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Mine dosent seem to move but i found it a pig to fit really, see my post a few posts above
Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit
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Mine dosent seem to move but i found it a pig to fit really, see my post a few posts above
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others have reported a twist once fitted but i don't believe there should be- mind doesn't move at all.
rhino - something is definately wrong. Those volts are too high for a d0 but I wouldn't have thought high enough too damage the memory controller on board the chip. Have you tried swapping the modules over into different sockets? Has easy tune 6 or whatever it's called oc the memory too.
Reset everything to stock settings and see what happens.
Thats a lot of hot kit in that case. . . . .
rhino - something is definately wrong. Those volts are too high for a d0 but I wouldn't have thought high enough too damage the memory controller on board the chip. Have you tried swapping the modules over into different sockets? Has easy tune 6 or whatever it's called oc the memory too.
Reset everything to stock settings and see what happens.
Thats a lot of hot kit in that case. . . . .
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Is the H50 better than this?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-001-CI&groupid=962&catid=1532&subcat=
As they seem fairly comparable.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-001-CI&groupid=962&catid=1532&subcat=
As they seem fairly comparable.
just got mine and finding that the backplate is impeded by the screwhead the holds drmos heatsink down and so the backplate will probaby need to be trimmed to fit level to the board or tighten the top left corner screw (when viewing the cpu and socket and the text "LOTES" is the right way up).
Anyone else had experience with the msi gd65 and h50 bracket problem, what did you do?
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H50 superior to domino iirc. Hence the massive price drop on the domino. Domino was ok at c2d and c2q but wasn't upto the job of hotter chips like oc i7. on top pf this there was some issue with build quality.
I was set on the domino until the h50 launched and haven't looked back.
There's probably a used one coming up in the mm shortly too.
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That's what I read as well, hence why I opted for the H50. And I certainly couldn't justify the price on the CoolIT Freezone Elite.
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I've got the Zalman 9700 as well so would be interested in an answer to this as well..
Ended up trimming the bracket, seemed to be the general recommendation over at Corsair's forums to it not fitting snugly on the gd65 motherboard. Just testing temps now, idle it sits at around 28-32 and 48-54 on full load using IBT, on stock settings though.
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cheers m8 for the info....i did try a lot of things like reflashing bios with 3 different versions and tried cmos rest several times but no joy..in the end all i could see was that out is all the 2gb x 6 sticks none were faulty as individualy tried they wouldnt work in ddr3 sockets 0 or 1 (1st 2 dimm slots
) it just freezes the boot sequence and i have to hard-restart even if just one dimm is used but weirdly slots 3..4..5..6 can be populated and low and behold 8gb is detected by bios and windows.i only used the easytune6 util once to see temps at 3.0 and 3.2g and as i mentioned before the voltage was at 3.0g-1.28v and 3.2g-1.38v and temps were around mid 80's on the h50 and that was after a remount using rice grain method as my temps wernt good using the line method.
im still using the motherboard with just 6gb at the minute (cpu voltage 1.2 and below) as it still works although the bios and windows still say its only got 4gb yet in everest ultimate edition in summery it says i have 3x 2gb ddr3 dimms but system memory available 4092gb.
im going to wait a week or so and get a new board maybe the ud5 version or evga sli le either way i have had no luck in H50 temps with this board and if by chance i still dont get good ones with the new board it will be either the CPU or H50 thats getting replaced.
all in all not a good couple of months for me
...Wonder if corsair would swap a used H50 if thought to be working under par..tho it may be cheaper just to buy another 
regards
HRhino
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hi m8, if thats to me yes i went all the way.... woulddnt the temp be a lot highter at 2.66 if it wasnt clamped down properly? getting at 2.66ghz mid 30's on cores and 26/27'c on cpu in hardware monitor and eaytune6. (then again i may not have gone by th emanual as it shows in what order the bolts are to be tightened...so maybe thats why but im sure its level as i turned them all one turn each 1 at a time)
i think i may just have had a duff motherboard and all this priming ive been doing watching the temps go up and down
and memory slots now not working have shown its faults/weaknesses.
ill just have to see when i get the new board. and then join the elite in here ...hopefully 
i think i may just have had a duff motherboard and all this priming ive been doing watching the temps go up and down
and memory slots now not working have shown its faults/weaknesses.ill just have to see when i get the new board. and then join the elite in here
...hopefully
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I have little first hand experience but seem to recall using all 6 sockets is a real pita when OC. Do you need all that RAM. As for when you have 6gb installed free memory will not be anywhere near this. Presumably your using 64bit OS but your gfx cards will be 'stealing' system memory nevermind the OS etc being loaded in it.
