Anybody have any experience with the Corsair H50?

[ScottALot]

If anyone's room is ~freezing temps, the heat of the pump and CPU should prevent freezing. Anything room with temps well under freezing doesn't need a water loop, they need a heater.

 

[FuryRosewood]

OK about the water/ice-cooling issue, it sounds reasonable and acceptable.

BUT what about water and electricity, not a very good combination.
Suppose the water-cooler starts to leak and water starts dripping on the wiring causing fire and smoke, like in the movie "The Towering Inferno", after all a computer has also a tower.

water does not cause conductivity, its the crap in it that does, thats why salt water is more conductive than tapwater, and pure water will be non conductive, but it would be highly silly to use water to cool a system...id use something more stable than water

 

[canoedad]

H50 is not really watercooling(its a self contained unit), its meant to compete with air cooling and that is all it does. I would suggest going with a Noctua NH-D14, Cogage Arrow, Thermalright Venomous-X Coolermaster V6/V6 GT or Prolimatech Megahalems, or thermalright ultra 120 extreme, in that order.

Gee what is the pump and fluid for then?????DUH!!!

 

[canoedad]

I am curious what is your OC on your CPU? Reason I ask is most games only use 2-3 cores and under those same my Q6600 (hotter running) caps out at 46-47c so it makes me question the H50 when I see your thread (my $15 cooler vs your $80)

It is a decent cooler if you do push/pull and change the air flow of your case from back to front but its not really true water cooling. A real water setup will cost $200 or so for the radiator/pump/cpu block/tubing. Its not a cheap hobby and the GPU blocks are expensive as well ($100 area for newer GPUs)

Why does it need to cost 200 dollars to be effective? I believe there is a lot of people that would disagree with you. Just because you spent too much for your setup does not mean there is not another and cheaper way to do so.

 

[just a noob]

Why does it need to cost a200 doolars to be effective? I believe there is a lot of people that would disagree with you. Just because youspent too much for your setup does not mean there is not another and cheaper way to do so.

Of course there are cheaper ways, but you have to spend money to have low temperatures with a pretty good amount of silence. Only reason I moved to water cooling was because my setup on air cooling was just way too loud.

 

[canoedad]

What is your system specs?

 

[pedro2011]

just ordered the noctua nh-d14 supposed to be great for heat dispersion for the cpu just make sure u have a large space . i initially was gonna buy the h50 until i saw the nh reviews. also very quiet.

 

[bomberboysk]

Gee what is the pump and fluid for then?????DUH!!!

The hX0 line has never been considered a true watercooling setup. Self contained units are essentially high end air cooling units.

http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1..._Dynamic_Bearings_-_Black.html?tl=g36c365s936

not sure how it broke the first time, but there it is. sorry about that, those fans work well with mine, however they turn so slowly it trips my fan fail warning on my motherboard

Max static air pressure: 2.64 mm H2O Even less than an R4, and the R4's are terrible rad fans.

 

[just a noob]

What is your system specs?

I had an i7 [email protected] with a true 120 and sanyo denki h1011's in push/pull. and for gpu's I had gtx 285 sli. Seeing as I only sat about 1 foot away from that setup it was just too loud. Moved over to an EK supreme/d5/thermochill pa120.3 and Gentle Typhoons for rad fans with a single gpu block for a 9800gt.

 

[canoedad]

Of course there are cheaper ways, but you have to spend money to have low temperatures with a pretty good amount of silence. Only reason I moved to water cooling was because my setup on air cooling was just way too loud.

My cpu runs at 46c running crysis at 81fps with my system. I know my temps are cool for this game.