Case Mod - In Progress Corsair Graphite 600T MbK

Sorry you guys for the pics above but photobucket is doing strange things, while I have a pro account???









Update !!!

After all these beautiful products, it's time for modding
I used the original HDD bracket with the BP blocks. Going to mod the bracket, but for measuring it's ok for now









I have the top Bitspower modkit and top, therefore I've bought a Alphacool D5-VPP655 - Single Edition / No Top saves a lot of unnecessary plastic.

So the pump is almost finished now, only needs to sleeve the power cable







P0rn pump



The tubes will get another touch.......... sleeved tubes
I have also changed the midplate, past a layer of 3M Di-Noc CARBON FIBER FILM.Looks better with the sleeved tubes.





And another important change, the motherboard!
With the Asrock mobo is nothing wrong, but there was a pleasant surprise coming my way
namely ........................



I want to thank MSI for providing the MSI Z68A-GD80 (B3)





Well-filled box





Test report with good numbers



And the beautiful mobo itself











This will fit perfectly in this build ............................ Thanks Niels

After placing the MSI mobo and some Bitspower components it's time for the tubes.
All placed pretty nice with little curves





Just a little tut regarding the tube sleeving. Maybe useful for some of you

Take a piece of precut tube



And some MDPC tube sleeve





Some wide heatshrink and tyraps



The tools



The heat shrink I marked 2cm long





I kept the sleeve 5mm on both sides of the tubes 5mm shorter (for the tyrap)



Heated the 2cm long heatshrink carefully with heatgun. Sleeve doesn't like heat, so keep distence with the heatgun



And shrinked





Tyrap around













That's it.............have a nice weekend!!!

 

looking good,the all black colour scheme gives it a sort of mean moody look, nice work Kier

 

Although I've never really seen the point of water cooling HDDs, I gotta admit that all of this is coming together very, very nicely. Excellent modding, Kier.

 

MOAR! I DEMAND MOAR!

 

Thank you Jeff mean and clean that's the theme

Thanks Sit Nutman,
Me neither.............but it looks so nice

I want to give you more, really I do, but waiting on my gpu (s)
What.... more than one??? I hope so

 

Nice work!

You gave me a good couple of ideas

 

Good to hear

 

This mod is so cool! I just want that case w the contents!

I'll be following this!
Subscribed!

/SunkiiSh

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Project in progress: Black&White (N' Some Blue)​

 

Update !!!

For this build I had the idea to put a big 3-slots Asus ENGTX580 in, but I've made a mistake. The regular waterblock doesn't fit on this one. I don't like the water-block for this card
The full cover block for the "normal" GTX580 from Bitspower is so much better, so i've sold the big one.
Then I received wonderful news from my friends at ZOTAC.
They were willing to sponsor this build with two beautiful Zotac GTX580 graphics cards.

For this I am very gratefull to ZOTAC, especially Chris, Craig and Carsten



The package



Of course unpacking and admiring right away







The great ZOTAC GTX580 1536M 348BIT DDR5



Specs:

Chipset:

Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA®
GPU GeForce® GTX 580
Core clock 772 MHz
Stream Processors 512
Shader Clock 1544 MHz

Memory:

Memory Clock 4008 MHz
Memory Size 1536MB
Memory Interface 384-bit
Memory Type GDDR5

















All necessary cables etc. are present



And software, books + game: Assassin's Creed ™: Brotherhood game bundle



Some final pics of the two beauty's





To start with I replaced the stock cooler for Bitspower block, even though I have only one block
the second one is on his way

Dismanteld the card



Removed the compount and cleaned everything



There are several thicknesses of thermal pads included, 0.5 mm and 2.5 mm. At the top of the gpu is coming 0.5 mm thick pads.




Past the compount again



Placed the risers in the Bitspower block





And gently placed the block



Turned everything around and placed the various sizes (according to manual) thermal pads.



Placed the Backplate and Screws..............and the GTX is finished.











GPU was already good looking with the stockcooler but this is p0rn. Tonight i'm gonna place the first gpu with the tubes and see how it looks
So more to come


Grtzzz.

 

Omnomnomnom

 

You don't have enough cooling potential in this rig for a cpu and 2x 580s ... watercooling for the sake of watercooling ... redonc

 

Update!!!

Just a small one
All that Bitspower acrylic with black top has given me the idea to do the same with the cpu cooler.

Cut a small piece of black aluminium









And past a layer of matt black film on it





Stick two 3mm blue leds in









Nice effect I think. and with all the waterblocks (2x gpu's, 2x hdd cooler and the bayres) enlighted it even becomes better

 

Kier you crazy son of a b.. The CPU block looks awesome!

 

thanks

 

MiniDoughnutNinja might have a point there.

I have the exact same 2 radiators and used to have 2 loops - the loop for cooling my 6870 was fine, but the loop cooling my only slightly overclocked i7 920 D0 was not performing as it should.

I had a radiator in the bottom and one in the top - the one in the bottom would pull in cool air from the outside and cool the graphics card. The one in the top would take air from within the case and push it outside - cooling the CPU.

The top loop (CPU) became quite hot, without the air inside the case actually being especially hot, so I do believe that a single GTS240 for an i7 920 D0 COULD be too little - seems weird, though.....

 

However, some people have seen improvements when only using 1 loop to cool everything, so that's what I am going to do now, only with a more powerful pump (a Laing D5 instead of one Laind DDC 10Watt per loop)

 

Gonna be a showrig, no overclocking with this one

 

Crazy work man!

Looks very good!

I have Dual GTX Lightnings with waterblocks in my 600T, you give me a good couple of ideas

 

it would be nice if the light was softer, maybe some extra resistors may do the work

 

Well it looks beautiful. I really dig the mean black & blue lit theme.