Power Hungry Build

[TurboPenguin]

So I started with a base Corsair 600T White. Modified the front to fit 3x 120mm fans, moved hard drive cage back a bit, made the fan openings larger, removed all but one of the 5.25" bays. Took it apart for some cherry red powder coating.



Originally planned on using a custom power coated 1200w Cooler Master PSU but in the end it didn't have the power for my end system.



I really would like to go full water but the 600T just doesn't have the space for enough rads to cool all 4 480's and the cpu. Next case mod will though!



The fans on the H80 are Cooler Master Excalibur's which have been torn apart and painted. When running these fans look like just one solid disc.



The reason this mod is called Power Hungry is basically due to the massive amount of power it uses, needless to say there are only a few PSU's on the market that by themselves can handle this type of power draw.



PC Specs:

Asus Rampage IV Formula
Corsair Vengeance 2133MHz 16GB Quad Channel
Quad SLI EVGA GTX 480 SC
EVGA NEX 1500 SuperNOVA
2x Crucial 256GB M4 SSD Raid
4x 3TB Western Digital Black HDD

[UltraHooligan]

Wow for the amount of Hardware, you sure made it look neat in that 600T.

Perhaps the next step is to move up to the upcoming Corsair 900D with a Custom loop? That would look awesome 🙂

[HarryM]

you could water-cool it by putting a 360 in the front, 240 or 280 in the top and a 120 in the back, i thinks that would work?

[Mankz]

That's a really clean system given all the hardware you've got shoved in there!

[MultiDoc]

Nice build, but consider either a double-PSU configuration maybe and as previously said, for all the rads you wanna use consider getting a 900D.

As a side note, painting the fans is a bad idea, it affects calibration and weight distribution and in the long run they get noisy and out of balance.

[Zka17]

Nice job, TurboPenguin! :cool:

Those GTX480s are not only power hungry, but (because of that) they're also producing a lot of heat... if you want to watercool them just for the sake of show, then you may fit in that case (assuming that you will never really push the system)... - but if you want to enjoy all of that power, you will need much better cooling than that!

If you stick to that case, I would consider an external radiator connected only by tubes to the case... like a Phobya G-changer Xtreme Nova 1080 or some of the Watercool's Mo-Ra 3 rads...

[ghostreaper98]

all i can say is wow!! this thing is a beast. quad sli, holy rusted metal batman!!! lol. now thats what i call going big brother!!