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Corsair Hydro series H60 Watercooling kit Review

Cooling/Water Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2011-03-10

I was surprised that Corsair launched another complete liquid cooling model, the H60. The H50 being perfect for tiny spaces and moderate cooling demands. The H70 was able to cope with our overclocked Gulftown setup, crushing the H50's performance. It's beefier radiator and dual fan setup was a big step forward for higher cooling demands. Corsairs new H60 is the first new release of it's new partnership with the CoolIT company. Corsair continues to sell CoolIT's previous products to the end users. CoolIT themselves will only be shipping their products to system builders and integrators. CoolIT's products at the last years Cebit 2010 looked promising but had a few too many flaws to be really competitive with the Corsair/Asetek lineup of the H50 and H70. Time to open the box...

Performance With AMD AM3 1090T @ 4.2Ghz

Time to introduce our AMD cpu now. Away with the X3 730BE and in with the Thuban 1090T 6 core. Which has been running happily at 4Ghz with the Thermalright Venomous X air cooler. Time to give it a small nudge and try to stabilise 4.2Ghz.

The system specs are

CPU : AMD 1090T@4.2Ghz at 1.42Vcore 2600Nb
Mobo : Asus Crosshair Formula (0055bios)
RAM : 4Gb Gskill RipjawsX PC17000C9
Case : Lian Li case with 3 120mm fans : 2 top and 1 front.

Small word before interpreting the temp results. Due to the weird readouts of the AMD temp sensor I re-calibrated Coretemp with a +15 offset (to get sort of in balance with the bios readout), no CPU idles at 15°C when the room is 21°C ambient... so keep that in mind when looking at the graph, compare the results between the cooling solutions, don't focus on the values themselves.

The H60 just positions itself again in between the H50 and the H70. While 61 degrees might not sound hot to the Intel community. For AMD it's already close to the critical zone. None of the old CoolIT units could pass the 4.2Ghz test. Either bluescreening or rebooting the rig. At first I thought I had at least one faulty unit ( especially the Vantage model was under suspicion ) Though after crosschecking and several mails with mister Wildgroove ( THE support guy on the CoolIT forums) clearly indicated to me, that the previous lineup is no match for the new breed of hexacore CPUs...( the 1366 results are also sub par )

Let's move onto the sound tests and let's try to find out if we can get some performance improvement.

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