Topic: Corsair Issues Warning of Possible H100 Fan Controller Issues

[jj]

Over the last 24 hours, we have been hearing that Corsair’s high-end Hydro Series H100 high performance liquid CPU cooler has been temporarily removed from some retailers’ shelves.
Affected Hydro Series H100 series units belong to batch #11359403 (the number under the first barcode in the serial number sticker on your H100 package).

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[Juppy]

So had you bought one of those already or were you still in the "checking it out" phase?

[jj]

At least it affects only a single batch of this cooler.

I'm still pondering the purchase of one - the price of the H100 here in Australia is rather prohibitive (AUS$169 is the cheapest I found).
On top of that, I also need a proper case to house this in - what I have now is simply - well, shameful (hence the no pictures in the System Builders thread).
Kind of torn between the BitFenix Colossus and the Corsair 650D :/

I have been spying others, but 'true' water cooling goes against my grain (liquid + electronics = not good bed fellows).
That said, this setup, coupled with some really decent Noctua fans, would cool *any* system just fine ;)
As it is, I can happily run my 2600K @ 4.9GHz with my crappy Thermaltake Frio 24/7, and I know the boundary for my particular CPU is around the 5.7GHz mark, if I had the right cooling, so I'll see where this leads me, once I do get some decent cooling :)

Stay tuned for more updates, once I get my next cooling solution ;)

[Juppy]

Well, good luck with whatever you do finally decide on.   I've always kinda been the same way with water cooling.....I think it looks pretty neat, but then when I think about using it, images of the cooling system springing a leak and making my mobo go *poof!* come to mind and I chicken out.   I saw a system once that had some kind of dye put in the water that made the clear tubes glow a funky neon green color under the type of light he had in his case.   Looked like he had some kind of toxic radiation sludge in there or something.   I thought that looked so cool, but it still wasn't cool enough to overcome the "leak nightmare" and make me want to try it myself.