Highlights
Quality
I have to say, the quality is awesome and corsair knows what they are doing!
First they have in my opinion perfected rgb with the icue software and make it real easy to set it up as simple or complicated as you like.
The quality of the manufacturing was top notch.
There isn't much contact with the backplate.
Price
All in all not bad especially for price.
Packaging/appearance
I was under the impression this was a working component out of the box.
If you strip a head though, since the heads are soft, i was able to get the screws loose by just pressing hard with a small fla... Read More
Competitiveness
I usually went with ekwb blocks and this was cheaper with a backplate so decided to give it a try.
The xg7 rgb (rev b) is a perfect fit for my evga 2080 xc (reference) card.
Beware of evga ftw cards - which are normally longer than reference.
On previous block, ekwb missed lots of parts or had sub premium pads.
Overview
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thermal, great, good, easy and fit. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 277 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 8 2021.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Everything seemed fine till i tried running some games after installation
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Opened up the block and say that the preapplied thermal paste was making almost no contact with the die
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Hope this saves someone else the trouble of trying to trouble shoot this issue
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was under the impression this was a working component out of the box
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The media could not be loaded
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had to reseat 6 different times to make it get decent temps48c on full load
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
That explains why i had problems with the vector