Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

mogwai said:
I am going to have to refit my H50 tonight as I had to RMA my Gigabyte UD5 motherboard. I have some MX-3 to use in place of the original TIM.

What is the best way to apply it? Is the line across the cores sufficient?

When I installed the H50 the first time I hooked the top bracket in the notches and then screwed it in position so didn't need to do the twist part. This seemed to work quite well.
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I found the "twisting" to be really useful for spreading the thermal paste :)
 
I recently bought a over clocked bundle with the Corsair H50 cooler from overclockers I fitted my kit into the Coolermaster Gladiator RC-600 Case which has a top mounted 140mm exhaust fan and front 120mm intake fan, I want fit another 120mm fan on the side but considering the corsair fan is where I would have fitted a rear exhaust fan and it blows air into the case should my side fan be intake or exhaust ? any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
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Well I had a massive fight with the H50 today

The diagram for the mount under the motherboard was plain wrong

I had a lot of trouble getting the screws in which appear to be made of monkey metal.
In the end I gave up with the method shown in the Corsair video and removed the motherboard - a lot easier

Just doing some testing now (idle is down 6C)
 
I had a real struggle installing this too. I wish they'd make it clearer that there are TWO SIZES of screw, as I was trying to force the slightly larger ones into the small silver holders, and ended up damaging 1 or 2, now my installation isn't as secure as it could've been.

Was pretty pi**ed off to be honest, but really couldn't be bothered to undo my 2 hours struggle taking everything apart again to RMA it so just had to makedo. Might have to email Corsair for a new set of the silver holders and refit the damn thing.

Can OcUK sort out a spare set of the holders or do I have to contact Corsair?
 
Some guy over at overclock.net modded his and added clear tubing and a res. Looks neat.
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dmsims said:
Yellowbeard said:
Because it does not need to be. There is not enough tension on the mounting kit to warrant using metal.[/QUOTE

But the plastic allows the female part for the screws to spin
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It's not supposed to as the plastic is molded to not allow the insert to spin. If you tightened the screws enough to strip the plastic, that is FAR too tight.
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If you are spinning the counter-sunk nuts then you have a major problem.
You must have chewed the plastic/not inserted them properly - and that means you cannot tension it properly anymore.
Make sure that the locking nuts that sink into the rear plastic bracket AND THAT THEY PROTRUDE THROUGH THE MOBO HOLES PROPERLY - I can see how a mistake can be easily made with the locking nut not fitting in properly. Make sure you can see both sides of the mobo fully while your fitting it.
 
Don't worry - I read the manual - the screws were done up by hand until just tight

I saw that the inserts should be countersunk (again not documented)

They were spinning when trying to get the screws in

Time for corsair to produce an addendum for suppliers to correct the documentation

The frustration will wear off - it just could have been a lot easier!
 
I've had the same issue with the silver 'locking nuts' spinning and cutting into the plastic mount. This was due to me using the larger sized screws of the two types. This was due to the lack of any indication that there are in fact 2 sizes of screws, and the difference being very hard to notice by eye.
 
Indeed this is what I thought about when I first unwrapped it!
As a maintenance engineer, I could very quickly, see which bits I needed and how this was going to fit together. I could also see how people could very easily make mistakes.
I suppose its the way of PC's - if you want advancement then you have to put up with development!!!
 
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