Just Installed my Corsair H80i

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 16:25

Everything installed smoothly this time.

I thought I would update firmware and the fans are running great

I decided to use one fan for a few days and see what temps are like. Don't know if other fan is needed yet. Temps are just a few degrees lower then my fan cooler. So will see when gaming will load temps not go higher then 70c then I'll be happy. My older cooler would go 80c or a little above.

Fans mounted prefect this time. Only took me 30 mins to install too

Pics below.

Glad this one work good

And cheers for everyone that gave their input. It was very helpful

Now time for a beer

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:14

Temps are good so far. a few c less then my older cooler. will try prime tonight and see how %100 loads are.

Ripshod · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:48

I'm buzzing for you, really. After all the let-downs it's good to see a happy ending. And I think i'm right in saying you'll love it for what it is - a mid range cooler with better than mid range performance. nice one

Can't wait to see how it handles that 3770

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:58

Ripshod said:
I'm buzzing for you, really. After all the let-downs it's good to see a happy ending. And I think i'm right in saying you'll love it for what it is - a mid range cooler with better than mid range performance. nice one

Can't wait to see how it handles that 3770

Me too

Thanks Ripshod

On quiet it's smooth and no whine at all, but on balanced or higher it's a little whiny. Hope better fw comes soon to fix that?

So far it runs very well and am happy with it so far.

My idle temps are 27c

I did do prime for a few mins and right off the bat it went to 60c to 63c , but didn't go higher. I wonder what temps would be like after 2 hours?

chippy08 · 10 Dec 2012 at 18:47

Try and let us know higher than 63c i bet

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:04

I've been on full load for hour and it's never got past 60c. It's up and down from 56c to 60c I'm well impressed

Ripshod · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:29

I'm glad you got it sorted m8, I'll show you something now:

I can't believe how this thing is working. Screenshot taken after 2 3/4 hrs folding. The fan went as low as 239rpm before the pump unit lost it and reset. definitely won't do this with the overclock. Even less likely with IBT

Anyone for Corsair Fan Limbo?

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:46

Damn!! your CPU temps are way lower then mine :eek:

Ripshod · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:53

Can never compare an i7 with a thuban. I thought about running one fan at max and the other at min, but the airlow from the faster fan will spin up the slower one, so i can't see any i7s competing, unless they're seriously underclocked. i wanted to post this pic up on the corsair forum when peeps complained about not being able to slow their fans below 1700 - but thought better of it.

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:59

Ripshod said:
Can never compare an i7 with a thuban. I thought about running one fan at max and the other at min, but the airlow from the faster fan will spin up the slower one, so i can't see any i7s competing, unless they're seriously underclocked. i wanted to post this pic up on the corsair forum when peeps complained about not being able to slow their fans below 1700 - but thought better of it.

True that

I got my fans down to 600rpm and still 27c

Sparx · 10 Dec 2012 at 21:30

If the H80i performs this well, can I hopefully correctly assume that the H100i is even better or not?

Ripshod · 10 Dec 2012 at 23:02

Mathematically the radiator would be twice as effective at shedding that heat than a H80i with one fan. That said I see no difference between the head/pump units. I'm saying yes, probably (though every setup is different) :rolleyes:

snakefood · 10 Dec 2012 at 23:32

Hi ripshod...I too have the H80i Cololer, but not sure how best to setup the groups of devices?

How have you guys got the devices setup / grouped?

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 05:52

tbh I didn't think the H80i would work this good. Like ripshod has said every setup is different. I'm getting good temps with just one fan. I might install the second and see how much lower they would go?

Ripshod · 11 Dec 2012 at 08:30

@ snakefood
A picture says a thousand words:

Fans locked down @ 1000rpm

I did once try grouping the H80i fans with the cpu temp, but they were up and down all the time.

I think the grouping idea is just brilliant. Want a fan's speed to be controlled by the gpu temp, just drag it into that group.

snakefood · 11 Dec 2012 at 08:37

Nice one matey...will check and review my settings this evening

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 12:50

I put second fan on and temp only dropped 2c. both fans run good now. I also put a bottom intake case fan to help with pushing the hot air out the top, but tbh the second fan on the H80i isn't really needed. Temps were low even with one fan.

It's purring like a kitten

Now to clean up a little of the wiring

JoeF1 · 11 Dec 2012 at 12:56

Thinking of getting one of these or the H100i instead of making a custom loop now. Hmm.

Ripshod · 11 Dec 2012 at 15:27

Though the H80i seems to be sorted (I'm a bit short sighted) I can't really comment on the H100i. Though I'd love it to be true I've not seen any evidence yet that it's been fixed.

liamcrane · 11 Dec 2012 at 20:49

Im thinking of getting one of these to replace my phanteks air cooler but if i do decide to go for an all in one i might get the h100i. The only thing i dont like about them is all the wires you have to plug into the pump as i think its makes the case look a little untidy. Have considered a 1st time custom loop as well but i think i might go down the careful closed loop