water cooled corsair 600t

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hi there, this is going to be more of a build log than a project.......and seen as pics say a thousand words i will try and take as many as possible what i think shall be helpful to others and to show each steps.....this is a system currently running on air......now taking the water cooling plunge.....

The system

corsair 600t case (with custom made window)
core i7 2600k @4.3ghz
gigabyte z68-ud7b3
8 gig corsair ram
2 x sapphire radeon hd6950 (unlocked shaders)
160 gig intel ssd
1 terrabyte storage drive

Water cooling:

2 x EK-FC6970 V2 Acetal+EN (Nickel) water blocks with black back plates
EK Supreme HF CPU Waterblock - Full Nickel
200mm phobya rad
240mm magicool slim rad
mayhems pastel yellow.....
Ek dcp 4.0 pump and resevoir

pics to come.....as im waiting on some items to arrive.....but have done 1 gpu block and back plate....
 
first of 2 cards with blocks......

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stueng said:
why 600t over the 650D ?
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already got the 600t , its all air cooled at the mo.....so transfering it all over to water........dont think theres really that much difference interior wise?

and sorry for being a bit loopy on bf3 lol......i was haveing a stressfull evening with clan members telling me to kick a few guys for suspected cheating lol..........
 
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the 650d was released a few weeks or month after the 600t and if i had of known , would have gone with the 650d as i like the 800d but was too big and too expensive at the time.......
 
well here we go......my first ever attempt at water cooling.......i enjoyed every minute of it minus searching for screws and bolts for the rads and fans........here come the pics......and stueng......its as yellow as my viper fans........gonna call this viper yellow........and i think its stunning........

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ZZZAC said:
+ 1 speechless other than "can we swaps pleas ? :D
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thanks....not bad for a first time attempt......but my thumb is throbbing from the compression fittings lol......ive hid the ssd on the rear of the mother board panel, and got to find some where for the 1 terrabyte drive...dont like it stuck it in the 5 1/4 bay.........and putting the 2 gpus in was just a nightmare.......couldnt see the slots......
 
stueng said:
one thing that confuses me though... when I saw the pics I thought it was a 800D but I see the topic is 600T... how have you managed to fit the fans and the rad up top without obstructing the motherboard? does the 600T have more room up top? do you have a very thin radiator?
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the rad is quite small compared to most, only being 30mm thick....its the magicool rad....and as you can see theres only millimeters to spare between the rad and the motherboard.......the 600t also has a compartment on the top of the case where you can install 2 x 120mm fans and they are hidden....so you cant see them unless you remove the top , which is just simply clicked into place......you definately couldnt use push pull configuration up top, but seen as its a thin rad you probably wouldnt gain much anyway.....

as for temps...these are just idle temps at the mo so will do some playing later and report underload....

gpu 1 27 degrees
gpu 2 29 degrees
cpu 23 degrees average acroos the 4 cores
 
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panyan said:
is that a custom panel i spy? if so, can we know how you did it please? :)
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hi there, yea its a custom panel.....dont have any pics from doing it though as it was done around 18 months ago or so.........so this will probably sound a bit vague.......

how it was done was:

placed masking tape over the front of the panel, all over the complete area.....i then drew a rectangle....cant remember the exact dimensions, then set up a compass to draw in the quater circles.

from here i drilled a hole to allow the jigsaw blade to cut the panel out.....

once cut , i then had a template for the perspex sheet...... placing the cut out on the perspex sheet i drew the same shape on the perspex.......I knew exactley what the dimensions were of the edging strip and took this off the perspex...to make the perspex window fit nice inside the edgeing strip....the perspex was cut with the jigsaw aswell , but beware, the quicker the blade goes on the jigsaw, the more you a likely to melt the perspex rather than cut it.......

once cut to size.....i placed the edgeing inside the case and fitted the window inside the edging strip......then put the insert in which stops it all falling out.....

this is the edging strip that was used :

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these are the only pics i have of the side panel.....
 
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its very sturdy....the rubber egdeing holds it quite well........its never fell out, but i would say it you pushed on it hard , it may come out.......there are no air gaps......and i wouldnt say its distorted at all.......the panel has a slight curve in it , but it curves quite a lot towards the ends on both sides, roughly inline with the top catches.....and not so much in the middle part , so i avoided that part of the panel when i measured it up.........
 
stueng said:
awesome yellow and very nice build

you think your fingers are sore after compression fitting.. you gonna love braiding
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was really looking to get some pre braided cables :o in yellow and black......

but looks like im going to have to do it as it doesnt look like you can buy pre- made black and yellow braided cables.....
 
@ stueng...will have to take a look, think it will look better aswell if i do it myself, rather than going for a colour i dont like.......

@Ary101....never really totalled it all up......but inc monitor , mouse and keyboard...possibly close on £2.5k spent.....blummin hell it gave me a shock.....i know folks spend a hell of a lot more.........
 
after a couple of runs of unigine.....

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got to say happy with the gpu temps......thats nearly 30 degrees shaved off.......

gpu1 54.5 degrees @99% usage
gpu2 55 degrees @99% usage
 
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60 degrees tops.....dont know if that is any good.....im sure i got that with my corsair h70 cooler.....i think i just have a toasty chip......

ill do a run on battlefield 3 later with open hardware monitor running and ill see what i get.......
 
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