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This content hopes to define memory timings and demystify the primary timings, including CAS (CL), tRAS, tRP, tRAS, and tRCD.

We shelved that article indefinitely, but due to reader interest (thanks, John), we decided to explore memory subtimings in greater depth. We found this out the hard way while doing comparative testing for an article on extremely high frequency memory which refused to stabilize. As anyone who’s dug a little deeper knows, memory performance depends on timings as well-and not just the primary ones. Despite improving the impeller quality significantly, overall performance remains unchanged at best, if not slightly worse.įrequency is the most advertised spec of RAM. Liquid should still remain below 60C at all times, but Gen6 will now better enable this than Gen5. Asetek looked at key hotspots in its Gen5 pumps and rerouted flow to reduce strain and failure potential. Performance is marginally worse, if anything, as almost all changes were focused on slimming down the CPU block and improving endurance. On the whole, Asetek’s sixth generation pump isn’t all that different from its Gen5 pumps.

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We originally detailed Gen6 in this H150i Pro review, if you’re a bit behind. This time, just to keep things sort of interesting, we’ll talk about how pump speed impacts the performance of this particular cooler – a topic we’ve explored with Gen5 coolers in the past. Asetek didn’t push performance in significant ways with 6th Gen, but instead focused on endurance improvement and reducing hotspots that encourage permeation of the tubes. Despite appearances, the glass pane is still not intended to be slid out, although it could be freed from its frame by removing many more screws.Ĭorsair’s H100i Pro is the third Corsair product to use Asetek’s 6th Generation pump solution. The plastic half is held on by metal clips that function the same way as the plastic clips in the 280X, but are easier to release. If for some reason the panel does need to be removed, it involves removing three screws from inside the case, popping the plastic section off, and removing a further four screws from outside. Fan trays (or radiator brackets, or whatever you want to call them) are always an improvement. The filter and fans are both mounted on a removable tray, and everything else is easily accessible through the side of the case. Removing the front panel is a more elaborate process than usual, but it’s also unnecessary. It’d be nice to have a way to lock the door in place even more securely during transportation, but that’s a minor issue and systems of this size rarely move. This is a better-looking and better-functioning option. Instead of four thumbscrews, the panel is set on hinges and held shut with a magnet. The similarity in appearance is obvious, but Corsair has used the past year to make many changes, and the result is something more than just a scaled-up 280X and perhaps closer to a Lian Li O11 Dynamic.įirst is the door, which is a step up from the old version. The Corsair Crystal 680X is the newer, larger sibling to the 280X, a micro-ATX case that we reviewed back in June. DeepCool would be an example, which uses a three-chamber, very complicated approach to its pump manufacturing. We’re left with a few braver souls, like those using Apaltek-made designs, and some companies that have worked around the patents. This has led to an exodus of non-Asetek coolers in the US market, with companies like Swiftech and Be Quiet! pulling their similarly-made (but non-Asetek) coolers out of the US market. Asetek, it seems, has a patent on the pump-in-block design approach, and has had judges rule in its favor.

For today, we’re focusing on reviewing the $160 H115i Platinum for thermals, acoustics, and overall value at the price point.Īsetek has previously received settlements in legal disputes against CoolIT, the other supplier of Corsair’s closed-loop liquid coolers, and has also won legal battles against Cooler Master for its Seidon series. The H115i Platinum uses a new pump and block design, and that’s something we’ll show off thoroughly in our upcoming liquid cooler internals comparison video. Finally, with the Platinum line, Corsair is working with CoolIT in a mainstream product. Both Asetek and CoolIT make the Corsair liquid coolers, though the latter fell out of popularity for a number of years. CoolIT has long been a contender of Asetek’s, with the two having battled legally over Asetek’s patents on pump-in-block design, and has also been one of Corsair’s two liquid cooling partners.

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Asetek has a stranglehold on most of the closed-loop liquid cooler market for PC hardware, easily holding majority placement in all CLCs sold in the US.