Just installed a H70 in a 600T

[howardpm]

Ok, so I just finished installing my new H70 in my 600T case. I'm not an expert in doing this stuff but I'd at least classify myself as advanced.

 

The H70 took me almost 2 hrs to install. The main issue was mounting the radiator to the rear fan (the front fan was easy), I may have tried about 15 times and each time I only managed to get 3 screws in. These screws are way to small and barely poke out enough to screw into the radiator.

 

I had swapped the Corsair fans for some Enermax Magma fans, and I thought maybe they were a bit larger and that was the problem but the screw holes are identical on both.

 

Anyways once everything is installed, this thing is ginormous inside this case. (make sure you have run your fan wires through the tiny opening in the top left corner before installing this or there is no way your going to be able to thread them in later.

 

The push fan covers maybe 1/5th of my CPU, so if your expecting a lot of empty room with this cooler your mistaken.

 

Anyways I opted for the fans to blow air out of the back of the case, since my case is in the corner against the wall, I didn't feel it would be sucking in cool enough air.

 

On my first boot, I heard a lot of water noise, I'm guessing the tubes were priming, it lasted about 10 seconds and haven't heard it since. The bios has my CPU hovering around 38-39 degrees Idle, I'll keep an eye on it but that seems close to what my Cooler Master N520 was listing it at. I do have both fans turned to the lowest setting though, this may be partially causing it. I'll probably remove them from the case fan control since I don't really use it anyways.

 

Anyways just wanted to give a little summary of my install.

[cee]

nice,

you r complete corsair now :)

pics? would like to see more builds in corsair 600T

[CesarNYC]

Congrats. I am about to pair a H70 with a 600T, just waiting on the case to be delivered tomorrow. When I was looking over the H70 and test fitting I had the same impression, that the screws were a little on the short side if I am going to mount this to the back of a case then through the fan and into the radiator. Sounds like I will have fun tomorrow. I am curious if you have experimented, or anyone reading this post, with using the 600T's fan bus with the H70 fans, instead of connecting it to the MB CPU Fan header. I thought I would try putting the H70 pump power into the CPU Fan header. Not sure if the worst case scenario will be that I will have to disable the CPU Fain monitor in the BIOS, or if there is something I am not seeing that could be harmful. The stock fans on the H70 are on the loud side, and I know I could use the resistor to quiet them or swap out the fans, but I would like to have the option of slowing down or speeding up the fans, using only the equipment I have already purchased. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[Mergatroid]

I just finished a build with a Corsair 600T using the stock Intel cooler. I was hoping this H70 cooler would fit in the top of the case where it was designed for water coolers.

 

I have to assume from what I've read about it that everyone is installing it in the rear exhaust fan mount? Does it not fit in the top of the case?

 

Also, does anyone know if there are any covers available for the two water cooler pipe holes at the rear of the case? Since I'm not using them I would like to cover them up.

[CesarNYC]

I just finished a build with a Corsair 600T using the stock Intel cooler. I was hoping this H70 cooler would fit in the top of the case where it was designed for water coolers.

 

I have to assume from what I've read about it that everyone is installing it in the rear exhaust fan mount? Does it not fit in the top of the case?

 

Also, does anyone know if there are any covers available for the two water cooler pipe holes at the rear of the case? Since I'm not using them I would like to cover them up.

 

I can try and see if it reaches the socket if you mount the radiator on the top, will try later. Also I found if you remove the rubber inserts that are preinstalled in the screw holes in the back, it gives enough room to easily attach the screws through the rear and secure the radiator.

[CesarNYC]

The H70 fits in the rear or mounted at the top of the 600T. Installation is not fool proof but easier then I was led to believe.

[Mergatroid]

Thanks for the info.

 

I have ordered my H70 and it should be in next week. I am going to think about what type of configuration I will be using. I do like the snazzy fan with the white LEDs in the top of the case, but I also like the idea of mounting the cooler rad up there to keep the interior of the case empty and neat looking.

 

I've attached a "before" picture of my build with the stock Intel cooler. It's my cell phone camera so it's a little blurry. I'll try and remember to post one after I install the H70.

[Mergatroid]

Is it just me or does anyone else think it would have been nice to have a video card water block attachment available from Corsair for this model?

 

Do you think the rad would be too small for both a CPU and a video card? Or maybe it would need a better pump?

[CesarNYC]

Thanks for the info.

 

I have ordered my H70 and it should be in next week. I am going to think about what type of configuration I will be using. I do like the snazzy fan with the white LEDs in the top of the case, but I also like the idea of mounting the cooler rad up there to keep the interior of the case empty and neat looking.

