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Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H50 All in One High-performance CPU Cooler CWCH50-1 | 
| Brand: CORSAIR
Category: CE
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $70.00
You Save: $9.99 (12%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 494
Format: Cd
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: N/A
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 14 x 7.5 x 5
Warranty: 2 years warranty
MPN: CWCH50-1
Model: CWCH50-1
UPC: 843591006385
EAN: 0843591006385
ASIN: B002QG2H7K
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Integrated pump and reservoir is sealed for zero maintenance and improved protection against leaks. Supports LGA775, LGA1366, LGA1156, AM2/AM3 with brackets for all of them. | | • | Pre-filled, closed-loop system is easy to install | | • | Copper CPU cooling plate for maximum cooling performance | | • | High-efficiency, low-noise 120mm fan for drawing cool air across the radiator | | • | Two Year Warranty |
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Product Description
The Corsair CWCH50-1 Hydro H50 CPU Liquid Cooler gives you the power of liquid cooling in a compact, easy-to-install package. You get superior cooling for higher overclocking performance without the complexity of traditional liquid-cooling systems. The Corsair CWCH50-1 Hydro H50 CPU Liquid Cooler includes mounting brackets for Intel LGA775 and LGA1366 socket motherboards. Air-based CPU coolers simply aren't as efficient as water coolers, and can take up too much valuable space. The compact, closed-loop Corsair CWCH50-1 Hydro H50 CPU Liquid Cooler takes your CPU's temperature to new lows and takes up less room doing it.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 41 more reviews...
 Best Part Yet July 29, 2010
I don't normally write reviews, but this thing is amazing! Did exactly what I needed and took my CPU (i5 750) from 90 C to 25 C. Took about an hour to install and most of that was spent trying to figure out the right bracket arrangements. Fired right up first time, and I love it.
Works very well for the price July 28, 2010
I have used this cooler for about 8 months now and I have to say I am very impressed with its performance. I am running a Core i7 920 overclocked to 3.6GHz and I am getting motherboard temperatures of 23C to 25C on idle, and core temperatures of about 35C to 40C. Under Prime95 stress tests the individual core temperatures run about 60C to 70C and the motherboard reported temp is about 47C. Now a custom liquid cooling setup will deliver temperatures even better than this, however that can be far more expensive to do and a lot more complex. So if your looking for cooling that's quieter and better than air, but don't want to spend several hundred dollars on a custom setup, then this is definitely the product your looking for.
The directions for the unit are admittedly not the greatest in the world, and they are confusing at times as some other reviewers have mentioned. Installation is a bit of a pain too but that's mostly related to the slightly confusing directions. You are required to take the motherboard out to install the backplate, unless of course your case has a hole to allow for back plate installation without needing the removal of the motherboard. I do wish they would have gone a different route for securing the plate to the motherboard. The backplate uses an adhesive tape which is just a nightmare to uninstall and as I found out will almost certainly rip when you attempt to remove it. The final portion of the install was a little tricky since you are required to kind of lock it in place to the brace on the top side of the board, and that isn't the easiest thing in the world to do with a radiator hanging around.
The 120mm fan they include with the cooler isn't the most quiet fan in the world, and I would suggest getting one a bit quieter and one that moves a bit more air. As for the setup of the fan itself, the directions suggest pulling air from outside the case and I found this to cause higher temps than when the fan pulls air out of the case. The setup of the fans however will usually differ from person to person and the conditions both outside and inside the case since having a ton of hot components inside the case, you don't want to use that air temperature to cool your CPU. For me I have a lot of warm air coming from the bottom outside of my case, and the inside of the case is fairly cool, so pushing air out worked the best for me.
This cooler allows for some great overclocking. I mentioned above that I have my 920 running at 3.6GHz(stock speed of 2.66GHz), and there is actually a thread on the Cooler Master forums for people who get 4GHz+ overclocks using this cooler and the Core i7 920. This definitely speaks loads about just how far this cooler will allow you to push your CPU compared to air. If you even attempted something like that on air you would hit idle temps of at least 40C+ and load temps would almost certainly be in the 80s and 90s. Most people who have overclocked their processor to over 4GHz, usually get temps not too much higher than the ones I reported above.
 Corsair H50 Cooler July 28, 2010
Read lots of good things about this cooler. What a disappointment. Somewhat noisy, and lousy cooling. i7-930 stock idles at ~40 deg C, at full load 75 deg C. Overclocked to 3.5 GHz 1.27V core, full load, 86 deg C. I want to overclock higher, but not with this performance. I've ordered some new thermal paste, will try that when I get it. If it doesn't work, I'll be out 85 bucks (cooler plus thermal paste) as I'll have to toss this and buy something else.
 Oh dear... did this really happen?! July 26, 2010
I purchased this unit because my CPU was overheating after a move probably due to the heatsink getting loose (note to self, just leave the %&@#* dust inside, never try to blow it out and be gentle with the case). The selection in the local computer store was not very wide so I decided for this "upscale" heat sink since I know better than to buy a 20 bux cheapo fan. I have a socket 775 MB, and a core2 quad processor fyi.
