Hi people, I'd like to talk about Corsair's Watercooling solution series, I can't seem to find any reliable data on them such as temps for specific cpu, my fx-8350 comes to mind, but most articles or graphs talk about intel.
I guess I could calculate performance with the official stats, but since I absolutely don't know crap about Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics and Electricity being a former high-school drop-out, I can't. (feel free to share your knowledge, those three topics are really useful tools in a tech guy's belt)
Otherwise I'm really struggling to choose which single rad corsair Hydro for my stock Fx-8350 inside my bitfenix shinobi case, and I don't feel like buying one to notice that I could have got a better price/performance for my needs.
So if you guys have any knowledge, suggestion or opinions, please share it as I would greatly appreciate, others might as well. (Also, knowledge is one of the many things you need to take over the world, so it's a win-win situation)
*japanese bow*
Thank you very much in advance, see you guys next topic :)
P.S I could get a refurbished H80 for 54$ on newegg, I believe it's a great deal regardless of the refurbish, even if i'm a little scared, wouldn't like it to leak all over my rig. Anyway what do you think?
alot of the refurbished corsair Hxx on newegg are actually brand new they just call it refurbished so they dont have to honor any warranties. i think the manufature warranty still applies tho. i use the H55 on the GTX 560's and it was about 20 degrees less than stock cooler, so instead of 70+ i was getting about 40-50 onload. that was with a push pull config on the rad fans.
Yeah I was thinking about grabbing the Noctua nh-d14 but like I said, it's hard to get any solid info about specific configuration for cooling solution other than trying them yourself, and as a consumer, it's not really good. If I had the money i'd buy every single computer parts and have fun with 'em. A man can dream :P
The H100i and H80i are great coolers, especialy with the corsair links software to control the fans and such. But there is allways a chance of a pump failure or leakings. And the stock fans are rubbish. terrible loud. and wine noice from the air trough the rad fins.
The Noctua NH-D14 or Phanteks PH-TC14PE are one of the best air coolers to get. They are realy quiet, and perform arround the same as the H100i. with no worries about leakings or pump failures or whats so ever. maybe on a realy extreme overclock a watercooler would do a slightly better job. but the diffrence won´t be that big. the NZXT Krakan X60 is one of the best clc´s you could get.
The choice is up to you. ☺
I finally went with a brand new H80i, and it has my entire approval so far, it is thick as hell though, i'd recommend a thinner rad in small spaces such as the BitFenix Shinobi.
Sure there's the risk of pump failure and leaking, but every product has lemons and that's what warranties are for.
For the fan wine, I don't really hear anything and they feel like ok quality, sure they're no Noctua, but hey, they come free with the loop.