Corsair H50 or Thermalright Venomous X

cupofchow · 24 Feb 2010 at 20:40

khemist said:
I've just installed this but can't get the pressure bracket thing to move at all!, dunno what i'm doing wrong.

Did you wind it back with your hand before you installed it ?

I wound mine inwards so i could just see the metal guide coming through so my heatsink would be straight.

I then tightened the two outside screws before tightening the pressure screw

khemist · 24 Feb 2010 at 20:41

No i didn't but i've taken it off now and it doesn't move either way.

Edit - sorted now.

cupofchow · 24 Feb 2010 at 20:59

khemist said:
No i didn't but i've taken it off now and it doesn't move either way.

Edit - sorted now.

Good good

fizzle-187 · 24 Feb 2010 at 21:47

Is the VX easy to install for a newbie?

setter · 24 Feb 2010 at 22:18

Should be pretty straight forward, the supplied instructions with thermalright coolers arent too bad, but have a read through this review.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/coolers/display/thermalright-venomous-x.html

Some good illustrated instructions on fitting it.

fizzle-187 · 24 Feb 2010 at 23:17

So what I need to get is a Thermalright Venomous X but which fans?

setter · 24 Feb 2010 at 23:19

The akasa apaches are reputed to be very good, also noctuas, i preferred sharkoon silent eagles myself, though ive since switched over to arctic cooling f12 pwm fans.

khemist · 24 Feb 2010 at 23:41

Looks like i wont be testing mine tonight, spent hours sorting my cables switched on and smell and sight of smoke, looked like it was coming from the fan controller mind you but seems motherboard is dead.. too tired to figure it out tonight. :mad:

Mr Paul · 28 Feb 2010 at 05:51

khemist, have you sorted it yet?

What was the issue with the pressure knob?

I'll be ordering mine at the end of the week as I'm currently in Thailand.

IKMS · 28 Feb 2010 at 09:02

khemist said:
Looks like i wont be testing mine tonight, spent hours sorting my cables switched on and smell and sight of smoke, looked like it was coming from the fan controller mind you but seems motherboard is dead.. too tired to figure it out tonight.

That's really not a good sign...

I hope your motherboard is not gone, that would be costly.

RBL · 28 Feb 2010 at 10:11

Mr Paul said:
khemist, have you sorted it yet?

What was the issue with the pressure knob?

I'll be ordering mine at the end of the week as I'm currently in Thailand.

I installed my VX on friday and I am happy with it. Installation was quite straight forward and after overclocking my i7 to 4.0Ghz I got 25* idle, 50* when gaming (Crysis for example) and it jumps to about 70* after few hours of Prime's torture test. Not bad!

Mr Paul · 28 Feb 2010 at 11:28

Did you screw the screws with the springs all the way down tight?

RBL · 28 Feb 2010 at 11:59

Mr Paul said:
Did you screw the screws with the springs all the way down tight?

I did as it says in manual:

Note: Please do not use force to overturn the screw, please stop when the screw is at a natural stop, and adds pressure by tightening the Pressure adjustable knob

I adjusted pressure knob to max though.

littlescrimbler · 28 Feb 2010 at 12:30

i think you mean 'knob'

khemist · 28 Feb 2010 at 12:45

Mr Paul said:
khemist, have you sorted it yet?

What was the issue with the pressure knob?

I'll be ordering mine at the end of the week as I'm currently in Thailand.

It was just really really tight and hard to turn at first, i've got it mounted now.

Motherboard was dead and so was cpu somehow, it looked like it had burn marks under it? - maybe a tiny flake of metal had been in the socket , that's all i can think of since the underside of the cpu was discolored.

I've switched to i5 now will post some temps later.

RBL · 28 Feb 2010 at 14:48

littlescrimbler said:
i think you mean 'knob'

Yes, thanks

ralv585 · 1 Mar 2010 at 12:26

Would i see much of a benefit if i switched from my Noctua NH-U12P?

I probably be using the same fans (2 Noctua fans), just want that extra bit of cooling, not too happy with my temps at the moment.

Mr Paul · 1 Mar 2010 at 13:49

Well temps would be lower yes, but 50 squid worth, probably not.

matthewprince · 1 Mar 2010 at 14:21

Hi,

Well using the stock intel fan on my i5 clocked at 3.2ghz i was getting 44 degrees idle and high 90's on load

Now at 4.0ghz with the H50 im getting 30 degrees idle and 68 load!!

I think they are brilliant!

khemist · 1 Mar 2010 at 16:35

Using Venomous X with 2x apache black fans.