Corsair H50 passive ?

PermaBanned · 4 Oct 2009 at 22:57

Yeah, but they have tons of external rads. And for some reason all the pictures i see are outside... when it's windy

Ice Tea · 4 Oct 2009 at 23:18

Superewza said:
Yeah, but they have tons of external rads. And for some reason all the pictures i see are outside... when it's windy

It was snowing but by the time they took the pics it thawed out from the hot ambient heat from the cases.

shadowscotland · 5 Oct 2009 at 09:39

Ice Tea said:
Careful your get WJA96 and shadowscotland in here posting pics of Passive cooled setups that work just fine.

You called

Inside house - fully internal passive loop - work in progress
Using a PA120.3 - single noiseblocker S2 (7v) extract - passive psu
Anyone can do this! PA are great passive rads if horizontal - running Seti on a [email protected] so full stressed 24/7 zero errors

Inside house - zero footprint system passive loop

Inside house - behind desk system passive loop

single (stock intel) fan SFF system

And they are just mine

But would always recomend a single fan (either in psu or in case) if your system is at full load 24/7 like mine is.
H50 passive - I wouldn't - fins are two dense from what I've seen.
Could be run with fan/rad as supply air and psu as extract - two fan systems are more than good enought for most systems with a passive cpu and gpu cooler.
Getting the rad to a good supply air possition may be very differcult in most atx cases.

Ice Tea · 7 Oct 2009 at 05:34

WJA96 and shadowscotland computers are so quiet that they can hear the ping of erect nipples in pron movies.

WJA96 · 8 Oct 2009 at 10:47

My computer is so quiet that Chuck Norris uses it as a reference level when creeping up on people.

I've even eradicated HDD noise through using SSDs and I only use notebook optical drives so I can't hear them either.

Passive certainly isn't fail, it's just expensive to do it right. Given that one of my specific design criteria when building my house was to use it as a passive cooling system for my SAP test suite you could say I have the most expensive passive setup ever

JonJ678 · 8 Oct 2009 at 17:42

I asked the missus what would happen if I discretely ran copper piping throughout the walls of a house and she said she'd leave me. Even suggesting underfloor heating based on it got me nowhere. I'm glad your family is more tolerant

What did you do about the psu?

WJA96 · 8 Oct 2009 at 22:56

JonJ678 said:
I asked the missus what would happen if I discretely ran copper piping throughout the walls of a house and she said she'd leave me. Even suggesting underfloor heating based on it got me nowhere. I'm glad your family is more tolerant

The cooling system was built into the plans for my 'office' from the architect stage. I didn't see any need to tell my wife about it. It doesn't affect any other area of the house apart from garage, which is kept warm. It'll save me at least a couple thousand pounds a year by not having to run a big air conditioning unit to cool the room down.

JonJ678 said:
What did you do about the psu?

They're just air-cooled Corsair HX620 units. I certainly can't hear them.

kubek1985 · 9 Oct 2009 at 01:42

do anybody know can i disassemble corsair h50 i have antec 300 and need to route corsair pipes thru expansion slot. i didnt even purchuase it yet i just first want to know if its possible to disasembly this device.

JonJ678 · 9 Oct 2009 at 02:00

I hope I caused no offence WJA96, upon rereading that could be taken as accusing your family of intolerance. I only meant that my lady is annoyed enough with water in my computer that a garage lined with copper pipes would push her over the edge of reason.

I like the air con saving offsetting the cost while you benefit from the silence, that's tidily done. Is it essentially copper piping in the airspace, or something more involved?

Good air cooled psu make sense. Cheers for replying.

@kubek1985 you can disassemble anything, the challenge is putting it back together. I think this will be very difficult with the H50, and you'll have to say goodbye to the warranty. Not recommended by me at least, perhaps a 120 radiator, pump and cpu block would be the better approach? Otherwise I think you can mount it over the rear exhaust in the 300 without any particular difficulty. If you do go ahead with taking one apart please take photos

Hotwired · 9 Oct 2009 at 02:13

kubek1985 said:
do anybody know can i disassemble corsair h50 i have antec 300 and need to route corsair pipes thru expansion slot. i didnt even purchuase it yet i just first want to know if its possible to disasembly this device.

Errrr no.

Warranty void the moment you play with the pipes. Also it is filled with a coolant mix. Take off a pipe and it'll spill out, no way of refilling it and staying sane.

If you don't mind losing the warranty and are creative then you could but tbh, £60 on the line just to route some pipes is a bad plan.

Ice Tea · 9 Oct 2009 at 06:33

WJA96 and shadowscotland need a touch screen keyboard to get rid of typing noise

Amex TSK-VX7

http://www.amexdigital.com/news/Press_Release-E_TSP-VX7.htm

WJA96 · 9 Oct 2009 at 07:13

JonJ678 said:
I hope I caused no offence WJA96, upon rereading that could be taken as accusing your family of intolerance.

I didn't read it like that at all. I certainly didn't take any offence, so no worries there.

JonJ678 said:
I like the air con saving offsetting the cost while you benefit from the silence, that's tidily done. Is it essentially copper piping in the airspace, or something more involved?

It's just ordinary home central heating microbore parts. The only difference from a normal passive system is that the radiator is roughly 20m away in the garage and it's a double 3m unit and the pump is a proper 240V central heating part. Where the piping comes out of the wall I have adjustable pressure reducers and a manifold and I can either plug in all the PCs in series or in parallel (which is what I have done, given that I have so much pump capacity). All the PCs are cooled all the time whether they are on or not and there is a second piggyback circuit with a spare pump so if the primary pump fails I can open two valves and switch on the second pump. I am also looking at fitting Kenlowe hotstart units to the cars and plugging them in at night as well so the engines are kept warm at night by the PCs. The heat dump is quite phenomenal (7 x i920's at 4GHz plus 4 Q6600's at 3.6GHz plus 10 watercooled graphics cards all running as close to 100% as I can get them, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week).

JonJ678 said:
Good air cooled psu make sense.

I couldn't find a sensibly priced 500W+ passive or water-cooled PSU I was happy with. I looked at Innovatek, Koolance and PowerCool but they all had unacceptable disadvantages that I couldn't allow myself to spend that much money on something so compromised. Given that these things have to run permanently overclocked and stable, the Corsair or Seasonic equivalent was the best choice on the day.