Corsair revisits CPU cooling: introducing the Hydro Series H50

[Smartidiot89]

why cant people be this excited over any other air cooler weve seen in the last year? o cause this one will pwn

Normal air-cooling have reached it's limits, now we need something that is not purely a big heatsinks with a few heatpipes stuck in there.

@Redbeard: How do you mount this on a AM2/AM2+/AM3 socket? Do you need a backplate or is it the easy clip-on?

[Leeghoofd]

My sample arrived today, will test it first on the S775 and later on once my 950 comes in on the I7... will post some piccies later on this evening...

[Smartidiot89]

My sample arrived today, will test it first on the S775 and later on once my 950 comes in on the I7... will post some piccies later on this evening...

Can you answear my question on the AM2/AM2+/AM3 mounting?

[tajoh111]

thanks

How do you think this thing will perform skinnee.

You have enough knowledge that you can probably give us a pretty good guestimate, based on the radiator size, and this unit is build upon an older astek design.

I will take your guess as more credible than the manufacturers results, since 15C better than a TOP air cooler seems pretty much impossible since we are starting to enter good water territory, depending on load.

PS.

I love dogs in avatars.

[LuckyNV]

Turns out CCL and Novatech have it as well circa £60......and they have stock too!

Where are the goddam reviews??

I'm sooooo tempted to get one from Nova

[Leeghoofd]

Can you answear my question on the AM2/AM2+/AM3 mounting?

I have only S775 and 1366 mounting in my sample (READ NOT RETAIL), will ask Corsair if there's gonna be an AMD version too

Anyway here are the early piccies :





Socket 775 mounting + Backplate



Socket 1366 mounting + Backplate





Cooling unit :

[PhenomII2]

^ Looks good , hope we can get few numbers soon

[skinnee]

How do you think this thing will perform skinnee.

You have enough knowledge that you can probably give us a pretty good guestimate, based on the radiator size, and this unit is build upon an older astek design.

I will take your guess as more credible than the manufacturers results, since 15C better than a TOP air cooler seems pretty much impossible since we are starting to enter good water territory, depending on load.

PS.

I love dogs in avatars.

I would prefer not to speculate on the performance of product I do not have in my lab. I will say that the radiator looks to be higher FPI (looks around 20FPI) and hopefully copper tubes and fins to squeeze as much performance as possible out of the compact design. With higher FPI, the performance gains truly start to show in the 1500+ RPM range.

Again, all my comments are based solely on observation of the pictures in this thread and not from experience or testing in my lab.


The dog in my avatar is the skinnee labs safety officer. I have an ESD smock that I have been trying to get him in for a picture, but he isn't cooperating. I'll get one eventually.

[Redbeard]

For those of you asking - the initial shipment will not have AMD brackets inside the box, they will be available from Corsair upon request for just shipping & handling costs.

[Ruroni]

My sample arrived today, will test it first on the S775 and later on once my 950 comes in on the I7... will post some piccies later on this evening...

Get to testin'!

[Redbeard]

It's time for redbeard to start threatening reviewers

I have been twirling my mustache and shaking my fist angrily at my email inbox waiting for responses as we speak.

[HousERaT]

Starting to get excited. I hope this is good.

[nsegative]

Can't wait to see your numbers to deny/support hardocps numbers XD

[NaeKuh]

you do realize that system (nautilius+ H20 swiftech) came out 2+ years ago.......

u do also realize both of those systems offered a delphi/laing DDC. These are the pumps we custom h2o people use.

Which is why i said, the old nautilus was better because all u needed was a rad change to copper, and it would decimate any air sink.

I honestly think corsair should of just used this radiator on there old nautilus and pumped it out with a better cpu block.

Then that would be a very nice small package system.


Unless corsair would like to tell us the specs on that cpu pump / block?
Did you guys mount a DDC on it like swiftech did?

[Smartidiot89]

I have been twirling my mustache and shaking my fist angrily at my email inbox waiting for responses as we speak.

Do you know anything about the mounting for AMD systems? Is it clip-ons or those horrid backplates?

[Leeghoofd]

Looking at the current mounting system a backplate would be far easier to produce and it avoids flexing of the mobo, plus you need to turn the cooler into the bracket. With push pins it would be harder to get the same pressure at the 4 mounting points. I would prefer a backplate anyday over push pins...

[Smartidiot89]

Looking at the current mounting system a backplate would be far easier to produce and it avoids flexing of the mobo, plus you need to turn the cooler into the bracket. With push pins it would be harder to get the same pressure at the 4 mounting points. I would prefer a backplate anyday over push pins...

That isn't the case with the current AMD socket, and I really hope Corsair utilized this instead of using a backplate when it isn't necessary for a light-weight product like this.

[PhenomII2]

What we need is some reviews here , other than the [H] one !

[sosna]

From what i understand it will be hard to cool it with fresh air.You could only use the ambient of ur case and an exhaust fan for the rad.

Lets hope the rest reviews come soon.

@Redbeard:which methodology did u use when testing?Also did u use 1 or two fans -push pull-?

[Leeghoofd]

Corsair want's you to set it up like the Hocp article, so the fan sucks air inside the case and pushes it onto the rad... so ambient onto the rad

Early test show that the air flow in the case is crucial to get it working right, even an extra Nb fan reduced it's performance by 1-2°c. Current testing is done in an Antec P180 with an OC'ed E7400. I7 will be done in a monstrous Lian Li case paired with an OC'ed 950.

Case setup is very important, hence why I think we will see different results depending on the case and setup used.

[clayton]

It that's the case, then SG05 will do wonders with it's 120mm intake fan.

[Smartidiot89]

That's right. It's a bump for a very important product

Any reviews or sneakpeaks yet?

[PhenomII2]

Nothing yet ?

[Jonny Manc]

Was thinking the same......but I guess to test properly at stock / OC / standard fan / extra fan / different fan etc can take some time.

[Leeghoofd]

Will post some numbers on S775 tonite, I7 is in progress