Who has a Corsair H50 or H70? Are they any good?

Chris said:
Hi

I've got an H70 with 2 x Akasa Vipers using the PWM off the motherboard and works well for me.

Chris
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Pretty much the same but run through a fan controller pretty quite and keeps it cool but for the money considering had to replace stock fans etc. If I was going to buy another I'd look at the new Antec Kúhler H2O 620 CPU Watercooler which appears to be the h50 Rad with the H70 cooler for a lot less money.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-005-AN&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=
 
Amazing all these people running high overclocks with h50's with zero proof of temps with intel burn test and no mention of voltage.

The h50 is about as good as a £20-£30 air cooler tbh in terms of performance at least.

The h50 is not worth it's asking price just get an air cooler like the silver arrow noctua d14 or archon if you have £40-£60 to chuck at a cooler.

Here's proof of what my archon can do with it's 1 stock 1260 rpm fan, anyone with an H50 and a Q6600 can feel free to post proof of theirs doing the same clock with the same voltage 1.46 set in bios and same or better temps knock yourself out.And I'll eat my words.

The thermalright archon can be had for £46 delivered.
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h70 with corair fans sandy at 16 multi idle 44multi load 1.26v
load = 1 hr prime for this purpose
idle 35 avg
load 60 avg

h70 corsair with akasa vipers 44 multi 1.26v
idle 35
load 68 go figure??

h70 with akasa vipers sandy at 48 1.32/36
idle 35
load 78:eek:
 
Best cooler I have ever had. Cool and now quieter after I swapped the Corsair fan for an Apache.

You have to experiment what is the best setup. Corsair recommend cool air blowing in to the radiator which will give better results than using it as an exhaust.

Another gotcha is the pump fan connector. You may have put this on the CPU header and thus the bios or O/S may run the pump slowly off load and only spin it up on load.

That may sound sensible but it's not wise. Far better to have the rad fan on the CPU header and the pump connected to permanent 12v rail, or a Chasis header which is set to run at full speed.

I notice a H60 is due out soon. This may be a better choice for some.

As for the Kuhler's performance beating the H series. I read that their pump speed is probably much faster and that's why it gives better performance.
 
I have had both the H50 and H70. The H70 is a massive cooler. The radiator is larger than the H50 and there are two fans. Ensure your case is suitable

Mine has 29/30 degC with SB i7 2600k. Under load its about 45 degC

But the H50 is a really good all in one cooler :) Get some Scythes
 
I've got the H50 on my i7 920 and a H70 on my i7 930. I would ditch the fans and go with dual Vipers. Don't go Sharkoon as I had four of them and each one developed an oil leak (yes four of them) ...;)
 
BaDBoY_uK said:
I have had both the H50 and H70. The H70 is a massive cooler. The radiator is larger than the H50 and there are two fans. Ensure your case is suitable

Mine has 29/30 degC with SB i7 2600k. Under load its about 45 degC

But the H50 is a really good all in one cooler :) Get some Scythes
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do you have in or out as my temps even at 44 are nowwhere near that?

also what fans? as i said i did nothing but swapped mine for vipers and gained 7degc even at 100rpm more than the corsair at 1700!!

glen
 
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timbo2410 said:
I've got the H50 on my i7 920 and a H70 on my i7 930. I would ditch the fans and go with dual Vipers. Don't go Sharkoon as I had four of them and each one developed an oil leak (yes four of them) ...;)
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What... since when did fans have oil?
 
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