Corsair to Put Cooling Projects on Hold

Memory developer Corsair built itself a reputation with the Dominator series and last year, it started development on a water cooling system. It was not an entirely new experience for the development and design teams at Corsair, as they already had a few memory cooling kits (air-based, of course) that were sold separately or attached to a memory module from a middle or high-end series.

The first system water cooling kit launched on the market was named Nautilus 500 and was priced at about $200. The Nautilus experience was not entirely pleasant for the Corsair design team as they had a few problems with the early hardware. The Nautilus was easy to install and it was met by many hardware review sites with great enthusiasm, being one of the handiest and best water cooled external kits available. Corsair even had a pair on Nvidia SLI waterblocks included in the basic setup of Nautilus, hoping for a more wide spread use of this cooling kit.

Now, rumor has it - as the hardware site TechConnect posted - that Corsair wants to put all development of water and air cooling kits on hold. Indefinitely. And that they are kind of complaining about poor sales and that they are beginning to withdraw from market all the company's cooling gear and system. Maybe it is the fact that cooling design is not really a Corsair expertise, except when it comes to cooling memory modules, a job which the company already does very well. It seems that, for now, Corsair is happy to focus its attention on memory production and development (they've just announced an upcoming DDR3 memory with a frequency of 2000MHz, after an already released DDR3 memory module that runs at 1600MHz, that would be PC3-12800), flash and power supplies.