H100 owners, intake or exhaust ?

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Nov 2011 at 08:48

Watched TTL review of this cooler and he set it up as exhaust. Corsair recommends in their set up video as intake.

If you have the H100, which direction are you running?

At present I'm running it in a Haf-X as intake with 140mm rear fan as exhaust. Performance is pretty good.

Howling · 10 Nov 2011 at 09:01

I run mine as Exhaust. You don't wanna be pumping hot air into the case.

Michaeljcox24 · 10 Nov 2011 at 09:14

so do you have your rear as intake or exhaust because surely hot air from the gpu gets sucked through the rad?

Crixus00 · 10 Nov 2011 at 09:22

I have mine as exhaust through the roof, and am very happy with the performance. Idle's at 45 degrees and peaks at 70 when playing Battlefield 3. I leave the H100 at setting 2 all of the time.

I have 1 intake fan on the front and 1 on the side.

Exhaust fan on the back and H100 through the roof.

Spec in sig.

Helios1234 · 11 Nov 2011 at 07:05

Do it based on what would create the best airflow. Corsair don't really suggest any preferred orientation because cases will differ.

cavemanoc · 11 Nov 2011 at 07:41

Best performance will (almost)always come from setting it up as intake - simply because you want to coolest air flowing over the Radiator to get the best cooling. If your GFX card is air cooled then you have to balance the need for the best CPU cooling against the added heat in the case heating up your card.

Michaeljcox24 · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:36

Well, my card is aftermarket cooled and doesn't get anywhere near as hot as a 470 does without it (still can't emphasise how much to people how much the green zalman coolers do for the 400 series)

got a 140 mm exhaust, cpu underload at 4Ghz reaches mid 50's with the H100.

Just being a straight thinking bloke, heat rising at all that, I wondered if everyone else was doing it different.

panyan · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:57

i ran mine as exhaust - was getting great temps with the gentle typhoons - have a look at build in sig

Reznor · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:52

I set mine up as a intake as i wanted cool air drawn over my rad. i Get roughly 30-32 idle temps and about 65-66 degrees on load using intel burn test.

GM@N · 12 Nov 2011 at 13:33

I have intakes setup like this

Seems to give the best temps and a nice vacuum effect.

cavemanoc · 12 Nov 2011 at 19:43

That's probably the most efficient setup you'll get without some fancy ducting - gives a nice positive overpressure to avoid dusk build up as well