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Corsair Demos Easy Watercooling PC Rig
Steve from Hexus writes "Trying to lure more people into watercooling their PCs, Corsair have created the Nautilus 500. It consists primarily of an external unit housing the radiator, reservoir and pump, which sits atop the PC's case. Installed inside the PC is the CPU water-block, which can be fitted without removing the motherboard. At HEXUS we've got pictures from CES of a system with the cooler installed."
Incidentally we now have more pictures of the XBox cooler taken at CES, showing just how invasive it is.
As for the Corsair Nautilus, it is news because it's a seemingly very easy to install watercooling kit, better than anything else that springs to mind.
Regards,
Steve from Hexus.
Watercooling in a rackmount solution, especially one which may me mission critical, would be fairly risky. Failure of the watercooling system would result in loss of the server and possibly loss of other servers.
:) At least there's less risk.
I think rackmounts will be fine with aircooling for the time being
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I can honestly say I've never heard of a PC watercooling unit leaking onto a motherboard, and I tend to be quite active in Overclocking and Modding circles. This is basicly becuase everybody is so scared of this obvious danger that they take extreme steps to make sure it isn't going to happen. I would imagine however, that if it moved from a niche market into the mainstream, the resulting drop in quality control in order to push down prices becuase of competition would end up in some nasty accidents.
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I can honestly say I have heard of a PC watercooling units leaking, but ususally NOT onto the motherboard itself. Because of the horizontal mountings they usually tend to leak down onto the northbridge and or graphics/audio cards that lie below, frying them nicely. Now that I have that snarky comment out of the way. The worst offenders are the ones that have the clear acrylic tops over the copper bottom plates. Seems the acrylic units tend to crack around the connectors because of people being so careful to prevent leaks they overtighten the clamps putting undue stress on them causing premature failure of the part.
Uh, no. The oil does very little cooling, about 20%. The balance is direct heat transfer from the cylinder walls and cylinder heads to cooling air via cooling fins. If it was truly oil cooled, there would be oil passages throughout the heads and cylinder walls. But the oil passages only go to bearings and other wear surfaces.
The main reason for the oil cooler is to keep the oil temperatures down so the oil doesn't break down and lose its lubricating properties.
The Beetle needed oil changes no more frequently than other cars of the era (3000 mi), but was less tolerant of extended intervals due to a lack of filtration and the aforementioned heating.
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Yeah but that is all internal. This is not news because Koolance has had their EXOS line for over 2yrs already. Way to innovate, eh?
Still, I've done both internal and external watercooling setups, and internal is definately easier and neater, even if it does take maybe another half-hour to set up nicely (unless you're doing some heavy case-modding to fit the parts, in which case you know what you're doing).
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