Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

cyclonus10 said:
i am thinking of getting one of these h-50's but i am unsure of what size the whole thing is.
i am using the Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case, with an Asus P7P55D LE Intel P55 mobo, running stock cooler with Intel Core i5 750 2.66Ghz cpu.
just worried about the mounting space in my case.
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The H50 fits in fine, had an Antec 300 with one in

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Crappy pic but i had the H50 as an intake, the top 140mm fan as an exhaust and a 120mm fan (scythe Gentle Typhoon 800rpm) in the lower front bay as an intake.

If you swap the side panels over then you dont get a draught out the side vent, helps push the air up as well.

:D
 
Danm54 said:
The H50 fits in fine, had an Antec 300 with one in

Crappy pic but i had the H50 as an intake, the top 140mm fan as an exhaust and a 120mm fan (scythe Gentle Typhoon 800rpm) in the lower front bay as an intake.

If you swap the side panels over then you dont get a draught out the side vent, helps push the air up as well.

:D
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pic has shown me that it fits so i would hardly call the pic crap, at the very least, functional :)
thanks mate,the top fan is indeed an exhaust as default. might leave it as is and see what temps are like, a bit worried about all this backplate and screw problems that other ppl seem to be having but i guess i will have to chance it.
 
Hmmm, had this fitted for a while now and here are my temps:

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Only dragging at the moment hence a bit of load. The CPU is a stock Q9550. I'd like to Overclock it but not with temps this high already.

My setup is here:

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Two 120mm Enermax Cluster fans blowing out and 1 140mm stock Lian Li intake.

I have since reseated the cooler with new paste (bit less of it) after I cleaned both the CPU and cooler and I rotated the rad so the pipes go towards the bottom but to no avail, the temps are the same still. Any ideas?
 
Doesnt seem right. Looking at the vid on the Q9550 its lower than my Q6600. (1.325) Im not sure if it runs hotter generally but my [email protected] runs at 39c idle on a Scythe. (80 load however)

Something looks wrong with your idle temps as high is almost the same as idle. That or your case cooling isnt working right
 
Guest2 said:
Doesnt seem right. Looking at the vid on the Q9550 its lower than my Q6600. (1.325) Im not sure if it runs hotter generally but my [email protected] runs at 39c idle on a Scythe. (80 load however)

Something looks wrong with your idle temps as high is almost the same as idle. That or your case cooling isnt working right
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Just to add to the above, I am getting about 35c on idle and +/- 70c at load at 3.6.
 
I'm going to rotate the fans and see if that really helps. Thinking about it, it is rather silly having the fans exhaust over the rad :D

The difference I expect is 10C less really, then I'll be happier with the temps. Want to try got 3.2 then 3.6GHz and see how it goes, but not with temps like they are now :(
 
Guest2 said:
What Vcore and case cooling? Do you have any other than Dup. Like another exhaust or something
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My vcore is set at 1.5, if I rememebr correctly - I'm in the office right now.

The case is a CM Sniper so the cooling is pretty good - 3x200mm (front, side, top), 1x120mm in the bottom.

Two akasa apaches in push/pull on the H50 pulling in at the back.
 
3 20cm fans?! I have one 120mm exhaust and that all. I plan on having my H50 setup like this (all inside case, all exhaust) -

< Corsair fan. Radiator. < Nortura P12...CPU, board, ram....< 120mm in top of case where my IDE drive used to live

Dup - It looks like a fan is on the outside of your case. Is that how its supposed to be?
 
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3 20cm fans?! I have one 120mm exhaust and that all. I plan on having my H50 setup like this (all inside case, all exhaust) -
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Yep, this is the case. Although i have replaced the side panel with a clear one as I really don't need all that cooling - and a clear panel looks better :cool: (H50 / CPU temps may have gone up a little doing that? The temps I quoted were with the fan side panle. I'll check)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-185-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29

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< Corsair fan. Radiator. < Nortura P12...CPU, board, ram....< 120mm in top of case where my IDE drive used to live
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With just the one fan I'd agree that getting the h50 to exhaust will be the best set up. I've got mine as an intake, but there is the 200mm exhaust right above it removing the warm air.
 
Yeah Push/Pull. The PC-7FW just has a hole in the back rather than a "drilled" grille like most cases so it goes "fan > case hole > rad > fan". Push/Pull basically and they're definitely the right way round!

In the same room I have a 3.2GHz Q6600 in a messy case with only one exhaust fan (no intake) under a push/pull Noctua cooler and last time I checked that hit 50c at 100% load.

I will swap the fans round, my colleague reckoned one article said that meant 7-10C which sound about right.
 
So you have to have a fan on the outside of your case? Seems strange. Id also be scared about knocking it off when moving it around. Wouldnt if fit if i had fan, radiator, fan inside the case?
 
Guest2 said:
So you have to have a fan on the outside of your case? Seems strange. Id also be scared about knocking it off when moving it around. Wouldn't if fit if i had fan, radiator, fan inside the case?
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I hardly move my computer anyway and there's plenty of clearance at the back for it.

As for putting inside the case, I don't think it's impossible. I just felt like having straighter pipes would be more effective.

This looks like you could get another fan in, but could be cramped. Corsair have managed it here.
 
Thanks for pics.

What are 'straighter pipes' ?

Cases and hardware has come on so fast in the past few years. I'm used to having things like my 8800GT supported by means of a pencil and some blue tac so it doesnt hit my motherboard fan. Or welding a door lock onto an old gefore 256 as a heatsink! My mates think my pc looks and runs top of the range. Looking at some of these cases makes mine look like a cramped micro case! (and my mates look like old Durons and P200s...because they are)
 
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Thanks for pics.

What are 'straighter pipes' ?

Cases and hardware has come on so fast in the past few years. I'm used to having things like my 8800GT supported by means of a pencil and some blue tac so it doesnt hit my motherboard fan. Or welding a door lock onto an old gefore 256 as a heatsink! My mates think my pc looks and runs top of the range. Looking at some of these cases makes mine look like a cramped micro case! (and my mates look like old Durons and P200s...because they are)
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By straighter pipes I mean that if feels like I'm straining the cooler pipes by moving the rad so close. Looking around the net it seems most people have done similar with no issues so I might try it later as the external fan does foul the door a bit.

Up until October last year I had a Chieftec Dragon case with lots of bodge mods and it had an Opteron 165 chip in it. I bought all my current hardware second hand bar the case, cooler, psu and gfx card. GFX card is only an 8800 GTS though, had it a while.

I wish I could afford nicer stuff but there we go. I wouldn't even consider mine top of the range, just presented well thats all. Hate being a full on nerd without the means to geek out to the max tbh. By my reputation I should has cool computer bits pouring out my ears!
 
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