Corsair Hydro Series H80i

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There is a review of the Corsair Hydro Series H80i posted today at LanOC. For comparison purposes, you can see our evaluation of the H80i and H100i coolers here.

The H80i promises high performance cooling and unparalleled control via its built-in Corsair Link controller in a package fitting the Corsair name. With integrated Corsair Link functionality and a push-pull fan configuration where will the H80i land on our charts?
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Things I liked about the review:

They posted the temps of the stock cooler, almost NO ONE does that. (Although I did notice it in the [H] review :) )


Things I didn't like about the review:

An i5? And no overclock results? This is supposed to be a performace cooling solution, why not an i7? or at least show some OC temps.
I've also found a lot of reviews (and I mean recent ones, not ones that came out before Haswell) for these systems aren't Haswell's, which kind of sucks for anyone trying to get up to date info.
 
I wouldn't even be worried about Haswell and OCing as they just get too darn hot if you do not delid them.
 
Nexillus said:
I wouldn't even be worried about Haswell and OCing as they just get too darn hot if you do not delid them.
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And what is considered "too darn hot" ?

Just above this thread [H] posted a review of the Noctua 120mm solution that wasnt even their top end solution with temps around 80C at 4.4GHz, which is 25C under max temp according to Intel's datasheet.

Which is about the same temp as the stock cooler running stock speed at full load.
 
Nexillus said:
I wouldn't even be worried about Haswell and OCing as they just get too darn hot if you do not delid them.
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Really? Mine is not de-lidded and I'm pushing 4.6Ghz on my i5 with an H80i. Temps stay in the low 70's.
 
HydroBudz said:
Really? Mine is not de-lidded and I'm pushing 4.6Ghz on my i5 with an H80i. Temps stay in the low 70's.
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Here's a few websites with information on it but basically adding any voltage to the haswell processors, especially the I7's will significantly increase the heat of the processor. And having a long-term OC with a high heat processor will shorten it's lifespan, secondly get to thermal throttle which defeats the purpose of OCing in the first place.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/06/06/haswell-heat/

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061013-intel-haswell-270677.html

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=735286
 
Nexillus said:
Here's a few websites with information on it but basically adding any voltage to the haswell processors, especially the I7's will significantly increase the heat of the processor. And having a long-term OC with a high heat processor will shorten it's lifespan, secondly get to thermal throttle which defeats the purpose of OCing in the first place.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/06/06/haswell-heat/

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061013-intel-haswell-270677.html

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=735286
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Then I guess I'm lucky to be running at 4.6 with only 1.29v loading in prime at 71c on an H80i. With some more tweaking I could probably get that voltage down a little more. This was a quick and dirty overclock for me. I suppose I could push for more speed as well. I haven't really found a consensus on the safe voltage limit for the Haswell. I'm thinking 1.35 - 1.4v max.
 
Nexillus said:
Here's a few websites with information on it but basically adding any voltage to the haswell processors, especially the I7's will significantly increase the heat of the processor. And having a long-term OC with a high heat processor will shorten it's lifespan, secondly get to thermal throttle which defeats the purpose of OCing in the first place.

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/06/06/haswell-heat/

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061013-intel-haswell-270677.html

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=735286
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Not to keep pressing on the matter, but even in the links you posted, and in that youtube video, he was hitting in the 80's at 4.6GHz. Throttling doesnt even kick in until 100C and shutoff at 105C.

And again, in the video (and should be general knowledge) these temps are reached while running a SYNTHETIC benchmark using 100% of all cores at all times, which will apply in the real world to a very very small handful of people. When I'm playing most games I'm barely pushing 40% use sometimes.

Also it should be noted, again in the links you posted, that while running idle it runs cooler than a previous gen i7, which is where it's going to be sitting for a majority of the time for the majority of users.


tl:dr.... It's not really an issue unless you are expecting to run the thing 24/7 at 4.8GHz at 100% load
 
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