Welcome to My 600T Watercooling Project
This is my first attempt at watercooling and my first attempt at a project log. I have read up and learnt more than enough at this point i think so i had the courage to spend some money and get it all under way.
I have never been much good at taking photos and only own a compact so the pictures aren't amazing but i hope they portray the work in a reasonable enough way. Tips on pictures would be much appreciated as i would love to get some really nice pics for a more professional display of my work at my house.
I have never bothered with naming because nearly every name i think of sounds cheesy and naff. But if anyone think of something decent, let me know as i'm generally poor with names.
Why?
1) Current ALC Vantange Cooler is loud and rubbish.
2) Fan grills on the 600T cause loads of noise from any fan placed on it no matter how good the fan. Tried so many fans to test this and i hate it.
3) Not done any watercooling before and wanted to give it a shot. How hard can it be?
What?
Planned:
Asrock Ex4 Gen3
2500k
16GB Hyper X Grey
New GPU, hate the blue PCB on my HD6970 (undecided at start of project)
AX850
600T
Lamptron fan controller (for temperature display mostly)
White Scythe GT Fans
Raystorm CPU Block
Magicool 360mm Rad (only for cpu, GPU on air)
Bitspower fittings
Laing DDC 18W
EK DDC X-Res 100
Mayhems Ice white Coolant
These things never go quite as planned so this is what i ended up changing by the end of the project...
Result:
Asrock Z77 EX6
HD 7970
Fully white paracorded hand made power cables and i/o cables
+200mm Phobya Rad
Aims
1) Easy draining and filling when i move the case regularly.
2) Cool Temps
3) Nice and quiet
So Lets Begin!
This is my case before any modding or anything. Just how it was before i started. Look all right but is loud and hot...
Some kit that arrived
And The coolant i forgot to photograph with the rest of it.
My temp sensor that i just fancied adding.
Lovely T Block- The plan to fit a ball valve to one of these but i ended up just fitting the temp sensor to it as i couldn't get hold of a bitspower black ball valve.
Got some foam tape and velco for mounting the DDC. Didnt use in the end but here it is anyway.
Summary
So that concludes all the initial prep work. More updates to come shortly where the actual work begins.
(Note: This project has already been completed but i wanted to share it further so i am posting updates as if i was going through it again. Having written some i know that many parts may come out in a funny order as it is difficult to write like this, but here goes...)
This is my first attempt at watercooling and my first attempt at a project log. I have read up and learnt more than enough at this point i think so i had the courage to spend some money and get it all under way.
I have never been much good at taking photos and only own a compact so the pictures aren't amazing but i hope they portray the work in a reasonable enough way. Tips on pictures would be much appreciated as i would love to get some really nice pics for a more professional display of my work at my house.
I have never bothered with naming because nearly every name i think of sounds cheesy and naff. But if anyone think of something decent, let me know as i'm generally poor with names.
Why?
1) Current ALC Vantange Cooler is loud and rubbish.
2) Fan grills on the 600T cause loads of noise from any fan placed on it no matter how good the fan. Tried so many fans to test this and i hate it.

3) Not done any watercooling before and wanted to give it a shot. How hard can it be?
What?
Planned:
Asrock Ex4 Gen3
2500k
16GB Hyper X Grey
New GPU, hate the blue PCB on my HD6970 (undecided at start of project)
AX850
600T
Lamptron fan controller (for temperature display mostly)
White Scythe GT Fans
Raystorm CPU Block
Magicool 360mm Rad (only for cpu, GPU on air)
Bitspower fittings
Laing DDC 18W
EK DDC X-Res 100
Mayhems Ice white Coolant
These things never go quite as planned so this is what i ended up changing by the end of the project...
Result:
Asrock Z77 EX6
HD 7970
Fully white paracorded hand made power cables and i/o cables
+200mm Phobya Rad
Aims
1) Easy draining and filling when i move the case regularly.
2) Cool Temps
3) Nice and quiet
So Lets Begin!
This is my case before any modding or anything. Just how it was before i started. Look all right but is loud and hot...

Some kit that arrived

And The coolant i forgot to photograph with the rest of it.

My temp sensor that i just fancied adding.

Lovely T Block- The plan to fit a ball valve to one of these but i ended up just fitting the temp sensor to it as i couldn't get hold of a bitspower black ball valve.


Got some foam tape and velco for mounting the DDC. Didnt use in the end but here it is anyway.

Summary
So that concludes all the initial prep work. More updates to come shortly where the actual work begins.
(Note: This project has already been completed but i wanted to share it further so i am posting updates as if i was going through it again. Having written some i know that many parts may come out in a funny order as it is difficult to write like this, but here goes...)