Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

Just fitted an Akasa Apache Black 120mm and im loving the results... I have this in in Push pull, cool air in and warm air out using the stock lilly case fan to exhuast.

On load with the Corsair fan I was in the 70-80s's and now im staying at a nice cool 60-64c on all cores pretty much. Sorry I have no screens with the Corsair fan. :)

Made a bit of a FAIL screening this one lol I screen'd when i clicked stop and the temps shot straight back down..but you can see min and max temps in Real Temp...

Cheers

 
Can someone help please?
I just received my Corsair H50 and trying to install. I have an AM3 P2 and the instructions suggest i use the Back plate labelled "C" which is the rectangluar shaped one supoosively for AMD AM2 & AM3 CPU's, this back plate sits over my processor and when i put the retention plate on and stick the block in it doesnt even touch my processor? surely this is wrong, i know i can be a bit thick sometimes but surely the block should touch the processor to keep it cold?
anyone else have the H50 that can confirm i should use back plate labelled "C" please?
ill take a pic to explain and edit post but in mean time :)
THE-Nemesis
 
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Hi Yellowbeard,

the original plastic back plate with 4 screws in that sits around the cpu to hold the fan, i removed that and replaced it with the H50 suggested one, it says for AM3 cpus but some of it sits on the processor. I cant post photobucket pics but its here
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/THE-Nemesis/backplate.jpg
The backplate should sit around the cpu with the metal ring screwed in with it, the h50 block connects to the retention ring and sits on the Processor "i thought", but the back plate corsair suggests, party sits on my processor blocking the block from touching it.
 
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THE Nemesis said:
Hi Yellowbeard,

the original plastic back plate with 4 screws in that sits around the cpu to hold the fan, i removed that and replaced it with the H50 suggested one, it says for AM3 cpus but some of it sits on the processor. I cant post photobucket pics but its here
http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/THE-Nemesis/backplate.jpg
The backplate should sit around the cpu with the metal ring screwed in with it, the h50 block connects to the retention ring and sits on the Processor "i thought", but the back plate corsair suggests, party sits on my processor blocking the block from touching it.
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The backplate should surely operate as a backplate shouldn't it? Whats screwed to the back of the mobo if its set like that? :S
 
For anyone thinking of doing the same, I have just tried refersing the fan to blow out rather than in and have noticed a definite increase in cpu temps, but general systems temps have dropped considerably. This is just using the single supplied fan though.

I may have to have a bit of a play to find the best way to use the H50 in my system (Antec 300).
 
Hi YellowBeard,

quite possibly the best man to ask at the moment!

I've got a slight issue, firstly I thought I had a duff H50 pump, but that turns out to now not be the case(once I've explained this, you might agree, I don't know). I'm a techy myself, but this has completely stumped me.

The H50 was installed, which I had no issues with what so ever, the diagrams and video helped slightly in a couple of areas, but in general a doddle.

After everything had been hooked up (minus hdd/dvd-r) I booted it up, entered the bios, changed a couple of things, rebooted, let it sit for 10minutes just to make sure temps were ok, everything fine! nothing to report on.

Now at this point I thought fine, all working, powered off and continued to connect a s-ata modular cable in to my Corsair HX650w Modular psu(in the second modular port away from the fixed 24pin, you will see why I've stated this further on), and hook up my hdd and dvd-r.

Upon then powering up the machine and entering the BIOS to do some more tinkering, I realised suddenly the pump was showing no RPM and the temps were gaining a degree per second, up until about 75c where I felt better to power off.

Thought instantly WTF? as this wasn't the case on booting up in the first instance, now it would seem that what I've managed to discover is that when anything is plugged in to this second port, via the cable, no matter what cable I use, or what device is plugged in, the pump doesn't work.. If I plug the same cable in to another port on the PSU(for example, the first one away from the 24pin, which is where I currently have it plugged in to and have no issues) the pump works.

When plugging in to the second port, the device shows up in the BIOS but the pump doesn't work, everything else powers up perfectly..

I am currently very confused as to why? even if the port on the PSU was playing up, the pump should effectivly be the last thing to have an issue and not power, as this isn't controlled in anyway through that particular port on the PSU? And more so because it works fine if the same appliances are used on a different modular port...

I don't know if I've now confused you as much as I am by the situation, anyways until I figure it out I'm using another port, and the PC is functioning as it should.

Appologies for the lengthy post, I'm just unsure of whether it was best in the H50 thread, as it relates to to it, or in the mobo thread because that is what the pump is getting power from, or the psu thread because that is was solely powers everything..

Cheers


EDIT: Booted up the machine this morning and upon checking the BIOS the pump once again hadn't powered up, after a reboot and that was all that had changed it then powered up, have I a dodgy intermitent pump??
 
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could you not just use a molex to 3 pin fan adapter to power the pump? The supply must be 12v at all times and not subject to fan speed control which could be a stting in your bios i guess???

I have pump on 3 pin header for continuous 12v and fans from 4 pin pwm header using a splitter. I will have to check if it is possible to see the pump in the bios when i get home, although i have not noticed it.
 
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