Corsair Hydro H80 on a Q9550

Thanks for all the input guys. I bought the H80 cos I wanted a new toy to play with and to see if I can reduce the temps the Q9550 produces at 4GHz. I'm currently using a Tuniq Tower, which let's be honest is not great! The H80 will be compatible with future builds and I will certainly continue to use it when I upgrade.

jaybee said:
How did you get on? Pics? What exact board is it please the long name as I think I might have the same or similar board.
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Not installed it yet, might get a chance to do so this weekend, I just hope it fits over the capacitors! It's a P5Q Premium (http://uk.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5Q_Premium/) basically the same as a P5Q Deluxe.

Marine-RX179 said:
Bottomline is it's not worth getting a £80 CPU cooler for overclocking the Q9550...if he want to stick with what he got, some decent £30~£50 air cooler will do the job.
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Except that it wouldn't, temps on a £50 air cooler would not differ at all from my Q9550, I would need to move into the £60+ range and decided I wanted to try something a bit different.

Rroff said:
Going to a i3 21xx is bad advice - stock for stock theres barely anything in it and you just spend money and put effort into reinstalling, etc. to see very marginal gains at best in the real world you probably won't actually notice the difference (even in games its generally ~5% difference) - if your going to change out the motherboard, RAM and CPU do it proper and go for a generation leap in performance.
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Exactly, I am not interested in a stop-gap mid range CPU and board, so I'll wait to upgrade when I decide to upgrade everything. Right now I only play BC2 and BF3 so the Q9550 is just fine.

smilertoo said:
wouldnt the £80 cooler be useable on the new system when he finally upgrades?
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Exactly right.
 
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CinderzFTW said:
yea it would... its compatitble with 775, 1366, 1155 and Amd platforms
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If he's only upgrading up to 1155 platform. There's no guarantess that Intel won't do something stupid make a different mount for that next platform.

MoRT489 said:
Except that it wouldn't, temps on a £50 air cooler would not differ at all from my Q9550, I would need to move into the £60+ range and decided I wanted to try something a bit different.
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Then your case's cooling/airflow must be not as great as can be. Back then on my Q6600 at 3.6GHz on 1.5v, the cheap sub £20 Arctic Freezer 7 Pro could keep its temp not beyond 70C even in prime, despite open air/average casing bench of better and more expensive cooler on the same CPU same settings has higher temp results.
 
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A great debate has been had lol

I'm still mulling it, but then equally may just spend my money on something else.

My q9550 is running at stock at the moment as I haven't got round to tweaking the various BIOS settings, can never remember what they are so have left it for now.
 
I've still not fitted it yet, hopefully will this weekend and will put up some comparisons vs the Tuniq Tower that the H80 is replacing.
 
You should get great temps with a H80, its the bigger brother of the H50 which was a re-badged NorthQ Siberian Tiger, and I used to run one of those on a Q9650 and it kept it nice and cool :)
 
I would be interested to see the results aswell. I am considering an H80 for my QX6700 but I don't want to spend the money on the cooler if it isn't going to lower my temps.
 
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