Corsair 600T watercooled build: "Blue Dragon"

PROTOTYPE!!

I'm supposed to be in another city at the moment doing something incredibly boring so I thought I'd cobble together a working prototype/proof of concept thingy just to make sure I'm not barking up a lamppost :). Transparent blue acrylic with blue led strip:





Stripping gummy stuff from the led strip:





Acrylic backplate for the laser-cut design. The idea was to sand down one side to leave a matt appearance. This is half-way through sanding, before I found some nice fine grit paper:



I'm not sure whether a lit up matt + translucent or shiny + transparent surface will give the best effect so I'll eventually be trying both. A comparison:





Putting everything together:

 
RESULTS!!

Too much LED glow on these:





...So I mounted the LEDs on the case instead, and put translucent tape over them to reduce the amount of glowiness.





Pretty happy with how it works. I think I'll take it slowly from here until I get the effect I want. As I have two of those dragon plates, one of them is going back to the cutters to have it resized so it fits in 3 x 5.25 bays perfectly (instead of being mounted on the front).

Byebye for now :p.
 
chinkecheese said:
Thanks OP for checking that for me! I've been following your build, and many others for quite some time. I have one more question! Do you think that there is a possibility in removing the Fan control ( to get rid of redundancy.) and putting a fillport there instead?
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Haha same wavelength. I looked into doing this at length, and nearly ordered an acetal top end from a koolance res to make the fillport, but decided that I'd rather have a fan controller.

But yeh, it's possible, the fan controller is only held in by a few screws.
 
EVH said:
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Thanks + np at all ;).

Bear in mind it's actually a lot less cutting to fit a triple rad in the top than a quad in the front - the quad requires you to remove the 5.25cages (de-rivet) and cut out a slice of the bottom bay before replacing it (I did this with nuts+bolts because I don't have a rivet gun). You might be able to do the cuts without removing the bay, but it's a lot more fiddly as there's not much room to work in the case.

If you don't want to cut the case up, you can fit a 200mm Phobya rad in the front without mods, and it looks incredibly cool. That with a 240mm up top should be enough for a cpu + gpu loop.

And ye, that's the right top. It makes mounting the pump a lot easier, just cut the lip off the HDD cage, and drill a couple of mounting holes to line up with the holes in the pump top :). It'll make a lot more sense when you get the stuff.
 
EVH said:
So would a 200 + 240 rad setup be enough for a CPU & dual 580s? That's the easy option haha

Baring in mind there's no overclock on any of the components.

If you have any pictures of the cutting you did for the quad rad, can you email me. I don't want to ruin an otherwise awesome thread with questions :)
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Yep, should be enough. 120mm rad per component is supposed to be enough to get temps that match/exceed air cooling, and I think the 200mm is a match for most 240mm rads. I'll take some pics of the cuts and email them tomorrow :).
 
Sorry missed this.

j0sh said:
Could perhaps elaborate on the ATX bit? I'm thinking of a 600t build but I have no idea what you mean by that :D And how much of a gap is there (without sanding) Might try and get a EX 240 up there

Thanks,
j0sh
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I found this as an example: http://vivithemage.com/2011/04/water-cooling-a-corsair-600t-case-i5-2500k-2x6950/
He talks about the problem near the start - 2nd picture :). Not sure how thick that rad is, but I don't imagine it's that thick at all. It'll probably depend on where your mobo ATX Power connector is too.

Will take more photos of the dremelled bits when I get my new camera (just got a great deal on a Fuji x100 :D:D:D).
 
KiiYzOo said:
been offered a white one of these for £80, do you think I should get it, an arc midi or an nzxt phantom white for a secondary rig that I'm gonna watercool?
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Hullo KiiYzOo!! Depends on how happy you are with a dremel :). 600t is amazing case but needs cutting to hold anything more than a double rad. Cable management is best I've seen.

Arc midi can fit a slim 360 at the top with just the tiniest bit of modding. Not the best quality case though imo, a bit flimsy and plasticky.

NZXT phantom I've never handled but heard some good things!

If it's a secondary build though, the 600t and phantom are both mammoth so maybe you'd want to go easy with a smaller case?
 
Well, here's an arc mini as an alternative (if you like the style, are looking for small + don't mind uATX). You can put just a single 120 in the front and keep one of the HDD bays too.
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Hey guys! Moving to London so I'm probably going to be selling this, either as a system (if there's interest) or keeping the internals and selling the case + rads installed separately. Look out for it in MM anyways, trust mail me if any questions ;).
 
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