Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

There was another guy who used a double radiator instead of the single one and reported a 8C drop.

But the pump died a week or two later. The reason for the pump failure is not known whether it was faulty or died under the strain of trying to pump water to a dual radiator.

When I saw that vid I was tempted to stick my thermochill dual radiator and mod the corsair. But I don't think I will as a)The pump could die under the strain and therefore wasting a cooling solution and b)I could probably get better performance from a cheap pump and res combo.
 
I am going to reinstall my H50-1 tonight as I had to take my motherboard out and RMA it. Tonight I am going to put it all back together. I have cleaned off the thermal compound on both the CPU and the H50.

I am planning on using MX-3 for the new thermal compound. Will just putting a pea sized blob in the middle of the cpu and allowing the pressure of the heatsink spread it be ok?

I am hoping to have my first go at overclocking and have the cpu running at 4Ghz.

The cpu and mobo are a Core i7 920 DO and a Gigabyte EX58-UD5.
 
mogwai said:
I am going to reinstall my H50-1 tonight as I had to take my motherboard out and RMA it. Tonight I am going to put it all back together. I have cleaned off the thermal compound on both the CPU and the H50.

I am planning on using MX-3 for the new thermal compound. Will just putting a pea sized blob in the middle of the cpu and allowing the pressure of the heatsink spread it be ok?

I am hoping to have my first go at overclocking and have the cpu running at 4Ghz.

The cpu and mobo are a Core i7 920 DO and a Gigabyte EX58-UD5.
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Twist the heatsink a few times while applying a little pressure - it should spread just fine.
 
Just another positive vote here. I just replaced my antec 900 with a CM Sniper and thought i might change the CPU cooling as well. I've got the Corsair hooked up in push/pull with two Noctua NF-P12 via a Y splitter onto the CPU FAN header on my mobo. I used 2 screws on each which seems to be fine, no vibration. I've got the fans mounted to blow onto/out of the rad into the case as per Corsair's instructions. I read the concerns about this recyclling the hot air my 5870 ejects, but to be honest I think this is minimal (I tested by hand behind the exhaust) and the big old 230mm top fan just sucks up the heat from the rad.

After running OCCT through the hour test the highest temperature on my Q6600 with a 1.46 vid was 65c. But that seemd to be cyclical with the temperature going up to about 63c for a short bit, the fans speeding up and the temperature equalising for 3-4 minutes at about 57c. I've got SMART FAN "enabled" and the fans running on "voltage" in the BIOS - not sure if that is ideal?

All in all, the H50 is great. Easy water cooling. It beats my old Noctua cooler pretty handily and saves a load of space, plus it looks cool. Thumbs up.
 
Just type 'model shop leeds' in Google and enter the product code (GPMQ3549) and you'll find the screws that tony mentions...they're £2.03 for four of the screws.

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Are these the ones that work with the H50 then tony?
 
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What a cracking little product this is. Saw the reviews on here the other day and decided that it was a bargain for what it could do, it arrived this morning and just fitted it. 30 minutes to fit to my IP35 Pro, trickiest bit was removing the Tuniq Tower 120!

Idle temps on my Q6600 were previously ~35°C at around 2.6Ghz, now it's running as below :D

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