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."

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The state of the art in PC water cooling sucks

[lophophore]

Watercooling a PC is a great idea; but only watercooling the CPU is just plain crap.

In the photos in the linked article, there were enormous heat sinks and fans on the graphics cards, and still a case fan, and no doubt a power supply fan.

I don't want to take the heat simply out of my computer case, but completely out of my house. I have 4 computers in my office and 2 more in my lab, and my air conditioning bills are truly heinous, not to mention that even with the quietest case and CPU fans I could find, the noise is still a problem.

I would really like to see a complete water cooled setup, with heat exchangers on the GPU, on the power supply, whatever other hot parts on the main board, disk drives, and (of course) the CPU. Then I could plumb every bit of it to a heat exhanger with a big loud fan outside...

Curiously, IBM water cooled mainframes for a long time, then stopped when they started making CMOS-based mainframes. Now they are offering water cooling accessories for blade racks.