i admire your self control that you are not petting the cats all the time when doing your videos! and a few minutes later sheik is getting scritchies XD ^^ Jay had more or less exactly the same opinion as you do about this.
I'm seeing 2 different thumbnails. The one with the stick figure I like. But it only appears when the video is paused and minimized. There is a much more standard thumbnail that appears in the feed. Probably RUclipss fault. They always screw up the thumbnails on the videos I upload as well, especially during the first hours after upload.
This just seems like it should have been an AIO. Especially at the price point. If you are spending that much for a block there are much better options for your loop. I don't even know what Corsair was thinking for this over their own much better blocks.
They got away with charging 50 dollars for a mediocre fan with RGB. If they make it look nice, then people will buy it. For a lot of people its more about aesthetics than performance.
I think the universal point means it can be mounted on ANY RX 7900 XT cards. Not just specifically the reference version or specifically the Sapphire nitro etc.
Thing is that's not universal just means it fits the 7900xt/xtx, etc. Universal means it'll fit any card. It's just poorly worded and confusing marketing considering the targeted demographic just so they could save a half a cent on box printing. Just say it'll fit all of X card that the specific cooler is meant for and lose the universal crap.
@@sirmonkey1985 Extremely poorly worded and very confusing marketing and description. On this block's product page, on Corsair's website, it states "Near-universal compatibility". On the Tech Specs section it states: " GPU Compatibility AMD RADEON (7900 XT(X)) ". JayzTwoCents tested it with the RTX 4070Ti Asus Tuf card. He stated that it is also compatible with the RTX 4070 Non-Ti. Very confusing ! Corsair should have done a much better job.
Back in the days of the GTX 480, I tossed an Accelero Xtreme on my cards. It included VRM sinks and memory sinks that you attached with thermal adhesive. That was a true universal cooler. It worked on virtually all Nvidia 400 series cards, and it worked great! The problem with this cooler, as you and JayzTwoCents both point out is a complete lack of cooling for the VRMs. The fan is a great idea, but the lack of a $3 pack of aluminum heatsinks and $0.10 worth of thermal adhesive makes this cooler a terrible value compared to similarly priced blocks.
"Near universal compatibility" I think what they mean, since it's not a full-cover block, that it also works with AIB models that have non-reference PCB layouts...
Exactly, the whole point of this product was to give someone with a non reference pcb model more choice than hoping alphacool ou bykski make a block for your card.
It's Hideous. In New Zealand it's going to cost like $300+ for a hunk of plastic and a copper plate?! Disgusting. I wouldn't be surprised if NZ retailers say "No thanks" about stocking it because it's the same price as an EK block
This seems to have the disadvantages of custom water cooling (high cost, complex build process) but very few of the advantages. You still need to buy at least a pump / res to run just this block, which is absolutely crazy.
@@ChaosHusky He was probably expecting a product that makes sense, unlike this piece of crap. You either buy a real block for a custom loop or you buy some solution with an AIO. Not this half-assed nonsense that's the worst of both worlds.
I stopped buying Corsair a while ago, when they completely abandoned my then 2-year-old AIO h100i cooler, through a forced and malicious iCUE driver update that categorized it (and many other "old products" as "End-of-Life", and turned it into a complete brick. I was getting a ton of BSODs and I had no idea at all that this driver update was the culprit. Super malicious anti-consumer practices. I also had a Harpoon mouse that totally broke within a year. Now, seeing this video with this joke GPU water block is not surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if Corsair was secretly purchased by a Chinese parent company. Usually those errors in translation, or strange-sounding marketing claims is the give-away. Ali-Express style marketing.
Had some 5ish K95 keyboards. All of them got issues with LEDs dying, or the blue LED dying. A couple of them were replaced by warranty, but same issue always hit at some point - different PCs, different USB ports and all that. Just terrible quality. Got 3 of them laying in some drawer, non-RGB, RGB, RGB Platinum or some such, I forget. After the last one, which might've been way too late.. I've just stopped purchasing Corsair products.
That's a you issue mate, i had no such problem with any AIO caused by software.. All you had to do was keep LiNK installed, iCUE would be no benefit to you, or you had bad luck, just happened to fail around that time. Personally i have 3 Corsair AIOs, one of which second hand and they have never gone wrong once.. And perhaps you got a bad mouse or you bounced it off the floor a few times, could always be user error.. Software killing your AIO is possible but unlikely. Could have just kept LiNK!
@@ChaosHusky How about this, maybe your head bounced off the floor a few too many times, maybe YOU should keep iLINK and keep sending your money to Corsair. I know I wont. How about the company sends out an email ahead of time "Hey, don't upgrade the software" or "Hey, switch to this other program that we have decided to downgrade you to" No warning was given at all. If you are okay with having to send support tickets to figure out if your drivers will work, that is totally up to you. Congrats, that's your own YOU issue. Me, I am happy with Alphacool, superior products, driver-free. Done with this entry-level junk. Computer cooling should NEVER be driver-dependent.
I don't think this type of water cooler is bad, however the price most definitely is and if they included small heat sinks with thermal adhesive for the vrm it would have been much better. there.
nobody is going to use this though. imagine spending a fortune on a cpu waterblock, a pump, a reservoir, tubing, fittings, coolant, etc and then buying this. it's a waste
@@piersonm5574 There are people who want water cooling to quietly cool a higher end system but do not care about looks that much, for them this style of cooler is fine, just not at this price.
Don't know what they were thinking. Paid the same for a complete eiswolf ii 360 this seems to perform a lot worse after the remount. If this was like £79...maybe.
I think "Universal" means universally bad across all 7900-family cards. So it should work with any of the AiB, regardless of brand. If they included some low-profile finned heat sinks to apply to the VRMs, it might even have worked passably.
The universal compatibility is they work on any of the partner models, the GPU and memory are always in the same spot while everything else isnt. One card might have a component thats higher than all the rest and a normal water block that covers everything won't work with it. You can say it's marketing speak for we don't cover everything and therefore it will work with all cards to make that sound good when it's not.
Was hoping for more. NZXT did it right with that AIO mounting bracket. Still sitting on my 1080TI running like a dream, and for just 30 bucks. Bought an AIO for 90 at the time in 2020. Hopefully manufacturers keep trying to push this out though, simple and cheaper solutions to push people into full custom.
VRM temperature is measured in an open bench, I think in a closed case it would be at least 7-8 °C higher with this kind of cheap block. Anyway good video, as always
@der8auer-en How is your delided/IHS mono-block for AM5 coming along, I watched that video 4-5 months ago and thought it looked pretty much ready but I can't see where to buy it or how the development is coming on??? Thanks Roman.
Seems like a 3D printed cover would help with the looks, especially when you show the side view at 9:17 When you show it from the side, to me it feels like there is something missing. Also the port on the cooler is on the front, i would love to see it on the backside to avoid showing extra cables that might look messy.
@michaelscarport Making a cover wouldn't have any impact on the performance, it's about the look of it. Same with the port. None of the comments are aimed at the conclusion of the products ability to cool properly, purely design and looks.
