Corsair 600t Side Fan optimization

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alphaq1888

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Hello Good People on TH!

I need a recommendation on cooling for my 1.5 year old system. I built her, with the help of this community :), with the intent of "making every game my bitch". Which by all means it does. The issue I have now is cooling.

Currently, the top fan on my 600t is dead. It has been so for about two months now. I want to go about replacing it and a few others and add a few on the side as well. I am going to need 2 200mm fans for the top and front. With the front pulling air in and the top pushing air out. I have a 120mm fan in the back that is almost perfectly lined up with my heat-sink fan (A nice push-pull system).

My question lie in the side fans, I want to use 4 120mm fans and hook them up to the fan controller. Should I have them all push air in? or pull air out? or a mix of the two? The issue resides with the graphics cards. Since both those 670's fans face downward, would it damage the cars if I am pulling air our/pushing air in? I could really use some help here. Thank you in advance!


My specs are listed below:



Monitor: ASUS VE248H 24-Inch Full-HD LED Monitor with Integrated Speakers

Case: Graphite Series 600T Mid Tower ATX Gaming Computer Case - Black

Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard

Processor: Core i7 3770K 3.5GHz LGA 1155 Processor

Graphics Card: EVGA 02G-P4-2678-KR GeForce GTX 670 FTW 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP (Two installed ATM SLI)

Power Supply: Corsair Professional Series AX 850 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Gold (AX850)

Ram: CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133

Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan

Storage: 1) Intel 330 Series 2.5-Inch 240 GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
2) Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM

Optical Drive: Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial-ATA Internal OEM Optical Drive DRW-24B1ST
 
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The front 200mm won't be a problem if you're willing to move the HDD cage. I've got a 600T too and upgraded all of my fans. The problem with the 600T is that the top and front fans only have enough room for 20mm wide fans. The stock fans are 200x200x20.

For the front, you can either get another 200x20mm fan or you can move the HDD cage and put in a wider one. I have a MegaFlow 200x25mm for my front. Actually, another thing is you need to remove the front panel to get to the screws for the front fan.

The top fan you can either use another 200x20mm fan or you can go for 2 smaller 120mm fans.

The back only fits a 120mm fan.

I assuming you're using the mesh panel on the side to mount more fans? Personally I would just install two 120mm...
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Thanks for a quick response!

Noise is not really a concern of mine. as long as I am not in a wind tunnel i am fine :)
 
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Thanks for a quick response!

As for the proprietary fans, I don't mind corsair fans at all. Is there something you don't like about Corsair Fans? Rather your experience with them...
 
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The front 200mm won't be a problem if you're willing to move the HDD cage. I've got a 600T too and upgraded all of my fans. The problem with the 600T is that the top and front fans only have enough room for 20mm wide fans. The stock fans are 200x200x20.

For the front, you can either get another 200x20mm fan or you can move the HDD cage and put in a wider one. I have a MegaFlow 200x25mm for my front. Actually, another thing is you need to remove the front panel to get to the screws for the front fan.

The top fan you can either use another 200x20mm fan or you can go for 2 smaller 120mm fans.

The back only fits a 120mm fan.

I assuming you're using the mesh panel on the side to mount more fans? Personally I would just install two 120mm on the bottom of the mesh, [strike]or a single 180mm[/strike] (the mesh side panel actually only supports up to four 120mm fans). The main purpose is to get some air on the GPUs right? That's definitely enough.

What you want is to have the front and side pulling air in, top and rear pushing out. Generally you want a bit more pull than push for a performance machine.
 
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It really doesn't make a big difference, but the higher the pressure inside the case, the better the heat exchange.

More in, is more efficient that more out.
The total flow is more important.

This is why they make pressurized firebox boilers.
If it wasn't more efficient, they wouldn't do it, because they are more expensive, and a pain in the ass.
 
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