Final thoughts and rating
Targeting the enthusiast user, Corsair's H70 lives up to its billing of class-leading performance.
Priced at £77, the H70 is a significant step up from last year's H50 and offers an increase in performance that will appeal to an overclocking audience wanting to push the latest AMD or Intel CPUs to the brink and beyond.
But performance alone isn't enough to warrant an out-an-out victory. Despite being easy to use and easy to install, rival air coolers offer marginally less performance at a lower cost, and Corsair's bundled fans can detract from the H70 experience by becoming unwelcomely loud at full speed.
However, whilst a thicker radiator, an impressively-small pump and an extra fan are obvious enhancements to a winning formula, the end result is indisputable; the Hydro Series H70 is the best-performing CPU cooler we've ever tested.
If lower temperatures are what matters most, the Hydro Series H70 is certainly worthy of consideration.
The Good
Excellent cooling performance
Easy installation
Low-profile and light-weight pump
The Bad
Expensive
Noisy at full speed
HEXUS Rating
Corsair Hydro Series H70
HEXUS Awards
Corsair Hydro Series H70
HEXUS Where2Buy
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