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Heat problem, Corsair 600T

Viggo

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Viggo

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Hi,

 

I have a problem with heat in my 600T case. With 2 SLI connected Nvidia 470 I get > 90c on my GPU and the alarm buzz sounds after playing for about 30 minutes. I have to open my case if I want to play games with high settings, otherwise the temps just gets very high. I have mounted a 120mm fan outside the case (where the gfx are) to draw cold air into the case, but it isn't enough. Does anyone have any good ideas how to cool down the GPUs. I don't want to put water cooling on the GFX cards and would like another alternative. Have anyone put a case cooler between the two gfx cards to draw out the hot air with good results? Any other ideas/solutions would be great.

 

Thanks in advance,

Viggo

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Yellowbeard

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well, do note that the 470 series or higher from nvidia do run much much hotter then older models. Have you tried to re-apply thermal grease on the stock cooler? sometime it can help ALOT.

 

Also, are the GPU fans locked at or about 30%? You may need to use a GPU utility to turn the fans up a bit. Those are VERY hot cards and some of them come with fan settings that simply are not fast enough.

 

It doesn't seem quite right for corsair to market a case to gamers and enthusiasts saying how amazing it is with great cooling for it not to be able to handle a simple SLI setup :/

 

Do you have the case and if yes, do you have an issue with heat? The problem has not been clearly identified here so don't assume it's the case.

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If your going to run this type of card in this case you will need some cool air. Cut a hole in the front door and blow cold air on the cards. I agree its a good gamer case but if you want to run these high end cards you need to water cool or get a larger case. Even guys that are W/C are having problems with heat.
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Do you have the case and if yes, do you have an issue with heat? The problem has not been clearly identified here so don't assume it's the case.

 

No I don't have the case, I was going to get the cooler silverstone RV02 but it's too deep so I'm thinking of getting this case instead. I haven't received any responses in my thread in relation to the fan controller though so I might need to E-mail corsair directly to find out what fans will be compatible. It is a poorly cooled case though with the stock fans, you can read the review for it on bit-tech.net

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No I don't have the case, I was going to get the cooler silverstone RV02 but it's too deep so I'm thinking of getting this case instead. I haven't received any responses in my thread in relation to the fan controller though so I might need to E-mail corsair directly to find out what fans will be compatible. It is a poorly cooled case though with the stock fans, you can read the review for it on bit-tech.net

 

Several other sites have come to different conclusions. I have not read the bit.tech review.

 

http://www.corsair.com/products/600t/default.aspx

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Several other sites have come to different conclusions. I have not read the bit.tech review.

 

http://www.corsair.com/products/600t/default.aspx

 

The other sites aren't judging the case on it's cooling though, if you look at the results compared to other cases in the price range it doesn't do too well. They're recommending it because of the high build quality and fantastic cable management options.

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A friend has a case 600T with the same configuration as mine. Nvidia's GTX 480 runs at a temperature colder than in my case 800D. Both the 800D is a great case but oriented wattercooling with performance air cooling "normal" as the 600T is more balanced. The vast majority of tests carried out indicate that the 600T cools very well components.::pirate::
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The cases being compared to the 600t in the overclockers review aren't really the sort that should be used as a point of comparison so the results shown there just show it has fairly average cooling compared to some of the weaker cases on the market. And the kitguru review shows the single GTX470 at 92*C which is ridiculously hot yet the conclusions drawn at the end simply ignore this.

 

Either the reviewers for those sites don't care much for cooling as long as nothing dies or they're just biased. Bit-tech test all cases fairly and won't pretend something is good at doing something it's quite clearly not good at. They acknowledge the build quality and design but don’t ignore the ineffectual fans supplied.

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I just bought a 600T. The system I installed in it is running a pair of EVGA 470s, on an Asus Rampage III Formula board, with an i7 930 being cooled by a Prolimatech Megahelams with 2 (~60cfm) fans.

 

My immediate impression is that the case is clearly very quiet. Mind you, with my parts it will never be "silent", because even with the case fans turned down all the way you still hear my CPU fans, power supply (a Corsair 1000W), and graphics cards.

 

All I can say is that I don't understand the reasons for some of the choices Corsair made in this design. Specifically you gave it a fan controller, but then equipped it with fans that are relatively quiet at full blast. Now I removed both hard drive cages and just installed one in the area in front of my power supply. Yet when I leave the side panel off and use a hand to "feel" the air coming off the front 200mm fan it's NOT putting out much air.

 

I even made a bracket to mount a 120mm fan in the lower portion of the 5.25" drive bay. And though this second intake fan is dead silent, it seems to produce as much air movement as the lower 200mm. So until I come up with ideas for "increased air flow", I'm going to have to run with the side panel off...

 

It's just disappointing is all! I just spent $160 on this case. Now I need to spend another $60-$100 on better fans.

 

The alternative is to hang a radiator off the back (at an angle so it doesn't pull hot air off the video card exhausts) and replace that 200mm front fan. As I will need the space in the 5.25" bay for a pump/reservoir. But now I worry that I'll need to mod a "blow hole" in the side panel so I can get cool air to my graphics cards.

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Hello everyone,

 

I've now had this case for a while and the heat problem with Nvidia 470 & 480 SLI configurations are a problem without modding the case. It doesn't matter if you crank up the fans connected to the fan controller or push your GPU fans to a maximum.

 

Running the case with just the standard fans will have your SLI configuration running above > 90c on the first GPU. Not to mention that the side panel will be HOT.. (should be sticker on their side panel). The GPU fans will be running above 90% when you run everything on max.

 

The fan controller is great Corsair, but without more powerful fans, it is just there for show really.

 

If you want to run SLI without modding the case, you can just remove the side-panel, that will suffice, but isn't very practical.

 

I came around the heat problem by looking at Flannos solution and added a few fans on my own. It isn't perfect but the side panel isn't HOT and I move the air out of the case.

 

1. Added additional 120mm fan to help the 200mm fan at the front push some cool air between the GPUs.

 

2. Added additional 120mm Kama+ Bay to get rid of the excess heat.

 

3. Added a 8mm case fan between the GPUs to suck out heat.

 

4. Removed the PCI Brackets between the GPUs. (can be used as a hairdryer when needed :) )

 

This solution will keep the GPUs running around 93c when using max performance and note that the GPU fans are running above 90% even then but my case isn't HOT and I don't have a oven.

 

Since the 470 & 480 GPUs generate heat by default, 93c is well below the tested temperatures and my concern was to remove the hot air inside the case.

 

My suggestion to Corsair for version 2.0, is to add better 200mm fans, the ones they ship the box with don't move much air. Add a optional/standard fan on the side panel.

 

Good luck modding your case 600T case.

 

Viggo

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