My little Bloomfield i950, which I used in the H50 review has been replaced by a brand new Bloomfield 970 CPU. With the addition of the extra cores this CPU should be able to really test the potential of Corsair's new H70 unit. Quite interested to see how the little H50 keeps up with Intel's Hexacore monster.

CPU : Gulftown i970@4.2Ghz at 1.425Vcore ( Hyperthreading on )
Mobo : Asus Rampage III Extreme (bios 0704)
RAM : 6Gb Corsair Dominator PC12800C8
Case : Lian Li big tower case

Now this is what we want to see. With the H50 cooler , Corsair claimed over 10 degrees Celsius better cooling performance than the better air coolers out there. Our review sample was never ever able to live up to that claim, but topping the renowned TRUE was already quite good. The H70 shows its true colours now. Being able to dissipate the extra heatload of the Gulftown CPU. Not surprisingly the H50 ends dead last in its stock configuration. If it was still performing as good as when we tested it a while back , there wouldn't be the need to improve the old design would there ?

A whopping 14°C better than the stock H50 is quite surprising. Adding a 2nd fan to the H50 relieves it a bit of its heavy duty task. Yet the load seems too much for the unit to handle. The H70 takes a quite big lead here, compared to the previous test setups, the H70 comes into its own when you want to overclock an already hot running CPU, that's for sure!