Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

simulatorman said:
I’m about to order one of these for a new build and am still not sure about noise levels as I like a quiet pc. I can barely hear my three Antec TriCool 120mm fans or the cpu cooler. So, how noisy is this set-up, can you hear the pump or the fan?
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The only way I can hear mine is to disconnect the HDD and turn off fans, then I can vaguely hear a buzzing of the pump, the fan on mine never went over 800rpm, totally quiet and IMO very poor airflow. Now using a sharkoon silent eagle 2000 at 1200rpm.
 
Carter said:
The only way I can hear mine is to disconnect the HDD and turn off fans, then I can vaguely hear a buzzing of the pump, the fan on mine never went over 800rpm, totally quiet and IMO very poor airflow. Now using a sharkoon silent eagle 2000 at 1200rpm.
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The thing is stupidly quiet - I agree with the post above though. Get a good quality silent fan and you will have one VERY quiet PC (that also cools incredibly well)!
 
Im setting mine up when it arrives with the Corsair fan as my main (and only exhaust) and a Noctua P12 exhausting through the radiator on the other side. Both will be plugged into the same CPU header on MB
 
Guest2 said:
Im setting mine up when it arrives with the Corsair fan as my main (and only exhaust) and a Noctua P12 exhausting through the radiator on the other side. Both will be plugged into the same CPU header on MB
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Not sure if there won't be an issue with the fans being on different RPM?
 
Guest2 said:
They wont be. Both will be plugged into the CPU header on motherboard. (via a splitter) Shouldnt this make them both the same RPM?
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Not sure... I don't realy know if the same amount of "juice" from the header will produce the same RPM for different fans. My guess is it doesn't what with different motors, fan blades, number of blades, etc...

I'm sure there are more knowledgeable peeps here who can say for sure.
 
can anybody help me. i have an antec 902 with an exhaust fan on the rear and top of the case (im sure uve seen it lol) would it be possible to turn the rear exhaust around so it is sucking air in, and have the big fan on the top as the only exhaust? i was thinking of keeping the original rear exhaust fan
(only turning it around), and just screwing the radiator with supplied fan to that and have it in a push pull. does anybody have this setup, or does anybody know whether this is possible?? much appreciated, thanks.
 
sponge999 said:
i was thinking of keeping the original rear exhaust fan
(only turning it around), and just screwing the radiator with supplied fan to that and have it in a push pull. does anybody have this setup, or does anybody know whether this is possible?? much appreciated, thanks.
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This is how its supposed to be setup. - sucking cool air in over the radiator. Your top exhaust will then kick it back out. If i did this it would bring cool air in over the radiator then dump it out under my PSU, CPU, memory and RAM (where it would stay)
 
Guest2 said:
This is how its supposed to be setup. - sucking cool air in over the radiator. Your top exhaust will then kick it back out. If i did this it would bring cool air in over the radiator then dump it out under my PSU, CPU, memory and RAM (where it would stay)
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So i guess my top exhaust is a very good thing then if i buy the h50? also would it make a difference if i change the side panel fan to exhaust hot air aswell, so i would have the top and side exhausting, or would the 250mm fan at the top be enough of an exhaust??cheers x
 
sponge999 said:
So i guess my top exhaust is a very good thing then if i buy the h50? also would it make a difference if i change the side panel fan to exhaust hot air aswell, so i would have the top and side exhausting, or would the 250mm fan at the top be enough of an exhaust??cheers x
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Yes, or an exhaust on the back above where the h50 fan sucks in. I guess a top 250mm fan will be enough. I only have a 120mm one on the back. The top of my case isnt much bigger than 250mm!
 
Guest2 said:
This is how its supposed to be setup. - sucking cool air in over the radiator. Your top exhaust will then kick it back out. If i did this it would bring cool air in over the radiator then dump it out under my PSU, CPU, memory and RAM (where it would stay)
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Depends on your setup e.g. my case it makes no difference whether it is an exhaust or intake.
 
Guest2 said:
Yes, or an exhaust on the back above where the h50 fan sucks in. I guess a top 250mm fan will be enough. I only have a 120mm one on the back. The top of my case isnt much bigger than 250mm!
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lol, there is only room for 1 fan on the back im afraid which is an exhaust atm, but will be changing it to intake for the h50, thats where i should have purchased the 1200 with 2 fans on the back! gutted! the only thing is, my rear exhaust (which i will use as intake) is exhausting a lot more air than the big fan on the top, cause for concern when turning it around???
 
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This may sound silly but those that have modified the H50, how much longer are the hoses?

The reason for asking is that my PC lives on a shelf in the living room with all our AV gear - its in a HTPC case but a big one so I can fit big cards as its also for gaming.

It does get very hot at times and there are also heating pipes close by. The pipes will be lagged and boxed in but the heat is still apparent.

The shelves are DIY and I've considered making a hole through the shelves and mounting the radiator underneath the shelf. This would mean making the hoses a fair bit bigger.

Would the pump cope?
 
Once you start modding the H50, surely you'd be far better off just doing the whole thing custom? As you can then at least pick suitable parts for the job. It's not like custom wcing's that expensive if you can get the parts second-hand.
 
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