Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

i'm using artic silver matrix for the paste now, and i am seeing a huge drop in temps from before i re-installed the waterblock

but mostly i think its because i used industrial spirits to clean the surface rather than the Akasa citrus cleaner... the citrus cleaner leaves a residue behind , when you are supposed to have the surfaces squeaky clean

i plugged the pump into a molex-to-3 pin header adapter, and run it straight off the PSU... i'd like to keep the motherboard headers occupied with actual fans

i also have one of those Akasa Viper fans... they create a lot of turbulence out the front if they are pushing against the radiator, but if they get some help from another fan pulling on the other side of the radiator they work splendidly... it seems that their blade design is meant for free airflow and not for building up static pressure
 
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looking for advice for screws and fittment.

Going for push pull, and from my understanding you'd need to order specialist hobby screws that are 1 1/4" in length.
I've measured the rubber screws that the fans have come with and they are 1 1/4" in length. Is this correct? It doesnt look long enough to attach all four corners through 2fans + h50rad + case.

some-one want to correct me?
 
Not sure about the screw length but you can get away with using just 2 corsair screws per fan, mounted diagonally. That's what most have done.

Rubber scews ? You mean the grommets that come with the apache fans. They wont work.
 
I'll most likely be getting a H50, but i don't want to be spending £30+ on fans.. so if, at all, i buy 1 fan, which should i buy? The Akasa apache?

I might have 2 fans the same (Antec fans from a couple years back i never used), so push/pull might be possible, but if not, what's better, push or pull?
And if i just had one antec fan, would it be better than the stock fan?
 
Just wondering if my temps are ok.
First attempt at installing a custom cooler and applying thermal paste (bought off MM).
Currently only have the one fan pushing cold air in.
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admittedly by the time I arsed around with trying to get the cooler to fit ( the x38 dq6 has an extra copper bit on the back) the thermal paste wasn't the cleanest of jobs.
 
ash_scotland88 said:
Just wondering if my temps are ok.
First attempt at installing a custom cooler and applying thermal paste (bought off MM).
Currently only have the one fan pushing cold air in.
temps.jpg


admittedly by the time I arsed around with trying to get the cooler to fit ( the x38 dq6 has an extra copper bit on the back) the thermal paste wasn't the cleanest of jobs.
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Whilst fine I wouldn't be happy with those temps at all i idle at 35c currently on a q6600 @ 3.5ghz with 1.4 volts under an old style tuniq tower with one fan @ 1000 rpm.

Might want to check you are running the pump correctly with the right voltage.
 
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Just installed mine with an i5 760 @ 4ghz.

52'c idle and upto 90'c full load using Prime95. :|

Going to wait till my new fans arrive and see if temps drop. If not, re-apply some TIM and reseat the block.

All this is in an Akasa Eclipse!
 
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is that buy going into the Bios?
I may redo the thermal paste, as said it was all a bit of a palava to fit it due to the extra copper backing on the MB
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I wouldn't worry about idle temps, the qxxxx series have really messed up idle temperatures. As long as the load temperatures are ok i wouldn't worry. My q9450 has an idle temperature of 40c even if it is really underclocked with ridiculously low v core, and it has done this with the stock cooler, a freezer pro, a freezer pro 2 and a h50, regardless of how i applied the paste. The temp sensors are really crappy.
 
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I wouldn't worry about idle temps, the qxxxx series have really messed up idle temperatures. As long as the load temperatures are ok i wouldn't worry. My q9450 has an idle temperature of 40c even if it is really underclocked with ridiculously low v core, and it has done this with the stock cooler, a freezer pro, a freezer pro 2 and a h50, regardless of how i applied the paste. The temp sensors are really crappy.
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thanks, but as said it was a proper mess up when installing the h50!

is there a way to check the to make sure iam running the h50 and correct settings
 
running load at 100% and now with two fans added on push pull, after 5mins i get these temps:
65
60
65
61

confirmed by real temp and core temp. This is my q9550 overclocked to 3.4ghz and standard voltage.

Some fan is stupidly loud! But I've (admittedly stupidly) unplugged all fans one by one to see if it's a certain fan creating the noise, but i think it's my GPU as I knocked the fan and apart from PSU is the only one I can't stop.
 
Just finished my build on a Phenom II 1090T with this cooler and I have to say I am impressed by how cool it is. No overclock yet but ran prime95 to see what my max temps are at the moment and highest temp recorded over a couple of hours was 32 C.

I know this would have been covered in this thread but 60+ odd pages is a lot to read. With future plans to overclock - does having fans in push / pull make that much difference? and if so anyone recommend any fans? I was looking at a coule of Akasa Apache Blacks for the job.
 
Put some new Gentle Typhoon 1850rpm AP15's on my H50 last night, together with some new MX3, pretty good stuff... Man these GT's seem very solid build :)
Temp seem pretty good on the CPU :)
 
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