Corsair 600T watercooled build: "Blue Dragon"

My brain is telling me to run the coolant through a rad between the gpu's and cpu...

Pump->GPU2->GPU1->Top Rad->CPU->Front Rad->Res->

That's how I'd do it... What you guys reckon?
 
As been discussed many times, there is no temperature gain from running rads between blocks as the temperature evens out across a loop. However I think taking that route could be easier to tube up as gives you a bit more tubing to play with between top rad and cpu than gpu to cpu.

As for the tubing / colour option - are you keepingt he 24 pin braided like it is in that pic? If so I would go for some blue tubing / clear tubing blue dye as there is a lot of black in the pc already so some blue in there could look good.
 
Yeh you guys are right - that way would make routing the tubing a lot easier. I think gpu2->gpu1->cpu might look a bit more compact and neater though. I guess it'll just be down to experimenting.

My whim has decided on transparent tubing with blue dye :).

Biffa said:
Sooo... its me paying for all this is it? :p
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Lols...thanks for the contribution! At least you can get to see how your tax monies go to work :p.
 
gp2-gpu1-cpu-rad would definitely look much neater than gpu-rad-cpu, as you could have a right angle fitting on the top rad output and have the tubing nice-n'-straight :D
 
Personally I'd go:

Res -> Pump -> CPU -> Top Rad -> gpu1 -> gpu2 - bottom rad -> Res

Mainly because I like the fastest water hitting the CPU first, the cpu is the hardest thing to cool with water in the case, the gpu's are easy to keep cool in my experience.

So flow rather than water temp for to the hottest part of the loop for me, because as has been said after a short time the temperature across the loop evens out.
 
shaffaaf27 said:
surely speed is the same throughout?
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I believe flow varies a good deal more from point to point in the loop than temperature. Hopefully it won't be too much of a factor as I have a high pressure pump and my rads aren't too restrictive - though I need quite a few elbow joints.

I wanted to go Bitspower as I already had some of their fittings. Erk. Firstly they're all out of stock in every UK store I've looked at (need a lot of fittings) and pricing up at a large EU seller I got:
10 x compression fittings 70Euros
8 x elbow/45deg fittings 95Euros
2 x gpu block 90Euros
4 x extension fittings 30Euros
Additional charge to pay by card 15 Euros
Delivery 19 Euros
No including tubing + dye = £282

Replacing Bitspower with generic bits and buying from the UK:
All generic fittings: £88
Gpu blocks: £86
Delivery: £7
Total = £181

It won't look quite as good as bitspower, but the extra £100 will sure come in handy. Forgot how expensive it is to watercool :(.
 
Thanks very much for the offer, I ordered last night though :). I needed 10x extra Black Sparkle 1/4-3/4 inch compression fittings which I could only get abroad.
 
Bit of a pointless update today but I wanted to play :). First box arrived today! Half my fittings, primochill tubing, gpu blocks, some more IC7 and mayhem dye.

Thought I'd test out the gpu blocks and see how well they'd work with the original backplate. Quite well it turned out, but it also turned out that the backplate is really flexible and doesn't lend itself very well as a supporting brace for the block. Will have a think on this.









Then, for absolutely no reason at all, I decided to pointlessly watercool one of the gpus just to test idle temps. Idle because I don't have any passive VRM sinks at present and I'm not quite stupid enough to fry my card. So, blowing a fan directly at the naked VRM and booting from the WCed card:



On a passive double radiator, idle temps were 23 degrees, which is 12 lower than the stock cooling I just swapped out. Don't know what that says about stock cooling tbh, though the IC7 must have helped too. Bear in mind my room is very warm atm. Don't dare load the gpu in case I burn out my VRM chips.

Now I have to disassemble my pointless temporary loop xD.
 
Does seem a bit of a random update/build ahah
Loving the build though,, cant wait to see how it turns out
 
Here's my gpu so far. I've been mutilating the stock cooler and using the front plate to brace the gpu, and to cool the VRM. The front plate screws into the backplate so the whole thing now has a nice heft and solidity to it. I'd like to paint it but not sure if I can be bothered atm :(.



Protip. PROTIP.

If you're going compression, spend the extra money and buy Bitspower. It's not just the looks, my first time using generic compression fittings, I haven't finished the loop yet and I'm already terrified that something's going to pop out. The rotation joints are creaky and wobbly, the threads are dodgy, and the compression barbs are too short and too thin so if you overscrew, the tubing just falls out. But if you don't screw in enough, the tubing isn't tight. NIGHTMARE.

I've used my old bitspower fittings on the places that are under the most stress anyhow. Solid as a rock.









Last shipment of fittings coming tomorrow, taking day off to complete the loop and leak test :).
 
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that 5870 actually looks quite nice, I usually don't like chip only gpu blocks but that looks nice :D

I think I may agree with you on the bitspower fittings part, although I used ek compressions, there were a few leaks at first, until I tightened the leaking ones that were on my rad to the point that they were almost wrecking the threads
 
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