Corsair Nautilus500 External Cooling Kit

VL writes to tell us that they recently got a chance to review the latest external water cooling kit from Corsair. It seems that in addition to the performance boost it was also extremely easy to use. From the review: "As you can see above, the Nautilus500 was significantly quicker to install than the other two kits. The reason for this is that the motherboard needs to be removed before installation for both the EXOS and Aquagate, but not for the Nautilus500. Keep in mind that we're very familiar with the Aquagate Mini and Koolance EXOS, so those times are about as low as they get (for us anyway). We think we can maybe shave another minute for the Nautilus, but either way, a liquid system installed under 10 minutes is pretty impressive."

How many people care about install times?

[Dr. Spork]

I wonder how many people care whether the installation takes 10 minutes or 20. I mean, how much performance or utility would I sacrifice for those 10 saved minutes? None. Sometimes it's a good rule of thumb that longer something takes, the more likely I am to mess it up. But I don't think that's so with water cooling. There is really only one thing to worry about, and that's leaking. If I thought a setup was less likely to leak, I'd be happy to remove the motherboard to install it. Anyway, my point is that this observation about different install times is completely superficial - and the fact it appears on Slashdot, where millions happily tinker with Linux config files, is all the more silly.

Re:How many people care about install times?

[eddy]

It's not time really, it is of course complexity of installation. They want to make it sound easy, as not to drive people off. Saying "it takes 2 minutes" is a succinct way of selling the product as a ''yes, even you can do it!''-kit.

The producers want to expand beyond the subset of /. crowd, after all.