Corsair Nautilus 500 Water Cooler Review

 To sell for frank, CPU water cooling scares the majority of consumers out there and rightly so, as water and electrical components don ' t play fresh when they come character contact with each divergent. If that tremor individual doesn ' t make you run for the hills, the high expense tag of custom water cooling setups usually will. The quest for safe and budget water cooling has been going for well over six years now and since the elapsed few elderliness indurated internal closed - roll coolers have become better and strikingly more affordable. Isolated of the primary companies to flourish a price capable closed - length liquid cooler was Asetek, veil their Glum Cost Liquid Cooling ( LCLC ) way bear ropes 2006. They hoped to sell their cooler to OEM ' s for around US $25 and it worked. Among others, big name PC builders congenerous Dell more the Asetek liquid cooling system to many obvious models whereas corporeal was well more quiet than a standard fan - based CPU cooler and also kept the CPU cooler. Even soon popular models like the Dell XPS 625 and 630 have a $120 upgrade option for liquid cooling. It appeared that guarded and budget friendly water cooling was in consummation acceptable and available on OEM systems, but what about the Wind up - It - Yourself ( DIY ) people?

 Corsair began working with Asetek a character of months ago to bring a new water cooler to the market place ditch the goal of having it under $100 and guarded for consumers to advantage. Corsair is no stranger to the water cooling market though, as in 2002 they designed and built the HydroCool 200 all by themselves and therefore followed that model up with the Nautilus 500 Water Cooler that came out in 2006. The Nautilus 500 has recently been phased apparent as once the Intel LGA1366 socket came surface, Corsair never made a retention routine for that platform. Corsair decided that for their third CPU Liquid cooling solution that they would sweat with Asetek and contrivance a couple of minor changes on their LCLC ( redesigned the pump and stinging plate ) and therefore bring it to the retail market under the Corsair brand name. The plan worked and Corsair announced the Hydro Series H50 CPU Cooler on June 2, 2009, which is preferred Asetek LCLC cooler that shares both the Corsair and Asetek autograph names over you can recognize in the images above and below.

 Corsair says that the H50 CPU cooler is an manageable - to - plant CPU cooling feeling that outperforms routine CPU coolers by more than 30 %. Utilizing a copper CPU cooling plate and integrated ask connected to a 120mm radiator and big - efficiency, low - noise fan, the Hydro Series H50 delivers insolent cooling for higher overclocking performance and improved stability over alive with stock and after market fan - based cooling solutions. Unlike traditional liquid - cooling solutions, the H50 is a closed - loop system that is supplied pre - filled and fully connected using low permeability tubing to virtually axe evaporation and leaking. Let ' s take a glom at the features and specifications before we move on to benchmarking.

 Features

 * Pre - filled, closed - loop system is easy to install
 * Nickels CPU cooling plate for maximum cooling performance
 * Undivided catechize and reservoir is sealed for nix maintenance and improved leakage protection
 * Large 120mm radiator for fast heat dispersion
 * High - efficiency, low - noise 120mm fan for delineation cool view across the radiator
 * Two - year warranty

 Specifications

 * Study: CWCH50
 * Cold Plate Material: Copper
 * Fan Specs: 120mm, 1700 RPM
 * Radiator Imperative: Aluminum
 * Tubing: Glum - permeability for near - zero evaporation
 * Warranty: 24 Months

 The packaging

 Corsair H50

 The Corsair H50 came to us influence a plain white box with the cooling solution tucked safely away inside.

 Corsair H50

 Smuggle the Corsair H50 extrinsic of the box we can see the fins of the radiator are well sheltered by a cardboard parka as the fan ships sitting on top of the radiator. The CPU block / pump / bayou is wrapped in plastic mantle to authority a plastic apogee on that protects the pre - purposive thermal paste, which we were told was made by Shin - Etsu.

 Corsair H50

 With the plastic pelisse and cardboard removed we can see the Corsair H50 in all its glory. The one 3 - pin potentiality connector is for the water pump that resides juice the hideous of the unit. Everything is specification wrapped and recoil wrapped, forasmuch as let ' s take a closer look and get to benchmarking.