@michaelscarport Critizing a visual design is a personal opinion, which is what i did initially. But i also provided a solution that i would worked if needed. There is nothing more to it really. Im not tellling anyone to buy this, i'm not even saying its good in any way, just the contrary. Check the rest of the comment fields, you'll end up with lots of different opinions, which is what i did too, but it was an opinion about the aesthetics of the design. If you don't agree and you love the looks of it, that's up to you, but to me, i didn't like the looks of it. Youll also see people talking about the perfomance, but thats number and science that speaks for itself, nothing to contribute there unless you have an idea to make it cool better, which in this case, i don't.
@michaelscarport Ok, let me put it in another way. If you see a car with a color you don't like, and you say "I would have picked another color", does it mean you're planning on buying the car and repainting it? No, and that's what im saying. I don't look the way it looks and i would have made a cover to help that issue. Its a comment about what it looks like, nothing more.
It is very funny and enjoyable for some reason that Derbauer has remnant 1 running in the background on this stuff. Love that game, and the sequel. Even Jay didn't like this thing though, that corsair pump res actually looks alright and is more interesting. Seriously this this costs like 120-130.... I recently got a alphacool full block with backplate for a 4090 for 165.... So for like 30-40 more you could buy a real water block....
Tbh this cooler has so much clearance underneath that one can easily put additional heatsinks on VRMs. The fan on it is probably very quiet. But all is still too expensive.
The fan is speed adjustable, so noise shouldn't be an issue. But I do think it should include some heatsinks. At the very least, it needs a significant price reduction!
they advertised an XG7 in this years iCue Link announcement earlier in the year and its seemingly been removed from all marketing and their website. biggest mistake to shoehorn customers into this ass looking/performing product Bring back the XG7
Do you think the excessive height, when viewed horizontally, was to allow clearance for attaching VRM sinks to the card? I still think it looks fugly, and I wouldn't buy it at half the price, but it's the only possible reason I can think of why the shroud has such a huge gap underneath.
It's sometimes ill advised to use a long duct together with centrifugal fans. For one it's not needed, the airflow is already super directional. For other the friction of the air on the duct walls creates noise. And third the same friction reduces the energy of the airflow. Furthermore the lip of the offset ductwork forms a simple semblance of a Coanda nozzle. Not as good as a real one but then so much less noisy and better than nothing. So i would say it looks fluid design driven. But yeah it also helps with component clearance and adding heatsinks.
The fact that this thing didnt get canned when it was brought up in r&d is a crime against humanity. Whoever made this thing needs a slap across the face
It actually looks more promising to me than it lets on, like it should be able to fit more GPUs, a lot more. It would be interesting to see a more comprehensive fit test. Or if it doesn't fit, it could be re-designed more universal. But the pricing and the product quality issues. It definitely released rushed. It should have come with VRM tape attached heatsinks, it should have had brass thread inserts.
I bought the xg7 cooler because it was listed as icue link on the landing page. When I got it it wasn't but will be. To corsair credit they have an adapter cable which makes it iq link and sent it out free of charge
one change could improve this thing. integrate VRM heatsinks with thermal pads into the block where the airflow passively blows over the VRMs it would help cool them much better
The cpu water block and all the rest of the iq system including the aio units are an awesome and well thought out design. Then the gpu block is a complete after thought. It's like Corsair devs were sitting at the table and someone said, "We now have the entire link system. Well done." Then another employee reminded them they forgot about a gpu waterblock and hastily they slapped this thing together and through the usual corsair tax on it and sent it to stores for purchase.
There's other good things I think are overlooked. Their pumps performance isn't good, for some reason there's some sort of flow impedance or pump problems as shown by low flow rates. But I love their reservoirs as they're made from nylon instead of acrylic. Acrylic cracks spidering on your reservoir = sad panda.
Couldn't you run three individual connections from the hub to the cpu gpu and pump. I how it's alot of cables but it would be better than using a splitter
It`d be great if all CPU and GPU manufacturers could agree on one general layout so that we could reuse our coolers forever even between brands. It works with USB ports and ATX motherboards so why not. The differences with VRMs and amounts of RAM surely could be accomdated for with different pad arrangements on a big copper plate.
@@Examoon layout of 4090 with VRMs on both sides of the chip with single-sided memory surrounding the die could be applied for all cards since like GeForce 9500 or something. Almost 20 years of development. So no, if the layout was designed to be future-proof, it wouldn't be restrictive.
@@iowawalker I actually think it retricts companies from penny pinching. Because holy hell i have seen some GPU PCB layouts that exist purely in order to spare a layer of prepreg. Including laying things out in ways that you clearly absolutely shouldn't do.
I think if they just added some cooling heatsink fins that you could stick onto the VRMs with some thermal pads, that would help a lot with the cooling, since there is active airflow over the area.
I was about to comment this as well. Most modern GPUs come with VRMs that are massively overkill for the GPU under most circumstances and just having some copper/aluminium heatsinks stuck onto the VRM chips (like the old days) will keep them nice and cool.
so tired of cheap plastic and rgb. A brutalist approach would be nice, an open frame on top with lines of holes allowing the user to mount a fan on top of the vrm would work so much better
if u could make a custom 3d print to cover the other parts and also use heatsink on the vrms and keep tthe corsair block in the middle...it would be pretty cool
I love that this brand has brought custom loop more mainstream with their broad spectrum kits but thats where it ends. Their prices are NOT on par with competitors for performance:cost. 130 for a gimmick? You can spend less on something from a low-end manufacturer like barrow or bitspower (which sometimes end up being surprisingly good quality for their cost). Or wait until things shake out and prices drop on the top brands. Hell, I just bought a clearance vector block for my kids 3070 for less than what corsair wants for this joke!
Is it normal for the 7900 series gpus to have a delta of 32 degrees between gpu die and the hot spot with the big block? My 6950XT is about 10-12 degrees difference. Also this is Corsair isn't lying, the quiet operation is because the fan is meant to cover the coil whine 😄
Does seem pricey. Does standard water blocks fit on non reference designs, because if not then is would ne use full in certain cases but that price. Bringing it out for older 20 and 30 series would make more sense.
I should have paid more attention to your review, I had to rewatch it. Thanks for the details and efforts you put in. Even though you dont recommend it, it was half price on Amazon so I got it anyway, then it arrived and I was shocked to find out that the fan can not be powered by a standard cable. I understood it was iCUE but I coudlnt believe it was only iCUE. I had Amazon give me 20 dollars credit back to help offset the purchase of a hub :(. Based on your review I also puchased some small heatsinks to put on the VRMs which should help with the fan cooling. I spent an hour looking to see if anyone had a hack for the iCUE cable plug to use a standard power cable from the MB to power the fan but had no luck.
So instead of buying the hub, I have just removed the aircooler and cabled tied a 140mm fan on witht he VRM Heatsinks, and the cable ties are holding on original backplate helping a lot. Temps are down and noise is down from original, VRM's 50-60 degrees max.
its a "cheap build" beta product. it looks like the cheap plastic gpu air coolers from 20 years ago. Corsair wants $130 usd for $50 in plastic and a copper sheet. and a control block that has so few i/o ports that cant cover their ecosystem. Corsair marketing team working over time for the corpo market speak.
