wow you guys did not like that video
that I did on the creation of my DIY
paint booth a little while ago but what I hope and based on the reaction on
social media this seems to be the case is that you will at least like my first
creation that has come out of it welcome to my guide on how to paint your
graphics
card
the GTX 980 TI VR Edition from EVGA
provides an industry-leading Graphics experience as well as a 5 and 1/4 in Bay
with easy access inputs for your VR device learn more at the link in the
video description after putting a couple of
finishing touches on the DIY paint booth including finally attaching the fan and
putting a shroud of Tuck tape around it as well as taping the drop sheet on the
floor to the plastic walls around the outside it was time to disassemble the
card now the objective here is to take it down as far as we can to its bare
components because the objective is not
to just coat the entire thing in a in a layer of orange paint I'm actually only
looking to change the Blasted aluminum parts so I end up with this sick LTT
black and orange color scheme now this procedure and this is kind of cool can
be used for painting like what I'm doing but it can also be used for cleaning out
the cooler of many reference NVIDIA graphics cards from the last couple of
generations so uh make sure you're paying close attention if your GPU
starts overheating to begin with you'll need a number one Phillips a number 0000
Philips a size 1 and 1/2 hex and a size 2 hex as well as a little bit of
patience Begin by removing the reference cooler from the PCB all the screws on
the back and the screws along with the hex shap AP DVI retention sockets need
to come out pull the graphics card
itself away from the cooler we were lucky and all our thermal pads stayed in
one place making reassembly easy later but if they don't make sure you put them
back somewhere safe then remove the two power connectors for the fan and the
illuminated GeForce logo and put the video card somewhere safe we won't need
it until it's time to put the entire assembly back together now we remove the
screws for the top top and bottom aluminum fascia pieces one of them has a
little bit of adhesive so be careful not to bend it while you're pulling it off
the cooler from here it's basically an exercise and find the screws and remove
them so we took out the screws holding in the Plexi window and the one securing
the black shroud that sits around the fan giving us a great look at the dark
nickel plated Vapor chamber heat sink that invisia uses on the 980 TI then we
worked our way towards the back of the card all the black pieces will be put
aside since we'll be keeping the factory finish and the aluminum pieces the last
of which we get access to by removing these four screws that were exposed are
taken into the paint booth for Preparation the one screw that we didn't
remove was the one holding in the cooling fan on the underside of the
unisync that has all these thermal pads on it there is no need to take this off
and I don't recommend painting a fan as it can ruin its balance making it louder
and potentially less reliable step one prep solvent I mean we aren't working
with car parts that have been driving around on muddy roads so it's probably
not necessary but it can't hurt step two
is sanding so we actually took a wet sand run at it with 600 grit I'm not
sure if the anodized finish on these components would have interfered with
paint adhesion but I'm going to play it better safe than sorry and remove it
anyway then we wet sand with 1,000 grit
to ensure that our finished surface will be sefic by the end dry the parts off and
it's time to set about priming here we went with three light to medium coats
waiting about 10 minutes in between them with the experience I gained from this
project I would have gone back and done this with white primer but gray was what
I had at the time and it ended up working out not too bad now our ambient
temperature was a little on the low side so I actually ended up having to leave
the primed parts in the office over overnight to cure before I could sand
off the dust and Imperfections with a very light 600 grit wet sand dry them
again and then move on to my favorite part applying the base coat for the
color I chose a Lamborghini orange that looked dazzling on the web and actually
did not disappoint in person the first
coat actually very mediocre it had kind of a yellow cast to it but as I applied
more coats the vibrancy of the color really started to come through I ended
up using five coats then once we reached
the clear coating stage I actually made a very unexpected decision normally I
would want to apply my four to five clear coats and then wait 24 hours and
use rubbing compound to bring the clear coat to that glassy smooth finish but
with the wrinkle powder coat finish of the black components I find I actually
prefer the subtle Orange Peel texture of the parts without any further finishing
and I understand normally this is a very
undesirable effect in a paint job and considered the mark of a slap Dash job
but you know what YOLO I like it and I
am sticking with it which leaves reassembly as the only remaining step
basically do everything you just did while you took the card apart but in
reverse order and you should have yourself an absolutely sick looking
reference graphics card now for those of
you concerned about warranty on a mod like this that is a very valid concern
but I was pleasantly surprised to find
that on this EVGA card anyway I actually
didn't need to remove any warranty stickers to complete the project and so
if you were to use plasty dip instead of car paint you could easily take it back
apart and peel off the plasty dip reassemble it and send it back for
repairs no no big deal so happy painting then guys thanks to this guide you can
either clean your NVIDIA reference video card or save yourself the small loan of
about $4,000 that it would take to get your hands on a multicolored reference
card out of the box and we're back with another drop
this time it's the OnePlus Two Mass drop
is the platform that allows the community to say hey we want to deal on
like you know this knife or that keyboard board or this like cool piece
of hiking equipment or in this case this cool smartphone can you go to the
manufacturer and say hey if we can sell a whole bunch of these then can you give
us a lower price and that is exactly what happened so the OnePlus 2 is a 5 1
12 in 1080P smartphone with a Snapdragon 810 processor and adreno 430 GPU it runs
Android 5.1 and has a USB type-c port for charging and it's available for a
limited time only on mass drop so all you got to do is head over to draw drops
SL lt-1 plus don't worry if that's complicated it's linked in the video
description and check it out and while you're over there they've got lots of
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