Corsair H70 AIO Water CPU Cooler and Socket 1151

[RareAir23]

Hi all. So in this forum (and also the computers cases sub-forum) I am posing a 2-part question. Each part is a key question I want to make sure I have a moment of clarity on for my Skylake build down the road. So as I am building my next machine on Skylake/Z170 I have on my old Core i7 950 Nehalem/Bloomfield CPU a Corsair H70 AIO Water CPU cooler. It for certain fits Socket 1366. According to the specs I pulled up on it, it also supports Socket 1155 and 1156 but not 1150 or 1151. Would the H70 based on this be safe enough to place onto a Socket 1151 CPU or should I buy one of the later releases of Corsair AIO CPU Water coolers to guarantee something doesn't go wrong with cooling my CPU. Thanks in advance for your answers and advice. Part 2 will soon be written in the computer cases sub-forum. Out!

 

[Araxie]

You will be fine with the H70. All sockets 115X(1156/1155/1150/1151) use the same mounting mechanism.. all of the newer corsair units are mostly based in the same asetek mounting kit as the H70.. the other parts easily noticeable by the square based block/pump are cooliT(h100/h80 as examples) which its different however they all will work equally in those sockets...

 

[Joseph_Ocbina]

You will be fine with the H70. All sockets 115X(1156/1155/1150/1151) use the same mounting mechanism.. all of the newer corsair units are mostly based in the same asetek mounting kit as the H70.. the other parts easily noticeable by the square based block/pump are cooliT(h100/h80 as examples) which its different however they all will work equally in those sockets...

^ This is correct