 

I've attached a "before" picture of my build with the stock Intel cooler. It's my cell phone camera so it's a little blurry. I'll try and remember to post one after I install the H70.

 

I think you could do both. Though I have not actually tried, the 200mm fan can be mounted from the outside of the case (but beneath the fan filter/mesh piece). So if you wanted you could use the 120mm mounting holes on the top of the case from the inside and bolt the 200mm from the outside. You will get a little bit of overlap between the fans but as long as the are pulling air in the same direction I don't think it will hurt.

[Mergatroid]

I think you could do both. Though I have not actually tried, the 200mm fan can be mounted from the outside of the case (but beneath the fan filter/mesh piece). So if you wanted you could use the 120mm mounting holes on the top of the case from the inside and bolt the 200mm from the outside. You will get a little bit of overlap between the fans but as long as the are pulling air in the same direction I don't think it will hurt.

 

That sounds pretty sweet. I think I'll give it a try. Lol, my cooler STILL hasn't arrived. Should be any day now...

[Mergatroid]

Congrats. I am about to pair a H70 with a 600T, just waiting on the case to be delivered tomorrow. When I was looking over the H70 and test fitting I had the same impression, that the screws were a little on the short side if I am going to mount this to the back of a case then through the fan and into the radiator. Sounds like I will have fun tomorrow. I am curious if you have experimented, or anyone reading this post, with using the 600T's fan bus with the H70 fans, instead of connecting it to the MB CPU Fan header. I thought I would try putting the H70 pump power into the CPU Fan header. Not sure if the worst case scenario will be that I will have to disable the CPU Fain monitor in the BIOS, or if there is something I am not seeing that could be harmful. The stock fans on the H70 are on the loud side, and I know I could use the resistor to quiet them or swap out the fans, but I would like to have the option of slowing down or speeding up the fans, using only the equipment I have already purchased. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Did you decide how to connect your fans? How is it working out?

 

I still have not received my cooler, but I did go ahead and purchase a couple of Scythe SY1225SL12H-p PWM fans. They are pretty noisy at full speed, but have a better air flow than the stock Corsair fans. I figure at reduced speed they should be able to cool just as well. I have also made a 4 pin PWM splitter, running the power wires to the PSU and the PWM line to the CPU FAN header along with the Tac line from one fan. I'll let the BIOS control the speed of the fans based on the CPU temperature.

[CesarNYC]

I wound up using the 600T fanbus to control the fans on the H70, and connected the pump to the mobo ( made sure to turn off any speed control functions in the Bios). I am very happy with the performance of the H70, but I think I hit a snag when it comes to the the fan controller built into the 600T. I don't know the specs on what fan volt/ amps it can handle, but I removed the stock 200mm and connected some 200mm NZXT 160 cfm fans to the top and front of my 600T. With the H70 fans, I think it was too much and the fan controller knob doesn't throttle down the fans anymore, they spin 100% all the time. So it's loud. I guess its better than the fans not working at all, but something I need to fix.

[Mergatroid]

I wound up using the 600T fanbus to control the fans on the H70, and connected the pump to the mobo ( made sure to turn off any speed control functions in the Bios). I am very happy with the performance of the H70, but I think I hit a snag when it comes to the the fan controller built into the 600T. I don't know the specs on what fan volt/ amps it can handle, but I removed the stock 200mm and connected some 200mm NZXT 160 cfm fans to the top and front of my 600T. With the H70 fans, I think it was too much and the fan controller knob doesn't throttle down the fans anymore, they spin 100% all the time. So it's loud. I guess its better than the fans not working at all, but something I need to fix.

 

Wow, that's too bad. I've heard the same thing happens when some aftermarket fan controllers are used. Look into purchasing a 5 1/4" mount fan controller. They do an OK job depending on which one you get.

For my case fans I'm using a Zalman ZM-MFC3 fan controller which works OK but doesn't allow fans to be controlled by temperature which is why I decided to go with PWM fans and a splitter to plug into the CPU fan header.

 

I finally got my H70 and set it up to use the top fan mounts. I had to remove the 200mm fan from the top because it won't fit under the top grill. So I mounted the push fan under the top grill at the front, the rad inside and the pull fan under it. It was a tough fit because the pull fan would hit my memory. We had to move the cooler and it's fans to the left about an inch. Luckily with all the air holes it wasn't hard to modify the case slightly to allow the move. I also had to trim the ribs under the grill so I could still close it. I mounted a 2nd fan behind the cooler pulling air out of the case. So, now the front 200mm fan and the cooler are pulling air into the case and the top 120mm fan and rear 120mm fan are pulling it back out again.

