Hydor Vs Eheim

[CCW]

After my holiday I will be buying a pump. Marci from O-CuK is for watercooling recommending the Hydors over the Eheims, which would you go for?

Which ever I choose I will go for the "high-end" model the L30 and 1250 from Hydor and Eheim respectively.

What would you choose and why?

Eheim is £50
Hydor is £40

Im willing to pay the extra for the Eheim if its the better choice.

Thanks,
Craig

[Turbo]

I would go with Eheim. Never had problems with them. Anybody seem the 12V Eheim??

[MediOCre]

I don't think you're going to go wrong either way. Haven't had the pleasure of playing with an Eheim so everything after this is heresay but from the reading I did back trying to make the same decision, the Hydor is a little smaller, a bit quieter, uses less watts and has a slightly higher flow rate. Found nothing but arguments as to which has better EMI shielding but noticed with the Hydor that I get a bit of jitter in the monitor if the pump is set within 10" or so.

OC did a quick one page comparo a while back with some basic info. Worth a look. http://www.overclockers.com/articles723/

I've been very happy with the L30. Many months of trouble free, quiet, liquid goodness.

[Ruantic]

Haven't tried the Hydor, probably won't either, Eheim will always get my money for a pump... A few bucks more for the Eheim is nothing compared to what I have relying on that pumps trouble free operation... Hydor might be every bit as good, to bad I'm already sold on the Eheim, I'll never know...

[CCW]

Originally posted by MediOCre

OC did a quick one page comparo a while back with some basic info. Worth a look. http://www.overclockers.com/articles723/

Thanks for that, had a quick look, will have a proper read later.

Craig

[Craig]

3-1 so far in favor of the 1250.

The Hydor was a pretty new item a year ago. I'd say they are doing pretty well.

I have a reasonable amount of trust in the OverClockers articles. They found the Hydor L30 to offer small but messurable advantages in performance. L30 is also smaller and a bit lower priced.

I'd go L30

[hedge]

I would go with the eheim personally. My friend has a hydor that he bought from danger den and we had a problem with it leaking because of this dumb blue cap that is supposed to hold the assembly together. It is cheap material. I know others haven't had problems with hydor, but eheim has never given anyone I know a problem.

[Nomjr]

I switched from the hydor to the eheim myself. The eheim runs quieter imo and there was no diffference for me as far as temp goes.

[KennethChong]

The Eheim was a great pump for me, died a few weeks ago while i was testing out my chiller though :/ But there really great pumps, have a 2 year guarantee to boot.

[afireinside]

Originally posted by KennethChong
The Eheim was a great pump for me, died a few weeks ago while i was testing out my chiller though :/ But there really great pumps, have a 2 year guarantee to boot.

I like my Eheim 1250 Was going to get the L30 but there was like a mass L30 shortage when I ordered. NONE of the watercooling sites I went to had them in stock.
It died while testing your chiller? Thats not good news for me (wow the good news justs keeps comming with my little chiller project /sarcasam...) Or do you mean your crazy -60C chiller? Does that 2 year guarantee cover death to freezing cold anti-freeze