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Corsair will sell hundreds of H100i just because of the Corsair branding, regardless if the Cooler Master Eisberg, or Kraken X60 are better, or not.

It's like the memory, you pay a premium for similar specced ram from Corsair, but people will still buy it regardless of the higher cost, compared to Kingston, or G.Skill who make same product for less than half the cost.
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I'm gonna be frank.

I've re-read the whole thread and the only think I've taken from the re-read is that Helios and doyll have some form of 'vendetta' against Corsair/Vortez

Knowing that Helios is a former employee of Vortez may be a factor, with doyll hanging onto his coat tails.

Perhaps a don could extract the nonsense from the thread leaving people with the real info on the h100i rather than the embittered personal grudges ?
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I don't think it's that bad, sometimes you just have to take the negatives, along with the positives. I think they make some valid points, but that's not to say the reviews are bad, everyones got an opinion.

If all reviews were the same, it would be abit boring to say the least. Regardless of who does reviews, I rather take in peoples own opinions like Moogley's, people who have spent their cash, and will just say how it really is, mind you on overclock.net people treat Corsair like some sort of God lol I think they are brainwashed or something lol, will praise the products no matter how expensive, cheap, good, or possibly average/poor the product could be lol.
 
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I have re-installed my H100 so I can send the H100i back and have tried it with the Corsair fans from the H100i and in the same case under the same conditions the temps are pretty much identical. With the stock H100 fans it's 1.c worse off and tbh not that much louder.

No idea how these reviews are getting such differences in temps, maybe its the open testing ?
 
Part of is quite possibly the H100i smooth hose vs the ribbed H100 hose. Ribbed hose has a much higher friction coefficient than smooth. Are both radiators visually the same?
 
MOOGLEYS said:
I imagine the hoses are smooth on the inside and under pressure i doubt it would make much difference tbh.

Both rads look the same from a quick look.
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if it is smooth it won't. If it is not smooth inside the flow drops significantly with or without pressure. Used to design and install agricutltural sprinkler systems. The difference between plastic and metal (copper or steel) pipe due to friction makes a big difference in just 20 or 30 feet. With lower pressure the flow difference is even greater. Pretty crazy stuff.
 
In the radiator yes because the fins and tubes are conductive material. The tube/hoses from pump to cooler will radiate some heat but their real purpose is to get coolant to radiator and back.

Your car is a good example of the use of hoses and radiators. The hoses move coolant from engine pump to radiator and from radiator back to engine. But designers make no attempt to use the hoses to cool.

Or a boiler in your home with radiators in each room. Pipes purpose is to move heat to radiator and back to boiler.

With your H100 / H100i the CPU/heatsink/pump = boiler, hoses = pipes, and the radiator is well.. the radiator. ;)
 
My replacement H100i arrives today. I'm scared to flash this one after it killed the last.

I think I will make a video of doing it so if it fails again I can show Corsair.

Corsair have said that my first unit must have been faulty so this one should work out ok.
 
Rossi~ said:
Keep us posted Moog :)
Interested as i'm getting one at Christmas to replace my Phanteks.
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Tbh the cooler works very well. I'm not that impressed with the upgraded fans, they seem to make a lot of noise and when fitted to either the H100 or H100i offer little difference in performance over the stock H100 fans. They also seem to blow a lot less air than my SP120 fans and make more noise doing it.

But when I put my 4 cheap Arctic pwm fans on the H100i running in a push/pull controlled by the motherboard the cooling is considerably better and also a lot quieter. Considering these fans are less than a fiver each they outperform the stock H100i fans by quite a large margin.

The cooler has potential but is like the H100 held back with the stock fans being either noisy or just not as good as expected.

Will update when the new one arrives later today.
 
I got the 100i when it was released, and once I flashed the Firmware to the latest version the rattle of the fans stopped, I have had NO problems since then + it comes with a 5 year warrantee, also the Link software works like a charm.
So I am VERY happy with the 100i so far!!!!!:)
 
Gizmowithatt said:
I got the 100i when it was released, and once I flashed the Firmware to the latest version the rattle of the fans stopped, I have had NO problems since then + it comes with a 5 year warrantee, also the Link software works like a charm.
So I am VERY happy with the 100i so far!!!!!:)
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+1. all good since the updates :)
 
H100i updated and bios flashed carried out perfect this time. All is working ok apart from now the fans make a just as annoying high pitched buzzing noise. If you hold them foir a few seconds it stops so it seems Corasir raised the PWM rate to compensate for the rattling noise and just made it make a different just as annoying noise.

At least I can fiddle with it now but will be running my PWM fans from the mainboard as I cannot put up with the noise.
 
Just connected up my SP120 fans instead of the stock H100i fans and the noise has completely gone.

So it seems the stock H100i fans are just junk as thats three sets I have tried and they all make the same noise.

At least this one has flashed the updated bios ok and seems to be doing a good job so far albeit not much better than a H100 so far. I'm going to plug all my arctic fans in and see how the H100i controller deals with PWM fans.
 
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H100i updated and bios flashed carried out perfect this time. All is working ok apart from now the fans make a just as annoying high pitched buzzing noise. If you hold them foir a few seconds it stops so it seems Corasir raised the PWM rate to compensate for the rattling noise and just made it make a different just as annoying noise.

At least I can fiddle with it now but will be running my PWM fans from the mainboard as I cannot put up with the noise.
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From reading various forums over the past couple of days it seems like nearly or infact everybody is also suffering from the high pitched buzzing / whine noise after updating to the latest firmware. It looks like the problem is down to the fan controller working with the stock fans as the only solution for now is to connect the fans directly to the motherboard, as you and others have already done. Hopefully another firmware update will be on the way soon to correct this.

I've got a H80i on the way and I'm already preparing myself for these issues.

Liam
 
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