Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

[Perfect_Chaos]

You've obviously not seen the Swiftech kits then;

120mm kit

240mm kit

Now that water-cooling stuff is about as good as it gets - it's a Swiftech Aprogee GTX block with a 10W Laing DDC mounted on top and the radiator is one of Swiftechs own with a built-in reservoir. And they're no better than decent air cooling. And they leak. And they vibrate on the motherboard. And a host of other issues too.

Or maybe you'd like something like this CoolAnswer clone I made myself on page 1?

That's a complete, proper, water loop mounted on a 120mm fan bracket. What more could you want?

Where is the pump? did you put it under the res?

Also that plastic block holding the res, isn't it blocking the air being sucked into the fan?

but yes i would much prefer something along those lines, but i'd probably make it dual rad for possibly just the CPU.

 

[WJA96]

Where is the pump? did you put it under the res?

Do you see the plastic block under the Res? That's a Laing DDC and the 'Res' is an XSPC Reservoir top for the DDC.

Also that plastic block holding the res, isn't it blocking the air being sucked into the fan?

Not so you'd notice, no.

but yes i would much prefer something along those lines, but i'd probably make it dual rad for possibly just the CPU.

The pump is massively too powerful for that system, and it would easily handle a double radiator. The beauty of the one pictured above is that all parts are available to buy off the shelf and installation requires no cutting or drilling. I hate the thought of spending £350 on a new case (MM U2 UFO) and then driiling holes in it.

 

[Gaidin109]

got stable 4.2OC with 1.3v and reasonable temps, ambient temp was 24c.

http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss22/gaidin109/42OC.jpg

 

[Rab]

been playing around with settings last few days, now got my cpu to 4ghz, prime temps after 1+ hr, max temp 64c.(still running to see if will pass 8 hrs) on old cooler would be high 80's
need to bring volts down a bit i think , hoping that will cool it a little more
got 2 say never thought would get 4hz & have temps this good

 

[capriboy1978]

I literally just picked up two brand new 18W DDC Ultras for £30 each. Told you it was good

look nearly there You got job for both of those ultra's...

 

[setter]

Very nice Rab.

 

[MikeTimbers]

OK, so I admit to being a sceptic about this. Now I'll admit I don't have an i7 running at all let alone over-clocked and over-volted but I'm having real trouble believing that a 120mm rad with a pump's added heat can cool better than a top-of-the-range 120mm heatsink or do it any quieter.

1) A fan is a fan.
With a 120mm heatsink and a 120mm fan, how much better can this rad and 120mm fan really be.

2)It also has to remove the heat from the pump
The pump is adding heat to the water so this 120mm radiator has to cool more than a 120mm heatsink.

So, how come it's showing so much better? I have a theory but I need someone else to test it as I don't have the kit to run the test.

For all those running a large heatsink in a case with a 120mm exhaust fan, try turning the exhaust fan around and ducting the fan to your heatsink.

I really think that's all that is going on here. The H50's great trick is that it uses outside air and so is instantly several degrees cooler than a heatsink using in-case air.

As for quietness, I refuse to believe that it can be quieter than a standard 120mm heatsink with the same fan as the air-cooling doesn't have pump noise.

Sorry, but I think you're being had.

 

[bulldog147]

OK, so I admit to being a sceptic about this. Now I'll admit I don't have an i7 running at all let alone over-clocked and over-volted but I'm having real trouble believing that a 120mm rad with a pump's added heat can cool better than a top-of-the-range 120mm heatsink or do it any quieter.

1) A fan is a fan.
With a 120mm heatsink and a 120mm fan, how much better can this rad and 120mm fan really be.

2)It also has to remove the heat from the pump
The pump is adding heat to the water so this 120mm radiator has to cool more than a 120mm heatsink.

So, how come it's showing so much better? I have a theory but I need someone else to test it as I don't have the kit to run the test.

For all those running a large heatsink in a case with a 120mm exhaust fan, try turning the exhaust fan around and ducting the fan to your heatsink.

I really think that's all that is going on here. The H50's great trick is that it uses outside air and so is instantly several degrees cooler than a heatsink using in-case air.

As for quietness, I refuse to believe that it can be quieter than a standard 120mm heatsink with the same fan as the air-cooling doesn't have pump noise.

Sorry, but I think you're being had.

OCUK suppose to be review here shortly ?

 

[Gaidin109]

who cares..?, my temps are 12c lower with the Corsair than they were with either the True or the Fenrir, thats all I care about and no fannying about with watercooling kits.

 

[bulldog147]

who cares..?, my temps are 12c lower with the Corsair than they were with either the True or the Fenrir, thats all I care about and no fannying about with watercooling kits.

Very true, except my H50 pump is faulty. Awaiting to get it replacement from corsair. I always end up in a bad luck.

Shame that my temperature was the best I ever seen, hopefully my replacement H50 temperature will be same as my last H50, if not, back to frustrating all over again with my perfect thermal paste.

