My Corsair 600T Watercooling

UPDATE

So i have finally decided i may as well drill holes in the bottom of the case as it is the best way to mount my pump using the metal bracket with damped screws that i bought. Only had a 3.2mm drill bit so i used that an then filed out the holes to make them slightly bigger. Not the best, but works just fine.





A quick test fit of the rad and pump combo, attached by the bit power double rotating fitting.





Finished the hacking apart of the case so i put the grommets and stuff back.





Fitting the GPU waterblock... Not much to say. Never done it before but it was fairly easy apart from the very limited amount of thermal pads and thus no chance to make a mistake. Everything came out fine i think, only testing will decide.










Shiny!







Just realised i bought the wrong backplate so had to wait for a new one.




And here is my new motherboard plus the block fitted. Again, very easy process and worked out a treat.











Next will be fitting to the case and filling!
 
Awwwww. Poor thumby! :)

That really is starting to look VERY special. Cable sleeving has always scared me off as every time I've tried popping a pin out of a plug, it's never gone back as securely and I've had shorts. Only really done it on molex's but that's been enough to ward me off...
 
UPDATE

Firstly, apologies for all these photos. I was using a slightly different setting on my camera and they looked much better on the camera screen but now they are uploaded, they look much worse. But oh well, they are just progress pics and i will try and get some true beauty shots in the last post.

Lining up the fans to get the right orientation.



Radiators in. Good progress!



In goes the motherboard. Very tight fit!





Looks like this screw could be a little difficult.



Oops... too close. The clip on the 8 pin (4+4) was actually pushed in when it was fixed in place and this also caused some weird bending on the motherboard so I now need to take out the top rad and remove the grommets that i was using. This will give more space as it will more the rad up a couple of mm.



More Space.


Powersupply in, and i do so love these cables!





Take a step back to enjoy for a few seconds... ahhh



A quick bit of admiration for my work on the 24 pin cable



Put my PCI Cards in. Definitely worth spraying the backplate i think as it makes the back look so much tidier.



Quick shot of the 6 and 8 pin. I love so much :D


Put in my fan controller and checking it works fine.



Midway through i received my new ENORMOUS boogie bug. I had no desk space so just draped it over my case, lol.





Cables getting messy already but will tidy up at the end.



In goes the tubing. Without the GPU backplate for now as i made a mistake and it was due to be delivered next day so i just sorted myself out ahead of time.

















Another shot of the rear I/o in black. So smooth...





Filling!
Stupidly didn't have quite enough fluid to fill the loop first time so i sent in a special request to the customer service at OCUK on thursday at 4:50 and 5UB sorted me out personally to ensure i got my second bottle of fluid next day :D Thanks again OCUK! (especially 5UB)





...And leak testing. For hours...







So many cables!



Now tidied to the best of my ability and the SSD hidden behind the optical bays with some double sided foam tape. Foam is unnecessary i know, but it works.








Summary
It is all up and running now and i am using it to write this post. Needless to say i am very happy with it. The next update will hopefully bring OC results and beauty shots. :D
 
Stinger53 said:
looks great :) rly wanna do some thing like this with my 600t
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Thanks very much. All i can say is make sure you plan everything fully and try not to scrimp on things otherwise you will be putting in a lot of effort and money and it won't be quite as good as expected. And above all, enjoy it! :D

TheGhostToast said:
Looks good! How many metres of cable braid would you say you used to do all the cables?
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OH jeees... about 130ft i think. If you plan to do it i'd go for 100ft +50ft. If if you have the same cables. Or just go for 200ft. It really isn't expensive stuff at all. Cost me about £20 :D
 
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...
 
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:
 
Roverno said:
...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.
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Ouch man unlucky :o great build, marred with unfortunate bits :(
 
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