Corsair 600T watercooled build: "Blue Dragon"

Bubo said:
edit: infact looking at the 4th photo in post #97, they do, and on the face of it the top card has the inlet in the wrong port, which may explain why your top card is too hot. Mystery solved I think.
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Mate, that's epic :). Love OCUK. Will re-do the tubing over the weekend and report back.
 
Pump->bottom card->top rad->top card->cpu->side rad->res

is how I'd do it. Or you could get a couple of y spliiters and run the gpu blocks in parallel.
 
Re-tubed and thanks very much Mr. Bubo :). Saved me a hell of a lot of time, troubleshooting and hassle. You hit all three nails on the head - CPU temps now down by 8C with input and output the right way round. After I re-tubed the top GPU to have the correct input, temps dropped by 10C, so I then remounted, and temps dropped by another 20C :). The first time I only had about 60% thermal paste coverage on the GPU.

Pics and more detailed benchmarks to come.
 
Both rads now with 7 fans in total running silently.

Room temperature 21C
Idle CPU @ 4.6GHz 29C
Idle GPU 2 (top) 29C
Idle GPU 1 (bottom) 22C
^GPU numbers reversed because of afterburner quirk.

Now running prime95 and furmark at the same time, and monitoring with afterburner and openhwmonitor:

Load CPU @ 4.6Ghz (1.345V) 50C 57C 54C 52C


Load GPUs @ stock 45C 34C


I'm reasonably happy with the gpu temperatures (I've always had an unexplained difference of around 8C between primary and slave card even with stock cooling), though the OCed CPU temps could be lower I guess. Turning fan speeds up lowers temps by up to 5C, but at top rpm there's no further difference to temperatures. Probably as the rads both have a low fpi and are optimised for silence.

Next step is to try and increase the overclock, and still a bit of work left to do on the build itself.
 
joxang said:
Both rads now with 7 fans in total running silently.

Room temperature 21C
Idle CPU @ 4.6GHz 29C
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The 2 radiators and the size of them with the amount of fans I was honestly expecting high teens or low 20's. Especially the fact the size of the tubing and water flow.

Was it wrong to think that? it just seemed such huge cooling for 30 degrees. Or it's probably because I'm not taking into the account for 2 GPU's in the mix.

Though, I'm assuming it's all whisper quiet?

Idle GPU 2 (top) 29C
Idle GPU 1 (bottom) 22C
^GPU numbers reversed because of afterburner quirk.
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Seems strange to see GPU's at those temperatures. :D
 
V F said:
The 2 radiators and the size of them with the amount of fans I was honestly expecting high teens or low 20's. Especially the fact the size of the tubing and water flow.

Was it wrong to think that? it just seemed such huge cooling for 30 degrees. Or it's probably because I'm not taking into the account for 2 GPU's in the mix.

Though, I'm assuming it's all whisper quiet?

Seems strange to see GPU's at those temperatures. :D
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Yeh I was expecting slightly lower load cpu temps tbh. But I guess while the rads are big, they are both low fpi and pretty thin. Usually with such low fpi rads, they tend to be a lot thicker for more heat exchange area. You can get high fpi thin rads (e.g. stealth gts) but the trade-off for the better cooling is obv the loud fans.

You're not gonna get temps below room temperature :p! Unless you use a water-chiller. So at idle, I guess 8 degrees for the cpu above room temperature is ok. Load temps were recorded running furmark and linx at the same time. Been playing some shogun 2 and the cpu goes to 40-45, and the gpus stay around 30-35 which I'm more than happy with :).

Whisper quiet it is though, the advantage of low fpi rads. And the pump is silent on the most powerful setting, which was unexpected!
 
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Bish bash bosh. Package arrived today containing fans and ASUS Xonar Essence ST (PCI card, to replace my Essence STX which is lacking for a PCIe slot). Alpenfohn fans are bloomin' nice. Very quiet, not as much static pressure as a GT but excellent airflow. Fans and casing are rubber, come completely braided (best factory braid I've seen on a fan), with a braided extension cable per fan and rubber mounts. They scream 'luxury' at you - I'd put them at the very top of premium fan ladder alongside noiseblocker multiframes. I need them for my VRMs which otherwise won't be getting much airflow. Sadly means I can't have a window :(.







Fillport and fan controller:



Finally fitted the top out with a complete set of GTs 1850s :).



TO DO LIST!!
(1) Internal lighting
(2) Front bay devices (LCD? Flow + temp monitoring? Baybus to control lighting? Undecided)
(3) Second 2TB HDD.
(4) Bit of work with acrylic and mesh on the insides
(5) Dust filter mesh to top (and side?)
Don't want to finish this build too soon, or I'll be bored pooless :)!

Divx said:
nice build! what tubing and dye are you using?
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Primochill 1/2 ID tubing, and Mayhem dye.
 
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Wow that setup looks stunning, really tempting me into a similar setup in my 600t. So is this the end now, or do you have more to do?
 
Joxang, both your builds have been stunning, well put together, brillianty photographed and interesting to read, glad you got the temps you wanted, and you may have convinced me to get a couple of them Alpenfoehns :)
 
Heh thanks dude :).

Rainagul said:
Wow that setup looks stunning, really tempting me into a similar setup in my 600t. So is this the end now, or do you have more to do?
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Thanks! I got a few things left to do, but I have absolutely no money left now so they'll drag on for a bit. Will post updates anyhow :). It's mostly polishing up - list as above:

joxang said:
TO DO LIST!!
(1) Internal lighting
(2) Front bay devices (LCD? Flow + temp monitoring? Baybus to control lighting? Undecided)
(3) Second 2TB HDD.
(4) Bit of work with acrylic and mesh on the insides
(5) Dust filter mesh to top (and side?)
Don't want to finish this build too soon, or I'll be bored pooless!
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Haha thanks but no chance...the MDPC stuff is just insane (check out the latest build 040!!!). Maybe waynio's mod might get on there if he ever gets it finished.

(but please do rate with starries if you like this thread - top right :))
 
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