Saturday, September 19, 2015

Friday, September 18, 2015

Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU, Great Cooler, Noisy Fans in my opinion


The couple of days ago. I search for information on the Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler H100i, so i would like to describe here.


the guy I built the PC to wanted headroom for overclocking, so we moved to H100i to give more headroom cooling (this was an upgrade from the H55). It is liquid coolers in closed circuit. It is with the radiator, water pump, mounting brackets, hardware and two SP120L high flow, low noise 120 mm fan made by Corsair. the set also includes a cable for Corsair Link system and 2 fan header sets that allow for a total of 4 case fans that are controlled from the software Link leads. the pump is small and low profile. the radiator is 27 mm, 120 mm wide and 275 mm long. fits a case that takes a long 240 mm radiator with two 120 mm fans. on the bottom of the pump is a crude (looks to be micro machined parallel grooves) copper water block that contact the CPU IHS. has the thermal compound pre-applied so there is no need to purchase unless you want to. I'm not sure of the quality of the Corsair thermal compound, but I dare say it won't be as good as something like Arctic Silver 5. something to think about if you want the most out of it. the pump acts as a platform for fan control. has a standard 3-pin cable non-PWM, which goes to the CPU fan on the motherboard, and a SATA connector to power the pump, so you need a SATA connection plug from your PSU. It also has two ports for the included fan cables (end in 2, 4-pin port each) and a mini USB port for the special cable that goes to the Corsair Link. the Mini USB plug end into a USB connector that plugs into a USB header on your motherboard. comes with brackets to mount the popular modern CPU socket: LGA 1156, 1366, 1150, 1155, 2011, AMD AM2, AM3 and AM3, FM1/2 Read more ›




Corsair Hydro Series Extreme Performance





NZXT Kraken X61 280mm All-in-One, Best AIO on the market with a few software quirks in my opinion


A previous week. I search for information on the NZXT Kraken X61 280mm All-in-One Liquid Cooling System RL-KRX61-01, so i would like to describe here.


I currently am a overclock i5-4690 k using this. the processor runs at 4.6 ghz and under load the Kraken Prime95 keeps temperatures below 70 c. idle Temps at 28° c and during idle temps fans are at 20% speed. during the game stay under temperature 40° c. the fan speed and temperature scales because the temps did not significantly increase the fans didn't have to turn hard. so I rarely hear fans. of course if you are the type of person who wants to set your fan at 100% you can do this with the CAM software. the CAM software is ordered, but buggy. However, they have a new version that is in beta version which is much better than the current version. so I do not intend to allow that hurt my evaluation of the product.




NZXT Kraken X61 280mm All-in-One Liquid





Cooler Master V8 GTS - High, Enormous, quiet, flashy, but VERY hard to install. in my opinion


A previous week. I'm looking for information on the Cooler Master V8 GTS - High Performance CPU Cooler with Horizontal Vapor, so i have to tell.


This is an update to my earlier review, around Oct 2013. performed better than I thought. I just recently removed to install a watercooling system, Titan Black single loop and i7 CPU 3770. my initial Setup was just cooling for the graphics card on a block of Heatkiller XSPC 360 and after a month she decided to try the cpu. using waterblock Raystorm and a additional 360 radiator I had quite the surprise. my CPU while still relatively cool under full load for an hour reached the 59 C, my GPU was 43 C. single loop installation just downed my gpu temp 49. but my cpu has gone up from 1 C. and if something .... I'm stronger now because of additional fans for radiators. bottom line is that the GTS V8 is a great performer, able to keep up with watercooling setups mid range. and to see how it fits I have included a shot. Gigabyte MB Z77 Ram Corsair Vengeance UD5H




Cooler Master V8 GTS - High Performance