Corsair H50 socket fit issues

notlouis · Dec 13, 2014

So I'm putting together a new build (first in a long time) and for CPU coolers I'm looking at the Corsair Hydro Series H50 Quiet Edition (or possibly the CM Hyper 212 EVO). As far motherboards go I'm probably going with the Asus Maximus VII Hero and I'm wondering if it will fit or not. Now I've done a little reading and while it says on newegg, corsair's wesite, ect that the H50 will fit an LGA1150 socket, I've read a bunch of reviews saying people have had issues with it not fitting. Has anyone used this cooler/motherboard combo? Or know if they will fit together?

For reference here is the build I have so far (haven't actually bought anything yet):

-Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
-Corsair Hydro Series H50 Quiet Edition (or CM Hyper 212 EVO)
-Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
-G.Skill Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory
-Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
-EVGA GeForce GTX 980 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card
-NZXT Phantom (Black) ATX Full Tower Case
-Corsair 860W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Thanks for any help!

Viking2121 · Dec 23, 2014

I'v never had the h50 on an Intel build, but I can certainly tell you that the Hyper 212 will out perform the h50. So i'd get that instead as nobody seems to have issues with that.

dennphill · Jan 11, 2015

Doesn't fit. I just bought from NewEgg last week (and was assembling today, until this!) an ASUS Z97M-PLUS motherboard (LGA 1150) with a (very good priced!) i5-4440 (and stoopid me, naturally not overclocking and I should have been content with the stock Intel cooler), I purchased also a Corsair H50 Hydro (because of a $20 rebate) to all go inside a new build with a Corsair Carbide Air 240. Anyway, the back-plate that came with the H50 just does not fit the 4 pre-drilled cooler mounting holes in the motherboard (they are in a 75mm square). The back-plate has three options to mount the screw nuts in holes at the 4 corners, but you cannot get to a 75mm spacing. I just put in a ticket to Corsair support - let's see how they handle this - thinking that perhaps they have a different back-plate that fits the 1150 better. (If they don't, my "reverse-Lithuanian engineering" fix will probably be to just clip the thin dies of the back-plate and just mount the sides - you can get a 75mm spacing on each side of the fat part of the back-plate - it's just the thin parts need to be overly stretched or shrunk to get it square. Less elegant, but it'll ptobably work fine, and you'll never see it on the rear of the MB.) Hope that helps, notlouis. More if/when I hear from Corsair Support.

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