- Built-in Corsair Link
- Multiplatform magnetic mounting bracket kit
- Large-diameter 120 x 152 x 38mm
- 2700 RPM (+/- 10%) 77 CFM
- Fan Noise 37.68 dBA
Overclocking review
06/27/2013
This review is from: CORSAIR Hydro Series H80i High Performance Water/Liquid CPU Cooler. 120mm
Pros:
This is my updated review with overclocking the FX-6300.
It works well and quietly for the most part(see CONs).
Overclock settings:
CPU/BIOS
RAM at 1866 1.5V ( Using the XMP profile)
4.5ghz (200 x 22.5) stable (Intel Burn Test and Prime95 pass)
1.296 Core V
All power and cooling settings off(Cool N Quiet, C6, etc)
ASUS BIOS settings for LLC, tweaking, etc: extreme
CORSAIR LINK
Fans set to quiet mode
RESULTS
Ambient temp : ~18C
CPU idle(1-4%) : 20-22C
CPU max(Intel Burn Test) : 43C
With the fans on quiet mode, usually sits at around 1100 RPM during low loads, the fans went up to about 1300 RPM and were barely audible. Did some more benchmarking on a more typical summer day (~96 F outside, 80s inside) and max temp hit 62C which is about right with the ambient temps and the fans were slightly humming at around 1600 RPMs.
The hardware side of the H80i is pretty sound but...
Cons:
The software, now that I've used it a lot more, is so incredibly buggy. You'll have the icons from your saved profile show up as all zeros and have a brand new set of the SAME icons working properly but not placed. It makes no sense.
Sometimes changing the fan speeds in CorsairLink doesn't do anything or takes a while for it to register. Changing to the BETA version of the software didn't do anything.
Overall Review:
My revised final thoughts on this are:
If you don't mind the software(which is pretty bad, considering how big of a corporation Corsair is) it's a great functioning cooler. The pro reviews have this as one of the best CPU closed-loop coolers out there and it performs like it. With the way it's designed you won't see much cooling on the idle side but you'll see it in the max side.
I still recommend it but if you can find something else comparable in the price range of this ($86) you might want to give it a shot because these software issues have been around for a while and it doesn't look like Corsair is going to fix them anytime soon.
Build:
Asus Crosshair V Formula Z
AMD FX-6300 overclocked to 4.5GHZ
Sapphire Vapor-X 1 GB OC GHZ Edition Radeon HD7770
G Skill Sniper Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) CAS 9 DDR3 1866 RAM
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 90GB SATA 3 SSD
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 3 HDD
Raidmax Blade ATX Mid Tower w/ 500 PSU
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