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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:

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....

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.

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?)?

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!

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.........................

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.

I am waiting for the Coolit Freezone to drop down to ~$200 with inline TEC's chilling the water it should perform much better.

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!

<--still wondering about the noise

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.

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???

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.

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

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................

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

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.

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

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 ;)

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

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.

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............