Corsair H80 review

[John P. Myers]

Corsair Hydro Series H80 (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1661/1/)

[DrPop]

Corsair Hydro Series H80 (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1661/1/) JPM- to my untrained eye, it looks good for the near $100 price tag. Do you like it, and/or is there better for the money?

[Fire$torm]

Sweet! Too bad I already have the H50. But the H50 was on sale plus had the rebate so final cost was less then 1/3 the H80 :D

Don't mean to hijack your thread but I have a question.

Corsair added the "Corsair Link" to their lineup which is their modular fan/cooler speed control system. But like the nVidia system it uses their own external temp senors. So the question is why can't anyone come up with a setup that uses the built-in temp senors on the CPU/GPU/Motherboard that you find in software utilities like Speedfan, CPUID's Hardware Monitor, MSI's Afterburner. etc...?

[John P. Myers]

JPM- to my untrained eye, it looks good for the near $100 price tag. Do you like it, and/or is there better for the money?

For the money, yeah i'd say this was pretty good.

@F$: i'd say it's because they're built-in. there's nothing to plug the corsair (or whatever else) into to report the temp back to the computer. So they create these useless modules and make them pretty and inflate their importance and charge quite a bit for them (for no more than they do) just to show you the RPM of the fans/unit. The H80 has a fan controller built in. Unless it's just killing you to know what the RPM is exactly, why bother? The temp of the CPU tells you how well it's working.

[DrPop]

For the money, yeah i'd say this was pretty good...

OK, so at what point I have the $100-ish for one of these (I've always wanted to try water cooling at least once), you'd say maybe go for this one - for the DrPop Rig's AM3 PhenomII X6...I'd like to O/C it to 4GHz at least. I can do it on air, but I have to back down to 3.8GHz when I run anything like Primaboinca or I will overheat with my $20 Rosewill air cooler. :D

[spingadus]

I wish they had something as simple as this that would also cool the gpu.

[John P. Myers]

I wish they had something as simple as this that would also cool the gpu.

Your wish is my command (well, Zotac's actually). (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/11195/)

[spingadus]

Your wish is my command (well, Zotac's actually). (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/11195/)

Well what do ya know!

I've been hoping enclosed water cooled gpus would come around sooner or later. If a water cooled gtx 590 comes out, i'll probably get it.

thanks!

[DrPop]

Your wish is my command (well, Zotac's actually). (http://www.legitreviews.com/news/11195/)

Wow. That is just killer looking! Anyone know the projected cost of something like that vs an air cooled unit?

[Fire$torm]

Wow. That is just killer looking! Anyone know the projected cost of something like that vs an air cooled unit?

The cooling unit is made by CoolIT and is basically the CoolIT Omni A.L.C. which was a special order only item from them.

I found a review from Nov. - 2010 here (http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1150&page=7)

At a price of $215, the Omni isn't cheap but its value is improved if you plan on pushing a card, and especially if you have plans on upgrading cards in the future. The price may well be a stumbling block for many people, and we can't argue with that. But the tradeoff is the convenience and versatility for users who don't want to touch a DIY setup for whatever reason. Interposer plates are supposed to cost anywhere from $15 to $75.....

[John P. Myers]

Just checked Zotac's site. They claim the kits will be 169.99, which is actually not much more than buying a waterblock by itself.