Corsair Hydro H100 x 240 mm Radiator Dual 120 mm PWM Fans Liquid CPU Cooler - Black

PROS:Performance, performance, performance. Dropped my idle temps by 3-5C and dropped my gaming load temps by 10-12C compared to my Noctua NH-D14 that I was using previously. That's absolutely amazing. I get the same temperature results now with my chip at 1.5V 5 GHz as my NH-D14 gave me at 1.4V 4.8 GHz.Aesthetics compared to a big air tower are nice too... looks much better than a giant heatsink in your case.5 year warranty is fantastic!Fit in my Cooler Master Storm Trooper case with zero problems.----------CONS:Installation, while not particularly difficult, is not particularly easy either. Took me a little over an hour to replace my D14 with the H110, from the time the H110 arrived to when I had it booted up.The instruction manual is pretty minimalist. Again not bad, but not particularly helpful either.Corsair recommends you use the fans as intake, but I think that's really dumb. You don't want hot air exhausting into your case, since it fights the natural pattern of hot air rising up out of your case.MAKE SURE IT WILL FIT YOUR CASE-----------OTHERI am using this cooler with 2 modifications. I am using a pair of Noctua NF-A14 FLX fans (as exhaust), instead of the corsair fans here. I also used Noctua's NT-H1 thermal compound instead of whatever stock compound this cooler comes with.I also have the fans on a fan controller for silence when the computer is at idle.Relevant system specs:ASRock z68 extreme7 gen3i7-2600k @ 5 GHz (1.5V)16GB DDR3 2133 c11Storm Trooper case

First of all, this thing is huge. I wanted a liquid CPU cooler for my rig for a few reasons: 1) It's quieter than air cooled, 2) It keeps the CPU much cooler than air cooled systems, 3) It looks a lot cooler (pun intended) than air cooled CPU coolers. I use it on an Intel i5-4690K 3.5Ghz OC @ 4.5GHz and during heavy loads it runs at around 50-60°C, if that high. At regular everyday use, it's at 25-40°C. It varies depending on what I'm doing (usually running multiple things at one time). I don't mind those temps at all.This rad/fan combo works amazingly. I have the 140mm fans in between the case and the radiator pulling the air through the radiator (I tried both ways and it seems better and quieter in this configuration than having the fans pushing air through the radiator). Also, I picked this one over the H100i mainly because this radiator was bigger and could dissipate more heat than the H100i. There were also less plugs with the H110 (just one for the pump and two for the fans) whereas the H100i, I believe, has one more plug for monitoring fan speed.If you have the room like I do in the Corsair 750D, this is definitely the best one you could get without going into actual water-cooling systems.

Had the H90 installed in my other gaming build and this thing is larger than my oil cooler on my old Kawasaki GPz 750 motorcycle I had! With the two 120mm high flow fans from Corsair acting to push the cooler room air through the cooler vents from the front, for me it's the perfect setup. Running 16GB of DDR4 and the 780 ti for graphics the air being vented from the top is just as cool as the air in the room, which stays pretty cool. So once the replacement MOBO comes back in and I can monitor CPU specs like they should be I'll be back with an update but so far very impressed.Be advised I don't know about other board setups, (running the ASUS Rampage V) but with the Corsair Graphite case and having the H110 cooling setup in the front, the hoses to the CPU reach fine. BUT if you add memory cooling to those already heavy heat sinker DD4 sticks, the hoses will just barely clear the memory fan tops with their sharp metal corners. Memory in the left banks of course are uneffected. So in the end I elected to return the memory coolers since one, I think in their inherent design they will stay cool enough as is and two, I don't want to have to worry over time of having a sudden cooling leak inside a $2,500 machine. Sometimes less is better.