 

The CPU is running 20c cooler than it was under the stock cooler at load (actually the hottest core used to get up to 72c under load, now it gets up to 47 and all the others hover around 40c under load).

 

The fans have never gone above 650RPM and are pretty much silent. Unfortunately when the system is first turned on the fans are just below 600RPM so I'm getting a CPU FAN error. I'm going to have to look into this further and see if there's anything I can do about it.

 

I have attached a few pics.

 

Lol, looking at the picture I see I put the rear fan in incorrectly. Oh well, easy fix. It's late now, and I need sleep.

[CesarNYC]

I went ahead and ordered a 5 1/4 fan controller. I was able to pick up one that will handle the 8W/0.70A power draw that the 200mm fans I installed need, for a lot less then I thought. Now my next challenge is CrossFire for this mobo/case/CPU heatsink combo. Unfortunately, my motherboard PCIE layout is horrible for Crossfire. I have to lay the HD6950s literally one on top of the other, and deal with one burning up if I want to use both 16X slots. There is just no space between the cards, so much for planning. I thought about modding the 600T side panel with a 360mm fan (it comes with a bezel which allows it to be mounted on the outside of the side panel), but to be honest the fan grill looks kind of fugly and I am not sure if it would help much because one card would still be suffocating the other. The other option I came up with is use a longer CrossFire ribbon and use the 16X and 8X slots (which drops me down to 8X on the 16X slot),this gives me two slots of space between the cards. I would take a performance hit but I hear its pretty negligible, also I have to get a little creative with the hard drives because I think the cage would block airflow on the bottom card, but nothing I can't work around. Even with these challenges I am very happy with the set up, with the 600T and H70 everything looks so clean and tidy. I was never the type to want a window on the side of my case, but now I am really hoping to hear Corsair announce they will be selling optional windowed side panels soon.

[Toast 2011]

Have you tried a riser board? Ribbon cable pci-e x16 type may give you room to mount a second graphics card.

[CesarNYC]

Have you tried a riser board? Ribbon cable pci-e x16 type may give you room to mount a second graphics card.

 

thats interesting, I was not aware they made this. I looked around and found some that were quite cheap. I am not sure how I would mount it in the case, but at that price I might get one to try, thanks for the idea.

[Mergatroid]

The other option I came up with is use a longer CrossFire ribbon and use the 16X and 8X slots (which drops me down to 8X on the 16X slot),this gives me two slots of space between the cards. I would take a performance hit but I hear its pretty negligible, also I have to get a little creative with the hard drives because I think the cage would block airflow on the bottom card, but nothing I can't work around. Even with these challenges I am very happy with the set up, with the 600T and H70 everything looks so clean and tidy. I was never the type to want a window on the side of my case, but now I am really hoping to hear Corsair announce they will be selling optional windowed side panels soon.

 

Sounds like you have everything pretty much worked out. Don't forget a couple of pics if you get a chance. I have also heard the performance difference between 16x and 8x is not that much, but considering the cost of the systems we play with these days you really want every bit of speed you can get. Do you think an after market VGA cooling solution might increase the space between the cards?

 

I have been torturing my PC all weekend, and I have managed to get the cores up to 57c, which is surprising considering they maxed at about 72 with the stock cooler. However, the CPU fans (the two PWM fans on the cooler) only run at 650 or so RPM. When the heat starts building up (I had to turn ALL my case fans down as low as they would go to get 57c) the fan controller on the ASUS motherboard finally starts increasing the fan RPMs. At 57c it maxed at just over 1000 RPM, and they should go higher if the heat increases. I would say it's working the way I expected it to. I'm think about playing with some overclocking, but I'm pretty limited with my current main board.

[Mergatroid]

thats interesting, I was not aware they made this. I looked around and found some that were quite cheap. I am not sure how I would mount it in the case, but at that price I might get one to try, thanks for the idea.

 

So, how did it turn out? I'd love to see some pics.

 

I replaced my main board with a Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 and added a second Radeon HD 4870 1G. I had to modify the rear CPU cooler bracket by cutting one corner slightly to accommodate a chipset heat sink standoff that comes through the board. I also replaced my old buzzing Cooler Master 500W PSU with a new Corsair AX750 PSU. I removed one of the hard drive racks and mounted the stock 120mm Corsair fan to the rear of the remaining rack.

