Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit
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Haha, yer not the other way aroundErrr.. don't know if you noticed but you've got a radiator in your dust
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Errr.. don't know if you noticed but you've got a radiator in your dust
I loled.
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This thread is amazing, almost 100K views. It's totally cool to see so many satisfied customers and especially how you all are helping each other out.
This thread is amazing, almost 100K views. It's totally cool to see so many satisfied customers and especially how you all are helping each other out.
So when are you going to sort out the instructions ?
sort out?
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If your struggling with the instructions for fitment of the H50 then Im sorry to say you've bought the wrong item as its most certainly the easiest fitment to workout, infact, I just looked at mine and it built itself.
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Agreed, infact I found it easier/quicker to install than any other custom air solution I have ever installed.
Hi All,
Recently become the proud owner of a H50 as part of my latest upgrade from a Q6600 to i7 920.
I'm very pleased with it so far, although it is sturggling a little with my current overclock of 4.2Ghz. In prime, load tempratures creep up through the 80's which is pushing it in my opinion.
I've just received a pair of Akasa Apache black fans which I'm going to use in push pull configuration (at the moment I've got a noctua and the stock corsair in place) but wondered what the opinion is as to which way to face the fans?
My case is a Silverstone Temjin TJ10 which has a 120mm front fan that pushes air into the gfx card area, then two 120mm extractor fans at the top and a single 120mm extractor fan at the rear.
At the moment the radiator is sat in the rear fan point with the fans set up to blow into the case as reccomended by corsair. Is this the best method? Or should I be having them expelling?
All advice much appreciated!
E-I
Recently become the proud owner of a H50 as part of my latest upgrade from a Q6600 to i7 920.
I'm very pleased with it so far, although it is sturggling a little with my current overclock of 4.2Ghz. In prime, load tempratures creep up through the 80's which is pushing it in my opinion.
I've just received a pair of Akasa Apache black fans which I'm going to use in push pull configuration (at the moment I've got a noctua and the stock corsair in place) but wondered what the opinion is as to which way to face the fans?
My case is a Silverstone Temjin TJ10 which has a 120mm front fan that pushes air into the gfx card area, then two 120mm extractor fans at the top and a single 120mm extractor fan at the rear.
At the moment the radiator is sat in the rear fan point with the fans set up to blow into the case as reccomended by corsair. Is this the best method? Or should I be having them expelling?
All advice much appreciated!
E-I
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With respect to the 2 types of screws, the AMD screws are no longer included in the package and have not been for some time now. Problem solved. As far as "pin placements shown wrong" that's pretty vague so I don't know what you are referring to. However, with our pictorial and video How To guides, I don't think any of this should be a great issue.
Ive read many people complain how difficult they are to fit, ive had a few h50's now not one has been anything more than 10mins to install and get up and running as has been said most air coolers that use back plates are more complex to install
thats one of the common things ive read about, evertime ive just put the backplate againts board, lined up mount, couple of turns on each screw so its held in place, then put in waterlock, turn however much it is (not much a few mm at most) then tighten screws one by one diagonally. I reakon my 92 year granny could have done it god bless her soul!
I cannot remember for sure which way round it is as it's been a few months now, but when I first set up my H50 the instructions told me to use one set of back plate holes but this didn't fit; I then noticed the back plate itself had the correct holes. i.e. the instructions showed the 1156 holes as the 1366 holes or something like that. It's not a big deal, it's just a bit silly and slightly annoying really.
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I finished lapping my H50 yesterday.
Started off with 480 grit then 600,800,1200,then finally 1500 using the slide method as I found doing it in a figure of 8 caused the cooler to judder slightly.
A final polish with some Auto Glym metal polish which gave me a mirror finish then Installed it using some MX3 using a credit card.
I would say that It has only knocked off a couple of degrees off my idle and load temps, but the big difference now is how quick the temps drop down after playing games and running prime.
Well worth a couple of hours of my time.
Started off with 480 grit then 600,800,1200,then finally 1500 using the slide method as I found doing it in a figure of 8 caused the cooler to judder slightly.
A final polish with some Auto Glym metal polish which gave me a mirror finish then Installed it using some MX3 using a credit card.
I would say that It has only knocked off a couple of degrees off my idle and load temps, but the big difference now is how quick the temps drop down after playing games and running prime.
Well worth a couple of hours of my time.
Did you get any pictures?
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Sorry mate I didn't, I was too eager to get it re-installed.
I'm really pleased with it now looks like a totally different cooler now (even though I can't see the bottom)
I have just had a quick 15 minute run of prime and temps are defo. much better and the drop off is so much quicker. It must be transferring the heat more efficiently as the copper had grooves in it before the lapping.