Review: Corsair H150i PRO

#5508656 Posted on: 01/08/2018 08:11 PM

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Nice and quiet.

#5508660 Posted on: 01/08/2018 08:23 PM

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Fairly unimpressive cooling for such a big radiator in my opinion. The older units like the H110 performed better, and some other closed loop coolers from other manufacturers.

EDIT:
Same results supported by another review:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/corsair-h150i-pro-closed-loop-aio-cpu-cooler-review,review-34149-2.html

Although it is quiet, it's cooling performance is MEH. And just before I edited this post I've seen later posts supporting air cooling & Noctua - I fully agree!

EDIT#2: although it did seem to perform a lot better in this review, and performed in the upper echelons when normalising for noise at 40dB:
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#5508663 Posted on: 01/08/2018 08:27 PM

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Good old Noctua all the way.

#5508666 Posted on: 01/08/2018 08:36 PM

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Yeah Beyond the slight noise reduction, this is pretty unimpressive all things considering. Then again i will keep to air cooling, i'd rather not risk water damage

#5508678 Posted on: 01/08/2018 09:30 PM

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I'm one of those (few) that aren't that bothered by a louder system if the cooling performance is good. And from that POV this brings hardly anything over my older H115i. Sure the RGB is nice if you are into it, but if you go that route, why not include 3 ML120 RGB fans instead of the standard gray ones? I mean if somebody buys this for the RGB you can be sure he will also swap the fans for actual RGB LED fans (and preferaby that person will also go for Corsair RGB fans, good old strategy right there...).

#5508693 Posted on: 01/08/2018 10:11 PM

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Fairly unimpressive cooling for such a big radiator in my opinion. The older units like the H110 performed better, and some other closed loop coolers from other manufacturers.

EDIT:
Same results supported by another review:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/corsair-h150i-pro-closed-loop-aio-cpu-cooler-review,review-34149-2.html

Although it is quiet, it's cooling performance is MEH. And just before I edited this post I've seen later posts supporting air cooling & Noctua - I fully agree!

I have ti agree with this. The performance is lacking for such a big and expensive cooler although the low noise it makes is a very positive point. I´m curious to see how the smaller one performs.

#5508695 Posted on: 01/08/2018 10:16 PM

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Still rocking my H110i after 4 years still pering .

#5508717 Posted on: 01/09/2018 12:41 AM

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For half the price you have a Noctua NH-D15S which is as quiet, has the same temps and no risk of leaking.

Not to mention if your pump dies you're shit out of luck, while the D15S can still manage passive cooling untill you get a new Fan if it would die.

Watercooling is overrated.

#5508720 Posted on: 01/09/2018 12:53 AM

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Same reason why I evidently changed my mind on wanting an AIO, water damage, I wouldn't want to look forward to water killing my I7 7800x that I got an month ago. With the amount these aio units cost, you would think they would do better. My Thermalright SB-E Extreme is still holding up and I had it forever, as it going on 6 years give or take.

#5508735 Posted on: 01/09/2018 01:55 AM

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Funny story....I tried a 360 rad on my H110gt with 3 Cosair sp120 fans controlled through the motherboard but i could not better the performance I was getting from the 280mm rad and 140mm fans that it came with, Im quessing the selling point is the rgb but that doesnt justify the £184 that Scan are charging despite it having the plain non led mag fans, if they did an white led fan version i`d probably go for that.

#5508736 Posted on: 01/09/2018 01:56 AM

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Not to mention if your pump dies you're crap out of luck, while the D15S can still manage passive cooling untill you get a new Fan if it would die.

Watercooling is overrated.
I learned that one a hard way. My corsair H60 pump died after 4 years and there nothing I could do to fix it. Temperatures are skyrocking if water is not circulating.

For air cooler, if cooler dies, just replace it. Heck, passive cooling might just be enough. Simple solutions are more reliable.

Not going back to water. Too complicated and too many things can go wrong.

#5508737 Posted on: 01/09/2018 01:58 AM

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For half the price you have a Noctua NH-D15S which is as quiet, has the same temps and no risk of leaking.

Not to mention if your pump dies you're crap out of luck, while the D15S can still manage passive cooling untill you get a new Fan if it would die.

Watercooling is overrated.
But an aio doesnt put a load of weight on the motherboard....to each his own i quess, as for leaks...never had one from my H110i gt

#5508738 Posted on: 01/09/2018 02:03 AM

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I don't see any issue with weight, unless your motherboard made of cardboard.

Leaks are very rare and probably caused by user error. The issue with aio is needless difficulty, for a little reward. If something goes wrong with it, you out of luck.

Air solution is simple and you have clear vision of what is happening.

People who serious about water cooling make their own custom loops for actually better cooling performance. And they understand what is happening and can troubleshoot it, if something might go wrong.
With aio, you stuck with blackbox that you can't look inside and just hope it will work.

#5508739 Posted on: 01/09/2018 02:08 AM

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ML fans definitely help with less noise, bit still for half price as above guys said you can have NH-D15S or NH-D15, Cryorig R1 Ultimate or Universal, Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT and few others which in many cases outperform AIO or CLC

Recently fitted on friend build Thermalright Le Grand Macho RT after his H115i failed,he is running 5960x with 4.5Ghz at 1.285v and his temperatures after testing are better than with H115i, previously he could dream of running 4.5Ghz, he run 4.3GHz for while because temperatures has been way to high for his liking

Same we are went on GPU cooling, borrowed him my old Raijintek Morpheus II cooler just to do few quick tests on his GTX1080Ti Founders Edition, as many know, stock Founders Edition cooler is just too loud, under load in gaming his temperatures are in 42-46°C with 2144MHz at 1.093v and +450MHz on VRAM with Raijintek Morpheus II, after testing he bought same cooler and now he is using this cooler on his Ti,if he is happy with it, I would say yes very

If I would go with AIO then EK Phoenix or Swiftech but still for same amount I can build simple loop which will perform better than these AIO

Hope this helps

Thanks, Jura

#5508741 Posted on: 01/09/2018 02:19 AM

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Hi there

As above with AIO or CLC you are stuck with what you are got, no upgrades etc, yes if you want to can hack it or get AIO like is Swiftech, Alphacool or EK etc which can be expanded but with this you are stuck, if something happens you can pray RMA will honour warranty

If I would run 2*GPUs then I would stay with air and wouldn't consider go route of water loop, but running 3*GPUs and water cooling has been only option for me, if I can I still recommend go with air cooler setup than AIO/CLC

Hope this helps

Thanks, Jura