Corsair H50 or Coolermaster V8

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Hi,
im new on forums, what do you think i would get better results with on a i7 920 @4.00GHZ, a Corsair H50 or Coolermaster V8 or something else for around £50

thanks;)
 
i cant asnwer which is beter but so others can you may want to say what case you will get or have and such as with any air cooler you will need good airflow. im getting a 4ghz rig with the h50 soon and i have th corsair 800d case so kind of need water cooling but as said it will depend on your case and airflow as to which is better.
 
Personally I'd say the coolermaster V8 with a highspeed fan and decent airflow will be very close to the H50. With the stock fan it will be a little worse.
 
Personally id reccomend a good air cooling setup such as the thermalright ultra or prolimatech megahelems, this way you have a choice of which 120mm fans you wish to use, or if you want a push/pull set up.
 
Exactly jon, my nephew bought a h50 (idiot) he runs it on a q6600 at 3.7ghz, temps in prime are hitting 78c at 3.8ghz, my old lapped q6600, under a true maxed out at 68-68-62-62. If your gonna go watercooling go custom, it looks so much better and you have guaranteed cooling, i know coolant can evaporate from a loop over time, at least with a custom rig this can be replaced, how can you do this with the h50?
 
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If your gonna go watercooling go custom, it looks so much better and you have guaranteed cooling, i know coolant can evaporate from a loop over time, at least with a custom rig this can be replaced, how can you do this with the h50?
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You don't.

Corsair gives you a two year warranty which is their guarantee on how well they designed their sealed loop so the coolant will not evaporate to any great extent in that time.

The sealing in a custom loop is not comparable in terms of coolant evaporation at all.

If you were to try selling a sealed loop made from standard watercooling components with your guarantee it would be fine for two years minimum I'd put £10 on you getting it returned.
 
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The H50 performs on a par with the TRUE or the megalahems. It costs the same. It lasts for a warranted two years instead of forever, makes more noise as a result of the pump, and has numerous failure mechanisms instead of one. Why on earth are people buying this?

p.s. if your nephew is at 78 degrees something is wrong, even the H50 should be doing better than that. Odd.
 
The H50 is more flexible in terms of where the bulk of it goes, doesn't block RAM slots, looks different to the usual air block, doesn't put nearly as much stress on the motherboard.

It has its upsides.

Personal choice in the end, anything is better than the stock intel cooler and how much you want to spend on another cannot be justified by anyone other than yourself.
 
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The H50 performs on a par with the TRUE or the megalahems. It costs the same. It lasts for a warranted two years instead of forever, makes more noise as a result of the pump, and has numerous failure mechanisms instead of one. Why on earth are people buying this?
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I bought it because my Titan Fenrir - a highly praised cooler - was giving me terrible temps. I replaced it with the H50 and it sorted all my problems - it also made inside my case a lot more accessible. And I haven't noticed any noise coming from it at all. Sure it won't last forever but neither will my system. By the time I need to replace it I'll probably be on a new system and there will be better coolers out.
 
To those ripping on the H-50:
I've had both the H-50 and the Megahalems (how many of you here can say that?) and in my experience the H-50 is delivering better performance than my Megahalems did using the same fan setup.

It also takes up considerably less space.

Both are good coolers but I prefer the H-50.
 
horses for courses.

my h50 is doing a good job on my i7 at 4ghz - temps are comparable to any air cooler, it doesn't block my dimm's and with scythe fans is near on silent. Even with the case open I can't hear the pump.

As for points of failure? Are they constructively different than a custom loop? H50 fails> mobo shuts down as overtemp reached > £55 for a new on.

Realistically were only talking about the pump failing, so £55 for a new h50 isn't that different than a new laing pump etc etc is it?
 
I can see it taking up less space being convenient, and it probably does make as much noise as an air cooler or 120 radiator custom loop.

Points of failure I can see, pump fails, coolant evaporates, tubing shears off block/radiator. Same issues with a custom loop really, except you can replace the coolant in a normal loop, replace pump etc. I agree that replacement H50 is pretty similar to a new laing. However the custom loop offers lower temperatures and noise in exchange for the various things that can go wrong, whereas the H50 doesn't seem to offer anything significant over the air coolers.

I see why it's selling well, and why people like it so much. I'm still kind of looking forward to the first wave of failures though.

p.s. it must be incredibly difficult to mechanically isolate the H50's pump to stop vibrations transferring to the case.
 
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don't have any vibration issues but that could be due to the solid mass of aloominum thats my case.

Mine has proved pretty bomb proof. I really badly mistreated it when modding my case and yet it's all good. I was so worried I'd buggered it I ran it on the bench to leak test and when it went back in the case I put kitchen paper under the barbs to triple check

no leaks though. if / when it fails I'll dissect it to see how she works. Pretty sure this has been done already so might have a look round. Would be interesting to see if it could be used with a double rad / custom hoses and how it performs doing it.
 
I did wonder about buying one and adding to it, it's a potentially cheap source of 120 radiator/pump/waterblock, cut one of the tubes and divert it through a 240 radiator. Feels like too much hassle to go through relative to doing things normally though.

Glad to hear it's well built, it would be a shame for corsair to bet their reputation on shoddy workmanship. I wonder how it's been brought to market at this price point, even second hand it's not possible to get a 120 radiator, pump, block, tubing for that cost. I'll be interested if you strip yours down, and I'm also going to have a google to see if anyone else has done so.

I can find this thread when searching, but nothing else yet. Perhaps you'll be breaking new ground.
 
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maybe but I thought someone on one of the h50 threads had alluded / linked to a youtube video of h50 disassembly, bit tech maybe?

If I do it I was thinking of ditching the 120 for a 240. Adding a 20 is an intersting idea, but I'm presuming that the pump won't be upto the job. This is purely subjective mind - it musrt be relatively small, it's quiet so either fantastically well designed or more likely not very good and that in it's alternative branding (siberian tiger) the reviews of the 240 version were poop. Can't recall wether corsair 'claimed' to have reqorked the pump as well as the cold plate.

If I can raise some capital there's a good tj07 set up in the mm, SimonB?, out of reach at the moment but...
 
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