Corsair H60, good or not?

I use the H50, H70, H100 on different PCs, they are quite good as coolers but are never going to rival a custom water cooled system.

I always have the fans set to blow air out of the case as this slows the build up of dust in the rad.

The H50 I use has its work cut out for it sometimes. I use it for cooling an i7 975 which can really churn out the heat. The other day I had it oced to 4.4ghz and the H50 still coped.
 
I have 2, one in mine and one in my girlfriends. My pump has an annoying faint noise - can't really describe it. My girlfriend's doesn't though, I've never bothered sending it back.
 
Kaapstad said:
I use the H50, H70, H100 on different PCs, they are quite good as coolers but are never going to rival a custom water cooled system.

I always have the fans set to blow air out of the case as this slows the build up of dust in the rad.

The H50 I use has its work cut out for it sometimes. I use it for cooling an i7 975 which can really churn out the heat. The other day I had it oced to 4.4ghz and the H50 still coped.
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Thats fine, i wasn't expecting anything close to a custom water cooled system, just want something better than air cooling, something tidyer, the coolermaster 212 i have atm is HUGE takes up a ram slot also... :) yeah ill try blowing it our first, if its not any better ill try blowing it in, if the h50 can handle it at 4.4ghz, im assuming the h60 is slightly better, that'll be fine :)
 
Kiyoshi said:
I have 2, one in mine and one in my girlfriends. My pump has an annoying faint noise - can't really describe it. My girlfriend's doesn't though, I've never bothered sending it back.
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did you get them at the same time? apparently the older ones had a slight problem that caused that noise.
 
i should mention that i have the h60 myself with an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.5 ghz and it doesnt go past 66/67c in prime 95 :D In game such as bf3 it doesnt go past 55 ish :D so yes h60 is amazing!
 
Geo-Gamer said:
i should mention that i have the h60 myself with an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.5 ghz and it doesnt go past 66/67c in prime 95 :D In game such as bf3 it doesnt go past 55 ish :D so yes h60 is amazing!
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Thanks for replying :)

that is good! cant wait for it to arrive! will be good, just waiting on my components from overclockers to arrive then i can get started building my new pc!
 
Stay away from these types of coolers, im on my 5TH h80 now within 12 months!!! Good job corsair let me change them. I would go with air cooling. Next time i change ill be going back to air.
 
Leeroy123 said:
Stay away from these types of coolers, im on my 5TH h80 now within 12 months!!! Good job corsair let me change them. I would go with air cooling. Next time i change ill be going back to air.
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You must be seriously unlucky then!

I've had my h50 for a couple of years now, and it's been good. It hasn't provided crazy low temps, but it's been decent and reliable (I hate writing that, it's just asking for it to die :D). I also think they look much nicer than air coolers, and of course there's no danger of clashing with RAM etc.

It seems like the main negativity towards closed loop coolers is that they don't provide custom loop performance, and based on that people start saying that they're rubbish.

Re intake or exhaust for the fan, you might get slightly better temps using it as an intake, as it will be using the cool air from outside the case... however if you've got two intake fans and one exhaust already, you'll maybe need to go with it as exhaust, otherwise you'll end up with a lot of hot air in your case.
 
I would stay away from them as way don't offer the same kind of performance and silence compared to air coolers! Custom water cooling is entirely different.
 
My H50 has been with me since they came out, a couple of years now :) I'm happy with it although I am not so keen on switching to a H80 or H100 as I also hear not so nice things about them.
 
Hopefully my H60 will be good then, ive not heard bad reviews about it either, compared to the H80 & H100 like you say :)

its waiting in its box while i wait for my case and components to arrive!
 
Ive been running a H50 for about 4 years now and can't fault it, much better than a stock Intel HS/fan, knocks quite a few degrees off temps. (Mine is actually a NorthQ Siberian Tiger but its the exact same thing, their produced by Asetek then re-branded)
 
well ive upgraded from, amd phenom 955 BE ocd to 3.8 ghz with a coolermaster 212+
to an intel core i5 3570k and my corsair H60

hopefully it'll keep the intel cool!
 
H80 and a 4.8Ghz FX-4170 and it reaches 58'C on Prime95.

I use 1850rpm Scythe Gentle Typhoon's in Push/Pull and I cant hear anything. Ordered the Scythes after reading reviews of the stock fans. Now have one Corsair Stock fan as an exhaust set to really slow on the fan controller or its very loud, actually the loudest thing in my PC if put past 30%...
 
ubersonic said:
Ive been running a H50 for about 4 years now and can't fault it, much better than a stock Intel HS/fan, knocks quite a few degrees off temps. (Mine is actually a NorthQ Siberian Tiger but its the exact same thing, their produced by Asetek then re-branded)
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Same here -H50 4 years, been rock solid. Really surprised at actually how good its been. They are quieter than air (if you run push pull with decent 1200 mm fans & set BIOS to silent ), been a more constant, stable solution than an air cooler for me.

I would get another possibly the H60
 
shuffle said:
Same here -H50 4 years, been rock solid. Really surprised at actually how good its been. They are quieter than air (if you run push pull with decent 1200 mm fans & set BIOS to silent ), been a more constant, stable solution than an air cooler for me.

I would get another possibly the H60
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Although i will add, H50 was Asetek/Corsair - this H60 is CoolIT/Corsair. So I would have to think about that
 
But how does CoolIT compare to Asetek when looking at quality? I would go for a H80 anyway I think. Are all current HXXX series by CoolIT or only H60?
 
Antec 620 920 by Asetek, Corsair H60,80,100 by CoolIT.

Quality wise, need to read up on that. I know Asetek tried to sue CoolIT recently!
Personally I'd go with the Asetek cooling.
 
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