Hey! Love your content. I have been looking build a fully water cooled system. But cant seem to find your am5 direct die blocks anywhere in stock. any update on that?
i love when brands try to branch out, make dogshit products, and people still buy them because that brand has a good reputation from their main business. corsair is a company that makes top notch ram and solid states; it's undisputed that they're some of the best in the memory market. but there's no way i'm buying a keyboard or a water block from them. that's like buying a toaster from a company that makes plastic flowers
Why not keyboard? They take their input device business quite seriously, it's a fully fledged division with ample resources - and yeah personally i don't care about their keyboards, but pads and mice are a different matter entirely. Plus Elgato is now a Corsair brand as well and that's about as serious a product company as it gets. RGB accessories, hubs, fans are for sure a strong product group for Corsair as well with unique and high quality products. Also ATX enclosures. That being said you definitely don't want to trust a product blindly just because it's by a given brand, because misfires just happen. They happen to most experienced companies in a given field just as well. Corsair memory products? I personally don't care. I feel Crucial has a much better reputation, and for SSDs you have the likes of WD/SanDisk and Samsung to contend with as well, absolute heavyweights.
i say that because i fanboyed out 6 years ago when i built my current rig and bought as much corsair gear as i could - i had a LOT of problems with their peripherals and rgb stuff before i gave it away. i had to RMA the keyboard three times in one year, the mouse twice, and fortunately the headset didn't had any major problems but it's got junk software to hook into - icue is very stupid under the hood. sometimes it disconnects, turns off, randomly switches to the dolby sound enhancer mode (it can throw you off mid-game because it gets very loud the moment you turn it on and then normalizes volume). their quality internal components seems to spill over to their peripherals, but the exterior finish is just... junk. the keyboard and mouse i had were both made of what felt like great materials but they both broke and malfunctioned with medium use. on the other hand, the RGB on their fans and the dedicated lighting control box for those fans didn't work at all. i had to send the light box back twice and neither of the replacements worked either, so i just threw it out. it's not like the keyboard or mouse where they were still useable and could be fixed if something minor went wrong; these things couldn't do the ONE thing they were built for. the set of corsair fans i bought wouldn't light up no matter what i did with them, but they spin good and run quiet enough so i kept them. their ram, like i said, is top notch. i would assume their ssds are the same since it's a similar industry and corsair is known for high quality components, but you're right about them having a ton of strong competition in that area as well. same with their PSUs, i've never heard anything bad about a corsair power brick but they have established brands to compete with that specialize in making power supplies. and now corsair is trying to get into watercooling, when the same thing is happening. there are so many other brands that have made quality liquid cooling pieces for literally decades now, and corsair thinks they can compete by adding their logo and a few LEDs to a half-built waterblock. it's just a very strange move. like why would you buy from corsair who comparatively has zero experience with liquid cooling, when you can get a monster EK custom loop for almost the same price, or something similar from another reputable company in the watercooling business. i guess that's not to say they don't make any good products, but after buying six different things from them at once and having five of them break, malfunction, or just not work, it's not something i would ever do again. maybe i just had an insane unlucky streak, but i don't want to buy again and find out
@@Crunkmaster Corsair made their reputation with PSUs initially by reselling Seasonic models for cheap. These were about as good as you expect them, top of the industry. The next batch of replacement models on the low end came from CWT around 2010 or 2011 and I have been advised against buying those models due to severe coil whine issues when they just appeared, and everyone was a little miffed by the bait and switch. I was shopping at a store which builds a lot of PCs and they found the updated lineup infuriating with the noise, and they weren't even trying to upsell me given those were the only PSUs they happened to have in stock, so I went elsewhere to get myself a HEC built beQuiet PSU. Unfortunately the store went bankrupt, I wonder why huh, but I did end up buying some much more expensive things from this store. Though today things are just better and the same CWT their newer topologies are probably no longer objectionable.
Love your ging, such a gorgeous animal! He (is it a he?) looks completely relaxed and sparco, sign that hes well looked after and not a care in the world.
I'm glad Roman is like Steve from GN in the sense that he will straight up call out a brand for their marketing bullshit. ALL reviewers should be willing to stand up to brands and say "Hey, this is complete horseshit and you need to cut this out." I know there is the fear that a brand will cut off their samples and if a company does this, it's a giant red flag and we should not be buying their products. A good brand will take the shot on the chin ands nod their head, knowing they should be doing better. A shady brand will cut off samples. I know a company doesn't HAVE to provide samples, but I think sampling is one way brands try to hold leverage over smaller reviewers that may not be able to afford all the higher tier products.
I do wish GPU vendors settled on a universal layout for mounting. Even if they stuck to 1 each it would help as you could use brackets. I would think it could even be cheaper also as a company developing cooling or whatever could have a solution for more cards. Would like to see something like the CPU AIO systems where its simple, easy and cheap. Water cooling the GPU is for sure the way to go if this high temp and power trend continues. I also want to see more bench style cases where the system lays flat rather than upright. This will solve GPU sag, mounting the AIO/Rad above CPU height etc etc. Sure it takes up more space on a desk but with the way allot of cases are these days its minimal. TBH we could even just redesign the motherboard shape also to be more elongated and sit on the bottom.
VRM placement on the GPU is due to its chip design, so I find difficult for GPU manufacturers to make a "universal" layout since it changes a lot over the years, specially across different brands, so I guess we can only dream with a GPU block that fits them all, actually it's amazing how AMD manages to keep a rather similar layout across their graphics cards over the generations, for example, you can reuse pretty much the same block for different generations and still maintain a good performance, of course is not like that in every case and it depends on what are you going to cool with it next. I want to buy a new PC when the Black Friday's shenanigans come up this year but I guess I will stick to air cooling and the stock cooler for my GPU, I won't buy a room heater gaming PC either since I'm not going to buy ant top of the line hardcore parts, I'm happy with a mid range CPU and GPU combo and some 32gb of RAM since I like to run virtual machines and emulation, and I will stick to team red, I've been an AMD user since several years ago and their hardware suits my needs very well.
High power consumption in gaming cards is not a trend, it's a deliberate change in silicon binning practices in order to generate the highest possible revenue per mm^2 that rolls off the production line. Given that Nvidia's latests quarterly earnings report (Q2'24) showed data center revenue is four times gaming revenue, it's likely here to stay. The good binned silicon is tuned for efficiency and sold to data centers who are sensitive to power consumption and have deep pockets, while the left over crap has it's frequency pushed well beyond the point of best efficiency and is sold to gamers who just have to deal with the enormous power consumption it results in. So if you want a GPU with decent power efficiency, wait for data centers to refresh their stock and pick up a second pro card - right now you could buy an A4000 and get 95% of the performance of a 3070 for 60% of the power consumption. The longer you wait, the cheaper they'll get as more stock hits the secondary markets. Or you could go the AliExpress route and pick up a 3060M or 3070M laptop GPU taken from the middle bins, reclaimed and repurposed on to a regular PCIe card, and get yourself a low-to-mid range card with twice the performance per watt of anything you can get through legitimate channels. (tl;dr: cost, power efficiency, legitimacy - you can only pick two)
@@stoneymahoney9106 That's a reality that we a consumers have to deal with nowadays, I don't have much of a problem since in my country 95% of the electricity is hydroelectric generated and the other 5% is shared between wind and solar power, but for those who still live from coal and propane sure will have to pay the tax for "high end" PC parts.
