600T airflow

[Skurge]

I've got the Arctic Cooling Twin turbo on my 6990, when I'm bitcoining GPU's 1 and 2 shoot up to 80C and 90C. I have the fan set to 100%. My entire case is hot to the touch. especially the top exhaust area. When I remove the side panel the temps drop by 10C on both GPU's. So I don't know if the case just doesn't have enough airflow or there is something wrong with the Twin Turbo.

I don't want to leave the side open as we have a few pets and I don't want the cat playing around inside my system.

This worries me as I wanted to get an H100 and that would mean removing the top 200mm exhaust and I feel that make it even worse. I have ordered the mesh side panel and 4 AF120 fans with it. Am I wasting my money or will that actually help.

Also, I currently have a 200mm front intake fan, top 200mm exhaust and rear 120mm exhaust. Should I make the 4 AF120 fans intake fans until I get the H100 or what. Some pointers would be nice.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

From what I know about the Artic Cooling GPU solutions it sounds like there is something severely wrong with your installation.

 

[dma0991]

I've worked with the Corsair 600T awhile back and it is definitely isn't built with airflow as its first priority, more towards silence hence the temps you're getting. Getting a Corsair H100 and placing it in an intake position would only add up to the heat trapped in the case, reverse it and you're blowing hot air through the radiator, not a good move if you want good CPU temps.

Having 4 intake fans on the side panel would help a little but not much could be done if your GPU is exhausting hot air inside the case.

 

[Skurge]

Would it be better then to have the top and front as intake and the side fans as exhaust?

 

[Broheim]

I'm currently doing a build in a 600t with a h100, I plan on getting a better 200mm front intake fan and a 120mm intake in the 5.25" bays (blowing cold air straight at the h100) and keeping the rear 120mm as exhaust hoping it'll mop up a lot of the hot air from the gpu.

 

[dma0991]

Would it be better then to have the top and front as intake and the side fans as exhaust?

I think placing all the fans as intakes and the back as an exhaust would also work. Creating a high positive pressure should expel the hot air through the vents at the back. Ultimately you would have to experiment with fan placement yourself to get the optimal airflow in the case.

 

[Skurge]

Just an update. I got the new side panel, but due to a mixup I only got 2 of my fans and not 4.

I set everything up with 2 fans as intakes on the side. On the lower half of the mesh side panel. Temps on the card dropped a good 10C + and CPU temps dropped by 20C. I'm still don't have the H100 yet so I don't know how I'm going to set it up if i get that and the other 2 fans.

 

[Rifter]

I replaced the top 200mm fan with 2 120mm fans and this improved temps by a fair bit. those 200mm fans dont move much air.

EDIT:

Also herd rumors a while ago about the fan controller being defective on some cases and not ramping fans up to max speed/voltage when they are set to max speed. You might want to try direct connecting the fans to see if they move some more air for you.