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CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components

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Monday, October 05, 2020 11:02 AM (permalink)
https://www.techpowerup.com/272947/corsair-adds-3rd-screw-to-hydro-x-gpu-blocks-introduces-more-white-components
 
We first noticed a silent update to CORSAIR's Hydro X GPU blocks with the upcoming RTX 30-series block, with a third screw and a new I/O terminal added to reflect the design of their Dominator Platinum RGB memory sticks. The third screw is no doubt to help quench any concerns over potential leaks of coolant with the older design, which a few people noted was a possibility when under duress, as opposed to a typical use case necessarily. As it turns out, dealing with any bad PR was worth even retroactively making the change with the older RTX 20-series block too, which we now see on their website and is pictured below.

In addition, the company has been adding white color options of their more popular components for people to use as a change from the typical black. Following the Hydro X theme here, we see the company is now selling white Hydro XR5 radiators with a matte white polyurethane coating over the Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis LS radiators they are based off. The larger XR7 radiators will not get the same treatment unfortunately, given they are not as popular clearly as the thinner XR5, although you can now also get both pump/reservoir units in white too. Their cooling configurator has been updated with the white parts as well.
 
These components from Corsair look very good. 
 



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    Re: CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components Monday, October 05, 2020 11:34 AM (permalink)
    I like seeing the white. It always has looked sharp and clean to me and really stands out but not enough parts are white to really do a full build but it looks like that is changing.

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    Re: CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components Monday, October 05, 2020 2:03 PM (permalink)
    I'm not seeing where people are thinking white is the new black .?   I have nothing against the white, but not nearly enough components can be had in white , which severely makes it a lot harder to do an entire white build , - as  Hoggle said too.

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    Re: CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components Monday, October 05, 2020 4:59 PM (permalink)
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    I'm not seeing where people are thinking white is the new black .?   I have nothing against the white, but not nearly enough components can be had in white , which severely makes it a lot harder to do an entire white build , - as  Hoggle said too.




    Exactly not to mention, any dust or what have you will show with white. lol
     
    Other than that, I could see myself with a all custom cooled Corsair eco-system being run all on one software (iCue).  Just hope they add more features in a simpler form from the overly engineered and complicated Aquasuite.

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    Re: CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components Wednesday, October 07, 2020 2:26 AM (permalink)
    Have these stopped leaking yet
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    Re: CORSAIR Adds 3rd Screw to Hydro X GPU Blocks, Introduces More White Components Wednesday, October 07, 2020 4:39 AM (permalink)
     
    Several B450 boards had white PCBs but I don't remember any for B550 unfortunately. 


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