A little off-topic, but was wondering if you might do a video showing how to use the Kryosheet with a 7900XTX, showing application and comparisons with paste and maybe PTM7950? It seems like most 7900XTX owners are having issues with paste pumpout and this would be a great option. I'm currently in this boat, having had to repaste my 7900XTX Red Devil 3 times now.
That’s cooler reminds me of something from WISH that you see as an ad. I saw this and said hmm ya this better be like 50-60$ cheap cooler. Too expensive for what you get in my book. Definitely could pass as a knock of Ali-Express item if there wasn’t a logo/brand marked on it.
With as much of a gap between the shroud and the actual card there seems to be plenty of room to apply independent heatsinks to all of the VRMs. You could even 3D print some kind of faceplate to cover the PCB where it does not need the air hitting it from the cooler. However, that brings the price and skill/knowledge to a higher level as well, and this feels like an entry level product made for someone that does not know much about putting water blocks on GPUs. I feel more like they should have made this some kind of "universal" AIO rather then for a custom loop.
@@OriginalMergatroid Yep. That was kind of the point I was going for. Like you could do it but there is no point and the people that would be willing to do that or know how to do that would just use a proper full block anyway.
My liquid devil 7900 XTX hits 92c hotspot at 410 tbp so way more power then the XG3 hybrid block at about 346w board power draw, but after i switched to PTM7950 it only hits 60-70c hotspot on 3D occt test cos furmark only hits about 55c hotspot cos its power limited.
What quick disconects and thickness of tubing do you use? I am currently planning a full custom loop and would love a suggested parts list (rads/pump/res etc) Thanks!
You didn’t take measurements with the stock cooler? You don’t think that’s not a massive issue when you’re trying to compare a aftermarket versus the stock?
Can your flow meter grab data over time or is it just an instantaneous display? Just wondering as I've found throughout the years that trending flows, temps, etc. can drastically improve ones ability to troubleshoot issues! Loving the flow meter!
That's a strange upside-down mushroom looking thing. If the space is just for airflow over the VRM, why not at least offer a snap-on shroud for the exposed side? Just a piece of plastic to cover that ugly gap in the profile that can be removed and trimmed if need be.
I actually loved the previous products, they made it real easy to get into water cooling, grant it there are better options out there for more experienced users, but Corsair had a cool ecosystem it was all cohesive and looked real good, this time around I think I will not be using their stuff though, the GPU water block is what does it for me, watercooling the GPU doesn't seem this time around to have any real benefit because NVidia locked the voltage, I currently have running for testing a 4070TI Asus ProArt and am recommending a 1440p ultrawide setup for that card, on full burn running Cyberpunk - Liberty it pretty much runs the game well enough to play satisfyingly(its not of course cranked with all the extra extras like Pathtracing and such but it handles maxxed out, DLSS Quality, Psycho RT and does it bouncing around 35-70 Frames without frame gen, really cannot complain about it, every other game it turns and burns maxxed no problems) it basically doesn't get above 57c package(TJ probably 77c) with Asus cooling solution, I caught the frequency a few times hitting up 2960 on its own when the OC automatic Tweak3 mode was enabled which I really didn't expect and the card really is not loud either which maintaining it, I am actually impressed with the card, maybe not the price of it but the card itself is actually great at doing what it is supposed to do at the target market its supposed to be at. Alphacool does make blocks for a few of the cards and I was thinking about it but I am glad I did not go that route, Its unneeded. 4080 and 4090 I would get a block for seems like its a waste for anything else this gen.
Even given the questionable design decisions and the addition of the fan, I would buy this for my 7900 XT if it was an AIO. As a block? Not gonna happen. Better options available. Thank you for the video!
This thing is around the same price you can get a full Byski GPU block for and those would work way better than this even if it's not universal the VRM temps may be fine on a test bench but those will be toasty in a proper case.
Thumbnail was provided by my friend Moira. You can find her on RUclips: Meeix
:D Thanks for this piece of art.
It's... definitely something.
The DE one with the cat is great!
Why didn't we ENG get it? :D
Best thumbnail yet xD
i admire your self control that you are not petting the cats all the time when doing your videos!
and a few minutes later sheik is getting scritchies XD ^^
Jay had more or less exactly the same opinion as you do about this.
156 L/H ....go up to 280 L/H :) do it! ... Just do it!
Best thumbnail ever
Seems ordinary to me, they may have changed it
IKR 😂
I'm seeing 2 different thumbnails. The one with the stick figure I like. But it only appears when the video is paused and minimized.
There is a much more standard thumbnail that appears in the feed.
Probably RUclipss fault. They always screw up the thumbnails on the videos I upload as well, especially during the first hours after upload.
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This just seems like it should have been an AIO. Especially at the price point. If you are spending that much for a block there are much better options for your loop. I don't even know what Corsair was thinking for this over their own much better blocks.
They got away with charging 50 dollars for a mediocre fan with RGB. If they make it look nice, then people will buy it. For a lot of people its more about aesthetics than performance.
@@twiggsherman3641 while true, the problem is that this thing is really ugly.......
@@oct2274 i mean installed it definitely is. Most people are going to buy it based on the package though.
I love that Shika is just like "I'm sleeping here, you're just gonna have to film around me...deal with it"
That cat just gives zero f***s
or hes thinking, hey i can pet kitty and do video, win win
That cat is f***ing epic. Laughed so hard.
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I think the universal point means it can be mounted on ANY RX 7900 XT cards. Not just specifically the reference version or specifically the Sapphire nitro etc.
Thing is that's not universal just means it fits the 7900xt/xtx, etc. Universal means it'll fit any card. It's just poorly worded and confusing marketing considering the targeted demographic just so they could save a half a cent on box printing. Just say it'll fit all of X card that the specific cooler is meant for and lose the universal crap.
Yeah, exactly. Bit dissappointing really that he didn't figure this out himself...
Yeah the point is it is supposed to fit any 7900 xt because the core and memory are AMD defined so custom vrm and pcb layout doesn’t play a role.
I think it is incorrwct snd confusing. It is not universal period. If it fits all XT/XTX. Then write «fits all XT/XTX» simple as that.
@@sirmonkey1985 Extremely poorly worded and very confusing marketing and description. On this block's product page, on Corsair's website, it states "Near-universal compatibility". On the Tech Specs section it states: " GPU Compatibility AMD RADEON (7900 XT(X)) ". JayzTwoCents tested it with the RTX 4070Ti Asus Tuf card. He stated that it is also compatible with the RTX 4070 Non-Ti. Very confusing ! Corsair should have done a much better job.
Back in the days of the GTX 480, I tossed an Accelero Xtreme on my cards. It included VRM sinks and memory sinks that you attached with thermal adhesive. That was a true universal cooler. It worked on virtually all Nvidia 400 series cards, and it worked great! The problem with this cooler, as you and JayzTwoCents both point out is a complete lack of cooling for the VRMs. The fan is a great idea, but the lack of a $3 pack of aluminum heatsinks and $0.10 worth of thermal adhesive makes this cooler a terrible value compared to similarly priced blocks.
