The Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler Pictures

by **Apoptosis** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:25 am

The Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler Pictures

Corsair’s Nautilus 500 will dissipate up to 500W of heat and has been designed to sit neatly on top of your PC case. This is Corsair's very first high flow water cooler and is aimed at those wanted to spend $150 and under. This means the MSRP is set at $150 and companies like Newegg will be well under this price.

The Corsair Press Photo:

The Real Unit and Water Block

The back of the Corsair Nautilus 500:

After Putting It Together:

by **-mogwai** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:30 am

wow, that thing isn't SO attractive to look at but, i guess that's what you get for $150. at least it performs well... i guess that's all that matters, right?

i wonder if it's moddable....

by **Soliex** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:23 am

Water cooling isnt meant for big audiences and this looks like what they are trying to do.

If someone wants watercooling its better for them to invest a little money into it to make sure they get the performance they want.

Im planning to go watercooling for nothing less than $400 and with the parts im lookin at now watercooling alone is going to cost me $500. All Danger Den Products.

by **FZ1** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:42 am

I have the Swiftech kit H2O kit and it does a great job of cooling and it's ~$200. You don't necessatily have to spend gobs of money to get good performance.

I'd like to see how this performs and how loud/quiet it is. Do you know what block it uses (the other Corsair kit uses the Swiftech Storm I believe?)?

by **kenc51** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:55 am

Vstrom wrote: Do you know what block it uses (the other Corsair kit uses the Swiftech Storm I believe?)?

In the second pic you can see it, just about....It doesn't look like anything Swiftech makes!

by **Bio-Hazard** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:39 am

The first Corsair water cooler (Hydro Cool) used a block designed by Delphi (Micro Channel), my bud Stev was on the design team. The next generation of water cooling (Cool) used a modified version of Swiftechs 600x series of water blocks, other than that, it was all Swifty standard parts. This version so I'm told uses all exsisting parts that were on hand (no new engineering) to save costs and make for a lower price for the end users.

And yes, great water cooling can be done for far less that the above stated amounts. It comes down to doing your homework and doing some of the work yourself......................... :shock:

by **Bio-Hazard** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:34 pm

A little birdie told me that the system is 3/8 tubing, uses the Delphi/Laing DDC pump and the block should be the latest generation Delphi. Not sure as to what radiator is in the unit as of yet, but I'll keep checking.

by **infinitevalence** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 2:59 pm

I am waiting for the Coolit Freezone to drop down to ~$200

with inline TEC's chilling the water it should perform much better.

by **Apoptosis** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:36 pm

Rumor has it that this water cooler is back on track and will be out shortly. The water pump company sent Corsair the wrong pumps with the correct labels, but Corsair noticed the mistake before units were sent into the channel!

by **FZ1** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:07 pm

<--still wondering about the noise

by **Apoptosis** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:10 pm

Well since i have never heard this model with the right pump I am too. I know they knew the pump was incorrect based on the noise level from the one supplied to them incorrectly.

by **zachig** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:26 pm

WOW!!!

That's a very nice looking Watercooling system from Corsair. It has a sleek design, and according to what I've heard, a pretty good performance as well.

Is this one the new WC system that was presented in the last CES exhibition???

by **Bio-Hazard** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:50 pm

Yup, that's the newest one out, haven't seen any reviews on it yet either. It'll be interesting to see how it performs with only a single 120 radiator.

by **zachig** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:54 pm

Here's a review I've found. Too bad it is not in english.

http://www.nokytech.net/corsair_nautilu ... 869-a.html

There are also "Hexus.net" short report and first impressions from CES:
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=4328

by **Bio-Hazard** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 12:57 pm

Seen all those short report things, I still trying to pull somemore info out of a friend of mine about it. He was involved with part of the design work on it, but he's not talking much................ :shock:

by **zachig** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:37 pm

If you find or get some info from him, feel free to share it with us, ha? :lol:

by **stev** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:39 am

zachig wrote:If you find or get some info from him, feel free to share it with us, ha?

Ha-ha, my lips are sealed. :mrgreen:

All that I'll say can be found in the SystemCooling forums.

I can't say much more, else the product roll out will not be a surprise. $\:D/$

http://www.systemcooling.com/forums/ind ... entry33967

by **kenc51** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:51 am

You're very welcome to LRForums stev......!

Systemcooling is always my first port of call when deciding on any new cooling solution, after LR that is ;)

by **FZ1** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:39 am

Welcome to the forum Stev - I have my eye on that system

by **Bio-Hazard** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:29 pm

stev wrote:
zachig wrote:If you find or get some info from him, feel free to share it with us, ha?

Ha-ha, my lips are sealed.

All that I'll say can be found in the SystemCooling forums. I can't say much more, else the product roll out will not be a surprise. $\:D/$

http://www.systemcooling.com/forums/ind ... entry33967

Welcome to the Forums Steve.
I guess everone is going to have to wait till the offical release of the kit............

The Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler Pictures

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