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Corsair Graphite 600T

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TechPowerUP has posted a review of Corsair’s Graphite 600T midtower ATX case. Aside from a few issues, the overall review was very positive.

Corsair has put a lot of engineering into their Obsidian case line-up and everyone had eagerly been awaiting their first mid-tower case offering. Enter stage left: Corsair Graphite 600T, which takes a lot of the features of the Obsidian and packs it into a uniqe looking case at a much lower price point. We tear it apart and put it back together, to see if it can impress as much as the Obsidian series.
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Two questions:

1. How good are the fans in this case?

2. How good is this case vs the Antec Nine Hundred Two? (Overall)
 
The fans in the 600T are very quiet, and relatively low RPM. That being said, you can upgrade them with aftermarket 200MM fans (as a number of people on forums have done) and the top fan is replaceable with dual 120mm fans if you want.

As far as compared to the Nine Hundred Two, I'd say it depends what you want. They're very different chassis with different prices, features, and form factors. The 600T can fit a dual radiator, extra-long video cards, has native support for SSDs, and has a USB 3.0 port on the front, plus a more robust cable management system.

That being said, it comes down to user preference and price. The 600T is larger and a bit more expensive, as well.
 
What would be a comparable case to this where you won't want/need to replace the fans?
 
That case is as ugly as they get.... there are worse but this one is not appealing.

Personally I really want the CC700D.

I really like Corsair products. this 600T just doesn't do anything for me, the inside has cool features, but the outside is ugly and the front fan is HUGE and has no filter.
 
The front fan does have a filter and it's actually really easy to remove. The 5 1/4" drive bay covers also have filters under the mesh. I wonder if the sample unit these guys got didn't have a filter installed.

The fans are really quiet. I don't have a Nine Hundred Two, but I upgraded from a Nine Hundred. The fans on this case are extremely quiet compared to my Antec. The cable routing is easier. Airflow seems just about as good, although there's no mounts for a fan on the side of the case.

I haven't really seen any changes to my system temps either, although I haven't been benchmarking my system since I overclocked it.

This case is huge compared to the Nine Hundreds too. It's a few inches wider and hiding all the leftover cables from a TX750 was incredibly easy to do.

My only complaints are that the fan controller uses a molex cable, so even if all you use are SATA drives, you'll still need to use 1 molex or an adapter and currently there's no option for a windowed side panel. Oh, fully sleeved cables would've been good too. I'll have to learn how to sleeve my own for the front panel connectors at some point.
 
Seems just about everything that Corsair touches is turning into silver or gold. I think this will be my case for my rebuild.
 
Case looks really well done. Just a crying shame it is steel and plastic.

So hard finding a good looking quality aluminum case these days. Still trying to find a new look to my Lian-li.
 
patric said:
The front fan does have a filter and it's actually really easy to remove. The 5 1/4" drive bay covers also have filters under the mesh. I wonder if the sample unit these guys got didn't have a filter installed.
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According to what review or what personal experience?

Everything I have read said it doesn't. See the above review for instance. Last page(6) shows/states: "No real dust filter in front"

I understand that the front covers act as a filter and have mesh. but still doesn't mean the fan is filtered, air will come in around the front bezel.

Doesn't matter, still ugly.
 
I have to agree with you guys...ugly fathead case. And that's coming from an owner of an old beat up Stacker 810 with the ghetto 2 tone.

How much airflow would be lost with the addition of air filters in the front?
 
Why can't Corsair and Silverstone use aluminum?

A love the 800D and the FT-02 but they are just so damn heavy.:mad:
 
They used aluminum on the face plate of the 700D :p the rest is steel, fail. I still want one, and a forklift for when I got to LANs
 
Nickbaldwin86 said:
According to what review or what personal experience?

Everything I have read said it doesn't. See the above review for instance. Last page(6) shows/states: "No real dust filter in front"
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Look at my sig. It's according to my own personal experience. Like I said, the case these guys got for the review may not have had one. Mine does. It traps dust nicely.

Edit: Here's a link to a review with a pretty good picture of the panel with the filter:

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1412/3/
 
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FT-02
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Whatever inspires a gym membership's, right?! I really, really like that case. Haven't seen it in person, but it would probably be my 1st choice. The one w/ the window on the side panel looks bad though. Lian Li does it best.
 
magoo said:
Why can't Corsair and Silverstone use aluminum?

A love the 800D and the FT-02 but they are just so damn heavy.:mad:
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Aluminium sux for cases. I have TT Tsunami which weights 12,3 lbs sure it looks awesome with that brushed aluminium front doors and aluminium side panels but it has extreme tendentions to resonate from working hdds or dvd drive. My friend who got TT Soprano (same case but metal and plastic) never had even one such problem.
 
Michaelius said:
Aluminium sux for cases. I have TT Tsunami which weights 12,3 lbs sure it looks awesome with that brushed aluminium front doors and aluminium side panels but it has extreme tendentions to resonate from working hdds or dvd drive. My friend who got TT Soprano (same case but metal and plastic) never had even one such problem.
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Using one aluminum case especially a bad one as a litmus for all aluminum cases is a bad idea. A well built and designed aluminium case is superior to steel/plastic in pretty much every possible way. I like TT cases but that particular line was terrible for sound and airflow. When most talk about a quality aluminum case they are talking about Lian-li and for good reason. Not that there aren't other good aluminum cases, they are just usually the bar standard for quality.
 
