Corsair H100 Hydro Series Preview and Small Review

S_V · 27-11-2011, 01:30 AM

Corsair H100 Hydro Series

Rating: 8/10

Previously I gave 7.5 and after testing I must say I should give 8 for this Masterpiece... Remember in my View any product above 6.5 is considered to be a Very Good Product..

Corsair became quite famous in cooling solutions with Hydro Series. These are zero maintenance cooling kit unlike Custom Water cooling where you need to take some extra Care regardless the advantages. I used H70 from Hydro Series for more than a year and I am must say the products are pretty solid and never had any issues. The performance from H70 is outstanding and never disappointed me in going for heavy overclock. Lets see the gallery of H100 which Contains unboxing, Preparing and Installation in PC...

UnBoxing:

As usual Solid Boxing from Corsair... Total eye Candy.

Professional Packing and safe for any kind of Transportation

Two 120mm Corsair Fans... Specs says around 65 CFM at 38dba

Out of the Box

Total Kit of H100

H100 Pump as well as Fan controller

Thermal Grease pre-applied, Probable Shintsu Paste

240mm Rad cooling fins

Preparations

As usual we need to Remove previous Cooling solution.. I sold my H70 on the day I purchased H100 and due to lack of time to install H100 I had to use stock cooling meanwhile. So here it is...

Seriously Intel Stock cooling for SB is worst solution ever given by Intel with their processors... It easily goes to 70c + for just serious gaming or Multi-Tasking. Anyhow we need to clean that Paste came with Stock and us usual my two little boys will come into play....

See Told you... they does the Job very well.. Just pour couple of drops from 1 Solution and wipe it for after 30 seconds using soft cloth and good Tissue paper then use Second Solution for another 30 secs and wipe it. Remember left out thermal paste will mix with new Thermal Grease resulting ODD results.

As usual Preparing Rad with 120mm Fans... I want you Guys to check the Different Pictures of RAD with Four Fans...so please view the other shots too...

Side View..

It's not so Bulky when compared to Custom cooling Rads...

Installation:

lets put motherboard in the cabinet first... I cleaned my PC also... (It took almost full daytime for me to put things back after Cleaning......

Place the Back Plate and align them with 1155 socket size and this side use the screws came with H100 to Hold the Back Plate..

Installed the H100 Rad on Top...

The space between My Mobo and Rad is so much that I don't have to worry about Cable Management. Thanks to Corsair 800D...

Just place the Pump on the screws shown in second Picture and Tight Them in the sequence of 1,3 and 2,4 corners for good contact between Processor and Pump.

Finally Done and Ready to Test........

Temp's Roundup:

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After installing H100, I overclocked my i7 to 4.5 and 4.8GHZ and Both Overclocking Results are Awesome and Quite Happy with Temps. Especially with 4.8GHZ and I waned to check H100 performance so I did use little Over Volts than necessary for 4.8 GHZ. For 4.5 Overclock the results are piece of cake for H100... Please go through the videos for now and this evening I am going to post screenshots. Ignore my worst commentary in Videos...

For normal usage and especially for Heavy Gaming , the Temps never crossed 58c at 4.8GHZ @ 1.44v. so it's look like 4.8 for Normal usage is a piece of cake for H100...

1. Overclock Temps with 4.5GHZ

Ran stress softwares for 1 hour to check the Stability and the Room temp is 25c. Running LinX for Second Time and Corsair H100 is in Medium Fan settings.. Corsair is Very calm in Low fan setting and Ok in medium and Loud in High Mode.. In LinX I am using Problem size of 25000 and allowed the test to run for 5 Times...

2. Overclock Temps with 4.8GHZ

To run my Chip at 4.8GHZ 1.38-1.40 is enough to pass all Stress Softwares But I want to check my H100 performance. so I used 1.44 with PLL over voltage enabled. Trust me Guys Volts like this will make your Chip to emit more than normal and H100 did cope up very well.

3.CineBench 11.5 Benchmark Temps with 4.8GHZ @ 1.445 Vcore..

The score is very impressive. Please anyone who are using i7 above 4.5 GHZ OC, Please do tell me the difference in score.
Remember Cinebench 11.5 makes your Processor to run very hard and Bends it's knee if it is not stable...