Corsair H50 : Feedback and Queries

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I am interested to pick up the Corsair H50. Read some stuff about it, have a few queries, if anyone with experience or knowledge could let me know would be great. Also suggestions/advice is most welcome.

So here it goes:

1. The radiator fan (120mm) shipped with the unit, has to be mounted as an intake. So it will blow cold air onto the radiator, but into the chassis. I am not too happy about that. Now the unit mounting logic will be chassic --> fan --> radiator. Will it be possible to flip this 120mm fan around, so it become exhaust.

2. The radiator is pre-filled with coolant, and sealed. How long will this last. What happens if it dries out, or needs a refill.

3. How much will I benefit vs. the current (and heavy) Hyper 212.

thanks guys.......!
 
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You might want to wait for the more knowledgeable lot to reply :P, but here's what I've heard,

1) You can run the fan config either way, although best results have been seen when cool air is sucked over/into the rad. A lot of people use 2 fans in a push pull configuration.

2) Corasir markets it as a product that will not require a refill. It will eventually run dry, but from what I've heard that could be 7 years down the line by which time the pump would have probably failed. You would have probably moved socket type and cooler by then too.

3) Not sure. A lot of reviews say the high end air coolers beat this, but I want to try the H50 out just for the heck of it as I've never had water cooling before and I don't really need to squeeze every possible bit of performance out of a cooler.

I've been reading up on it a bit as I want one with my next build. Came across this yesterday it might help you out, Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 Push-Pull Performance Guide « Corsair Blog
 
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The H50 is a step-up from the best of the air coolers available in the market such as the Megahalems, the Noctua D14 and the likes.

As for your queries,

1. The fan can be mounted the way you prefer although blowing warm air into the radiator may not alter the temperatures by a huge margin. A second fan in a push-pull configuration should help.

2. The company does not provide any information on that and as such since the product comes as a ready-to-install kit, there may not be much options either such as to replace the coolant. In any case, this should last a couple or more upgrades so long as you don't switch to an altogether different socket.

3. Not sure on the numbers but there should be an appreciable delta of anywhere from 5'~8'C on loads/idle compared to your present cooler. The highest clocks attainable on the processor can vary as well. You may be able to push an additional 200MHz or the likes.

Just in case you buy an H50, please don't go apeshit and mod it to run the coolant through a tri-rad or an additional GPU block or so. The pump may not have that kind of capacity to push the coolant through a number of different blocks to maintain the previous flow rate and may die eventually. There have been several mods discussed on the WWW but take all those with a bag of NaCl.
 
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Okay, makes sense. This seems like a good solution. The push-pull configuration (with two fans) seems nice. Will optimize the structure better. Only issue would be to get the 6-32 x 1-¼ inch screws. Which I think most hardware shops should have, else good old cable ties should suffice, but they look ugly...!

I seem pretty convinced, seems good. Thanks guys.

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If I can squeeze more cycles out of my chip, all the better.
 
This probably won't help your cause but why not get a Venomous X instead ? At least that's what pretty much everybody saying on quite some other forums.

Speaking for myself, just to give you an idea, I OCed to 4 GHz @ 1.26V and temps didn't cross 60-61 degrees at load. But anyway, good luck with whatever you decide.
 
I just got one and absolutely love it .. just check out the temps, room temp. was ~20-22c ...



Setup used was :

HAF 922 with front+side 200 mm intake, top 200 mm out, rear 120 mm intake onto the radiator .. here's a view of the setup ..

E6600 @ 3.2 GHz, 1.35v under load .. 8800GT @ 702/1728/936 @ 1.15v ..



Mounting is somewhat easy + hard .. plastic parts are very bad; breaks easily .. everything else is superb ... and most of the things are bundled, including brackets for all socket types and the screws ..

About the sound of the pump, its as much as the 120 mm fan i use if not less .. its audible only because the 200 mm fans are rated @ 19 dbA .. incase u're setup has more 120/140 mm fans, the H50 shud audibly blend in ..
 
AFAIK This Cooler is at par with the best Air cooler out there...installation mite not be easy for all..but still the results are Gud enough i think....!!!
 
^^

You were stressing the CPU how, when the temperatures were logged.? Thanks for the information and pictures, though.
 
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I just got one and absolutely love it .. just check out the temps, room temp. was ~20-22c ...

Setup used was :

HAF 922 with front+side 200 mm intake, top 200 mm out, rear 120 mm intake onto the radiator .. here's a view of the setup ..
E6600 @ 3.2 GHz, 1.35v under load .. 8800GT @ 702/1728/936 @ 1.15v ..

Mounting is somewhat easy + hard .. plastic parts are very bad; breaks easily .. everything else is superb ... and most of the things are bundled, including brackets for all socket types and the screws ..

About the sound of the pump, its as much as the 120 mm fan i use if not less .. its audible only because the 200 mm fans are rated @ 19 dbA .. incase u're setup has more 120/140 mm fans, the H50 shud audibly blend in ..
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could you please post another pic in an angle showing how you routed the H50 power cable.That thing is practically invisible in this pic.
 
Am I missing something here?! Isn't that the braided cable in the photo? He has connected it to the CPU header IINM.
 
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Am I missing something here?! Isn't that the braided cable in the photo? He has connected it to the CPU header IINM.
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might be for water flow control perhaps
 
Yes, it seems pretty clear to me. The power cord is on the CPU header on the motherboard.
 
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Nope there's just one 12V input to power the pump AFAIK and that's the cable I was referring to. :P
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yup im talking about the same cord that is coming out of the cpu block.

hope it does not suck more than 1A :P

BTW.. isn't H50 way less vfm if compared with Air coolers at 3-3.5k price range?
 
^^Talking of which, the centrifugal fan being shipped on the fermi gfx cards with the reference coolers have a 12V input that sucks 1.4A! :devil2:
 
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^^Talking of which, the centrifugal fan being shipped on the fermi gfx cards with the reference coolers have a 12V input that sucks 1.4A! :devil2:
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damn they have made sure no statistics about the card shall make one go 'yeah that seems about right!!' :P

although this dynamic speed control of pump does seem like a good idea.
 
So there is one cable for both fan control as well as power.

Is a 3 pin connector enough to power the pump,well obviously that's what is happening but my question is, is this good enough or is it an unnecessary compromise in an attempt to be very compact?
 
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