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Thanks tot the Guys at BLT who seems to be the first ones in stock I was able to get a Corsair H70. It came in on Friday and was installed. Below are some picture of the production Corsair H70 so you know what to expect. I have also collected some real world information by comparing the Course H50 with the H70 as installed in a beck test system.


Bench Test system specs:

• MyOpenPC.com DOMA PRO PCI open chassis
  Asus Rampage II Gene
  Intel I7 920, overclocked to 4.2 GHz (21 x 200)
  G.Skill DDR3-2000 PC3 16000, CL 6-9-6-24-2N, F3-16000CL6T-6GBPID, 12 GB installed (2 kits) All 12 GB was running at the rated spec.
  EVGA GTX 480 SC,, overclocked to 800 MHz
  EVGA GTX 295 FTW,, overclocked to 702 MHz
  Western Digital Caviar Black
  SamSung Writemaster DVD
  Corsair H50 CPU Cooler / Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
  
  Windows 7 Ultimate x64
  Everest 5.5 beta
  Folding@home running one SMP 8 Way client and three GPU Clients.
  LinX

First a few pictures of the H70as I received. Apologies for the pics. I was using borrowing friend's camera and didn't quick get used to it. Plus no ability to white balance.

After the quick unboxing there will be a few screen captures for the before and after temps of the system.

Since Corsair H70 is going to be installed on a bench test platform there is no harm in assembling now.






















The Bench Tech system before with the Corsair H50 installed. Since the mounting hardware is the same for the both the H50 and the H70, the old hardware was kept and resued. The CPU was cleaned in preparation for the new H70 and the TIM that was pre-installed on it.






The Bench test system before with the Corsair H70 installed.

Here are some screen shots of the system running with the Corsair H50. While not the subject of this review I also have to note the G.SKill RAM works beautifully in this Asus motherboard!









This temps are for the system on the H50 when running Folding@home. 1 CPU Client doing 8-way SMP, plus 1 GTX 480 GPU Client, and Two GTX 295 GPU Clients. Process Lasso is ensuring the CPUs and CPUs are properly managed so that all the Folding@home clients makeing the best use of the CPU under Windows 7 x64.



This temps are for the system after the upgrade to the on the H50 when running Folding@home. 1 CPU Client doing 8-way SMP, plus 1 GTX 480 GPU Client, and Two GTX 295 GPU Clients. Process Lasso is ensuring the CPUs and CPUs are properly managed so that all the Folding@home clients makeing the best use of the CPU under Windows 7 x64



Also noticed was an large reduction in temperature wen running LinX. The Following temps are for the system running on the H70. Before these temps were hovering around the 98 to 100 degree C region.

The overall results of the testing showed the Corsair H70 was able to cool about 12 degrees C better than the H50 in the same conditions.

More pics here if interested: http://picasaweb.google.com/vectrexer/H ... directlink

nice, now i need to replace my 50

ps, do you really need all those posts? when they're linked to they can all go on one post

Playing with one now. Will have my take on it soon, very soon.

So far it looks like it performs good and also looks great!

Saw a bunch of gamers with them at Quakecon:

Silverghost wrote: Focusing your camera. Learn it

I would if that was my camera. It was a loaner and not a good one. Focus off a lot. No manual white balance available and what it did have was not that great. Relatively small focus range for the hard switch macro mode.

Next time I'll wait for my own camera.


Yes, the pictures posted this time in my LR forum post were definitely sucky.