Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

Considering replacing the single stock fan with 2 x Xilence Red Wing fans in push/pull config... Can anyone comment on how they are compared to the stock fan with the H50 in performance and noise level?
 
Hey guys, need a little bit of advice here on the H50.


I've tested it for around 2 weeks now and i simply cannot understand how so many people are happy with its performance, i'm geting 80º full load on my system no matter how i put the fans.

My system:

Cases: Antec three hundred with 4 120mm fans.
I7 920 @ 4ghz @ 1,25v
Artic Silver 5 thermal paste.
Asus P6t deluxe v2.0
2x ATI 5870 crossfire

Room temperature 17º-20º
Idle temps: 48-50º
Full load: 78-80º


I have the h50 on my back 120mm back slot, with 2 120mm fans Noctua NP in a push/pull configuration, puting fresh air into the radiator and also tried reversing it and putting push/pull but extracting air from the radiator and outside the case (same temps).

I'm quite positive i have the CPU block/pump well conected since the heat is passing to the radiator (the radiator gets hot).
My 2 5870 put up a lot of heat, but my case is quite big and there is a good airflow inside, the extract 120mm fan on top of the case isnt drawning hot air, is just warm.

Honestly i've tried numerous times to install it, read numerous guides (and honestly the h50 setup is a no-brainer) so i'm not quite sure how many people say they get 60º full load wich is 20º lesser than me.

The temps are measured ofc in the diode, with real temp or similar software.
Help?
 
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Connection check?

I Have GA-EP43-DSER Mobo. Is the right connectiona s follows.

Fan (4pin) connects to the CPU_FAN Header
Pump (3pin) connects to SYS_FAN1/PWR_FAN Header

SYS_FAN1/PWR_FAN in the Manual says pin 1: GND pin 2:+12v pin 3: Sense.

I've heard that some people have connected the Pump to the CPU Header? So that the water flow is slower to allow the water to cool more and temp have droped even further? Does the 3 pin fit into a 4 pin CPU_FAN Header? If so the only other 4 pin header i have left is SYS_FAN2 (GND,SpeedCOntrol, Sense, +5V) Would the Fan then plug into this?
 
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can anyone tell me if i will see a difference from a mugen2, looking at this as my unlocked 550 can do 3.8Ghz @ 1.425v but for 3.9Ghz i need 1.475 but the cpu is hitting the thermal limit.

Will be using it in push/pull.
 
Magoo said:
Connection check?

I Have GA-EP43-DSER Mobo. Is the right connectiona s follows.

Fan (4pin) connects to the CPU_FAN Header
Pump (3pin) connects to SYS_FAN1/PWR_FAN Header

SYS_FAN1/PWR_FAN in the Manual says pin 1: GND pin 2:+12v pin 3: Sense.

I've heard that some people have connected the Pump to the CPU Header? So that the water flow is slower to allow the water to cool more and temp have droped even further? Does the 3 pin fit into a 4 pin CPU_FAN Header? If so the only other 4 pin header i have left is SYS_FAN2 (GND,SpeedCOntrol, Sense, +5V) Would the Fan then plug into this?
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That will work just fine
 
Mine arrived today....!

This thing is awesome, really. I looked at it a couple of weeks ago and thought "what's the point in that?", then last week I was thinking "is it really that good?".... then I bought one. My CPU (Phenom II X3 720 BE @2.8GHz) runs very cool anyway; with the AMD stock cooler it was about 35/55 (idle/load, in degrees C).

Installation was... well it would have been easier if a) I wasn't ludicrously clumsy and b) the instructions had bothered to tell me the backplate I already had installed from the AMD stock cooler worked fine.... it was annoying disconnecting and removing the motherboard only to discover there was no reason to make the swap. Also, I found it completely impossible to install as shown in the various videos - the retention ring is not far enough from the chip surface even with the screws as loose as possible without it actually coming off again. I couldn't get the thing in, so I attached the ring directly to it then just held the whole thing in place while I screwed it down tight.

Also, the layout of my motherboard is just nuts. God knows who decided all of the fan connectors (save CPU fan) had to be either in the bottom left or bottom right of the board. The pump power cable just reaches, going down to the bottom left through the gap between the graphics card and the board... any further and it would be under some tension. I'm glad it's not, as the connectors are hardly what you'd call sturdy (on the motherboard, I mean - it's just three pins).

Anyway - as a cooler, this thing rocks. I have an Antec 900, so I removed the tricool fan from the rear 120mm mount and replaced with the single corsair fan and the radiator. It's currently an intake, with the radiator on the inside (so push configuration).

Idle temperatures are around 14 degrees, rising to around 21-23 degrees under load. That's pretty much begging for a massive overclock...
This is all with the fan at about 1200 RPM too. Not managed to get the temps up enough for it to increase the speed!

Noise-wise; the stock (corsair) fan is pretty darn quiet. I can't tell it apart from the tricool case fans, which are all set on low (so pretty much the same speed - 1200 RPM according to the manual) and the PSU fan (which is a whisper quiet Antec Neo HE 430W). Compared to the stock cooler, the H50 is essentially silent, as I had to remove a nearly identical 120mm 1200 RPM fan to install it. The pump is very quiet, at least where I'm sat (about 4ft away). It seems to be quiet a low whirring sound - I was expecting something much more intrusive and high-pitched. I suppose it's because it's immersed in liquid, rather than air?

Anyway - this product gets 5/5 from me. It gives incredibly low temperatures, it's quiet, it was relatively easy to install (compared to the nightmares I've had installing GPU coolers) and its pretty cheap - a bit more than a decent air cooler perhaps, but it's much smaller and it doesn't matter that my GPU is venting hot air directly upwards any more, which means I can replace the noisy HD4770 cooler with my trusty TR HR-03 and 92mm red wing...

Thanks to everyone on this forum who helped me make my decision to buy this, especially those who posted shots of their setup - they were really useful!!
 
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Ok that should be pretty easy for me, I have a fan grate on the side of my case. Can I just cut that out, sand it down and run the tubes through there? May look a bit ghetto but should do.
 
yslen said:
This is all with the fan at about 1200 RPM too. Not managed to get the temps up enough for it to increase the speed!

Noise-wise; the stock (corsair) fan is pretty darn quiet. I can't tell it apart from the tricool case fans, which are all set on low (so pretty much the same speed - 1200 RPM according to the manual)
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*Mrs Cheese Posting*

How did you get it running at 1200 RPM?

When we installed our H5O we disabled Q-fan (well the Gigabite equivalent anyway) as per either the instructions or a "how to" guide that we read before. Now... would "Q-Fan" also slow the pump if enabled, and couldn't that cause an issue?
We'd both love to get the fan running slower as the noise (while I know there will be worse out there) really grates after a while having been used to the near silent volume of antec 900 cases with "Q-Fan" enabled for such a long time.
 
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