 

The case temps are getting a little warm now. Everything has gone up by about 5c with the added video card. So, I'm thinking about cutting a hole in the side of the case and mounting another fan and a grill. I'll have to check if there is room for a fan inside the case first though.

 

Here are a couple of updated pics.

[CesarNYC]

I have put the crossfire on hold till the end of the month. I did pick up the extra long crossfire ribbons though. I decided to change my focus and do Eyefinity. I got to try it the other day was was extremely impressed. I should receive three Dell P2411Hs on Tuesday, can't wait to have my own set up. I got a sweet deal on the monitor price but I had to hold off on the extra HD6950 as I used up my budget.

I will need the crossfire set up more then ever, but I am not sure how my temps will hold either. I want to mod a side fan on the 600T, but I am sure if I do a week later Corsair will announce their own. I wish we could get a hint if they still plan to bring them to market, and which quarter they will be available. What size fan(s) were you thinking? Its going to be a tight fit because of the H70 and drive cages...

 

edit: just saw the side panel, problem solved. Now I wonder how long till we can order them.

[Mergatroid]

I'm curious to know how Eyefinity works with Crossfire. I love the thought of using three monitors as well, but currently I'm using two (a 27" and a 23") and have no desire to replace them any time soon.

 

The new side panel looks pretty good, but I'm disappointed that they went with four 120mm fan mounts. I suppose it's OK, but I would have liked it if they had of added 200mm fan mount holes. I prefer a combination of cooling and quiet, and a 200mm fan is a lot quieter than 4 120mm fans. I suppose I could still mount a 200mm fan, but it wouldn't look as good as if it was made for it. Another thing is that they went with a simple rectangular hole. Considering the effort they went to for smooth and curved instead of square and sharp corners on the case, I would have thought they would come up with something other than a rectangle. It's also bigger than I would prefer personally.

 

All in all, I think I'll do a mod myself instead of purchasing their pre-made side panel.

 

Edit:

 

Hey, I'll probably get kicked for saying this but I HAVE to say it.

 

I just went to change my system specs because I replaced my main board, and I didn't like what I found. Everywhere in the list of specs where there was a brand name mentioned that competes with a Corsair product, they have replaced the name with ***********.

 

I find this extremely petty. As a matter of fact, I should mention that I HATE Apple because it does stuff like this, and I will NEVER purchase an Apple product. Now look what I see here on Corsair's site.

 

Last month when I decided to make some changes to my computer, I selected the Corsair 600T case because of the company's reputation and I liked the product. When considering a little better cooler for some minor overclocking, I chose the Corsair H70 because it looked pretty good, performed well and again the Corsair rep. I just upgraded my PSU and guess what I selected for the same reasons (and because it was on sale)? The Corsair AX750. Now, a simple petty thing like censoring competitors brand names is turning me off so much I MAY never purchase another Corsair product.

 

And to think I was considering some Corsair memory modules with nice heat sinks on them.

 

Come on Corsair, this was a bad decision by a very petty IT person or executive. Don't lower yourselves like this. Have the gonads to allow competitors names not to be censored on your website.

[Wired]

Come on Corsair, this was a bad decision by a very petty IT person or executive. Don't lower yourselves like this. Have the gonads to allow competitors names not to be censored on your website.

The reason for the filter is in the rules which you were directed to upon creating an account.

[CesarNYC]

Censorship is a hard thing to defend or abide, but a guest needs to follow the house rules too I guess.

 

The Corsair side panel for the 600T seems to be a good compromise for all the myriad combinations out there of hardware. Some of the taller heatsinks and even the H70 might not leave enough room to mount a 200mm (and I originally wanted a 360mm) that usually run 30mm thick. But with the setup they chose you could omit one fan in the upper left quadrant and still have three fans supplying adequate air. Also I noticed that the 120mm can be found in much slimmer thicknesses (less then 20mm). So while they are not as quiet, I think it was a wise choice. As soon as I can get one of the corsair side panels I will do a proper test review and finally post some pics.

[Mergatroid]

Ok guys, I've thought about it and here is the best I can say: I still think the censorship is petty. However, I cannot blame all of the Corsair company for one employees bad decision.

 

As a whole I do like Corsair and their products, and I feel to stop purchasing their products because of one lame decision by one IT employee would likely make me as petty as that person, so it's not going to happen. Lets just say if it was my decision to make it would have been different.

