Which coolers are better than the H70?

Jay85 · 11 Aug 2011 at 18:28

What's better than this apart from custom waterloops and the new H100? How does the new silver arrow compare?

Leeroy123 · 11 Aug 2011 at 20:53

The h80 is miles better mate, the h70 is an unreliable piece of crap.

nate922 · 11 Aug 2011 at 21:01

I still prefer the Noctua NH-D14.

Doing a great job on my D0

Helios1234 · 11 Aug 2011 at 21:35

Leeroy123 said:
The h80 is miles better mate, the h70 is an unreliable piece of crap.

Funny, a year ago when people were choosing between Corsair and CoolIT, people were saying the CoolIT was worse for no reason at all. Ironically now, Corsair now use CoolIT as an OEM and suddenly it all changes...

Personally, there isn't a big difference between the H80 and the H70. The latter is Asetek based and similar to Antec's 920 and the H80 is CoolIT based, both using the same concept and similar designs. I can't see how one can be much better than the other.

However for a list of coolers that are way better: Noctua NH-D14, Thermalright Silver Arrow, Thermalrigh Venomous X, Prolimatech Super Mega, Prolimatech Genesis.

Jay85 · 11 Aug 2011 at 21:39

Seems like a lot of aircoolers are better than the LCS systems. I wouldn't mind sticking to watercooling but if aircoolers are cheaper and miles better in performance wise then I may look into it.

I take it that these aircoolers are pretty big? I don't have a huge amount of room in my mini p180...

Leeroy123 · 11 Aug 2011 at 23:37

Helios1234 said:
Funny, a year ago when people were choosing between Corsair and CoolIT, people were saying the CoolIT was worse for no reason at all. Ironically now, Corsair now use CoolIT as an OEM and suddenly it all changes...

Personally, there isn't a big difference between the H80 and the H70. The latter is Asetek based and similar to Antec's 920 and the H80 is CoolIT based, both using the same concept and similar designs. I can't see how one can be much better than the other.

However for a list of coolers that are way better: Noctua NH-D14, Thermalright Silver Arrow, Thermalrigh Venomous X, Prolimatech Super Mega, Prolimatech Genesis.

Ive had a silver arrow and a h70. both are garbage compared to the h80.

Reaper 392 · 11 Aug 2011 at 23:45

Jay85 said:
Seems like a lot of aircoolers are better than the LCS systems. I wouldn't mind sticking to watercooling but if aircoolers are cheaper and miles better in performance wise then I may look into it.

I take it that these aircoolers are pretty big? I don't have a huge amount of room in my mini p180...

very helpfully antec have decided not to tell anyone the maximum cooler height supported by any of their cases, so if you measure the distance between the motherboard PCB and the side of the case it'll give you a rough idea if the silver arrow will fit. the silver arrow is 163mm tall, so if you have 168mm or more (taking into account the height of the processor), it should fit (obviously the closer it is to 168, the more worried i would get)

Reaper 392 · 11 Aug 2011 at 23:51

Leeroy123 said:
Ive had a silver arrow and a h70. both are garbage compared to the h80.

you must have had a bad silver arrow then, because going by this review the H80 is slightly better at cooling than the silver arrow, but its a lot noisier while doing so

H80
silver arrow

jorzeh · 12 Aug 2011 at 00:14

nate922 said:
I still prefer the Noctua NH-D14.

Doing a great job on my D0

Deffo D14 +1, The only decent Corsair H is the H100, But why anyone would buy that over a RS240 kit for the sake of £30 is behond me. :confused:

Leeroy123 · 12 Aug 2011 at 00:23

yeah its not quiet mate.

Jay85 · 12 Aug 2011 at 02:08

Reaper 392 said:
very helpfully antec have decided not to tell anyone the maximum cooler height supported by any of their cases, so if you measure the distance between the motherboard PCB and the side of the case it'll give you a rough idea if the silver arrow will fit. the silver arrow is 163mm tall, so if you have 168mm or more (taking into account the height of the processor), it should fit (obviously the closer it is to 168, the more worried i would get)

Just measured the height from the pcb to the side panel and its exactly 168mm lol... not gonna fit then

. Baring in mind this was taken from the pcb and not from the top of the cpu...

Any other suggestions?? You know i wish i could fit a 240rad in this case!

Jay85 · 12 Aug 2011 at 22:14

If the D14 will fit my mini p180 then the silver arrow will fit right?

Has anyone used the be quiet dark rock Aswel? How does it compare?

Helios1234 · 12 Aug 2011 at 23:43

Jay85 said:
If the D14 will fit my mini p180 then the silver arrow will fit right?

It should.

Davefran · 13 Aug 2011 at 00:01

Helios1234 said:
It should.

I've got a P180 with a Noctua NH-D14, fits easily and works brilliantly

V F · 13 Aug 2011 at 00:56

Leeroy123 said:
The h80 is miles better mate, the h70 is an unreliable piece of crap.

O_o

Jay85 · 13 Aug 2011 at 00:58

Davefran said:
I've got a P180 with a Noctua NH-D14, fits easily and works brilliantly

Pics! Can you post a picture up please? Also are their brackets included to rotate the cooler if needed?

V F said:
O_o

My thoughts exactly!

V F · 13 Aug 2011 at 01:06

The thing that boggles me the most is how some people are so fickle. Soon as they get something new that they once praised, not using him as an example but far too many do it on so many forums. The last item just seems to get slagged something rotten. Doesn't make sense.

Or if one item was just a fluky fault it's somehow the devil and tarred for life in their eyes. Rage!