Prolimatech Megahalems or... Corsair H50?

[quantum112]

So, here's the deal. I've been running this Q6600 for a year now. At stock. Huge waste - I know, but for a while now I've not had the financial abilities to put some decent cooling together, so it ran on Spire's trademark cr*pfan. Either way, I'm planning to up this badboy to 3.4 or 3.6 GHz, to lift the bottleneck off my card (4870X2) and get my money's worth from this processor.
So, what'll it be, Megahalems in a push-pull configuration or a Corsair H50? I'm having a hard time finding anything about the Corsair H50 and it's temps on a Q6600, apart from a youtube video where a guy had 50° full load on his Q6600 on 3.6 GHz, but I'll not make a purchase based on just that. Would you say the Corsair would outperform the air cooler while being more quiet or should I just save the extra cash and pop in the Halems and be done with it? Anyone have temps to provide of the Halems at Q6600 at 3.6 GHz? Maybe even 3.8 Any advice is appreciated, thanks

 

[Shadow703793]

Megahalems gets my vote. It will be better or similar to the H50 in performance.
Here's a review of the H50: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-h50-fort120,2370.html

 

[Conumdrum]

The jury is still out on the H50. Most tiny watercooling kits have been very poor long term performers. Somethings just fails on them. The H50 is just too new.

It also means you have to reverse the rear fan so the rad gets cool air into it, which on some cases really messes up the internal airflow. The fan that comes with it has been replaced by a few H50 owners so they get cooling as good as the Mega or other top air coolers. Meaning LOUDER.

So I'd stay away from any tiny kit watercooling. Actual real watercooling for your chip would be about $200 or so.
Like this one. It's adequate and you won't be temp limited on your overclock, and less noise too.

The CPU block is okay, not the best but pretty good.
http://www.petrastechshop.com/pecoba.html

My Rig

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=604016