPUs out there, that takes time and has to be something that makes sense from the beginning. commercial point of view so that they say that we are going to cover all these products or skus. for graphics cards and sometimes it just doesn't, you may need to have a graphics card GPU block that is not connected to be linked for the time being using a standard argb header or something that IQ can still control via dks and other things that are available to make sure other products are controlled with IQ, there's some kind of collaboration going on there, okay guys, thanks for looking, does this kit make you feel more comfortable?

It's like everything is there, look at that except the tools, I mean, everything does this. The kit makes you more comfortable when trying water cooling, especially rigid tube cooling. You could do the same with the soft tubes and I would be surprised if they didn't also have a soft tube kit available, but I like that this is the first. kit that I know personally that addresses Hardline tubes so that the beginner tries to give him everything he needs in one box. Alright guys, the links are below once again. Many thanks to Corsair for sending this to us so we could take a look.

The guys are looking for alternatives to everything that is happening right now, so here is one of them. Thanks for watching guys and as always, see you next time.