Life seemed good right? Wrong. and OMG, how wrong. The instructions are just plain AWFUL. I put together my computer a year and a half ago, and I haven't had to take it apart since like I had to today. There are pieces of this heatsink you have to literally glue to the back of the motherboard (which in my case was amazingly hard to get to, had to take the whole MB off) with a sticky tape and if you have a mid size case, you will be very much challenged to fit the fan and the radiator together below the power supply. The way you fasten the actual cooler to the "harness" on the processor is again, logical after you've done it, but the instructions are just plain misleading in my opinion. Phew. I spent good 3 hours putting this thing together... and I consider myself very computer savvy, been putting them together and breaking them apart since the early 90s.
All this bashing apart, the cooler definitely does what it's supposed to. The computer is working flawlessly, perhaps even smoother than before (don't really have a baseline to compare to with the past, I also switched OS in the meantime), If you have a few hours to play with it, definitely go for it and you won't be disappointed, but if you are expecting a quick replacement, don't even think about it :) The only reason it gets 4 stars is because of the instructions and level of complexity during installation.
This cooler is fantastic. Mission Accomplished, no doubt. July 25, 2010
I bought this cooler at Microcenter. I am so happy with this choice that I could barely contain myself. I've been looking for a place to give this fantastic cooler it's credit. Amazon is a perfect review place, because many people come here for reviews. The Amazon price is about the same as microcenter, so you can certainly buy it here if you want.
I did not go shopping for a liquid cooler, but for a good air cooler. Luckily I saw this cooler all by itself at the end a row where someone had left it. I did not see it on the shelf. The salesman tried to talk me out of it, in a helpful way, and wanted details about my case to know if it would fit. I told him I didn't know the name of my case, but I knew it would fit, even if I had to drill and cut holes with a jig saw or dremel tool. I am not afraid of those things. If you are afraid of the drill, then you should be very careful with case choice. This cooler may not be for you.
Don't let the fact that it is water (or some mysterious liquid) bother you. It is sealed up tight, never to be opened, and dry as a bone. You will never see, feel, or sense, liquid, unless something goes wrong.
Before I started on this mission I really needed a new cooler. The problem was, was that my Core i7, at stock speeds, using the stock heat sink, reached almost 90 centigrade at full load. I was at full load using DVD fab to convert my DVD for my iphone. DVDFab uses all of the cores at full speed, and doesn't hold back at all. I can convert a DVD in about 8 minutes, which seems unimaginably fast to me. My old system would take hours. Stock temps were idling at 38 or so, Case temps 32-35. Once I saw those temps on my CPU, I shut down DVD fab and wondered what to do. Intel's stock stock cooler would barely keep their CPU safe at full speed. Most people who study this kind of thing will think that CPU temps above 70 are bad, and 80 will cook your CPU. I think 100 will auto shut off the CPU, as per intel specs.
On the back of the H50's box is a little graph. It looks like marketing fluff, so I didn't pay much attention to it. After installation I looked at it again, and the graph is remarkably accurate. It shows a standard CPU heat sink idling at 40C, and 85C at 100 percent load. It shows a "high performance air cooler" at 60C at load. And it shows this cooler a little less than 55C.
Well, my experience significantly outperforms this graph. At 100 percent load, stock speeds, I was getting temps about 45C. Overclocked to the crazy range? 4.1+ GHz, I was getting about 54C. All this time, it was whisper quiet. And I can feel the warm air coming out of the top.
On the web, some builders and reviewers have complained that the instructions are to blow the airflow into the case instead of out. they think it is backwards. They mistakenly think it blows hot air into the CPU. But the real point is to cool the CPU. So, to get the coolest air into the radiator, you should set it up to blow cool air (and therefore air external to the case) into the radiator. Case temps are 10-15 degrees warmer, and will significantly hamper the cooling of the CPU. So just follow directions and blow the air in instead of out. You will, therefore, have to engineer a way to get that hot air out of the case. I have a Thermaltake V3 case. The power supply blows air in at the back bottom, and there is two openings on the top for fans to blow up and out. So my case has air coming in at the back bottom, coming in at the back top for the radiator, and two fans blowing up out of the top. It is ideal for this cooler. I did need to drill a couple of extra holes for fan mounting screws, and I did need to mount the fan outside and attached to the radiator inside. The fan wire comes out a miscellaneus hole in the back of the case. With this adaptation, all my hot air comes out the top. Case temps as I type this are 30C. Room temp is about 24C.
Here is my case http://amzn.com/B002Q2M8KK . I did not need to take out the motherboard because this box has a special hole to get to the the back side of the CPU.
This is clearly the best cooler for the money, no question about it. It outperforms anything close to it in price, and it is barely audible. The two year warrantee is just icing on the cake. If you are a system builder, buy one. You won't be sorry.
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