Corsair H50 Water Cooling Kit

racerboy59 I think its more your case with heat building up. Do you have any exhaust fans now at all in your case? and how many intake fans?

I believe the H50 performance is compared to high end air coolers like the Noctua NH-U12P not full water setups so temps probably wont be improved dramatically.
 
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At the moment I am testing with 2 front 120mm intake fans, 1 top 140mm intake, 1 top 140mm exhaust and push pull exhaust out the back. Still getting about the same, maybe 1-2 degrees less. I wish there was a way to mout the radiator in the front but I think my case is too big for that.
 
This is what I was thinking. Not enough cool air coming into the case, and therefore the fans on the radiator will struggle to cool it down. So I thought by making one of my top fans an intake it will help bring cool air inside and cool off the radiator better. But i've never been good at physics soI could be talking complete ********.
 
This cooler is a bit odd as my idle temps are higher than expected at about 38 degrees, but with an I7 920 D0 at 3.8 Ghz my max temps running linX are 61 degrees. Not that I'm complaining as I'm happy with the load temps, it's just I'm surprised about the idle temps.
 
i got my i7 930 , stock speeds and voltages, idling in the bios at around 35 degrees...pump speed ~1600rpm , fan speed ~700rpm... i think i have messed up on the block install, it said to twist it clockwise but i think i just smudged the thermal paste all over by doing that...
 
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oh wait, yeah its 1300rpm ... soz about that, its hard to keep track of numbers when theyre flashing a couple times every second

i really dont want to have to reinstall the cooler, thats such a pain in the butt... it would have been a lot easier if the tubes werent so stiff, as it is now i need someone to hold the radiator up for me while i lower the block onto the socket...
 
Oh wouldn't it be better to mount the radiator first? Theres a certain technique to get the pump into the socket. The 4 screws need to be loosened enough to get the pump in, but not too much that they lose contact with the backplate. With enough practise you will get the hang of it.
 
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Oh wouldn't it be better to mount the radiator first? Theres a certain technique to get the pump into the socket. The 4 screws need to be loosened enough to get the pump in, but not too much that they lose contact with the backplate. With enough practise you will get the hang of it.
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yeah when i lower the block into the retention ring, it comes into contact with the cpu... so somehow i have to lift the retention ring and lower the block at the same time, or something...

the radiator is mounted but the tubes are so stiff that its basically impossible to have the fine movement to twist the block clockwise between the cpu and the retention ring, without smudging the paste onto the cpu....
also its extra tricky in my situation because im working in a thermaltake lanbox, so i have to reach in between the walls of the case as well since that's where the radiator is mounted
 
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It shouldn't be a huge problem to smudge the thermal paste slightly, as long as it doesn't end up going allover the place. Provided that you keep the pump inside the round bracket it should be ok.
 
racerboy59 said:
It shouldn't be a huge problem to smudge the thermal paste slightly, as long as it doesn't end up going allover the place. Provided that you keep the pump inside the round bracket it should be ok.
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hmm... i guess my mistake was to turn the block clockwise when it was making full contact with the cpu, i had no idea that it was already in contact until i tried to lower it further after the turn and it wouldnt go any lower

anyways... got an akasa citrus cleaner and a new tube of artic silver 5 in my ocuk shopping basket now... hope my housemate has enough free time and patience to hold the radiator for me once more...
 
so i've got this infrared thermometer... ambient temperature (front of case) = 20.5 degrees .... temperature at back of radiator = 33 degrees .... cpu temperature in bios = 41 degrees
cpu temperature started out as 25 degrees idle, and the radiator temperature was always 7-8 degrees lower

oh yeah , i forgot to mention... i got the pump hooked up to the cpu fan socket on the motherboard, and the radiator fan as 'chassis fan 1'

i would have liked to hook them up the other way round, but the fan cable simply wasnt long enough... you wouldve thought that the fan that comes with the h50 would have a cable at least as long as the tubing...
 
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uhh... so i've changed the airflow in my case and made the fan blow 100% all the time, it spins at around 1500rpm instead of 600rpm now... the cpu bios idle temperature went down to 33 degrees once, then for some unknown reason jumped to 36 degrees within a fraction of a second, and stayed there

pump speed seems pretty constant at 1360rpm...
 
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Hey Guys,

Received an H50-1 today and installation went without a hitch...the trouble is the pump is making a buzzing sound which I can hear from quite a distance and it's starting to annoy the **** out of me.

I've got the pump attached to a 3 pin system fan header so it's running at full speed and two fans (push/pull exhaust) attached to a 4 pin CPU fan header (using a PWM splitter).

Out of curiosity I thought I'd test the pump attached to a Zalman Fanmate to see if dropping the rpm made any difference and the buzzing seems to stop at around 900rpm but obviously this isn't how it's supposed to be run, i.e full speed of around 1400rpm.

I'm a bit gutted to be honest, and I'm not sure whether to give it a day or so to see if it "settles down" or raise an RMA.

Any ideas, or should I just grit my teeth and get my screwdriver out?
 
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Im really impressed so far by this cooler.

If only the tubes were longer and the pump was a bit stronger then I could put it at the front of the case as a real intake and still have an exhaust.

Im going to have to do some modding to create an exhaust, most probably at the top of my case (akasa eclipse). Temps are pretty good but once the heat builds up I do feel it stays inside the case as there isnt an exhaust anymore. I could change one of my front fans to exhaust but Im not sure if that would work...
 
diverse180 said:
Hey Guys,

Received an H50-1 today and installation went without a hitch...the trouble is the pump is making a buzzing sound which I can hear from quite a distance and it's starting to annoy the **** out of me.

I've got the pump attached to a 3 pin system fan header so it's running at full speed and two fans (push/pull exhaust) attached to a 4 pin CPU fan header (using a PWM splitter).

Out of curiosity I thought I'd test the pump attached to a Zalman Fanmate to see if dropping the rpm made any difference and the buzzing seems to stop at around 900rpm but obviously this isn't how it's supposed to be run, i.e full speed of around 1400rpm.

I'm a bit gutted to be honest, and I'm not sure whether to give it a day or so to see if it "settles down" or raise an RMA.

Any ideas, or should I just grit my teeth and get my screwdriver out?
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Ive had a few of these now, and they all humm to a certain degree bordering onto a buzz, I know what you mean aboout being annoying i bought it to build an almost silent pc
 
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