I've just lent my spare 6gb to a friend who has a asus p6t deluxe v1. He's using this with his kingston 6gb (both 1333mhz stock) with no problems. Board / Kingston RAM / cpu were supplied pre overclocked.
If your set on a new board try the foxconn bloodrage gti, I have the full fat version and it's fantastic. Only 3 dimm slots though, for me 6gb is plenty until 4gb dimms are affordable.
I've just lent my spare 6gb to a friend who has a asus p6t deluxe v1. He's using this with his kingston 6gb (both 1333mhz stock) with no problems. Board / Kingston RAM / cpu were supplied pre overclocked.
If your set on a new board try the foxconn bloodrage gti, I have the full fat version and it's fantastic. Only 3 dimm slots though, for me 6gb is plenty until 4gb dimms are affordable.
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Just received mine also and will be fitted to an MSI GD-65 board which from what I`m reading means I`ll have to go at the backing plate with some tools to make it fit
, after of course removing the board from the PC again to fit the backing plateQuite impressed by the intel cooler also. For the size of it, it keeps my i5 750 at 22-24 idle and just over 61 when stressed.
Just received mine also and will be fitted to an MSI GD-65 board which from what I`m reading means I`ll have to go at the backing plate with some tools to make it fit
Quite impressed by the intel cooler also. For the size of it, it keeps my i5 750 at 22-24 idle and just over 61 when stressed.
No need to trim much, thankfully. It only took around 15-20 seconds with a scalpel: after picture
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hi m8, thanks for the info, but as mentioned bios isnt detecting full amount and bootup before bios freezes if i try even one dimm in either first 2 sockets which your supposed to do if having memory issues and wish to check if the ram works but in this case the socket dont work
.....but anyway the other 4 are working fine with all the memory tried individually and together and i even memtested in pairs and quad sticks in windows.as to the memory controller and overclocking...the i7 controller is in no way the same as the 775 or before it... its reported and tested as better than the previous generation controllers and will work past 1600MHz in rigs in T1 succesfully
i wasnt after major o/c anyways just around 3.4 with turbo and the 12gb i bought as i do photowork and some minor video encoding/editing so it helps a great deal in the speed on that.before the dimm socket failure i did try taking 6gb out and there was a noticable speed drop and anyway i got the memory at a good price around £120 (new) for 12gb now its around £260
heres an example of how good the i7 memory controller is when running corsair memory :
"Running 12GB of memory on an Intel Core i7 platform can be done and it is easy to do at that. The sweet spot for running 12GB of memory was found to be at 1600MHz with CL8 timings. Overclocking was possible and was also easy to do with no voltage increase required. Stability was also not an issue as Prime 95 and gaming were done on the system for hours and hours with no ill effects. If you want to run 12GB of memory you have nothing stopping you from doing so."
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/879/1/
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i did look at the gti but i wouldnt be able to use the pci-e physx and asus soundcard on it
and id have to sell some of the memory.so the ud5 will be okay as its identical to the extreme which is a very good board in my opinion although the evga classified looked interesting untill i found out the bios is extremely complicated aimed at people using pelter and nitro
and theres a slight lag due to the added pci-e chipset so thats off the list. anyways ill retry the H50 and follow the installation manual to the T (which im sure i did
) and use the thermal compound method both bulldog and gaiden used (i never in my mind thought it would be okay due to air bubbles which is why i used the line and rice method) which is to apply a thin coat on the H50 heatsink and a bb sized blob on the cpu. then ill see where i get to thanks to all for the help and kind advice.
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HRhino"
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np,
once you have a new board RMA the extreme. At worst they'll find it working and you'll need to sell it on. If it's faulty you might get a new board to sell and subsidise the ud5.
Btw I used the spread TIM method too due to the twist locking manouvre thingy. Let us know how you get on.
once you have a new board RMA the extreme. At worst they'll find it working and you'll need to sell it on. If it's faulty you might get a new board to sell and subsidise the ud5.
Btw I used the spread TIM method too due to the twist locking manouvre thingy. Let us know how you get on.
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will do m8,
and thanks.
and thanks.
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Just fitted mine to my i5-750. Idle temps are not really diffrent to my noctua top down but i stress tested it with prime 95 and it's gone from 79oC to 61oC max. 18oC drop is fantastic. Had to swop the corsair fan out though as it is to load.
On the whole i good bit of kit. Did panic when i started it up the first time and all i heared was the water running through it lol.
On the whole i good bit of kit. Did panic when i started it up the first time and all i heared was the water running through it lol.
What fan did you replace it with? I've got my eye on something like the Akasa Apache, but wondering what other quiet options there are with good static pressure. Currently I've got the Corsair fan running at around 900rpm using speedfan which should tide me over.