Do you trust the Hydro H80

Timothy

Timothy

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Hi all
Been looking at these Corsair Hydro H80 and how much can we actually trust them over a standard fan cooler. I know a load of you already use water cooling kits, and the H80 are easy to install and are all self contained, but what are the chances of one leaking all over your CPU and blowing the whole lot up lol.

What do you guys think??

Tim :)
 
Have been watercooling for over 10 yrs , no blown up PC's.
With the enclosed loop watercooling solutions there is very little chance of water leaking , unless it is mistreated .
 
Don't confuse these with custom WC solutions... they are nowhere near the quality or cooling performance but still they are better than most of air cooling solutions.
Also bear in mind that with stock fans at higher rpm they are quite noisy...
 
The pump on mine recently failed, the cpu idled at 92c, not hot enough to thermal shutdown but stupidly high at 92c (I wasn't home when it failed but my PC was on for ~3 hours at this temp).

I've lost all trust in them, gone back to an air cooler, performs better too, currently using; Akasa Venom with 2 Viper fans in push/pull.

Could be just my room but the H80 (Viper fan push/pull too) whilst in BF3 stayed at ~70-75c, the Venom barely hits ~55c.
 
When I found out the fans on the H80 spin at up to 2500rpm to keep the 'performance' good I looked back towards air cooling. Not many high end air coolers need to drive their fans at quite this speed.

NH-DH14 has two fans going at 1300/1200rpm while the silver arrow has two 1300rpm fans and both are better at cooling than the ALC solutions.

The only benefit I can see is the reduced size and weight hanging off your motherboard and I suppose some might say they look better. I like big heatsinks though so for me I prefer the metal fin arrays.
 
I've dabble in those little water coolers (H50), and going back to air cooling (MUX-120). With Sandy, you don't really need top performance in the cooling department. You'll be limited by the Vcore first. It depends what cooling you want. Good usable overclock, that wont damage your chip, or enthusiast levels, with high Vcore and potential risks.

Personally, I would grab a SilverArrow or NH-D14 if I wanted to experiment to 4.8-5GHz. Then proper water cooling higher up.

The advantage of H60, H80, Kuhler 620, is ease of installation (even the H50 was a breeze), how they fit at the back of the case and leave a clean CPU area, with no issues with tall RAMs. The disadvantage is that they are not particularly quiet compared to some modern air coolers, and that you have less airflow over the motherboard area. Also reliability questions with pumps, and coolant involved.
 
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I have an H80, as per sig, idle is approx 26, gaming is max 55, I only play COD, nothing else seems to push the temps higher.
I reckon for an AIO package it's the mutts
 
I suspect my H50 doesn't perform as well as it did two years ago - gradual fluid evaporation could be an issue with these kind of coolers. Very tidy in a case tho :)
 
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