More details about corsair hydro x series: the corsair custom liquid

Today we bring more details about Corsair custom liquid cooling that has surprised the world and will delight the most enthusiastic. Corsair Hydro X Series was presented to us in several assembled equipment and in a stand with all the details of its parts, let's see them throughout this post.

Corsair Hydro X Series the custom liquid system

We are all used to buying a liquid cooling system equipped with a radiator, more or less large, which also has fans installed, a pump that is placed on the CPU and tubes. All this comes already assembled and perfectly prepared to operate on our PC, all we have to do is screw the radiator to the chassis and the pump on the CPU.

A custom refrigeration system is different, it is the user who must assemble the entire system piece by piece. Pump, pipes, cooling blocks, pipe sleeves and elbows, etc. But the advantage is enormous, we can create a cooling system for all our components at once, or even have several of them simultaneously. That is what Corsair Hydro X Series offers, and also in great detail, as we have seen.

Components and Description

Let's see first hand what components we have available in this liquid refrigeration. We have been to the sneak peak of Corsair to know more details about this complete system.

CPU cold block

The cooling block is the element that is responsible for installing on the processors, be they CPU or GPU, to capture the heat and direct it to the fluid that passes through them. Starting with those of our PC's processor, Corsair offers two models called XC7 and XC9 RGB.

The first block (CX7) is the specification for full-size sockets, i.e., LGA 1151 and AM4, although there is also a specification that supports LGA 2066 socket only and TR4 only. These blocks are available in black and white. The second block (CX9) offers compatibility with larger sockets, such as the LGD 2066 and TRD from AMD Threadripper, and is aimed at providing higher performance than the CX7 variant to perform more powerful overclocking to top-of-range processors.

Both blocks have iCUE manageable RGB LED lighting, which have a total of 16 addressable LEDs. As for the design, we have a transparent water passage area, a copper contact head and aluminum connections and support structure. The installation mode is exactly the same as other Corsair products.

All the blocks come with the thermal paste already applied from the factory, this being the same one that the brand uses in the rest of the refrigeration systems for sale.

GPU Cold Blocks

The next important element is the block for the graphics card that Corsair calls XG7. In this case Corsair has a lot of work ahead, since blocks are not yet available for all the GPUs on the market, which you already know, there are many.

Well, the ones we currently have available are only for the reference models of Nvidia and AMD. Specifically, we have blocks for Nvidia RTX 2080 FE, 2080 Ti FE, GTX 1080 Ti FE and RTX 2070 FE. And for AMD only the Radeon VEGA 64 block is available. As for custom models, only the block is available for Asus Strix GPUs. From the brand they inform us that a greater variety of blocks will soon arrive to cover custom models such as those of Asus, Gigabyte and MSI.

The brand has used a CNC process to build the external area of ​​these blocks, such as the housing that covers the GPU PCB in nickel. Present a structure similar to the previous case, since the fluid chamber is completely transparent, made of acrylic, it has a flow indicator and 16 addressable LEDs in the area.

Tank and pump

We now turn to see the tank of this system called XD5, which is presented in a single model with a transparent part for the 300 ml capacity tank itself, and LED lighting on the D5 pump that is controlled by a PWM signal. The liquid can be poured through the outside area through an opening specially reserved for it.

The benefits offered by this pump are 800L / h to a maximum of 2.1 in height and a maximum of 4800 RPM, plenty for what is being a normal computer chassis and current. In the lower area we will have everything related to the connection to power via 4-pin Molex cable and 4-pin fan header.

In this case, the pump cannot be separated from the liquid tank, at least it was not designed for it. In any case, we are not going to need to do this practically in any case, but it would have been internal, for example, to carry out a hypothetical cleaning of the system.

Radiators

The next important element is the radiators which in this case we also have more information available from Corsair about them. We can distinguish two different models, the XR7 and the XR5.

On the part of the XR5, we are dealing with a standard configuration of radiator with a thickness of 30 mm, which is approximately the same thickness that Liquid AIOs offer. We have available sizes of 120, 140, 240, 280, 360 and 420 mm. That is, absolutely all sizes available.

And on the part of the XR7, it is about thicker radiators, specifically 55 mm in total. These radiators have been designed by Corsair for cases where extra performance and heat sink capacity is needed, for example, for multi-block systems, with CPU + multiple GPUs, etc. They will be available in sizes 240, 360 and 480 mm. All of them are built in aluminum and black color.

Tubes, fittings and refrigerant

Finally we have all the necessary accessories to pipe and redirect the refrigerant flow throughout the system. And in this case the truth is that we have many elements.

On the part of the tubes, we must know that all of them are transparent and also with a treatment that allows them to shine under ultraviolet light. They will be available with 10 and 13mm section for tubes that are flexible and 12 and 14mm for tubes that are rigid. The user can choose the ones they want, or combine them if necessary.

There is also a multi-card kit geared towards SLI and CrossFire configurations where the fluid routing system is pre-installed.

Fittings are the necessary elements to join pipes with cold blocks. They are not entirely built by Corsair, and will be available in chrome white and gold and also in matt white and black. They have been built in solid brass and these elements include elbows, valves, dividers, connectors or filler jaws. The truth is that they are quite expensive.

Finally we have the coolant, called by the XL5 brand and available in different colors including transparent, green, blue, red and purple. 1 liter of fluid comes in each unit. What's more, if we are not too skillful, we can also buy a filling bottle for a couple of euros.

Creation website

As if it were a car, the Corsair website already has a configurator so that we ourselves can choose the components and accessories we need to configure our personalized system. Something that undoubtedly gives a lot of play and versatility to the product.

We will choose each of the components and they will be added to a PDF with their respective bar codes and reference to finally make the purchase.

Availability and price

It is undoubtedly an impressive cooling system of the most complete that exists today, and we know that Corsair has put a lot of effort into it, both for quality and for aesthetic finishes. All lighting will be addressable and iCUE compliant. Let's now look at the wrecks in general of the accessories:

• CPU cold blocks € 79.90 and € 84.90 GPU cold blocks between € 149.90 and € 159.90 Tank and pump € 164.90 Radiators between € 47.90 and € 139.90 Tubes from € 14.90 to € 19.90 Fittings from € 14.90 to € 27.90 Refrigerant € 16.90

As for availability, because right now you can start buying it, because it is already available in the Corsair store and on the configuration page that the manufacturer has created for this purpose.