Member Reviews: CORSAIR Hydro H70 CWCH70 120mm High Performance CPU Cooler

I got this cooler from a guy at a LAN event I went to. He had been trying to get rid of it for a while now and it had just been sitting around in a box not doing anything but collecting dust. After chatting with him for a while and explaining my interest in water cooling but lacking any real funds to do so, he gave it to me since he would rather it have some use instead of doing nothing. And so it came to be that I had ventured into liquid cooling but not without some hiccups along the way. While the H70 was, at it's time, the top-of-the-line AIO cooling solution, it was far from being the best cooling solution, period. At high clocks and full load it kept temps down much better than my...

Hey OCN, welcome to my third review! This will be a review on the Corsair H70 cooler. I've had this cooler for quite some time now, and it's been through a few overclocks, so I figured I'd write a review. Onto the pros & cons! Pros: Self contained. No maintenance whatsoever, aside from getting the dust out of the radiator and fans every few months, that's as hard as it gets as far as maintenance and upkeep goes. It's very unobtrusive. Even with my current mid tower, I still have a little bit of room for things. With a full tower, there should really be no issue for space at all. Aesthetically pleasing, it looks really cool. Doesn't clash really, and it'll look good in any color...