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Corsair Hydro series H80 CPU cooler review

Cooling/Water Cooling by leeghoofd @ 2011-08-25

The market for all in one cooling solutions is booming. Corsair initially had a good lineup with their Asetek Hydro H50 and H70 coolers. Though they jumped on the CoolIT wagon to enter a more niche market. There was more than just the demand for good cooling. Casemodders and gamers want control over LEDs, Fans, being able to create and monitor different fan profiles,... Corsairs answer is the Link software, a rebrand of the CoolIT Maestro software. The Hydro 60 was Link ready, though it's performance was inbetween the two older Hydro models. Secondly Antec took the performance crown with their 920 cooler, so it was time to react. Let's see if Corsairs latest offering, the Hydro 80 has improved on the previous generations.

Performance with AMD 1090T@4.2Ghz

Sadly no Bulldozer test yet. I like the 6 core Thuban series, still pumping out more than suitable FPS in games and when compared at stock clocks, they can still manage to best some Bloomfield CPUs( in some tests). But that aside, here's how the setup looks like...

Asus Crosshair IV Formula

AMD 1090T @ 4.2Ghz 1.425Vcore

4Gb Corsair Dominator 12800C8 rams

AMD CPUs are very critical regarding operating temperatures. 4.2Ghz is close to what this CPU can run when priming. The previous CoolIt models didn't cut it at all, blue screening all over the place. At 4Ghz they were fine, but never at 4.2. But back to the Hydro 80. We get similar, if not slightly beter cooling performance than the Hydro 70. However measuring AMD temperatures is a real pain. As mostly most software detects the CPU running at sub ambient temperatures. But we used a smilar offset value method as with the previous tested coolers.

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