 

[bulldog147]

Does this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-000-CI&groupid=701&catid=193&subcat= will work on 1366 socket for i7 920 DO cores ?

 

[WJA96]

OK, so I admit to being a sceptic about this. Now I'll admit I don't have an i7 running at all let alone over-clocked and over-volted but I'm having real trouble believing that a 120mm rad with a pump's added heat can cool better than a top-of-the-range 120mm heatsink

I have 3 C0 i920's and all are running on at least PA120.2 cooling with 4 fans on each radiator and I can't get temperatures like these, so I'm with you on the sceptical front.

or do it any quieter.

I'm not so sure on that one!

1) A fan is a fan.
With a 120mm heatsink and a 120mm fan, how much better can this rad and 120mm fan really be.

2)It also has to remove the heat from the pump
The pump is adding heat to the water so this 120mm radiator has to cool more than a 120mm heatsink.

So, how come it's showing so much better? I have a theory but I need someone else to test it as I don't have the kit to run the test.

For all those running a large heatsink in a case with a 120mm exhaust fan, try turning the exhaust fan around and ducting the fan to your heatsink.

I really think that's all that is going on here. The H50's great trick is that it uses outside air and so is instantly several degrees cooler than a heatsink using in-case air.

Agreed. That probably is what's happening here.

As for quietness, I refuse to believe that it can be quieter than a standard 120mm heatsink with the same fan as the air-cooling doesn't have pump noise.

I think this is one area where there is a simple explanation. I've always been a fan of the CoolAnswer III type solutions because they are quieter simply because they remove a fan from the system, as does the Corsair. In a 'normal' system there is a 120mm case fan and a 120mm CPU fan. With the Corsair you have removed a 120mm fan from somewhere, hence the noise reduction.

If Corsair have been smart and matched the fan to the fin density on the radiator, it could well be a very quiet system. I think the bit that makes me distrust this system is that it does very much appear to be a Siberian Tiger clone and that was no good, so how come colouring it black and sticking a Corsair badge on it have turned it intro a world beater? Something's not right somewhere.

Sorry, but I think you're being had.

I think people are leaping on a bandwagon, certainly.

 

[WJA96]

Does this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-000-CI&groupid=701&catid=193&subcat= will work on 1366 socket for i7 920 DO cores ?

Yes, but that's about the most inefficient way to use a TEC possible. They use the TEC as a water chiller rather than as a CPU cooler. You can buy a TEC from ebay for about £15, and it'll work better too, providing you can take the heat away.

Swiftech make an Apogee block with a built-in TEC for under £50, but you still need a superb cooling system to take the heat away.

I'm surprised you didn't go back to OcUK to get your H50 swapped out. Sending it back to Corsair in Holland will take a lot longer and be more expensive.

 

[WJA96]

OCUK suppose to be review here shortly ?

Have you ever read any of the OcUK reviews? Most are just plain made up. And they are only there to sell stuff.

What this all boils down to is that if the H50 is as good as everyone is saying it is, then Corsair will wipe out all the other CPU cooling suppliers almost overnight. Why spend £200 on a 'proper' water system if an H50 will do the same job for £55? And why spend £40 on an air cooler when for £55 you can have the H50?

Asetek, who make the H50, are not generally recommended when one thinks of water cooling solutions, and the Siberian Tiger, which looks and is specified exactly the same as the H50, is pants.

So what's going on?

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

Why spend £200 on a 'proper' water system if an H50 will do the same job for £55? And why spend £40 on an air cooler when for £55 you can have the H50?

Wait are you saying the H50 is just as good as a custom loop?

 

[WJA96]

Wait are you saying the H50 is just as good as a custom loop?

If you look at these temperatures and you believe them, then yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's certainly 90% as good.

 

[Sayso]

sayso-

How have you found the g.skill trident? Debating between it and crucial ballistix for my bloodrage build.

Cant get it t run at 1800 mainly du to the dividers, have it running at 1600 which as far as i know some cheaper RAM can do easily, havent messed with the timing as yet either.

 

[HighlandeR]

Asetek, who make the H50, are not generally recommended when one thinks of water cooling solutions, and the Siberian Tiger, which looks and is specified exactly the same as the H50, is pants.

So what's going on?

Havent Corsair added a copper plating over the others and improved on the thermal contact to give them an edge over the others though ?

I thought I read that somewhere in one of the reviews...

I still recall the early on reviews on here of guys saying its no better then a thermalright ultra and the pump + 120mm fan is more noisy even when the fans replaced with a more silent one.

But as it goes guess unless its been really tested and trialed you can never be sure of it.

 

[Perfect_Chaos]

If you look at these temperatures and you believe them, then yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. It's certainly 90% as good.

Well apparently the H50 is 1-2c better than the best air coolers right? i thought watercooling was more like 10c better, or would it be if it was a dual radiator?

 

[WJA96]

Well apparently the H50 is 1-2c better than the best air coolers right? i thought watercooling was more like 10c better, or would it be if it was a dual radiator?

If you're following this thread, the H50 is 5-10C better than people's already good air coolers.