Corsair revisits CPU cooling: introducing the Hydro Series H50

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We need more info before really judging it. We need internal pics of the block, pump specs, and rad info. I'll bet it will have around a 10C air in/water out delta (with those fans) on an i7 and the block is probably pretty high flow, possibly comparable to the Apogee GT or OCZ block. If this pure speculation is true it won't compare to what we do in the WCing section, but it will be "average" WCing performance. Better than air, but worse than building your own loop. Of course, the price for this is less than WCing but more than air. I would say this will probably turn out to be a good product for those wanting better than air performance, but aren't ready just yet to jump into WCing.

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You could but you would void the warranty, and I'm not sure how much performance increase you'd get. The pump is very small and designed for low flow through the system, it's nearly inaudible as well. The only significant performance modification we were able to do in the lab was to replace the included radiator (120mm aluminum) with a slightly better radiator (120mm copper) and we got a small performance bump, but a huge cost bump.

Those don't sound good. I assume you have also done something to prevent corrosion (alu block maybe).