Help with Corsair H50

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PhilGQ

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Hi all

My wife very kindly got me a Corsair H50 water cooler for Xmas. Before I start ripping my computer to bits I wanted to throw it out to the floor for some tips and tricks on setting this up the best way. Firstly putting it together and secondly clocking the CPU.

The case is a Silverstone Fortress FT01, it has a 120mm fan which is blowing out of the rear. Also two 180mm intake fans one at the front and one on the top. The cooler instruction suggest that I have the 120mm as an intake so it looks like I am going to have to switch them all around.

I have seen pickture of the H50 with two fans so was thinking I could possible do this with my setup if there is room, since I have two 120mm fans anyway. This depends on me having enough fan headers free, which I am not sure I do.


The CPU is a AMD Phenom II X2 555 BE, currently at stock with the stock cooler, I have tried unlocking it to X4/X3 but its not happening. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD3P with the latest bios.

Sorry if I missed anything, any help is greatly appreciated.
 
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This should help you.

h50diagram.jpg


EDIT: This shows how the other fan shoud be mounted.

h50.JPG
 
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^^ What that man said.

I have mine exactly the same.

2 fans (push/pull) mounted on the rear 120mm bracket of my case ultimately working as an extractor.


The issue of it working better as an intake is only really valid if you only have one fan on it.
 
I disagree with that - mount the H50 so that it blows inwards bringing cool air into the case through the H50 rad. The top fan will blow the hot air out as heat rises.

If you have both going out you are wasting that top fan.

If you want the best performance you need to supply the H50 with cool air, not hot air from inside the rest of the case from the hard drives/gfx cards. The difference in temperature is about 3-5C so its a nominal difference anyway. But you have that top fan blowing air out so you should have no airflow problems for the rest of your case.

Anyway its easy to try both as the H50 is a breeze to install, then you can see which works best for you.
 
all done, here are some before and after shots, (sorry about the quality, I don't own a proper camera)

Before:









After:




 
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I have the front fan as intake and H50 fans blowing out the back. The top fan is currently unplugged as I haven't got enough fan headers. Which I will need to sort out.

Now time to do some clocking. What do you guys suggest I should start with, the CPU is BE so can play with the Multi.
 
Just wanted to put my two cents in. I would go for the fan set up where it pulls air from inside the case and pushs it through the rad and out. Why? For me i found that my 5870 pushs a lot of hot air out of the back (and what does hit air do? rises) It gets sucked right back through the rad and doesnt cool the cpu down as well.

A few months back (cba to find the post) i posted a message showing temps after an hour of benchmarking with each set up. The way i say above won hands down. Doing it like i say above lowerd the temps a good 3-4C.
 
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