Question Thermaltake Tower 600 Air Cooled ?

[KoolerThanJesus]

So Im looking at this case (Thermaltake Tower 600) & thinkin about possible air cooled layout. What do you all think of this setup?
Does anyone have this case with an air cooler? Thoughts on fan layout?
Thanks

 

[Lutfij]

IMHO, that is the best orientation for the airflow, to have all fans on the side and bottom set to intake while the top most fan is set to exhaust but set to the highest possible speed to have a chimney/stack effect however I have a question.

Why not just get the Tower 300? It's the same height and you're probably only going to use 1 discrete GPU in the build. What GPU have you photoshopped into that image? If you're going to say it's mentioned in my sig space, please mention it in your thread's body. It helps the community member in the same boat as you're in now, later down the road.

 

[Phaaze88]

Thought on fan layout?
Thanks

The space you've marked with the blue rectangle: if the power supply is fan up, that's actually a down arrow, not an up one.

 

[dwd999]

Personally I believe in using the maximum number of fans that a case will hold which is 9 140mm and 3 120mm for that case. (This is from a guy who has one case with 8 140mm fans and another case with 6 140mm and 3 120mm fans).

 

[KoolerThanJesus]

IMHO, that is the best orientation for the airflow, to have all fans on the side and bottom set to intake while the top most fan is set to exhaust but set to the highest possible speed to have a chimney/stack effect however I have a question.

Why not just get the Tower 300? It's the same height and you're probably only going to use 1 discrete GPU in the build. What GPU have you photoshopped into that image? If you're going to say it's mentioned in my sig space, please mention it in your thread's body. It helps the community member in the same boat as you're in now, later down the road.

Biggest reason is my board is ATX. Plus I rather prefer the look of the 600 . My GPU is the 4080S gigabyte gaming OC. Not even sure if the 300 would hold her. Thanks for the feedback

The space you've marked with the blue rectangle: if the power supply is fan up, that's actually a down arrow, not an up one.

While this fan does sit on the PSU shroud. Its meant for intake with a 120 or 140. Im going for a P14

Personally I believe in using the maximum number of fans that a case will hold which is 9 140mm and 3 120mm for that case. (This is from a guy who has one case with 8 140mm fans and another case with 6 140mm and 3 120mm fans).

Guessing you got yourself an Antec flux pro? I'll proly add 2 more. 140 in the very bottom under the GPU & one 120 on the very back for the socket. I have a P14 140 left over from a family build. The P12 max fans come in 5 packs so this is most likely what Im going with. I do have some gentle typhoons I never used in the closet, guess I'll pull those out for the back&bottom

 

[geofelt]

Fans do not cool.
They move air.
Hopefully the air contains heat from your components, and are all working towards getting heat from the cpu and gpu out of the case.

I would start with a minimum fan configuration and experiment by adding fans and testing the results.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

So Im looking at this case (Thermaltake Tower 600) & thinkin about possible air cooled layout. What do you all think of this setup?
Does anyone have this case with an air cooler? Thoughts on fan layout?
Thanks

I have the tower 500. Which I set it up for air cool. So I could give you ideas on it once I sit here and examine what is different. Btw, I spent several hours finding the best cooling setup.

more to continue....
EDIT:

Ok, to do a simular case mod for air cooling, you take the bracket for the top cooler and put it down in the front with two nice 120mm fans. I used the Iceberg Thermal IceGALE Xtra as all of my cooling fans.

The sides, cut the three holes out for 120mm fans. Their grill blocks 40% of the air plus makes noise. Then I just affix mesh air filters on the outside which makes it easy to clean-just take a vacuum clear hose to them and done. If you in into better looks, then either use custom design fan grills, affixed in their place or use long screws and stand them off from the filters about a 1/4". Then I took aluminium tape, took off the filters off the other vented panels in the bottom and tape over the mesh. On the bottom, I taped those grills except the intake of the power supply on the bottom. taped around the bottom of the power supply to divide the case air zone from the power supply. Then I taped the back panel.

I will also assume you want some fancy LED lighting, Which I would just use some LED strips from the same source/manufacturer so all of the colors are the same.

 

[instawookie]

Hopefully you haven't purchased this case just yet, you may want to dig into GPUs with vapor chamber designs may encounter abnormal temps due to the orientation. This can be resolved using the horizontal mounting stand. While this issue isn't 100% across the board, there is a fair number of reddit threads/ YouTube comment complains about it. I previous had this case and used the horizontal layout myself, the case itself is fun to build in, however cleaning it with a horizontal stand seems to have been an afterthought.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

Hopefully you haven't purchased this case just yet, you may want to dig into GPUs with vapor chamber designs may encounter abnormal temps due to the orientation. This can be resolved using the horizontal mounting stand. While this issue isn't 100% across the board, there is a fair number of reddit threads/ YouTube comment complains about it. I previous had this case and used the horizontal layout myself, the case itself is fun to build in, however cleaning it with a horizontal stand seems to have been an afterthought.

looking at these newer gaming cards, I see that they made a lot of them for either a motherboard laying down horizontally or sideways with the jacks pointed towards the back. This one looks like it was made for a horizontally mounted motherboards.

In my tower 500 I'm running two cards, but mine is a workstation instead of a gaming rig. AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 which both have correct heatsink orientations.

However it could be fixed if a pair of fans was placed over them with the exhaust pointing out, and the final issue that might be, is the depth of the case. I could do that on mine.