Corsair H70 CPU Water Cooler Review
Conclusions
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The Corsair H70 watercooler did what we expected from it: it overperformed all the air coolers we tested to date.
However, cooling performance is not the only feature one looks when thinking about spending money buying a liquid cooling system. Good watercoolers must offer both performance and silence, and the H70 was not even close to be silent; actually it reached the same noise level as top-performance air coolers.
The twin 120 mm fans are very powerful and, as any powerful fan, make a lot of noise. We are used to complain about non-PWM fans on mainstream coolers, but in this case we are talking about a relatively expensive product targeted to users that want more than a mainstream product has to offer. On the other hand, we believe that some users will probably connect the fans of the H70 to a fan controller, so he or she can find a balance between performance and silence.
Because its great performance, better than any air cooler we tested to date, but with a noise level that was higher than we expected, the Corsair H70 liquid cooling system deserves the Hardware Secrets Silver Award.