Is the H100 just a time saver?

Roverno · 8 Dec 2011 at 15:58

So i have been considering upgrading my CoolIt Vantage ALC cooler to an H100 for a couple of weeks now (since i needed something on my Christmas list). I have only had my pc for 5 or 6 weeks but i love tinkering with it so i need something to occupy me and thought a cooler upgrade might be nice. However, today i watched a video on you tube for a 120mm water cooling system for CPU only and the kit cost about £100.

So i was wondering, if i bought an H100 it would cost £80 for the unit and 2x £10 for the fans i would put on it, then it would mount nicely in the top of my 600T and all be over pretty quickly. But if i bought the single 120mm cooling block and all the necessary stuff to go with it, it would also cost £100. So is the H100 just saving me time? Because i'd rather do it myself to be honest, much more fun.

Or would i need a much more expensive watercooling kit to get the same cooling performance as the H100, thus costing me more?

im currently selling a bunch of new HDDs on the bay so i should have a little money come through soon and may be able to afford a water cooling setup.

What would you suggest?

RCoon · 8 Dec 2011 at 16:18

I actually bought the H80 with 2 fans on the 120mm radiator unit, and it does a pretty good job on my Phenom II x6 @4Ghz, the H100 is just painful if you have a case like mine that can fit 15 fans (LANBoy Air) but have to sacrifice a few fans to fit it in.

Roverno · 8 Dec 2011 at 16:22

That is a very.... err... open case, must be an epic dust trap? So your saying the H100 is pretty loud?

don't know how much difference my closed side 600T would have.

MrZippo · 8 Dec 2011 at 17:07

I found the H100 fans a tad on the loud side, so I switched them out for some scythe ones that run very quiet even underload.
I went for the H100 over the watercooling block route because I cba with the maintenance of a watercooled system (I am lazy lol)

Roverno · 8 Dec 2011 at 20:06

MrZippo said:
I found the H100 fans a tad on the loud side, so I switched them out for some scythe ones that run very quiet even underload.
I went for the H100 over the watercooling block route because I cba with the maintenance of a watercooled system (I am lazy lol)

You see the maintenance is something i quite like, im more of a pc enthusiast than a gamer. So the hardware itself is the decent thing about it. I'm just not too sure how much the whole loop is going to cost.

Can somebody spec me a Water Cooling Loop for my CPU in sig. An idea of price for GPU too would be excellent.

pgi947 · 8 Dec 2011 at 21:04

Try the watercooling subforum (if you haven't already), plenty of very helpful experts in there to help you out

zoomee · 8 Dec 2011 at 21:44

Roverno -if you like to tinker with your PC mate, try proper custom watercooling. It takes aaaaages to sort out and was one of the reasons I went to a H100 not too long ago. HOWEVER - the performance of custom watercooling is unbeatable! (but it will be twice the cost of the H100 for a decent setup)

SupermotoMX · 9 Dec 2011 at 00:22

+1 to getting the custom loop if you can afford it, ive heard stories of it taking days to bleed awhole system 100%, and theres all kinds of things you can do to change the looks, different dye's / fluid ect

and if you fancy upgrading something chances are you will only need 1 new block, and maybe not even that!