Corsair Nautilus 500 Watercooling review

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Here we can see the water-block which we'll position on the CPU of course. After we positioned it the next step is to push down the brackets to pack together with the foam pad in-between the cooler block and bracket and secure this solution down with the screw. I'll admit straight away that the foam layer is not the most original solution, it's however cost effective and admittedly it works quite well.

Corsair Nautilus 500 review - Copyright 2006 - Guru3D.com

Here we prepare the rest of the tubing for the entire flow circuit. The flow line, if you bought the kit with additional GPU or Northbridge (mainboard chipset) cooling block kit, would be as follows:
Nautilus > CPU -> -> GPUs -> Northbridge -> Nautilus

Once we secure the water-block we need to route the tubing. I'm exiting it all the way down as UV reflective tubing in the casing just looks sexy :) Make sure you leave enough tubing in there so it can pass along the graphics cards and PCI cards.

Corsair Nautilus 500 review - Copyright 2006 - Guru3D.com

The Nautilus 500 feeds of your PSU, an included power cable runs from the four-pin connector to the PCI slot cover plate, which on it's end connects to a Molex connector coming from the system's power supply. 

Corsair Nautilus 500 review - Copyright 2006 - Guru3D.com

It takes its power directly from the system's PSU and turns on automatically when the system is powered up which is simply great. The other two wires can be connected to your mainboard fan connectors. They'll make sure the rotational speed of the pump and fan can be monitored.

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