As Ivy Bridge should be arriving in a few weeks, I'm considering upgrading my cooling to achieve the maximum overclock possible. Does anybody know, or have an opinion on, whether a Corsair H100 will provide a significant practical advantage over an H70? I'm not particularly inclined to install a custom cooling loop at this point.

 

Thanks,

Andrew

Go for the H100. - I've got one and it beats out pretty much everything on the market.

I have the H100. It's great, albeit a tad noisy. But you can replace the fans with 'silent' options. My CPU doesn't go above 40c during load and it's currently overclocked to 4.8Ghz

The Noctua D14 just about matches the H100 for cooling but does it a lot quieter. And a bit cheaper too. Something to consider.

 

EDIT: Or, the Thermalright Silver Arrow, which edges out the D14 and is a little cheaper still.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

It's amazing we've come to this point in effective water cooling in off the shelf box models. It wasn't all that long ago to get the performance these recent coolers do would require a bunch of manual labor being a PC plumber and crossing of your fingers that all your seals held. I still run the H60 which is good enough for my needs.. The only thing that ever really pushed its effectiveness is linpack tests..

The Noctua D14 just about matches the H100 for cooling but does it a lot quieter. And a bit cheaper too. Something to consider.

 

EDIT: Or, the Thermalright Silver Arrow, which edges out the D14 and is a little cheaper still.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

 

The main issue with the D14 is the size of it. It is so large that it nearly covers the whole top of the motherboard! LOL

Yeah those 140mm HSF units sure do take up a bit of space, you have to use low profile RAM, and depending on the motherboard you might not be able to to the first PCI-E 16x slot. They give the AIO water cooling kits a run for their money though, which is pretty impressive.

 

Cheers,

 

Mike

Replace the H100 fans with cougars CF-V12HP and you'll be as quiet as the NH-D14.

I'm a happy NH-D14 user myself though.

If I could recommend it, here's a good comparison review about the H70 as done by the [H] folks at [H]ardOCP. It compares it to a couple of air coolers and the H100 in temperature, noise and price per degree performance.

 

http://hardocp.com/article/2010/09/28/corsair_h70_water_cooler_performance_testing/

I have the H100. It's great, albeit a tad noisy. But you can replace the fans with 'silent' options. My CPU doesn't go above 40c during load and it's currently overclocked to 4.8Ghz

Are you living in a fridge?

Are you living in a fridge?

 

:LMAO:

I have recently replaced my Coolermaster V8 air cooler with a Corsair H100 watercooling system. I have replaced stock Corsair fans with Cougar Vortex CF-V12 HP. I am not using a push pull config...just the two 120 mm fans cooling the radiator venting air outwards. Quite frankly I was expecting a better improvement moving from aircooling to watercooling. I run a pretty stable I7-2600K @ 4.8 Ghz (1.35 V) configuration in a well ventilated HAF X case and when using FSX the temps are average between 55-60 deg C with some very random and isolated peaks up to 63. This is probably good overall, but the point is they are the same temps I had with the V8.

Is it normal or should I expect something better from the H100

Thanks

 

Regards

From what I have read the H100 doesn't perform that much better than high end air cooling until you move to a push/pull fan config. How do you have the H100 mounted in your HAF X?

In the standard set up: fans between radiator and case top, blowing air from inside the case through the radiator into ambient.

Jackson,

 

Did you try pushing air from the outside in, opposite of what you have. I have tried both ways and I get better results pushing cool outside air through the radiator rather than warm inside case air. I also switched 2 of my other case fans to exhaust. You might see a 5* difference.