Corsair H50 Installation Video

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Nice. Computer component installation videos are what we need more of. Lots of people are afraid to build their own computers, especially when it has something to do with water cooling. This is great for those people who want to get into something they haven't tried before.
 
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ummm disclaimer.

this is NOT anywhere close to how you setup a custom H2O system tho.

:p

Nice video tho.
 
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They changed the mounting brackets to plastic. How do these compare to metal?

I ask this because back in the "Tuniq tower" days mine came without the 775 bracket. I had a bracket from a Zalmann 9700 that fit and used that. The stress on the motherboard was much higher with the plastic bracket due to lack of stiffness.

Hopefully this is not the case with yours.

Damn now I have to get another H50 just to see! :hmm:

I believe the calculated MTBF on the pump is 50K hours or approximately five years of 24/7 use. Keep in mind that many things are rated like this and fail much sooner. The pump should last through its warranty period but you never know. This is a new product and the oldest ones out there have a fraction of this run time on them.
 
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I used the video when i installed a h50 yesterday on a core i7 975. it really helped

I'm at 34-36 celsius idle and just finished up 9 hours of prime 95 which yielded 67 celsius under load

i'm very happy with the performance of the h50

i'm doing a push/pull setup with air exhausting out of the case with 2 Noctua NF-P12's
 
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DrMrLordX said:
Interesting HSF. Anyone benched this against a Megahalems yet?
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Yes the H50 is about 6-8°C warmer under higher load (W3520 @4.4GHz 1.3V) than Megahalems shadow. Same fans used for both - 1800RPM Gentle Typhoon in push pull. Tested open air on bench, ambient temps identical.

It's OK but don't expect it to match, nevermind beat a high end cooler such as the TRUE or Megahalems.
 
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Rubycon said:
Yes the H50 is about 6-8°C warmer under higher load (W3520 @4.4GHz 1.3V) than Megahalems shadow. Same fans used for both - 1800RPM Gentle Typhoon in push pull. Tested open air on bench, ambient temps identical.

It's OK but don't expect it to match, nevermind beat a high end cooler such as the TRUE or Megahalems.
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Thanks for the feedback. The H50 still seems like an interesting product, and maybe with a different rad it would do better . . .
 
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DrMrLordX said:
Thanks for the feedback. The H50 still seems like an interesting product, and maybe with a different rad it would do better . . .
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Yes - using an infrared scanning thermometer it was easy to determine which way the water was flowing. I'm surprised the hardcore ones have not dissected and tried messing with things. Oh wait they do that now with their (real) WC kits! ;)

I'm sure the pump is designed around the tubing size/length and impedance (to flow) through the included radiator. Start changing things and efficiency goes out the window.

I still believe it would be interesting to immerse the radiator in a dewar filled with ice and halite! :p
 
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Rubycon said:
Yes the H50 is about 6-8°C warmer under higher load (W3520 @4.4GHz 1.3V) than Megahalems shadow. Same fans used for both - 1800RPM Gentle Typhoon in push pull. Tested open air on bench, ambient temps identical.

It's OK but don't expect it to match, nevermind beat a high end cooler such as the TRUE or Megahalems.
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So heatpipes and a lot of fins beats radiator when we are talking a lot of airflow (two 120mm fans at 1800 rpm)

Something tells me when this happens the pump speed becomes the bottleneck.
 
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Rubycon said:
Yes - using an infrared scanning thermometer it was easy to determine which way the water was flowing. I'm surprised the hardcore ones have not dissected and tried messing with things. Oh wait they do that now with their (real) WC kits! ;)

I'm sure the pump is designed around the tubing size/length and impedance (to flow) through the included radiator. Start changing things and efficiency goes out the window.

I still believe it would be interesting to immerse the radiator in a dewar filled with ice and halite! :p
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But what happens when we are talking single 120mm fans @ slower speeds on Megahalems/TRUE vs Corsair H50?

In this scenario I would suspect the Corsair pump is adequate.

EDIT: Here is a good example right here--->http://translate.google.com/transla...test_corsair_h50_fluessigkeits-cpu-kuehler/6/

Notice Corsair H50 (and its small pump) does better against Megahalems when the fan speed is slower on both units.
 
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At the loads I was running I had no intention of using a slower fan. It would be the MINIMUM to use actually. Increasing the air also did little to help temps with the H50 (but was a LOT noisier!). The Mega dropped another five degrees with 200CFM.

It's not a hardcore product. Modest overclocks - a 920 at 3.6GHz with 1.2V or less should definitely be fine with this cooler. Pushing harder can get you into trouble.
 
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Rubycon said:
At the loads I was running I had no intention of using a slower fan. It would be the MINIMUM to use actually. Increasing the air also did little to help temps with the H50 (but was a LOT noisier!). The Mega dropped another five degrees with 200CFM.

It's not a hardcore product. Modest overclocks - a 920 at 3.6GHz with 1.2V or less should definitely be fine with this cooler. Pushing harder can get you into trouble.
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So large diameter heatpipes have a much easier time transferring increases in heat away from the CPU than a constant speed pump. That makes sense to me.

But 200 cfm of air sounds like a lot! In fact, this makes me wonder if Megahalems is over-engineered for the average consumer board. Don't we have to worry about cooling the motherboard too if we need that much air for the CPU?
 
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Anything with more than three heatpipes is "over engineered" for a CPU running at default frequency.

Overclocking and overvolting change everything, however.

RE: motherboard cooling...

Funny you mention this because with water cooling the breeze over the motherboard, NB/SB, VRM, etc. is absent and this can cause problems with overheating. Particularly vulnerable are X58 boards with multiple NF200s. The X58 Classified when using PWM frequencies over 600kHz often needs "above" normal circulation through its MOSFET cooler or temperatures quickly approach the upper limits of SOA. :eek:
 
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Rubycon said:
Funny you mention this because with water cooling the breeze over the motherboard, NB/SB, VRM, etc. is absent and this can cause problems with overheating. Particularly vulnerable are X58 boards with multiple NF200s. The X58 Classified when using PWM frequencies over 600kHz often needs "above" normal circulation through its MOSFET cooler or temperatures quickly approach the upper limits of SOA. :eek:
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Yep, I have always wondered how well the other components of a water cooled system do with overclocking. It seems the water loop only hits the major components.

I think this Corsair H50 could do well in a small case like Sugo sg05 though. Since that mini itx case is so tiny everything can get a breeze on it from the single 120mm fan. In fact, I wish Corsair could make a Sugo sg05 competitor (along with matching SFX PSU) built around the H50 cooler to compete with Silverstone.
 
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Rubycon said:
Anything with more than three heatpipes is "over engineered" for a CPU running at default frequency.
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What about 24/7 overclocking?

Wouldn't using a significant amount of Megahalem's potential over Corsair H50 require additional cooling/durability for the motherboard?
 
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Computer Bottleneck said:
What about 24/7 overclocking?

Wouldn't using a significant amount of Megahalem's potential over Corsair H50 require additional cooling/durability for the motherboard?
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Not as long as the motherboard has sufficient airflow which in a proper case it should be getting!
 
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