My Corsair 600T Watercooling

Tattysnuc said:
This really is a beautiful build. Kudos to you mate!

Nice placement of the SSD. I didn't realise one would fit there - mental note made :)
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Thanks, this is a fairly handy place for an SSD, works really well and the foam tape holds it firmly but i can still take it off without any sticky marks. (Win)

Tattysnuc said:
How much air can you feel moving through the 200mm radiator? I've an Antec 900 case, so I think one of those would fit nicely in the lid, but I've always been reticent due to the static pressure of 200mm fans being what they are. Bit-tech did an article many moons ago on fans, but it's never been updated...
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Well im not gonna lie, there isn't a great deal of air flow through that fan, and as the only intake it is a bit of an issue. But it feels very cold at the intake, byt the filter, so there must be air going in. I might spin the rear fan around and make it an intake and then filter it, but it does look so much uglier that way round...


As a general note, i have done a bunch of overclocking, benching and other various tests and im fairly happy to say the least. I have also taken some pics as best as i can do so i hope they do it some justice.

In addition, i want to mention Lucid virtu MVP as being fairly awesome IMO. Reasons for this will be more apparent when i upload some stuff later. :)
 
UPDATE

So here we are, the finished product, mostly. I do have a couple of little niggles that i want to iron out.

1) The fan controller sits back a little from the front mesh which is a little weird and i really have no idea how to make it fit...



2) There might be a little issue with a very slow leak in my reservoir because i didn't do it up tight enough before filling.



3) PCI-E cables need to look a bit neater but i cant, for the life of my, get them to look like the 24pin.

4) The different generation of Bitspower fitting allow a funny ring of fluid to form around the extra length, easily visible on one of the cpu fittings.

































Overclocking and benchmarking will be the next, and probably last.
 
Bad news of the day... Was playing around with my LED strips because i wanted to try something a bit different. The long and short of it is that i broke a blade on my bitfenix spectre pro. That means i need to replace it, which means buying another, draining the loop, removing the pump/res/rad/fan assembly as they are all attached together, then replacing them all and re filling.

GRRRRR... :mad:
 
UPDATE

Well now it is all complete, apart from my massive mess up with the front fan, it is time to get some temp results etc. Since i am going to have to drain everything i thought it would be a good idea to post these in advance so if anybody notices something strange i can sort it all in one go.

The overclocks here were not fully stable because i was using an out of date version on prime so even long tests would not work properly. I now have the proper version and will redo all my overclocking from the beginning to get things stable.

A short moment on 5Ghz



Idle with high fans



Load with High Fans



Cinebench



Heaven- OC result without MVP (i think)



Heaven- OC result with MVP (i think) tested a while ago.



And a test without tessellation because i forgot to put it on. Epic score.



SUMMARY
Temp on GPU didn't go above 46 with the fans on a medium setting.

I plan to turn the fans down to about 50% as this only seems to make the slightest difference with temps and gives me the silence i am looking for. It is currently sat on a hard desk and the feet don't seem to dampen the case very much so the pump makes a bit more noise than wanted. I will try and reduce this.

Won't be much more in terms of updates now seeing as it is quite obviously finished. I plan to do a small home server build in a prodigy at a later date but i still need to make a proper decision on that.

Thanks all for taking time to read and look.;)
 
Tattysnuc said:
... and that's a wrap.

Thanks for sharing your project. I've enjoyed reading your updates. You must be very pleased with the finished article? It looks, as the Oirish say, Graaaaand.
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Thanks. Very happy indeed. As you may have expected i have a few niggles. Couple of the old V2 bitspower fittings, tubes are going yellow, and the fan controller doesnt sit flush. Apart from that, i love it.
 
shawsy109 said:
That looks amazing mate, you cant half tell the effort put in to achieve that look. I have the same fan controller to, and mine sits back a touch like yours, cant make it flush with the grill below.
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Thanks, very kind of you. If you find a way to make it sit flush, let me know :p

Njoshi said:
Looks incredible! so much time has been put into this
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Yep, took nearly 3 days to paracord the PSU cables :p
 
codec said:
dude this is exceptional,

I seen this guy give advice on the 600T and gonna be following it - same approach as yours but I'll probably put 2 120s instead of the 200mm fan for extra performance/suction but dude. I swear I am incredibly impressed at your cutting on the top - that is some seriously impressive cutting and when I get to cutting the top I'll be shaving it like yours.
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Thanks very much. What a compliment! You will have to cut out a little more of the front 3.5inch bays to get 2x120 in the front but if you dont need em, go for it! Best of luck with your modding and let me know if you have any questions.
 
codec said:
oh I definitely will be asking for tip :D
yeah I'm gonna cut out the majority of the bottom tray, see what my dremel skills are like (as I've never used one before lol)
got table, circular saw, usb grommet hub, keyboard + mouse last month
getting case + dremel this month, then
watercooling components next month
then all the hardware the month after...

I'll start thread tomorrow.
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Sounds good. I can't wait for the first pictures!
 
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