[H] Corsair H50.. impressed

[tmservo]

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 :)