[Hexus] Corsair Hydro Series H50 - taking on the air-cooled establishment - Overclock.net

sodaholic134 · 07-02-09

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Current high-end x86 processors are hot, hot beasties. AMD and Intel's best chips are manufactured on a 45nm process and need up to 125W and 130W, respectively, of cooling power to keep them chugging along within tolerances. The ever-increasing TDPs have lead to both companies bundling in larger, more efficient air coolers with retail chips, to the extent that they can be considered enthusiast-class.

A well-designed PIB cooler is good enough to keep the chip(s) running at their native speeds, obviously, but the enthusiast who wants to extract more 'free' performance from their system may well indulge in some robust overclocking, usually by adding voltage as the frequency tops out. That's why there's a whole raft of aftermarket air coolers for Intel's LGA775/1,366 and AMD's AM2+/AM3 CPUs, ranging from anywhere between £10 to £60.

Air cooling has the inevitable drawback of being limited by the ambient temperature, no matter how efficient the transfer from chip to fan. The next step up is to use a liquid-cooled setup that is better at absorbing and dissipating the heat produced by the CPU. This is where budget all-in-one, easy-fit systems come in, costing around £50 and purporting to have better cooling credentials.

Corsair recently teamed up with Asetek and launched such a cooler last month. Dubbed the Hydro Series H50 and currently etailing at £59, the memory specialist is aiming to destroy the high-end air-cooling market.

Is it better than a Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme when tasked to cool a near-4.0GHz-clocked Core i7 chip. Read on to find out.

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Not sure if I should get this or the Domino ALC...

xJumper · 07-02-09

This wont do any better (if not worse) than high end air coolers, so why take the risk of having it leak (cheap devices like this usually do) and not just get a TRUE, Magehelm, Noctua, Dark Night, Thors Hammer, etc air coolers.

With water cooling you go all the way or you don't, because a half AS5 job will leave your mobo quarter AS5 once it's done it's done taking a leak.

alvintran12 · 07-02-09

Interesting read. +rep

Mason92 · 07-02-09

cool

sodaholic134 · 07-02-09

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Originally Posted by xJumper

This wont do any better (if not worse) than high end air coolers, so why take the risk of having it leak (cheap devices like this usually do) and not just get a TRUE, Magehelm, Noctua, Dark Night, Thors Hammer, etc air coolers.

With water cooling you go all the way or you don't, because a half AS5 job will leave your mobo quarter AS5 once it's done it's done taking a leak.

Yeah, I agree. My Xigmatek S1283 is doing just fine.

The only advantage to these water-coolers is their reliance on ambient temp being much less than that of air-coolers.

dM@n · 07-02-09

Test results seem pretty decent.

Shane1244 · 07-02-09

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Originally Posted by xJumper

This wont do any better (if not worse) than high end air coolers, so why take the risk of having it leak (cheap devices like this usually do) and not just get a TRUE, Magehelm, Noctua, Dark Night, Thors Hammer, etc air coolers.

With water cooling you go all the way or you don't, because a half AS5 job will leave your mobo quarter AS5 once it's done it's done taking a leak.

Maybe if you read the article you'd see that it beats the TRUE.

tdesbien31 · 07-02-09

Looking forward to move reviews, i bet under a controlled more extensive review it wont actually beat the best air coolers.

Kuntz · 07-03-09

Very impressive. I wonder how much better it would do with a good high pressure fan on the Rad.

d3str0y3r0fn00bs · 07-03-09

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Originally Posted by sodaholic134

Not sure if I should get this or the Domino ALC...

GET THIS, trust me, the domino is complete junk. There is no quality to it, don't believe me here is proof. http://www.overclock.net/water-cooli...ailed-pix.html

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