 

CesarNYC: I have decided to stick with my original plan and make my own cutout on the side case. Instead of a plane shape like a rectangle or square I'm going to cut out a silhouette that I have not decided on as yet (having a LAN party ATM), and mount a single 200mm fan behind it.

 

You're right, I'll have to do some careful measurements to make sure the fan will mount, but there seems to be quite a lot of space to play with. It should be interesting.

 

Still looking forward to your pics.

 

Oh hey, I have managed to OC my system using the FSB from 2.5GHz to 3.3GHz (440MHZ FSB). It's still running cooler than it was with the stock Intel cooler so I'm pretty happy about it.

[CesarNYC]

good luck with the mod, I am digging the silhouette idea, pictures are a must.

 

I am just about ready to post some myself. I got my Eyefinity set up, and just received a second HD6950 and installed it in the 600T. Temps are looking good across the board. The H70 has kept my CPU at the same temps (50ish under load, with 1.475V) so the Crossfire set up doesn't seem to have hurt me there. Using the extra long crossfire bridges also worked out, even though I wound up using a 8x slot for one of them. With a nice gap between them, both cards stay pretty cool (idle around 55C). This gave me headroom to OC them and make up for the slight hit in performance. The icing on the cake is I just ordered the side panel from Corsair, hope to see it next week. This should help me with my last issue, bringing down my system and north bridge temps. My motherboard is passively cooled so the side panel fans should make a big difference.

 

Jealous about the Lan party, what do you guys play?

 

edit, here is a shot of the inside.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5474326273_4d8cfe7d01_z.jpg

[Mergatroid]

good luck with the mod, I am digging the silhouette idea, pictures are a must.

 

I am just about ready to post some myself. I got my Eyefinity set up, and just received a second HD6950 and installed it in the 600T. Temps are looking good across the board. The H70 has kept my CPU at the same temps (50ish under load, with 1.475V) so the Crossfire set up doesn't seem to have hurt me there. Using the extra long crossfire bridges also worked out, even though I wound up using a 8x slot for one of them. With a nice gap between them, both cards stay pretty cool (idle around 55C). This gave me headroom to OC them and make up for the slight hit in performance. The icing on the cake is I just ordered the side panel from Corsair, hope to see it next week. This should help me with my last issue, bringing down my system and north bridge temps. My motherboard is passively cooled so the side panel fans should make a big difference.

 

Jealous about the Lan party, what do you guys play?

 

edit, here is a shot of the inside.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5136/5474326273_4d8cfe7d01_z.jpg

 

That's really sweet. It looks like art to me. I have to hand it to Corsair, they really came up with an exceptional case with this model. The H70 fits beautifully with it as well. Now if they could come up with some type of VGA cooler.....

 

So, you have three monitors set up right now? What games have you found that work well with the three monitors? I'm very interested. There will be a new version of Mechwarrior coming out for PC and a 3 monitor setup would be perfect for it. Of course 3 monitors and 3D would be even better...lol...it never ends.

 

This was the first time so many buddies got their wives to let them go for a complete long weekend, so we ended up doing a lot of experimenting. We were doing Guild Wars, Borderlands, Blur, Serious Sam 2, Titan Quest, and even a bunch of PS3 titles since two guys brought their PS3s and I have one here as well. We were going to purchase Need for Speed or Test Drive for everyone, but we selected Blur because it can be used via LAN while those other two titles no longer support LAN. My network was pretty busy over the weekend. Everyone loved the comp setup though, especially the H70. I think I made Corsair a few new customers.

 

I have been talking to my buds about the 3-pin fans Corsair provides with their water coolers. Since Corsair provides a splitter cable AND two resistor cables and two 3-pin fans, we feel that it would be in their best interest to replace their fans with PWM models, change out the splitter/resistor cables for a single PWM splitter cable such as the one I made. This has two very important advantages: automatic RPM control via the actual BIOS for very low noise at idle, and 4 pin PWM connectors can be adapted to work with anything (molex, 3 pin fan) while 3 pin cannot work properly with PWM connector (full speed only). As it stands, the Scythe (wonder if that will be censored?) PWM fans I used to replace the stock Corsair fans only cost $9. I believe Corsair could use PWM at no additional cost. We feel PWM fans should be stock in the Corsair water coolers.

 

Also I've been looking at sticking to a window in the side case but cutting a 120mm fan hole in the bottom of the case where you have your hard drive and SSD mounted. I would use this fan as intake to increase the pressure in the case. I'll be thinking this over for the next little while and will decide at a later date. If I do go with the bottom fan, I may purchase the Corsair side panel if I can get Memory Express to order it in for me.