The Corsair H50 is a water-based cooling solution for your CPU.It is meant for people who want to fiddle with the overclocking possibilities of their processor without the need of a fire extinguisher. The setup consists of a pump connected to a radiator and a 120mm intake fan. All the necessary accessories such as motherboard backplate, screws and pump ring are provided in the package. It isn't very hard to setup. Dimensionally,it won't fit easily In a standard size cabinet.


Thus, for our testing we used thc Cooler Master ATCS 840. We used an lntel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93 GHz processor which is known to run fairly hot along with a MSl P43 Neo 3 board The machine was powered by a Corsair HX620 PSU. lnitially, we used the stock Intel heatsink. Prime95 was used to load the CPU to 100 per cent. We monitored the CPU temperature using an application called Everest. The temperature was at 40 degrees centigrade under idle.

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After running Prime95 for about 5 minutes, it shot to 74 degrees on stock cooling. Next, we replaced the stock heatsink with the H50 cooler setup.Here, the idle temperature was at 33 degrees. On working up the CPU, it stabilised at 57 degrees. As you can see, there's a quite considerable difference of 17 degrees and this delta will only rise on overclocking.