Corsair H50

fire_munki · 7 Mar 2010 at 16:11

Corsair H50 or stay with air cooling?

Hi,
I have Coolermaster Elite 330 for my case and need a new CPU cooler, I like the look of the Corsair H50 kit. Lots of the reviews say to have the rear fan as an input but but then there is no real place for the air to go. Can the fan mounting point at the front be used as the exaust for the system?
Or should I just leave it with the radiator on the exaust fan And the front as the intake?
would cooling it with slightly warmer air have a noticable difference?

It would be replacing a Freezer 7 cooler, which has had two of the splitt pins that hold it down broken in half. On a side note could I still keep the artic 7 with two fully working clips and two half clips?

It will be cooling a E6230 which should overclock on the working mainboard once DHL deliver it.

matthewprince · 7 Mar 2010 at 17:44

COuld you not replace the back fan with the radiator and the inlet fan and the side fans make them exhaust?

eatcustard · 7 Mar 2010 at 20:02

General consensus with a H50 is a push-pull system with the fans pushing the air out of the case.

Danm54 · 7 Mar 2010 at 20:14

eatcustard said:
General consensus with a H50 is a push-pull system with the fans pushing the air out of the case.

Really??

Push pull fans make 1 or 2 degrees difference, i dont think its woth the cost or noise.

Its better to have the H50 as an intake, cooler air is outside the case not inside.

Its preferable to have a top exhaust fan and have the H50 as a rear intake, a front intake and possibly a side intake but its not needed and in a small case could disrupt the airflow.

Hotwired · 7 Mar 2010 at 20:53

Actually it's preferable to have the H50 as a front intake with top and rear exhausts, a cleaner air path.

Corsairs cooler + Antecs case + more shrouds than Jesus =

I'm waiting to hear of a better setup

Danm54 · 7 Mar 2010 at 21:32

Hotwired said:
Actually it's preferable to have the H50 as a front intake with top and rear exhausts, a cleaner air path.

Corsairs cooler + Antecs case + more shrouds than Jesus =

I'm waiting to hear of a better setup

Well, thats the ideal way but in a bigger case the rad won't reach the front, so i pu it at the back, still works.

Plus, the amount of shrouds on that!

Hotwired · 7 Mar 2010 at 21:53

You can have my word that shrouds spacing the fan blades from grilles and filters reduces noise.

Creates buffer zones so you don't get the sharp pressure changes from the fan blades directly against the mesh the air is being pulled/pushed through.

That's my theory anyway.

Tried it a few times, fan next to grille, fan spaced from grille using a shroud. Notably quieter.

But shrouds only seem to reduce turbulence noise between the fan and the grille. Put powerful enough fans in and just the sound of the air being ripped through the grille is very noticeable. All fans are on ~1100rpm in mine so nice and quiet yet cool

Danm54 · 7 Mar 2010 at 23:32

Ive got a Scythe Gentle Typhoon 800rpm, it runs on full all the time but my Q9550 OC'd to 3.7Ghz peaks at high 50's in game.

The fan is only 9db, and with the temps acceptable im not going to mess around with push pull and shrouds.

eatcustard · 8 Mar 2010 at 19:20

Danm54 said:
Really??

Push pull fans make 1 or 2 degrees difference, i dont think its woth the cost or noise.

Its better to have the H50 as an intake, cooler air is outside the case not inside.

Its preferable to have a top exhaust fan and have the H50 as a rear intake, a front intake and possibly a side intake but its not needed and in a small case could disrupt the airflow.

Mine has dropped by 5c, 2 fans at the front, pull in enough colds air to do a good job.
the 2 fans cost £25 inc splitter from a well known auction site

And noise wise its not noisy

Kyo · 9 Mar 2010 at 08:07

Does anyone know the rough length of the tubes from waterblock to the radiator.

EDIT - Just found from another post that it 32cm or 12.5". Is it really that long? from Hotwired picture it doesn't seem to be 30+cm

Have to work out if it fits in my case. I have a Enermax C-718

so not sure how i am going to do this. :confused:

Was thinking perhaps do the reverse, have the 2 case fans as intake and reverse the rad + Corsair fan as outake as the wind tunnel does intake a lot of air. The tunnel mould will probably have to come off as there enough room for the rad and fan but not enough for the plastic itself.?

Any thoughts or suggestions ??

the-tazs · 9 Mar 2010 at 08:26

Hi the thickness of the fan and rad is approx 52mm,so that and the tubing you have 370mm approx hope this help
bty i modded my H50 have a look at this lol

Kyo · 9 Mar 2010 at 08:53

thanks for the measurements. That going to help loads.

Impressive Modding

. I take it the rad piece is a little bit bigger than the 120mm fan itself. In your picture there is 120 fan in either side of the rad? what the reason behind that?

the-tazs · 9 Mar 2010 at 09:48

I have the 120 rad set up as a push/pull,one pushing air in the other pulling air though the rad

Kyo · 9 Mar 2010 at 10:35

the-tazs said:
I have the 120 rad set up as a push/pull,one pushing air in the other pulling air though the rad

No Exhaust to vent hot air out your case?

bhavv · 9 Mar 2010 at 10:57

Hotwired said:
Actually it's preferable to have the H50 as a front intake with top and rear exhausts, a cleaner air path.

Corsairs cooler + Antecs case + more shrouds than Jesus =

I'm waiting to hear of a better setup

Does screwing fans on top of one another like that make a big difference to airflow?

I have an Antec P182, it would seem really difficult to set the H50 up as an intake fan as you have done there, but I do have lots of spare fans lying around.

Meh, it seems impossible to screw my fans in like that :x

L0stpr0phet · 9 Mar 2010 at 11:25

looks like a mini wind tunnel in that case! wat are the noise levels like Hotwired?

Hotwired · 9 Mar 2010 at 13:40

The huge bank that the radiator is sandwiched in only has two fans. The rest are blanks without fan blades or motors.

The fan frames are screwed together using one side from each and normal fan screws, you need to put a screwdriver through from the other side of the fan to turn the screw.

It's reasonably quiet actually, fans are on low and temps are still good.

Guest2 · 9 Mar 2010 at 14:36

Danm54 said:
Really??

Its better to have the H50 as an intake, cooler air is outside the case not inside.

What happens if you have a normal sized case like most people (except those generally on this forum) Mine is an Antec Sonata 2. I have a door on the front so no intakes from the front, the PSU fires out hot air out the back. There is only 1 120mm fan as exhaust.

I have my H50 in push pull, all exhausting out the back of the case. I think there is a fan sucking in above the psu then blowing hot air out the back, i dont think this would be enough to have intake from the back (especially as hot air is already blowing out the back of the psu anyway)

Guest2 · 9 Mar 2010 at 20:17

Hotwired said:
Actually it's preferable to have the H50 as a front intake with top and rear exhausts, a cleaner air path.

Corsairs cooler + Antecs case + more shrouds than Jesus =

I'm waiting to hear of a better setup

9 120mm fans and what looks like a take-away extractor fan on the roof of your case!?

However no hard drives = fail

edit - unless thats an ssd i see under the row of fans

Hotwired · 9 Mar 2010 at 20:39

I can see I'm going to have to explain it many times.

There are only 4 x 120mm fans, the other 5 are fan frames without blades or motors called shrouds.

As for storage I probably have more storage than most, there are two 5.25" bays below all that opposite the PSU. In there is 2TB of storage in two 1TB 7200rpm hard drives.

So yes I do have my ideal case