Experiences with corsair hydro cooling!

I am currently planning a build and whilst looking at the last build I did and the huge ugly air cpu cooler I have decided to go with water cooling. I am thinking of using the H80i from corsair, I know people will tell me that the price to performance ratio is not wort it, I am fully aware of that, I just want to know about peoples experiences with these and if you have any pointers or if there are any much better different choices that I could make. :)

thats what I heard, no problems with leaking? and what about maintenance?

Well, I put a H80 in for someone and the fan header died in a few months... Corsair replaced it with an H80i.

I bought an H80i and the dang pump made massive amounts of noise and wasn't cooling my CPU at all. Newegg sent me a new one and it's been working fine since.

I also used Kuhler and I like it alot better because the pump seems to be alot better and the rad is better made as well. Temps are better then Corsair's. Only con to it is the mounting system isn't as nice as the corsair.

I wouldn't risk damaging my system from leaking.

Just stick with air cooler.

i had the first gen h80 for a week last year. Everytime you turned the pc on the fans would start at %100 for a few seconds than lower themselves. It drove me up the wall, especially becuase I favor silence.

Other than that though, it was an outstanding cooler!

i had the first gen h80 for a week last year. Everytime you turned the pc on the fans would start at %100 for a few seconds than lower themselves. It drove me up the wall, especially becuase I favor silence.

Other than that though, it was an outstanding cooler!

kipsta77

have one of the now old H80, it is pretty quiet, very good for keeping the cpu cool (almost too good, sometimes I question the readouts, but if true then my CPU have never broken the 52 degree mark.

I have no complaints at all, hell the standard fans I have on my cabinet are far more noisy then the H80 (currently in the ballanced mode or what you want to call the 2 lights on out of 3)

Basicly it is hazzle free, gives more room, possibly a better airflow (although not something I will claim outright).

Since I have an x79 I had no choice really but to get something akin to the hydro cooling solution apart from true watercooling, but going farwards I doubt that I will go back to the old bulky coolers of old (worth noting that the H80 costs the same as most higher end air coolers where I live)

I wouldn't risk damaging my system from leaking.

Just stick with air cooler.

Cyberdot

no problems leaking, however, pump rattle with old h60 and new h80i has stripped threading for fan screws on the radiator and the screws do not stay in place.

It will eventually leak. Any plumber could tell you that. And if the pump fails, you have no cooling at all, and the CPU goes critical like plutonium, whereas if the fan fails on an air cooler, you still have enough passive to save the chip, probably. These are the two reasons I will never go liquid unless I become a wealthy overclock hobbyist, in which case I'll build my own.