Corsair Nautilus 500 Cooling System

Simple and efficient

Strengths: easy to install, good cooling results

Weakness: Whiney fan/pump noise, but not that bad.

Spent some time thinking about water cooling. got convinced that building my own is the only useful solution, but then decided to give the Nautilus a try as the only one i thought promising based on the reviews. A main drawback for most of the water cooling systems is the need to change the processor's heatsink motherboard clip which would require removing the board and reinstalling it. something...
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Spent some time thinking about water cooling. got convinced that building my own is the only useful solution, but then decided to give the Nautilus a try as the only one i thought promising based on the reviews.

A main drawback for most of the water cooling systems is the need to change the processor's heatsink motherboard clip which would require removing the board and reinstalling it. something i do not particularly like to do (too much hassle)... the nautilus however comes with a nice clip that fits the existing motherboard heatsink base just fine.


The installation was relatively simple, the kit comes with everything one needs (tubes, coolant, processor base) one only needs purified water. the snapin system for the tubes made it so easy to install. all in all, it took maybe 15-20 minutes in get everything installed.

adding the water coolant is rather painful :).. use a funnel by all means.

As far as cooling goes, i am imppressed. It performed much better than i expected. I have an Athlon 64 6000 dual core overclocked to 3240 MHZ. I tried various air based cooling solutions and the processor temperature would run into the 60s C. with the Nautilus, it managed to drop the processor temperature to the mid/late 40s on the low setting. The high setting manages to drop the temperature 2-3 degrees more. So, it sure solved my heating problem.

By Octets - Jul 15, 2007

Great simple external CPU cooler,

Strengths: Easy to put together, aesthetically pleasing, cools a 6700QX beautifully.

Weakness: The inital process of fluid adding could be a bit better.

I got this after a recommendation on dfi-street, and although generally the rule of thumb for water cooling is to do it right, buy it by components and assemble it yourself. However, this seemed like a cheaper and more importantly time-saving solution, and it was highly recommended. I put it on the new Quad-core Intel 6700QX, and the installation was the simplest I've ever encountered for an H20...
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I got this after a recommendation on dfi-street, and although generally the rule of thumb for water cooling is to do it right, buy it by components and assemble it yourself. However, this seemed like a cheaper and more importantly time-saving solution, and it was highly recommended. I put it on the new Quad-core Intel 6700QX, and the installation was the simplest I've ever encountered for an H20 system (even easier than the TT Silent Water), taking around 20 minutes from start to end on a LGA775 MB).

Upon installation, it has so far done a magnificent job cooling the CPU, at least at stock speeds and voltages settings (core temps ~27C at idle, mid-30's at load). As these CPU's can take core temps up to the high 60's/low 70's (conservatively), I am confident that my CPU coolling will not be the component that limits my OC, which is exactly what I was looking for out of this product.

By geo442 - Jan 14, 2007

Corsair Nautilus 500

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