Corsair Hydro Series H50 Cooling Club

SonDa5 · Oct 5, 2010

DFI X58 JR with H50 set up. (i7-930)

Those are with ghetto shrouds and push/pull Scythe 120x120x38mm fans.

(FIH) The Don · Oct 5, 2010

holy.....

Chicken Patty · Oct 5, 2010

holy batman airflow!

Fatal · Oct 5, 2010

SonDa5 said:
DFI X58 JR with H50 set up. (i7-930)

http://minidriven.com/GreenMachine/H50DFIX58JRwithdual25mmghettoshroud.jpg

Those are with ghetto shrouds and push/pull Scythe 120x120x38mm fans.

Did the shrouds help with the performance of the H50? I have mine set up as exhaust and when I added a shroud it didn't help my temps. I was going to try two shrouds but if one didn't help my temps I doubt two would.

SonDa5 · Oct 6, 2010

Fatal said:
Did the shrouds help with the performance of the H50? I have mine set up as exhaust and when I added a shroud it didn't help my temps. I was going to try two shrouds but if one didn't help my temps I doubt two would.

Yes.

This was my H50 set up before.

Adding the "ghetto Shrouds" and a matching 120x120x38mm Scythe Kaze fan to my set up lowered idle temps 2 degrees celsius and lowered 100% load temps 3.75 degrees celsius. (prime95)

CPU-Z screen shot and Real temp screen shot of idle temps.

CPU-Z link with more info:
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1420922

The H70 [H]OCP review showed a decrease of 10 degrees celsius under 100% load over the H50.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/09/28/corsair_h70_water_cooler_performance_testing/3

If I could get another 10 degrees decrease under load with the H70 it would be totally worth the upgrade to me. Just not sure about the numbers because of the i7-920 that was used in the review. i7-930 seems to be wired differently because the temps and voltages are very different.

Alot of mixed reviews running around on the H70. The H70 tubes do look to short for my set up though.

Fatal · Oct 6, 2010

I believe its my case when I had my setup in my Antec 900 my temps were awesome. Intake is the way t go with the H50. Thanks for the info SonDa5 nice set up to by the way.

SonDa5 · Oct 19, 2010

I finally gave in to all the positive H70 reviews and bought one.

Most reviews show at least a 10 degree C. lower temperature for the H70 over the H50 when 100% full load on a over clocked CPU.

I've seen a few mixed reviews as well. So I'm doing my own H50 vs. H70 testing.

For my testing I'm running Prime95 v.253 for 1 hour.
Voltage under 100% load of my i7-930@4GHZ cpu is right around 1.36v.
Using IC Diamond 7 Carat Thermal Compound on both the H50 and H70.

Results for my H50.

Ambient Temps 72 degrees F.

Will post back with the H70 results once I do my swap.

SonDa5 · Oct 19, 2010

The H70 is mounted in my case now. It was a tight fit and my H50 top bracket was not compatible with the H70 because the elbows of the 90 degrees fittings coming out of the the heat sink unit did not clear the thick lip of my old school Corsair H50 to mount.

So I had to use the H70 top bracket. It was a tough fit but I finally got it to go.

This is what it looks like.

I'm happy with how it looks and it works out well with my modded Antec 900 case. Good air flow.

Bad news.... :confused:

When I started it up I was expecting some nice drops in temps but that wasn't the case.

The temps were a little hotter than the H50. I'm running an hour of prime95 right now but the temps have already passed the temps of the H50. So... I'm going to give the H70 a fair shot and blame it on the cure time for the Diamond i7k thermal paste.

I'm going to take the heat sink off again and see how the pea sized drop I put has spread out and possibly apply some more. I'll do this later on today.

My first run with the Corsair H70. First round goes to Corsair H50. Corsair H70 was quite a bit hotter.

Ambient temps 72 degrees F.

TheMailMan78 · Oct 19, 2010

Dude thats just retarded. You are defeating the purpose of the H70/50. You should do a proper loop.

SonDa5 · Oct 19, 2010

TheMailMan78 said:
Dude thats just retarded. You are defeating the purpose of the H70/50. You should do a proper loop.

It works well. I like self contained loops.

TheMailMan78 · Oct 19, 2010

SonDa5 said:
It works well. I like self contained loops.

Meh. To each their own I guess. Enjoy. :toast:

SonDa5 · Oct 20, 2010

I really was expecting the H70 to stomp all over the H50.

I have been thinking about what could have went wrong with the H70 and I can only think of 3 possible flaws of the H70.

1. Poor large 120mm radiator. There are many more smaller arrays of radiator fins on the H50. The radiator fin arrays on the H70 are much larger and only about half as many fin arrays as on the H50 Radiator.

2. H70 pump unit not able to provide proper flow rate.

3. Tubing 90 degree swivel connections are hindering flow.

I'm not going to give up on the H70 just yet. I'm giving it some time to cure the Diamond ic7 thermal paste.

SonDa5 · Oct 21, 2010

48 hours later after I have been using the computer for gaming mainly with a few Prime95 sessions I ran this test.

Ambient temps 72 degrees F. The voltage on the CPU has increased just a hair in the image but no bios voltage changes have been done since I first started these comparison tests.

The temps have come down a little but still not as low as the H50 was.

I'm going to take the H70 heat sink/pump off and reapply thermal paste and then seat it again.

Haven't thrown in the towel for the H70 just yet.

Chicken Patty · Oct 21, 2010

Interesting, one would figure it'll do better!

TheMailMan78 · Oct 21, 2010

I'm willing to bet its saturated.

Chicken Patty · Oct 21, 2010

What you mean? :confused:

SonDa5 · Oct 22, 2010

TheMailMan78 said:
I'm willing to bet its saturated.

What do you mean x2???

hertz9753 · Oct 22, 2010

SonDa5 said:
What do you mean x2???

My best guess would be that he think's that you have leak inside of your pump.

sneekypeet · Oct 22, 2010

I assumed he meant that his cooler was saturated with heat.

Athlon2K15 · Oct 22, 2010

my temps with my H70,not bad eh?

IDLE

LOAD 4.2 wasnt stable

TheMailMan78 · Oct 22, 2010

After a while a rad that size will become saturated with heat. All rads do but small ones faster. You can't cool a CPU with hot water now can you?

Chicken Patty · Oct 22, 2010

You don't do that Ben, it's the latest trend. :laugh:

SonDa5 · Oct 23, 2010

AthlonX2 said:
my temps with my H70,not bad eh?

Those are great temps. A Xeon is known to run cooler than a i7.

Very nice low voltage. Work on the voltage and you'll probably get that stable. Temps may increase.

How did you set up you H70? Any photos? :cool:

SonDa5 · Oct 23, 2010

TheMailMan78 said:
After a while a rad that size will become saturated with heat. All rads do but small ones faster. You can't cool a CPU with hot water now can you?

I hear you and since the H70 is twice as large i thought it would cool better than the H50. With my test they are close to being the same.

H50 beats it by a few degrees.

H50 average idle is 35.5C, average at 100% load is 74.5C.

H70 average idle is 36.5C, average at 100% load is 75.5C.

t77snapshot · Oct 23, 2010

Thanks for the add SonDa5

Btw your new setup with the H70 looks awesome!

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Corsair Hydro Series H50 Cooling Club

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SonDa5

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SonDa5

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t77snapshot

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