I recently got a Corsair 600T. The fans are a disappointment, not sure why they put a fan controller on with those fans... Not really as much room as I'm used to either. But I do like the side panels. And the way you can move the hard drive cages away from in front of the fan.

Oh, yesterday I installed the first stage in a water-cooling setup. Here is a pic...
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I've replaced the top fan with 2 58cfm 120mm, and the front with a spare 230mm from a HAF 932. The loop is a Swiftech 220 Edge kit. I will add a second 240 radiator in the top of the case once I get waterblocks for the 470s.

I have more fans on the way. A new 200mm and a few 120mm fans. Once they are installed the fan controller might actually be "useful". :D
 
CannyDog,
nice setup, how much work did it take to swap that 230mm? did you need to drill or was it a direct fit into the stock screw holes?
thanks
 
lord_citan said:
CannyDog,
nice setup, how much work did it take to swap that 230mm? did you need to drill or was it a direct fit into the stock screw holes? The catch is that the fan is thick enough it doesn't need more than one screw. That bottom stand for the hard drives holds the bottom of the fan in place. (The Corsair supplied fans are almost 11mm thinner.)
thanks
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I used one of the screws that was originally used for that fan and just lined up a hole in the front. It's technically not a regular mount point. The fan that was installed there has a pair of mount brackets and clip in to the front panel.

Sad part is that it's still not pushing much Air as I'd like. I ordered a bunch of new fans on Monday, from NewEgg, but they won't be delivered until next Tuesday. (UPS are lazy...) And to try and get more Air-flow I rigged up another fan, that sits in the bottom part of the 5.25" drive bay area.
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That actually helps allot! And even though its a completely silent fan it still "feels" like its moving as much air as the stock 200mm.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Using one aluminum case especially a bad one as a litmus for all aluminum cases is a bad idea. A well built and designed aluminium case is superior to steel/plastic in pretty much every possible way.
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I had one of those Rocketfish BB blowout $50 lian li-ish cases and the alum resonated loudly...very thin too.

But one of my first alum cases was a Lian -Li PC 61? They put some serious effort into the quality of that tower. Night and day difference between the two.

I wonder how SS's Fortress 2 compares to a good LL.
 
Now if Corsair would just shrink either their 700D or 800D (or both) into a midtower configuration, they would have a real winner for those that prefer a more traditional design. I personally prefer an all steel traditional looking case even though I'm currentlly using a full tower Lian Li.
 
Jodiuh said:
I had one of those Rocketfish BB blowout $50 lian li-ish cases and the alum resonated loudly...very thin too.

But one of my first alum cases was a Lian -Li PC 61? They put some serious effort into the quality of that tower. Night and day difference between the two.

I wonder how SS's Fortress 2 compares to a good LL.
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Exactly, just because it is an aluminum case, does not make it quality.
 
Dekoth-E- said:
Exactly, just because it is an aluminum case, does not make it quality.
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Quite honestly, the only real benefits to aluminum are twofold:
1) Weight savings
2) Appearance (brushed aluminum looks really cool)


There are lots of negatives with aluminum, though:
1) Cost (making a sturdy case requires thick aluminum, which is expensive)
2) Resonance (thinner aluminum actually transmits sound quite well so unless you use something thick, you're going to have to sound deaden a lot of things, which means quieter fans or more expensive mounting techniques)


Honestly, I'm a fan of some of the aluminum look, which is why we chose it for the Obsidian series. But making the case out of aluminum thick enough to make it sturdy would have been tremendously expensive, and making it out of thinner aluminum would have made it feel cheap. So the chassis itself is made out of steel.

The Graphite series is designed to be less expensive and more competitive with other cases, so steel with plastic accent pieces were the obvious choice.
 
But why did it have to end looking but ugle in the end ? :)

They could have kept 700D style front panel but using steel.
 
Michaelius said:
But why did it have to end looking but ugle in the end ? :)

They could have kept 700D style front panel but using steel.
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You guys have been asking for a mid-tower obsidian since we launched 800D, 600T was in development before then. It takes a while to make things work. :)
 
Michaelius said:
Aluminium sux for cases. I have TT Tsunami which weights 12,3 lbs sure it looks awesome with that brushed aluminium front doors and aluminium side panels but it has extreme tendentions to resonate from working hdds or dvd drive. My friend who got TT Soprano (same case but metal and plastic) never had even one such problem.
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TT cases are garbage.. Aluminum is lighter and much nicer looking on the eye. This case is steel because corsair is trying to drive down cost to make a larger profit and to make a more lower end line.. This is like buying a $100 car and wondering why it doesn't have the same features as the $30,000 car.
 
Where is the side fan on this case? My friend bought one for a linux machine and he has a passively cooled video card that is running a bit hotter since the last case we used had a side fan. Now they skipped it in this Corsair case. Why? We are looking into cutting a hole in the side panel and fitting a 240mm fan on it, anyone have any pointers as to whats the best way to cut a 240mm hole? Even if they had a 240mm hole saw, I'd recommend using a drill press which we don't have. The second option is a dremel circle cutter tool.

I'm also not a fan of TT cases. Aluminum is also easier to cut! But steel can be cut too...
 
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