"Near universal compatibility"
I think what they mean, since it's not a full-cover block, that it also works with AIB models that have non-reference PCB layouts...
Exactly, the whole point of this product was to give someone with a non reference pcb model more choice than hoping alphacool ou bykski make a block for your card.
Tryly beautiful thumbnail, I can't wait to see you move more into this direction
All you need to see on this review starts at 14:53. You are welcome.
It's Hideous. In New Zealand it's going to cost like $300+ for a hunk of plastic and a copper plate?! Disgusting. I wouldn't be surprised if NZ retailers say "No thanks" about stocking it because it's the same price as an EK block
This seems to have the disadvantages of custom water cooling (high cost, complex build process) but very few of the advantages. You still need to buy at least a pump / res to run just this block, which is absolutely crazy.
What? Were you expecting an AIO? lmao
@@ChaosHusky He was probably expecting a product that makes sense, unlike this piece of crap. You either buy a real block for a custom loop or you buy some solution with an AIO. Not this half-assed nonsense that's the worst of both worlds.
I stopped buying Corsair a while ago, when they completely abandoned my then 2-year-old AIO h100i cooler, through a forced and malicious iCUE driver update that categorized it (and many other "old products" as "End-of-Life", and turned it into a complete brick. I was getting a ton of BSODs and I had no idea at all that this driver update was the culprit. Super malicious anti-consumer practices. I also had a Harpoon mouse that totally broke within a year. Now, seeing this video with this joke GPU water block is not surprising. I wouldn't be surprised if Corsair was secretly purchased by a Chinese parent company. Usually those errors in translation, or strange-sounding marketing claims is the give-away. Ali-Express style marketing.
Had some 5ish K95 keyboards. All of them got issues with LEDs dying, or the blue LED dying. A couple of them were replaced by warranty, but same issue always hit at some point - different PCs, different USB ports and all that. Just terrible quality.
Got 3 of them laying in some drawer, non-RGB, RGB, RGB Platinum or some such, I forget.
After the last one, which might've been way too late.. I've just stopped purchasing Corsair products.
That's a you issue mate, i had no such problem with any AIO caused by software.. All you had to do was keep LiNK installed, iCUE would be no benefit to you, or you had bad luck, just happened to fail around that time. Personally i have 3 Corsair AIOs, one of which second hand and they have never gone wrong once.. And perhaps you got a bad mouse or you bounced it off the floor a few times, could always be user error.. Software killing your AIO is possible but unlikely. Could have just kept LiNK!
@@ChaosHusky How about this, maybe your head bounced off the floor a few too many times, maybe YOU should keep iLINK and keep sending your money to Corsair. I know I wont. How about the company sends out an email ahead of time "Hey, don't upgrade the software" or "Hey, switch to this other program that we have decided to downgrade you to" No warning was given at all. If you are okay with having to send support tickets to figure out if your drivers will work, that is totally up to you. Congrats, that's your own YOU issue. Me, I am happy with Alphacool, superior products, driver-free. Done with this entry-level junk. Computer cooling should NEVER be driver-dependent.
Just run an old version of iCue.
@@Examoon I have a Corsair case and it's excellent.
This looks like something thermaltake would make in 2004.
Cat: You keep doing what you do, I'm just going to pass out right here if you don't mind.
I don't think this type of water cooler is bad, however the price most definitely is and if they included small heat sinks with thermal adhesive for the vrm it would have been much better. there.
nobody is going to use this though. imagine spending a fortune on a cpu waterblock, a pump, a reservoir, tubing, fittings, coolant, etc and then buying this. it's a waste
@@piersonm5574 There are people who want water cooling to quietly cool a higher end system but do not care about looks that much, for them this style of cooler is fine, just not at this price.
Just imagine the dust build-up over that card with a fan blowing straight onto the PCB...
@ThesurgeoNNN it's a blower fan so it's not as bad, but still not a fan of the design (pun intended)
Jay shredded the new cooler, too. i am VERY GLAD you did a deep dive on this!
Don't know what they were thinking. Paid the same for a complete eiswolf ii 360 this seems to perform a lot worse after the remount.
If this was like £79...maybe.
I think "Universal" means universally bad across all 7900-family cards. So it should work with any of the AiB, regardless of brand. If they included some low-profile finned heat sinks to apply to the VRMs, it might even have worked passably.
That thumbnail is perfect for this cooler. Nice work.
How thermally conductive is cat hair? Gotta be in between some of your installations.
I love how the last like minute or so of the video is you giving belly rubs to shiek while talking about the summary lol
The universal compatibility is they work on any of the partner models, the GPU and memory are always in the same spot while everything else isnt. One card might have a component thats higher than all the rest and a normal water block that covers everything won't work with it. You can say it's marketing speak for we don't cover everything and therefore it will work with all cards to make that sound good when it's not.
Was hoping for more. NZXT did it right with that AIO mounting bracket. Still sitting on my 1080TI running like a dream, and for just 30 bucks. Bought an AIO for 90 at the time in 2020. Hopefully manufacturers keep trying to push this out though, simple and cheaper solutions to push people into full custom.
I wonder how difficult it would be to fit an AIO like from NZXT to a 4090.Nobody has made a video about it yet.
VRM temperature is measured in an open bench, I think in a closed case it would be at least 7-8 °C higher with this kind of cheap block. Anyway good video, as always
@der8auer-en How is your delided/IHS mono-block for AM5 coming along, I watched that video 4-5 months ago and thought it looked pretty much ready but I can't see where to buy it or how the development is coming on??? Thanks Roman.
75c on 350w doesn't leave much comfort for 450-550w power or hotter summers
for the price you can basically get the alphacool block
I still think that Corsair GPU "block" looks and is built like a £20 AliExpress part.
Seems like a 3D printed cover would help with the looks, especially when you show the side view at 9:17 When you show it from the side, to me it feels like there is something missing. Also the port on the cooler is on the front, i would love to see it on the backside to avoid showing extra cables that might look messy.
@michaelscarport Making a cover wouldn't have any impact on the performance, it's about the look of it. Same with the port. None of the comments are aimed at the conclusion of the products ability to cool properly, purely design and looks.
@@mindtreatyou're right, the cooler doesn't need to cool the board. it's just a nice little decorative piece, like a GPU hat 😌
@@Crunkmaster I think you should re-read what i wrote. There is no comment indicating that i'm saying cooling isn't needed.
@michaelscarport Critizing a visual design is a personal opinion, which is what i did initially. But i also provided a solution that i would worked if needed. There is nothing more to it really. Im not tellling anyone to buy this, i'm not even saying its good in any way, just the contrary. Check the rest of the comment fields, you'll end up with lots of different opinions, which is what i did too, but it was an opinion about the aesthetics of the design. If you don't agree and you love the looks of it, that's up to you, but to me, i didn't like the looks of it.
Youll also see people talking about the perfomance, but thats number and science that speaks for itself, nothing to contribute there unless you have an idea to make it cool better, which in this case, i don't.
