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CoolIT ECO A.L.C. and Corsair H50 Comparison / Review
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Are you replying to [email protected] by any chance? I've done that many, many times
No no.. I managed to pull the proper email out of that message and pasted it in the to: field but I am getting this bounce - The format of the recipient's e-mail address isn't valid
The domain is .ac.uk which I assume is a school address?? Not sure why my outlook doesn't like that :/
Until I find a solution please email me at the address I posted above.
TY
Soldato
Weird. Anyway I sent you an email on the address above. If my imperial email isn't working, try my trust hotmail account.
Soldato
As stated in my testing methodology, both coolers were plugged into the same fan headers on the board and the BIOS settings set to default 'standard' mode. any speeding up or down of the fans has been done by the product itself.
This issue with mounting: As I stated earlier, this piece of plastic highlighted spun around freely and wouldn't stay put. The screw tightened up correctly and I verified even contact by rotating the whole unit 180 degrees and checking temps again. The slight differences between temperatures on the cores were all normal so I am satisfied that even contact with the CPU IHS was correct. If this was not the case, there would be an enormous difference in temperature with one or more cores. Also, the difference of 9 degreea at full load could easily be due to the fan pulling air throught the RAD rather than pushing and the quality of the fan as in CFM and blade area/ angle. To be fair, if the contact between the cooler and IHS were so far out, I think it would be MUCH more obvious than a 9 degree difference. A 130W TDP Chip at full load at 80 degrees would give far more dramatic results than running 9 degrees too warm. It would simply shut down mate
More to the point, why has this part in question come loose? 
Also as stated, I set these up as per manufacturer's instructions on a rig set up identically for both tests so the only differences here will be between the coolers on test.
I'll re-test the eco this evening if I get chance
Hope this helps
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Hey Andy - not questioning your methods at all, you obviously know exactly what you are talking about. Just trying to figure out why the results are different than what I have seen.
If the CPU is running at 90C, the CPU fan header should be telling the fan to run at 100% PWM which should be 1800 RPM not 1339... it could be that you have a bad fan. I can see you have both fans plugged into the same header but is that the CPU fan header or a chassis fan header?
TY and Cheers,
Barry
If the CPU is running at 90C, the CPU fan header should be telling the fan to run at 100% PWM which should be 1800 RPM not 1339... it could be that you have a bad fan. I can see you have both fans plugged into the same header but is that the CPU fan header or a chassis fan header?
TY and Cheers,
Barry
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Hi mate.
Both the H50 and the Eco state in the manuals to plug the Fan onto the CPU Fan header and the pump on to any spare chassis fan header. As seen in the photo's, this was done.
might be a bad fan I suppose. I'll test again as soon as I get chance. Baby has taken most of my time this evening......gone are the days of spending hour after hour tweaking and fiddling with PC hardware lol
Both the H50 and the Eco state in the manuals to plug the Fan onto the CPU Fan header and the pump on to any spare chassis fan header. As seen in the photo's, this was done.
might be a bad fan I suppose. I'll test again as soon as I get chance. Baby has taken most of my time this evening......gone are the days of spending hour after hour tweaking and fiddling with PC hardware lol
My build log:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18108493&highlight=username_Yozz76
Problems with temps have stopped me from overclocking anything! However, after reading this thread I'm beginning to wonder if reseating the eco might do the trick? I've basically been too lazy since putting my system together to address the issue!
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18108493&highlight=username_Yozz76
Problems with temps have stopped me from overclocking anything! However, after reading this thread I'm beginning to wonder if reseating the eco might do the trick? I've basically been too lazy since putting my system together to address the issue!
Hi mate.
Both the H50 and the Eco state in the manuals to plug the Fan onto the CPU Fan header and the pump on to any spare chassis fan header. As seen in the photo's, this was done.
might be a bad fan I suppose. I'll test again as soon as I get chance. Baby has taken most of my time this evening......gone are the days of spending hour after hour tweaking and fiddling with PC hardware lol
Oh the pleasures of kids LOL, but not to be missed !!!!
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LMAO - Diverse up to your old tricks again eh?
