I will be looking at the Corsair H50 for some reference cooling numbers. The Corsair Hydro Series™ H50 CPU Cooler has been available since June/ July of 2009 and many reviews have been conducted.
The Corsair H50 CPU Cooler was often said to revolutionize the Mid end and enthusiast air-cooling market but technically it is not an air cooler. It is still a very hot and often argued topic in many forums, weather the H50 is indeed better or even a fair comparison to air cooling.
With the prices for Air coolers that could compete or beat the Corsair H50 CPU Cooler in or at around the same range, I think the argument of it not being able to compete because it is a liquid cooler is not valid.
The price point performance comes into play. Corsair's A50 air-cooled was often pitted against the H50 and showed pretty decent results.
Corsair already released an improved follow up for the H50, the H70 and on the air-cooling side the A70. The H50 is still a good option for CPU cooling especially from a Bang-per-Buck standpoint.
The packaging is nice as usual from Corsair. It comes in a sturdy and descriptive box.
The contents besides the Corsair H50 unit itself contains plenty of manuals that are very descriptive as well as all mounting hardware.
It supports Intel's Socket 1366 and 1156 as well as the 775 socket.
On the AMD side the AM3 socket as well as the AM2 socket are support.
Having many options for socket mounting is great and I highly appreciate it.
There is a separate manual for mounting the fan and one to mount the radiator in your chasse
The mounting description is pretty clear and precise and well supported with visual aids.
Below you can see some of those visual aids.
The mounting mechanism is quiet unique and new but easy to get used to. It allows to supports many mounting configurations with a minimal amount of added or removed hardware.
I wish the plastic pieces would have been made of a little bit more sturdy plastic thou or even better metal, aluminum comes to mind.
The base of the unit contains the pump. I did not find any specifications on the pump unit yet but will update if I do
The base has a large copper plate. The plate itself could have been polished a bit more but that is just my preference. The base as it is will work just fine
Here is the whole unit, assembled, by itself
I will be testing how well the H50 performs on a mid to high end system. I will measure idle and load temperatures and overclockability of the chip.
I will be testing the idle and load temperatures at 3 different speeds.
I will use LinX and Prime95 to load the system.
I will use CPUID's HWMonitor to measure temperatures and other system behavior. I will also use RealTemp and CoreTemp as cross reference for temperature measurement.
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