@michaelscarport Ok, let me put it in another way. If you see a car with a color you don't like, and you say "I would have picked another color", does it mean you're planning on buying the car and repainting it? No, and that's what im saying. I don't look the way it looks and i would have made a cover to help that issue. Its a comment about what it looks like, nothing more.
I'm forever amazed that our lovely pets can sleep just fine while we're talking.
The Cat sleeping on the table just neverminding everything is hilarious.
Any update on the Thermal Grizzly Intel 13th Gen. Direct die water block? It’s been 5 months since the last update!?!
It is very funny and enjoyable for some reason that Derbauer has remnant 1 running in the background on this stuff. Love that game, and the sequel. Even Jay didn't like this thing though, that corsair pump res actually looks alright and is more interesting. Seriously this this costs like 120-130.... I recently got a alphacool full block with backplate for a 4090 for 165.... So for like 30-40 more you could buy a real water block....
Whoever made the thumbnail needs an award
Tbh this cooler has so much clearance underneath that one can easily put additional heatsinks on VRMs. The fan on it is probably very quiet. But all is still too expensive.
The fan is speed adjustable, so noise shouldn't be an issue. But I do think it should include some heatsinks. At the very least, it needs a significant price reduction!
How they approved this product is beyond me considering how aesthetics are taken so seriously there
they advertised an XG7 in this years iCue Link announcement earlier in the year and its seemingly been removed from all marketing and their website. biggest mistake to shoehorn customers into this ass looking/performing product
Bring back the XG7
Do you think the excessive height, when viewed horizontally, was to allow clearance for attaching VRM sinks to the card?
I still think it looks fugly, and I wouldn't buy it at half the price, but it's the only possible reason I can think of why the shroud has such a huge gap underneath.
It's sometimes ill advised to use a long duct together with centrifugal fans. For one it's not needed, the airflow is already super directional. For other the friction of the air on the duct walls creates noise. And third the same friction reduces the energy of the airflow. Furthermore the lip of the offset ductwork forms a simple semblance of a Coanda nozzle. Not as good as a real one but then so much less noisy and better than nothing.
So i would say it looks fluid design driven.
But yeah it also helps with component clearance and adding heatsinks.
Great cat video!
Does the card come with a Ginger cat?
The fact that this thing didnt get canned when it was brought up in r&d is a crime against humanity. Whoever made this thing needs a slap across the face
Love that your kitty cat gives zero F's and sleeps through your intro 😂 so cute.
Corsair really didnt think this one through, did they.
People continue to buy crap, profits go up.
It actually looks more promising to me than it lets on, like it should be able to fit more GPUs, a lot more. It would be interesting to see a more comprehensive fit test. Or if it doesn't fit, it could be re-designed more universal. But the pricing and the product quality issues. It definitely released rushed. It should have come with VRM tape attached heatsinks, it should have had brass thread inserts.
I bought the xg7 cooler because it was listed as icue link on the landing page. When I got it it wasn't but will be. To corsair credit they have an adapter cable which makes it iq link and sent it out free of charge
one change could improve this thing. integrate VRM heatsinks with thermal pads into the block where the airflow passively blows over the VRMs it would help cool them much better
The cpu water block and all the rest of the iq system including the aio units are an awesome and well thought out design. Then the gpu block is a complete after thought. It's like Corsair devs were sitting at the table and someone said, "We now have the entire link system. Well done." Then another employee reminded them they forgot about a gpu waterblock and hastily they slapped this thing together and through the usual corsair tax on it and sent it to stores for purchase.
There's other good things I think are overlooked. Their pumps performance isn't good, for some reason there's some sort of flow impedance or pump problems as shown by low flow rates. But I love their reservoirs as they're made from nylon instead of acrylic. Acrylic cracks spidering on your reservoir = sad panda.
*I wanna switch my super powerful GPU to SFF, what do you think is the best case and cooler?*
Don't SFF. Headaches abound.
Couldn't you run three individual connections from the hub to the cpu gpu and pump. I how it's alot of cables but it would be better than using a splitter
Best part of the video by far is the kitty getting tummy rubs
It`d be great if all CPU and GPU manufacturers could agree on one general layout so that we could reuse our coolers forever even between brands. It works with USB ports and ATX motherboards so why not. The differences with VRMs and amounts of RAM surely could be accomdated for with different pad arrangements on a big copper plate.
If this happened, it would stop innovation since development would be restrictive
@@Examoon layout of 4090 with VRMs on both sides of the chip with single-sided memory surrounding the die could be applied for all cards since like GeForce 9500 or something. Almost 20 years of development. So no, if the layout was designed to be future-proof, it wouldn't be restrictive.
@@iowawalker I actually think it retricts companies from penny pinching. Because holy hell i have seen some GPU PCB layouts that exist purely in order to spare a layer of prepreg. Including laying things out in ways that you clearly absolutely shouldn't do.
Gorgeous Cat !!! ... excellent video and info.
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I think if they just added some cooling heatsink fins that you could stick onto the VRMs with some thermal pads, that would help a lot with the cooling, since there is active airflow over the area.
I was about to comment this as well. Most modern GPUs come with VRMs that are massively overkill for the GPU under most circumstances and just having some copper/aluminium heatsinks stuck onto the VRM chips (like the old days) will keep them nice and cool.
Yeah if the block came with a bunch of black anodised heatsinks with thermal tape it would help with looks when horizontally mounted.
@@PREDATEURLT for you 70c might be okay but reference/AIB cards come with VRM coolers so this block not having one is a problem
so tired of cheap plastic and rgb. A brutalist approach would be nice, an open frame on top with lines of holes allowing the user to mount a fan on top of the vrm would work so much better
The water block is so THICK. Probably over 3 slots. Most custom water blocks are 2 or less (sometimes barely over 1 slot).
if u could make a custom 3d print to cover the other parts and also use heatsink on the vrms and keep tthe corsair block in the middle...it would be pretty cool
I love your cat...
I love that this brand has brought custom loop more mainstream with their broad spectrum kits but thats where it ends. Their prices are NOT on par with competitors for performance:cost. 130 for a gimmick? You can spend less on something from a low-end manufacturer like barrow or bitspower (which sometimes end up being surprisingly good quality for their cost). Or wait until things shake out and prices drop on the top brands. Hell, I just bought a clearance vector block for my kids 3070 for less than what corsair wants for this joke!
jaytwocent say wasnt worth it because missing heatsink for power delivery capacitor plus too expenses it should be $60 not $130
Is it normal for the 7900 series gpus to have a delta of 32 degrees between gpu die and the hot spot with the big block?
My 6950XT is about 10-12 degrees difference.
Also this is Corsair isn't lying, the quiet operation is because the fan is meant to cover the coil whine 😄
In an electronic equipment review a feline steals the show..
Does seem pricey. Does standard water blocks fit on non reference designs, because if not then is would ne use full in certain cases but that price. Bringing it out for older 20 and 30 series would make more sense.
