Corsair Hydro X Series Arrives – Corsair Fully Embraces Custom Cooling
We’ve been talking about the CORSAIR Hydro X Series coming out for over a year and it finally launched at Computex 2019. This new series of custom cooling parts is aimed at PC enthusiasts that are looking to build a custom water cooling loop. Corsair offers CPU and graphics card water blocks, a pump/reservoir, fittings, tubing, radiators, and coolant in the Hydro X Series. It also supports RGB lighting with CORSAIR iCUE software compatibility for customized lighting and automated fan and pump speed control.
The product shots of the Hydro X Series look stunning as you can see on our news post. The Corsair XC7 and XC9 RGB CPU water blocks have a nickel-plated copper cold plate with over 70 micro-cooling fins, and pre-applied thermal material. It also has 16 individually addressable RGB LEDs and a transparent flow chamber for those looking for eye candy.
The XG7 RGB range of graphics card water blocks fit a wide variety of popular graphics cards, including NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20-Series graphics cards. The full-length aluminum backplate has integrated RGB lighting and comes with pre-applied thermal material and thermal pads. Corsair wanted to make installation as easy as possible.
The Corsair XD5 RGB Pump/Reservoir Combo ($149.99) has a a 330ml reservoir and an integrated fillport. The Hydro X Series uses standard G1/4 fittings and is compatible with pretty much all of the custom cooling parts on the market today.
The Corsair Hydro X Series also offers copper-core radiators from 120mm up to 480mm, soft and hardline tubing, and all the fittings you’ll ever need.
When it comes to pricing we went to the Corsair Custom Cooling Configurator and priced up a build in the Crystal Series 570X RGB ATX Mid-Tower Case with an Intel Z390 platform and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card. We found Corsair’s CPU blocks ranging in price from $74.99 $79.99 and GPU blocks range from $139.99 $149.99. The default suggestions for our hypothetical build has us priced out at a touch over $600 as you can see from the image below.
The Corsair Hydro X Series makes creating a custom PC water-cooling loop easier than ever, but you’ve got to be ready to pay for it as custom loops aren’t inexpensive. The water cooling configuration system supports most Corsair cases and a fair number of third-party PC cases. If they don’t have your case don’t worry as you can always select ‘generic’ for your case and move along.