For those of you who missed the fun, there was a photoshop competition of me on here a few months back and Diverse180 took first prize along with one of our Freezone Elite TEC coolers.
OT - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18038321&highlight=photoshop+barry
The kid is obviously off his rocker - think mad hatter but has good photoshop skills! Could you have taken a screenie where I looked a little less drunk though bro? I mean commmmmmon.
Anyways - thanks Diverse, I think what you are trying to say is 'watch the install video' right?
ps. Hi Dave!
For those of you who missed the fun, there was a photoshop competition of me on here a few months back and Diverse180 took first prize along with one of our Freezone Elite TEC coolers.
OT - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18038321&highlight=photoshop+barry
The kid is obviously off his rocker - think mad hatter but has good photoshop skills! Could you have taken a screenie where I looked a little less drunk though bro? I mean commmmmmon.
Anyways - thanks Diverse, I think what you are trying to say is 'watch the install video' right?
ps. Hi Dave!
Soldato
A few tests so far but I will try it with different fans. I do realise we don't have the H50 on there but we'll try and get one at some point.
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Did you end-up receiving an a new Eco in a timely manner?
I might be one from the older batch, there's no doubt a few still floating around.
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There should be a separate set of brackets for AMD motherboard which you need to install.
Fitted the eco to my 790xta-ud4 no probs.All you do is remove the intel mounts and attach the two amd brackets in the box.Then remove the top part of the heatsink mounting bracket on the motherboard and attach the eco to the backplate.
955 be is at 36c.Think i might try a push pull config with a couple of akasa apaches
955 be is at 36c.Think i might try a push pull config with a couple of akasa apaches
As stated in my testing methodology, both coolers were plugged into the same fan headers on the board and the BIOS settings set to default 'standard' mode. any speeding up or down of the fans has been done by the product itself.
This issue with mounting: As I stated earlier, this piece of plastic highlighted spun around freely and wouldn't stay put. The screw tightened up correctly and I verified even contact by rotating the whole unit 180 degrees and checking temps again. The slight differences between temperatures on the cores were all normal so I am satisfied that even contact with the CPU IHS was correct. If this was not the case, there would be an enormous difference in temperature with one or more cores. Also, the difference of 9 degreea at full load could easily be due to the fan pulling air throught the RAD rather than pushing and the quality of the fan as in CFM and blade area/ angle. To be fair, if the contact between the cooler and IHS were so far out, I think it would be MUCH more obvious than a 9 degree difference. A 130W TDP Chip at full load at 80 degrees would give far more dramatic results than running 9 degrees too warm. It would simply shut down mate
Also as stated, I set these up as per manufacturer's instructions on a rig set up identically for both tests so the only differences here will be between the coolers on test.
I'll re-test the eco this evening if I get chance
Hope this helps
Don't think fan RPM alone could account for the large difference...
I've been told by CoolIT reps that the Eco should be at least a couple of degrees cooler on avg. for all set-ups.
Perhaps you have one from their original batch which did (despite claims now to contrary) have issues, and subsequently was recalled.
http://www.overclock.net/water-cooling/659826-cooit-eco-vantage-reviews-8.html
http://forums.vr-zone.com/hardware-arena/558516-1-last-hoot-b4-cny-coolit-eco-l-c.html#post7675152
http://www.clunk.org.uk/reviews/coolit-eco-a.l.c.-cpu-liquid-cooler-review/Page-5.html
I even recall one of their personnel explaining this to me a short while back.
There should be mostly the final revision out there now, hopefully, touch-wood.
Very much looking forward to: Helios, Jon, or Henry's revised results for both.
I think Henry's and Andy's don't show the true picture, not that I don't appreciate their efforts!
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I believe some of the earlier non-production batches didn't have extra brackets etc. included.
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Hi Henry - If you fit a Domino on your AM3 board, you should be able to fit an ECO. Most AMD board come with a backplate included which we rely on to fit our coolers. Both Domino and ECO have the top retainer hardware included in the box but are fitted with Intel retainers by default. So as Helios was saying, you have to switch it up for the AMD one - on ECO it couldn't be easier - four screws and you are done.