I should have paid more attention to your review, I had to rewatch it. Thanks for the details and efforts you put in. Even though you dont recommend it, it was half price on Amazon so I got it anyway, then it arrived and I was shocked to find out that the fan can not be powered by a standard cable. I understood it was iCUE but I coudlnt believe it was only iCUE. I had Amazon give me 20 dollars credit back to help offset the purchase of a hub :(. Based on your review I also puchased some small heatsinks to put on the VRMs which should help with the fan cooling. I spent an hour looking to see if anyone had a hack for the iCUE cable plug to use a standard power cable from the MB to power the fan but had no luck.
So instead of buying the hub, I have just removed the aircooler and cabled tied a 140mm fan on witht he VRM Heatsinks, and the cable ties are holding on original backplate helping a lot. Temps are down and noise is down from original, VRM's 50-60 degrees max.
Ummm, I am going to need a proof of life for Shika, never have I ever seen a cat so chill.
so, how did you actually fixed bad contact if thermal pads are too thick?
it look bad on big videocards, performance ok but custom watercooling it's not only about high performarnce - good looking are also important
Cat is chillin, doesn't even need the cooler.
Do they make pre made water cooling loops for Corsairs obsidian case?
its a "cheap build" beta product. it looks like the cheap plastic gpu air coolers from 20 years ago. Corsair wants $130 usd for $50 in plastic and a copper sheet. and a control block that has so few i/o ports that cant cover their ecosystem. Corsair marketing team working over time for the corpo market speak.
Can you check if that block fits into other cards such as the 6700xt? Same mounting hole space and GPU height?
Hey!
Love your content.
I have been looking build a fully water cooled system.
But cant seem to find your am5 direct die blocks anywhere in stock.
any update on that?
i love when brands try to branch out, make dogshit products, and people still buy them because that brand has a good reputation from their main business. corsair is a company that makes top notch ram and solid states; it's undisputed that they're some of the best in the memory market. but there's no way i'm buying a keyboard or a water block from them. that's like buying a toaster from a company that makes plastic flowers
Why not keyboard? They take their input device business quite seriously, it's a fully fledged division with ample resources - and yeah personally i don't care about their keyboards, but pads and mice are a different matter entirely. Plus Elgato is now a Corsair brand as well and that's about as serious a product company as it gets. RGB accessories, hubs, fans are for sure a strong product group for Corsair as well with unique and high quality products. Also ATX enclosures.
That being said you definitely don't want to trust a product blindly just because it's by a given brand, because misfires just happen. They happen to most experienced companies in a given field just as well.
Corsair memory products? I personally don't care. I feel Crucial has a much better reputation, and for SSDs you have the likes of WD/SanDisk and Samsung to contend with as well, absolute heavyweights.
i say that because i fanboyed out 6 years ago when i built my current rig and bought as much corsair gear as i could - i had a LOT of problems with their peripherals and rgb stuff before i gave it away. i had to RMA the keyboard three times in one year, the mouse twice, and fortunately the headset didn't had any major problems but it's got junk software to hook into - icue is very stupid under the hood. sometimes it disconnects, turns off, randomly switches to the dolby sound enhancer mode (it can throw you off mid-game because it gets very loud the moment you turn it on and then normalizes volume). their quality internal components seems to spill over to their peripherals, but the exterior finish is just... junk. the keyboard and mouse i had were both made of what felt like great materials but they both broke and malfunctioned with medium use.
on the other hand, the RGB on their fans and the dedicated lighting control box for those fans didn't work at all. i had to send the light box back twice and neither of the replacements worked either, so i just threw it out. it's not like the keyboard or mouse where they were still useable and could be fixed if something minor went wrong; these things couldn't do the ONE thing they were built for. the set of corsair fans i bought wouldn't light up no matter what i did with them, but they spin good and run quiet enough so i kept them.
their ram, like i said, is top notch. i would assume their ssds are the same since it's a similar industry and corsair is known for high quality components, but you're right about them having a ton of strong competition in that area as well. same with their PSUs, i've never heard anything bad about a corsair power brick but they have established brands to compete with that specialize in making power supplies.
and now corsair is trying to get into watercooling, when the same thing is happening. there are so many other brands that have made quality liquid cooling pieces for literally decades now, and corsair thinks they can compete by adding their logo and a few LEDs to a half-built waterblock. it's just a very strange move. like why would you buy from corsair who comparatively has zero experience with liquid cooling, when you can get a monster EK custom loop for almost the same price, or something similar from another reputable company in the watercooling business.
i guess that's not to say they don't make any good products, but after buying six different things from them at once and having five of them break, malfunction, or just not work, it's not something i would ever do again. maybe i just had an insane unlucky streak, but i don't want to buy again and find out
@@Crunkmaster Corsair made their reputation with PSUs initially by reselling Seasonic models for cheap. These were about as good as you expect them, top of the industry. The next batch of replacement models on the low end came from CWT around 2010 or 2011 and I have been advised against buying those models due to severe coil whine issues when they just appeared, and everyone was a little miffed by the bait and switch. I was shopping at a store which builds a lot of PCs and they found the updated lineup infuriating with the noise, and they weren't even trying to upsell me given those were the only PSUs they happened to have in stock, so I went elsewhere to get myself a HEC built beQuiet PSU. Unfortunately the store went bankrupt, I wonder why huh, but I did end up buying some much more expensive things from this store. Though today things are just better and the same CWT their newer topologies are probably no longer objectionable.
But no cooling on the VRM's is bad right?
i love how the cat gets in the way, cats being cats.
Love your ging, such a gorgeous animal! He (is it a he?) looks completely relaxed and sparco, sign that hes well looked after and not a care in the world.
I'm glad Roman is like Steve from GN in the sense that he will straight up call out a brand for their marketing bullshit. ALL reviewers should be willing to stand up to brands and say "Hey, this is complete horseshit and you need to cut this out." I know there is the fear that a brand will cut off their samples and if a company does this, it's a giant red flag and we should not be buying their products. A good brand will take the shot on the chin ands nod their head, knowing they should be doing better. A shady brand will cut off samples. I know a company doesn't HAVE to provide samples, but I think sampling is one way brands try to hold leverage over smaller reviewers that may not be able to afford all the higher tier products.
I do wish GPU vendors settled on a universal layout for mounting. Even if they stuck to 1 each it would help as you could use brackets. I would think it could even be cheaper also as a company developing cooling or whatever could have a solution for more cards. Would like to see something like the CPU AIO systems where its simple, easy and cheap. Water cooling the GPU is for sure the way to go if this high temp and power trend continues. I also want to see more bench style cases where the system lays flat rather than upright. This will solve GPU sag, mounting the AIO/Rad above CPU height etc etc. Sure it takes up more space on a desk but with the way allot of cases are these days its minimal. TBH we could even just redesign the motherboard shape also to be more elongated and sit on the bottom.
VRM placement on the GPU is due to its chip design, so I find difficult for GPU manufacturers to make a "universal" layout since it changes a lot over the years, specially across different brands, so I guess we can only dream with a GPU block that fits them all, actually it's amazing how AMD manages to keep a rather similar layout across their graphics cards over the generations, for example, you can reuse pretty much the same block for different generations and still maintain a good performance, of course is not like that in every case and it depends on what are you going to cool with it next.
