Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

fitted mine today on a P5K mobo with a qx6700 using MX-3 with a zalman ZM-F3 in the exhaust method running prime stress test at 100% cpu peaked at 49 Celsius compared to 70 with my artic freezer pro well impressed..
 
Anyone fixed one up in an Akasa Eclipse case? I`m thinking about about leaving the rear akasa fan in place (as exhaust) but replacing two of the screws with two of the longer screws that came with the H50 to secure the radiator in place to the akasa fan, and then attaching the CPU temp controlled fan that came with the H50 on top of the radiator again acting as exhaust so forcing air through the radiator. So the akasa fan will be pulling air through the radiator at max speed while the H50 fan will be pushing air through the radiator from the inside at variable speed. The H50 fan will have to be variable speed though depending on the CPU temp although my bios does allow a target temp to be set (min is 40degrees I think) at which point I assume the fan will come on full speed.

Sound okay? Or should I reverse the fans around? (so the CPU temp controlled H50 fan is attached to the chassis acting as exhaust pulling air through the rad and the akasa is pusing air onto the radiator on max speed. Hmmm, think I`ll try the first method first
 
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DarrenM343 said:
Anyone fixed one up in an Akasa Eclipse case? I`m thinking about about leaving the rear akasa fan in place (as exhaust) but replacing two of the screws with two of the longer screws that came with the H50 to secure the radiator in place to the akasa fan, and then attaching the CPU temp controlled fan that came with the H50 on top of the radiator again acting as exhaust so forcing air through the radiator. So the akasa fan will be pulling air through the radiator at max speed while the H50 fan will be pushing air through the radiator from the inside at variable speed. The H50 fan will have to be variable speed though depending on the CPU temp although my bios does allow a target temp to be set (min is 40degrees I think) at which point I assume the fan will come on full speed.

Sound okay? Or should I reverse the fans around? (so the CPU temp controlled H50 fan is attached to the chassis acting as exhaust pulling air through the rad and the akasa is pusing air onto the radiator on max speed. Hmmm, think I`ll try the first method first
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Anything that uses mis-matched fans (speed or air pressure) is very unlikely to work well.

You want two matched fans that are both running at the same speed.

One reason the Apaches work so well in push/pull combinations is that they are PWM and you can drive two off the CPU fan header with an Akasa PWM splitter cable. That gives near silence at idle and they ramp up together when the CPU temperature picks up.
 
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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.
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I used a pair of Scythe Kama PWM fans on mine, the Noctuas are good but brown and cream. I hear the Apache's are good too, but again stupid colours.
 
WJA96 said:
Anything that uses mis-matched fans (speed or air pressure) is very unlikely to work well.

You want two matched fans that are both running at the same speed.

One reason the Apaches work so well in push/pull combinations is that they are PWM and you can drive two off the CPU fan header with an Akasa PWM splitter cable. That gives near silence at idle and they ramp up together when the CPU temperature picks up.
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Thanks, good idea, much appreciated. I shall get two Akasa Apache fans with the PWM splitter before installing
 
I have a scythe in push pull with a silence red wing. My temps are pretty good. If akasa re brand the apache in black I'll have some. I have one already and it's a good fan, pity the colour scheme is awful. If not may have to skin my case in DPM.
 
Fitted mine today and all is well. As someone has already mentioned, the backing plate for the 1156 board has to be trimmed to fit the MSI P55 GD65 due to a screw sticking out from the back of the motherboard. It took me a few minutes of hacking away with a stanley knife before suddely a chunk just the right size popped off the thing (the plastic is quite hard).

I was going to wait until I got two new fans to go with it but thought what the heck and installed the cooler this evening so at least I got the worse part done (removed the motherboard from backing plate, cleaned up CPU and fitted the new lump to the CPU). I`ve just installed the standard corsair fan for now, with it acting as exhaust in the back of the case pulling air away from the radiator.

So even in the temporary setup the idle temp is about 3-4 degrees cooler than with the intel retail fan. When I ran Prime with the retail fan the temp was reaching 69degrees within just 3 minutes. With the H50 I left it 6 minutes and it was between 46 and 49degrees so a good 20degrees cooler.

Now I can select the "optmised defaults" from the BIOS which I know will clock my memory from 1333mhz to 1600 and the CPU to around 3200 (from 2666). I tried that yesterday with the retail fan but was afraid to leave it set like that just in case.

Also, quick note for anyone else installing this to a 1156 mobo. Look closely at the backing plate as that tells you which holes will be screwed into, the diagram for the 1156 showed the wrong holes being used.
 
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Does anyone know if the H50 will fit in a Antec fusion remote max?

I'm really tempted by the i7 overclocked bundle wich includes the H50 but it won't fit my Silverstone Grandia Case as it only as 80mm exhaust fans and a fan adapter would'nt work either.
 
Hey I finished fixing my H50 tho other day, was a bit of a fiddle to install :rolleyes: but got it in there in the end lol.

Any way I thought i'd post some temps as I just updated my coretemp.

According to coretemp my temps idle are 21-18-19-19 on a q6600 at stock do these sound ok lol how accurate is coretemp as these seem veeerrry low to me as before it was running at 34-33-31-31 at idle.

If not tho lol thats fine by me might try some overclocking

edit. must be coretemp bugging as i downloaded speedfan and it says the temps are 35-34-34-33 would I still be ok to overclock with thease temps to about 3.0ghz ?
 
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What temperature is your room? Good as the H50 appears to be, I'm unsure as to whether it would actually be able to keep your CPU cooler than the ambient room temperature..
 
I'm thinking of building a new PC and these seem interesting. A forum member mentioned one of these in my spec thread in general hardware, and I've never done anything like this before. I do have a few questions if that's okay:

1) Do these have to be refilled with water on regular basis.

2) I'm thinking of getting a antec 902 case. Do these fit well in it, and do I need to purchase any additional fans?

3) Are they more quiet than a Noctua fan?

4) Do all parts i.e screws etc come with the h50?

5) Does thermal compound come with it, or best of getting m-3 compound?
 
1. No, it's a closed loop
2. Yes it looks like it will fit fine.
3. The pump makes a very low noise buzzing noise plus the 1 fan you need to cool the radiator, so it will be slightly louder. Most people fit an additional fan too it for slightly better performance.
4. Yes, it comes with enough screws to fit 1 fan if you fit 2 you have to use only 2 screws on each fan like i and a lot do or source 4 more.
5. Thermal compound comes with it, me being anal about such things used MX3
 
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Atomic said:
I'm thinking of building a new PC and these seem interesting. A forum member mentioned one of these in my spec thread in general hardware, and I've never done anything like this before. I do have a few questions if that's okay:

1) Do these have to be refilled with water on regular basis.

2) I'm thinking of getting a antec 902 case. Do these fit well in it, and do I need to purchase any additional fans?

3) Are they more quiet than a Noctua fan?

4) Do all parts i.e screws etc come with the h50?

5) Does thermal compound come with it, or best of getting m-3 compound?
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1) No
2) yes, No
3) Same
4) Yes
5) Yes, No

Matt
 
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