I've read a lot of good things about the H50 myself and I believe Corsair
is due to bring out an H60 soon that is between it and the H70 which most
users complain of being too noisy.
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:22:39 -0600, <[email protected]> wrote:
I normally am not a big believer in these all in one kits. But I've
been using a zalman kit in my living room for my media center, but it's
been noisy and hasn't really held down the temperatures on my Phenom
X6/1055. But I found one of these H50s at Microcenter near me for
$59. I decided to take a gamble on it, and I have to admit, I am
really surprised. Temperatures, even at full load (encoding to x264
from VC1) stays under 48C, which is about a 12 degree advantage on the
Zalman, but more importantly, suddenly my media center is DEAD quiet.
I've slowly finally configured the media center the way I wanted. I'm
using a Ceton Cable Card controller, so I get 4 tuners that way, and
then extra ATSC through a SiliconDust. I'm using a Radeon 5670 for
video.
Bluray playback is solid, game performance is more then managable, and
I power out all my extenders with ease. I'm running Win7Pro x64, with
16GB RAM at the moment.. normally I'd say "what a waste" but RAM was so
damn cheap I didn't have to sweat it. But easily, the two best buys
were the CETON and the H50. I am 100% sold on these, as long as it
stays working :)
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