I want to buy a new PC when the Black Friday's shenanigans come up this year but I guess I will stick to air cooling and the stock cooler for my GPU, I won't buy a room heater gaming PC either since I'm not going to buy ant top of the line hardcore parts, I'm happy with a mid range CPU and GPU combo and some 32gb of RAM since I like to run virtual machines and emulation, and I will stick to team red, I've been an AMD user since several years ago and their hardware suits my needs very well.
High power consumption in gaming cards is not a trend, it's a deliberate change in silicon binning practices in order to generate the highest possible revenue per mm^2 that rolls off the production line. Given that Nvidia's latests quarterly earnings report (Q2'24) showed data center revenue is four times gaming revenue, it's likely here to stay. The good binned silicon is tuned for efficiency and sold to data centers who are sensitive to power consumption and have deep pockets, while the left over crap has it's frequency pushed well beyond the point of best efficiency and is sold to gamers who just have to deal with the enormous power consumption it results in.
So if you want a GPU with decent power efficiency, wait for data centers to refresh their stock and pick up a second pro card - right now you could buy an A4000 and get 95% of the performance of a 3070 for 60% of the power consumption. The longer you wait, the cheaper they'll get as more stock hits the secondary markets. Or you could go the AliExpress route and pick up a 3060M or 3070M laptop GPU taken from the middle bins, reclaimed and repurposed on to a regular PCIe card, and get yourself a low-to-mid range card with twice the performance per watt of anything you can get through legitimate channels.
(tl;dr: cost, power efficiency, legitimacy - you can only pick two)
@@stoneymahoney9106 That's a reality that we a consumers have to deal with nowadays, I don't have much of a problem since in my country 95% of the electricity is hydroelectric generated and the other 5% is shared between wind and solar power, but for those who still live from coal and propane sure will have to pay the tax for "high end" PC parts.
A little off-topic, but was wondering if you might do a video showing how to use the Kryosheet with a 7900XTX, showing application and comparisons with paste and maybe PTM7950? It seems like most 7900XTX owners are having issues with paste pumpout and this would be a great option.
I'm currently in this boat, having had to repaste my 7900XTX Red Devil 3 times now.
That’s cooler reminds me of something from WISH that you see as an ad. I saw this and said hmm ya this better be like 50-60$ cheap cooler. Too expensive for what you get in my book. Definitely could pass as a knock of Ali-Express item if there wasn’t a logo/brand marked on it.
With as much of a gap between the shroud and the actual card there seems to be plenty of room to apply independent heatsinks to all of the VRMs. You could even 3D print some kind of faceplate to cover the PCB where it does not need the air hitting it from the cooler. However, that brings the price and skill/knowledge to a higher level as well, and this feels like an entry level product made for someone that does not know much about putting water blocks on GPUs. I feel more like they should have made this some kind of "universal" AIO rather then for a custom loop.
If you are going to spend all that extra time and money you might as well buy a full block instead of this.
@@OriginalMergatroid
Yep. That was kind of the point I was going for. Like you could do it but there is no point and the people that would be willing to do that or know how to do that would just use a proper full block anyway.
I'm looking forward to look at the performance of that red waterblock shown at the start of the video. Right now it looks like a doozy.
My liquid devil 7900 XTX hits 92c hotspot at 410 tbp so way more power then the XG3 hybrid block at about 346w board power draw, but after i switched to PTM7950 it only hits 60-70c hotspot on 3D occt test cos furmark only hits about 55c hotspot cos its power limited.
Corsair has lost the plot with this cooler.
That's a cool flow sensor!
What quick disconects and thickness of tubing do you use? I am currently planning a full custom loop and would love a suggested parts list (rads/pump/res etc) Thanks!
I use the qd-4 quick disconnects and love them
You didn’t take measurements with the stock cooler? You don’t think that’s not a massive issue when you’re trying to compare a aftermarket versus the stock?
Asking here.. is there a custom water block for the Asus 7900xt?
I don't run horizontal anymore anyway. I don't water cool yet but I also don't like the Idea of my cards and heatsinks 'hanging' from the motherboard
Can your flow meter grab data over time or is it just an instantaneous display? Just wondering as I've found throughout the years that trending flows, temps, etc. can drastically improve ones ability to troubleshoot issues! Loving the flow meter!
HWiNFO can capture data over time, so.... yeah
It’s meant to be used with Aquasuite so yes.
@@Simon_Denmark Nice!
@@stoneymahoney9106 Good to know! I keep forgetting to grab that. Intel ETU, Core Temp, Speedfan, GPU/CPU Z, Kombustor...and Furmark. Add another!
Great information and look into the cooler. Can I say the absolute trust your cat has and even craves belly rubs...lol
That's a strange upside-down mushroom looking thing. If the space is just for airflow over the VRM, why not at least offer a snap-on shroud for the exposed side? Just a piece of plastic to cover that ugly gap in the profile that can be removed and trimmed if need be.
I love your cat😊
Any update on the 13th Gen. Direct die water block?
Gonna take that as a no? Is the project scrapped?!?! Am I wasting my time?!?!? Probably…. However I love screaming into the void known as the internet
I actually loved the previous products, they made it real easy to get into water cooling, grant it there are better options out there for more experienced users, but Corsair had a cool ecosystem it was all cohesive and looked real good, this time around I think I will not be using their stuff though, the GPU water block is what does it for me, watercooling the GPU doesn't seem this time around to have any real benefit because NVidia locked the voltage, I currently have running for testing a 4070TI Asus ProArt and am recommending a 1440p ultrawide setup for that card, on full burn running Cyberpunk - Liberty it pretty much runs the game well enough to play satisfyingly(its not of course cranked with all the extra extras like Pathtracing and such but it handles maxxed out, DLSS Quality, Psycho RT and does it bouncing around 35-70 Frames without frame gen, really cannot complain about it, every other game it turns and burns maxxed no problems) it basically doesn't get above 57c package(TJ probably 77c) with Asus cooling solution, I caught the frequency a few times hitting up 2960 on its own when the OC automatic Tweak3 mode was enabled which I really didn't expect and the card really is not loud either which maintaining it, I am actually impressed with the card, maybe not the price of it but the card itself is actually great at doing what it is supposed to do at the target market its supposed to be at. Alphacool does make blocks for a few of the cards and I was thinking about it but I am glad I did not go that route, Its unneeded. 4080 and 4090 I would get a block for seems like its a waste for anything else this gen.
if they make it 3 fans across it might work better to cool the inductors and power stagers.
Kitty just chilling.
do inductors need to be actively cooled?
This might sound mean but that block looks like something you get for ~20$ from china or you got a card from 20 years ago.
Is it possible to stick a heatsink, like the ones you use on a NVME SSD, onto the VRMs and would doing that help?
Possible? Yes. But you shouldn't have to hack together something yourself, considering the price of this product. It should include something with it.
Even given the questionable design decisions and the addition of the fan, I would buy this for my 7900 XT if it was an AIO. As a block? Not gonna happen. Better options available. Thank you for the video!
This thing is around the same price you can get a full Byski GPU block for and those would work way better than this even if it's not universal the VRM temps may be fine on a test bench but those will be toasty in a proper case.
l personally agree with you! thank you!👍
itx build where it won't really be seen is where that gpu warter block would or could be used.