Corsair 600t first watercooling effort

tezza1982 · 18 Sep 2012 at 01:33

Just finished my first watercooled PC, went with the corsair 600t.

With regards the the watercooling blocks I went with the EK FC blocks, I wasn't sure about them like most people but when you get to feel them they are quality parts, plus I think they look good with the full cover backplates. Anyway here is my spec,

I7 3770K @ 4.5 ghz
GTX 680 SLI
Asus Z77 Deluxe MB
16gb vengeance RAM
Corsair 600t White
XFX 850 pro PSU
2 x Corsair GS 120 gb in RAID 0
2 x 3gb Seagate Barracuda
Litewon Blu Ray
Corsair quiet edition fans for the roof and rear.

For the watercooling

Alphacool 240 rad
Phobya Xtreme 200
EK compression fittings
1/2" hose
XSPC pump/bay combo

Ran some benches including Prime for 12 hours and a looped 3dmark 11 for GPU / CPU stressing for an hour and max temps were CPU 53C / GPU 51C.

If you are looking at a similar build I would say that the 600t is not the greatest case for watercooling case, you are quite limited in the rads you can use, but you can still get some good results if you try. If you are wondering where the SSDs are I put a pair of them in a Silverstone drive bay converter which can house a 3.5" or a couple of 2.5" SSDs.

appreciate any feedback you can give. Thanks - TC

ZZZAC · 18 Sep 2012 at 09:03

looks sick mate

MorleySA · 18 Sep 2012 at 09:08

Looks good! Just a question but are your fans at the top pushing or pulling air into the case?

Looks to me as though they are pushing air into the case, if it was me i would have them mounted th other way, and have the rear fan pulling air into the case. Then the top would be the exhaust as you'd have positive air flow.

francky · 18 Sep 2012 at 10:11

Nice dude....im litterally in the middle of planning my first water cooling project and I have the Black 600t.......did the Phobya Xtreme 200 just bolt straight onto your 200mm fan on the front or did you have to mod anything?

Ive got a 200 Spectre Pro on the front and would be nice to just bolt it on without modding.....allthough ill probably Dremel cut the front circle grill out.

Looks sweet though, nice to see how mine would look for something similar as I would probably go 240mm on top and 200mm on front as well.

tezza1982 · 19 Sep 2012 at 00:28

Yes the phobya xtreme 200 bolts straight in, you get all the screws and brackets, no modding or cutting required.

Gangster · 19 Sep 2012 at 06:45

You've done a good job at tidying the cables, any chance of a back of mobo tray shot?

Very nice

tezza1982 · 20 Sep 2012 at 01:29

Gangster said:
You've done a good job at tidying the cables, any chance of a back of mobo tray shot?

Very nice

Not the best cable management, but here

Sliver · 20 Sep 2012 at 02:32

tezza1982 said:
Not the best cable management, but here

Who cares about the back, it's never on display anyway. Sweet rig you have there, one of the better builds I've seen.

IC3 · 25 Sep 2012 at 17:49

Nice build but i would use black or white tubes.

subbytna · 2 Oct 2012 at 18:19

francky said:
Nice dude....im litterally in the middle of planning my first water cooling project and I have the Black 600t.......did the Phobya Xtreme 200 just bolt straight onto your 200mm fan on the front or did you have to mod anything?

Ive got a 200 Spectre Pro on the front and would be nice to just bolt it on without modding.....allthough ill probably Dremel cut the front circle grill out.

Looks sweet though, nice to see how mine would look for something similar as I would probably go 240mm on top and 200mm on front as well.

I'm in the same boat with the black 600t

Tezz any chance you can put up a pic or 3 of where you put your res and the harddrive bay part of the case so I can see how you fit it all in? cheers

longjohn · 11 Oct 2012 at 18:06

nice build mate just getting the bottle to watercool my black 600t