H100i

Cyber023 · November 19, 2013

Hi, Everybody

I am going to buy a H100i with two fans but i had some questions ??

- H100i good option?

- Does it fit in a fractal design R4

- Push pull ect.

- Which fans (dont mind the colour of noctua but they are a bit expensive

If you guys could help me with these questions that would be awesome

Cyber023

TheSLSAMG · November 19, 2013

It fits, in the front with push-pull or in the top with push or pull.

The H100i is a good option for closed-loop watercooling.

Hmm, push-pull in the front will work.

Go with either Gelid Solutions Wings, Noiseblocker eloops or Corsair SP120 Quiet Editions. Noctua fans are horrid-looking and overpriced.

xentric · November 20, 2013

I put Noctua NF-F12 on my H100i on the top of my case in only pull. The cooling performance increase over the stock was good and they're much quieter then the stock ones. Push-pull isn't necessary in my opinion because of the increase cost, marginal performance increase, and increase noise. Over all in terms of cooling performance of the Corsair H100i have been fine. BUT there is some problems I had to get around.

The problems I have ran into with my H100i is, Corsair link is terrible. It locks up all the time and I had to reinstall it so many times to get it working right. The LED has a mind of its own and it works sometimes and not others. I plugged my fans into the motherboard and used ASUS fan xpert 2 because it works 100% of time unlike Corsair link. Currently Corsair link doesn't work on windows 8.1. If I was going to do a new build today I would try and find the Swiftech h220 or I thought I saw Coolermaster released a re-branded Swiftch h220.

If you do get the H100i buy some good thermal paste and removed the pre-applied stuff and use the good stuff. The pre-applied stuff doesn't lay down evenly and you get high temps.