Corsair Nautilus500 Water Cooling Kit Review

**Capper** · May 1st, 2006

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Since its adoption into the mainstream, watercooling has always been about compromises. On one hand, if you wanted the best performance possible you more than likely had to look to custom kits from a boutique water cooling manufacturer. These custom kits allowed you to pick and choose the best possible part for each step in the water cooling "loop". Typically hard to set up and expensive, they are definitely geared toward the enthusiast crowd.

On the other hand, those that wanted the advantages of water cooling, but who either on a budget, or not so mechanically inclined were for the most part forced to look at prefabbed kits. The problem with these kits was that as well as they fit the description of "budget" and "easy to install", their performance in the end was not much better than one could typically achieve with high end air cooling.

Corsair Nautilus500 Water Cooling Kit Review
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drew and not u · May 1st, 2006

I can't wait to pick one of these up in the next month or so!

Lead Head · May 1st, 2006

Is it possible to change the water block?

June 5th, 2006

Yea just use a different waterblobk...

**Capper** · June 5th, 2006

you can use any block you want, as BBMod's said, just make sure you are using a 3/8 block

polobunny · June 6th, 2006

Looks easy for sure. Think i'll get one at work see if people catchup on it, since it's fairly inexpensive.
Is the fan noisy? I bet it's not really noisy seeing at how much RPM it turns, but never know.

**Capper** · June 6th, 2006

We don't use the "****", "****", or any other variation around here......thats the first thing that chases off new people wanting to ask question or trying to learn.
As to the fan, you can hear it, but if you have any other fans in your system it isn't really noticable..... I think the Nautilus is a damn fine cooler for the price and ease of installation

June 5th, 2006	#5
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June 6th, 2006	#7
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,040 Blog Entries: 6	We don't use the "**", "**", or any other variation around here......thats the first thing that chases off new people wanting to ask question or trying to learn. As to the fan, you can hear it, but if you have any other fans in your system it isn't really noticable..... I think the Nautilus is a damn fine cooler for the price and ease of installation INTEL E8400 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 4GB DDR3-1600 // Palit HD 4870 // Antec 1200 // Seagate 750GB HDD // Zalman CNPS9700 // BFG ES 800W PSU

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polobunny T-Rex Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 5,058 Blog Entries: 6	Looks easy for sure. Think i'll get one at work see if people catchup on it, since it's fairly inexpensive. Is the fan noisy? I bet it's not really noisy seeing at how much RPM it turns, but never know.