Just Installed my Corsair H80i

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 16:25

Everything installed smoothly this time.

I thought I would update firmware and the fans are running great

I decided to use one fan for a few days and see what temps are like. Don't know if other fan is needed yet. Temps are just a few degrees lower then my fan cooler. So will see when gaming will load temps not go higher then 70c then I'll be happy. My older cooler would go 80c or a little above.

Fans mounted prefect this time. Only took me 30 mins to install too

Pics below.

Glad this one work good

And cheers for everyone that gave their input. It was very helpful

Now time for a beer

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:14

Temps are good so far. a few c less then my older cooler. will try prime tonight and see how %100 loads are.

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 17:58

Ripshod said:
I'm buzzing for you, really. After all the let-downs it's good to see a happy ending. And I think i'm right in saying you'll love it for what it is - a mid range cooler with better than mid range performance. nice one

Can't wait to see how it handles that 3770

Me too

Thanks Ripshod

On quiet it's smooth and no whine at all, but on balanced or higher it's a little whiny. Hope better fw comes soon to fix that?

So far it runs very well and am happy with it so far.

My idle temps are 27c

I did do prime for a few mins and right off the bat it went to 60c to 63c , but didn't go higher. I wonder what temps would be like after 2 hours?

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:04

I've been on full load for hour and it's never got past 60c. It's up and down from 56c to 60c I'm well impressed

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:46

Damn!! your CPU temps are way lower then mine :eek:

RetrogamerX · 10 Dec 2012 at 20:59

Ripshod said:
Can never compare an i7 with a thuban. I thought about running one fan at max and the other at min, but the airlow from the faster fan will spin up the slower one, so i can't see any i7s competing, unless they're seriously underclocked. i wanted to post this pic up on the corsair forum when peeps complained about not being able to slow their fans below 1700 - but thought better of it.

True that

I got my fans down to 600rpm and still 27c

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 05:52

tbh I didn't think the H80i would work this good. Like ripshod has said every setup is different. I'm getting good temps with just one fan. I might install the second and see how much lower they would go?

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 12:50

I put second fan on and temp only dropped 2c. both fans run good now. I also put a bottom intake case fan to help with pushing the hot air out the top, but tbh the second fan on the H80i isn't really needed. Temps were low even with one fan.

It's purring like a kitten

Now to clean up a little of the wiring

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 21:04

As you can see in my case I can fit a H100i, but thought to myself...why would I need a big ass cooler? I'm very happy now I bought the H80i instead of the H100i.

I have temps 25 to 28c now, so the H100i would've been overkill really. I'm never going to OC more then 4.2 to 4.5 so for me I see no reason. Others might feel different.

Yeah the wires are a little bit of a pain, but you'll find ways of hiding them

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 21:39

I have 57c to 60c temps yesterday at full load running prime for 1 hour.

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 21:47

snakefood said:
currently max @
63
65
61
54

3570K @ 4.2GHz, cpu vcore is set to auto in bios, reading 1.26V in cpu-z

Edit: This is runnning AIDA64 stability test

@ RetrogamerX - what setting did you have your h80 @ to get those temps?

I just used fans at performance and it's been pretty stable at 60c

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 21:54

Uncle Petey said:
Cheers Couple more questions though

@Snakefood and RetrogamerX
Are you using 1 or 2 fans and any idea what rpm range the performance setting uses? Or does it auto adjust according to temps?

I used 1 fan all day yesterday and tbh having 2 fans doesn't make that much difference. with 2 fans it only went down 1c to 2c lower with both fans.

I'm thinking about going back to 1 fan really.

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 21:58

snakefood said:
gotta say, i'd not considered removing one of the fans..

I had it on 1 fan and it worked just as good as it does with 2.

Look at my earlier pic on this thread.

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 22:01

snakefood said:
Do you have the fan as intake, or exhaust?

Intake and it seemed to be cooler. Mind you I have 8 fans going on in my case

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 22:05

snakefood said:
I have the 650D, has a nice (upgraded to spectre pro) 200mm fan on the top, so I too run it as intake.

Good man

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 22:09

Ripshod said:
Antec 902 with the standard 8" at top.
mmm, I gotta get in and evict the spiders, so i may bench as exhaust as a comparison. Gonna get me in trouble with the missus

Someone said the temps aren't really life changing. 1c to 2c. I see a patten here. No matter what you do the temps aren't that much different.

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 22:16

Ripshod said:
Shame I haven't got vanity lighting. The webs are awesome. Must have sneaked in while I had the side off.

lol

vanity lighting is great

RetrogamerX · 11 Dec 2012 at 22:21

snakefood said:
White led's all the way here

I have a Blue and white theme going on in my case. In the pic's it looks all blue though

RetrogamerX · 14 Dec 2012 at 20:47

BloodZeed said:
you only get 2 with the h80i

Yes it only fits 2 fans.

RetrogamerX · 26 Nov 2013 at 06:13

arnie2013 said:
Hi I recently installed my h80i in my zalman z9 plus case and need advice on how I can hide the wires they are a nuisense.

can you give me any advice or show me a pic of ur system

My PC has changed since then. The only thing I can say is you really have to tuck the top wires away, It's not hard as long as you have some holes to the back of the case. I hide them in there.