CORSAIR - Hydro Series 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler - Black/Gray
Model: H100I V2
SKU: 7313029
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Customers recognize the Hydro Series 240mm Liquid CPU Cooler's excellent cooling performance and quiet operation. Many found installation easy and the product to be a good value. However, some users noted the cooler's size and reported issues with the pump and included fans. A few also mentioned some software glitches.
Simple to install and took my frequently heat-locking AMD 8350 (around 70 degrees Celsius) to a normal temp range of 23 to 28 degrees Celsius. It is easily 1 tenth of the sound produced by the old air-cooling heat sink. Word of Warning: You need space for the radiator & the 240mm fans. I did an ad hoc improvisation where the radiator is in the tower, but the fans are blowing air across it from the outside of the tower. Otherwise, I would have needed to remove the heat spreaders from my RAM to fit both inside. Works like a charm.
Posted by IDKjack
4.5/5 Great liquid cooler. Saw stable ~38 degree Celsius tempatures for an OC'd cpu @ a modest 4Ghz on full load. Cool little on-board monitoring set up within the pump itself. Plugs directly into a USB header on the mobo. You'll have to download it from coolermaster's site however. Pros: price (picked it up in store for less than newegg would charge even with a coupon) Performance is great Excellent software that monitors everything. LED can change into any color. Any. You go through the color wheel and choose or turn it off completely. Thermal paste is preapplied. Good set up for a plug in and done system. Good set of 120mm fans. Cons: Very stiff hoses. Bending takes some force. Doesn't come with the software driver cd. You have to manually search the software. Plastic hose fasteners. The connection from hose to radiator seems like a weaker grade plastic. (It has held up so far but it is a concern) Radiator finish mars easily.
Posted by Stoney
All said and done it has a aluminum radiator. Not copper. Like Swiftech's AIO coolers. Which I should have just kept waiting until they restocked. don't get me wrong, this AIO is everything it claims. It's just I'm running a AMD FX-8350 and with it Over clocked the fans are at turbo in speed and noise. This is due to the fin structure. They are to close together for the fans to push the air through. Due to the aluminum rad. where as a copper rad. (which transfers heat more efficiently) Can have more space between the fins, creating less static pressure for the fans to push the air. Which in turn allows the fans to run at slower speeds/lower noise. I would rather have a cooler that can be expanded, has a reservoir, and the pump is with the rad./reservoir instead on the CPU block.
Posted by Leuzier13
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