1 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,200 The Flash Voyager GTX usb3 drive from Corsair provides SSD like performance 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:16,960 and fits comfortably in your pocket click now to learn more so welcome to 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:22,439 something a little bit unusual I don't know how good the audio is going to be in here but it is what it is I am in the 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:28,000 middle of preparing for one of our ultimate build guides and this project 5 00:00:25,039 --> 00:00:31,439 kind of spiraled out of control and all of a sudden it turned from a regular 6 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:35,719 building guide into like I'm painting stuff so I figured I might as well do a 7 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:39,480 quick run through of the procedure that we're going to be using to paint the 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:43,360 stuff in this build so as you can see I've already gotten started on a couple 9 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:48,680 of things so the RAM was the first thing that I got going on so I'm using Corsair 10 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:52,359 Dominator platinums with the uh the light bars but not the Windows so you 11 00:00:51,239 --> 00:00:59,559 can see the way that these are going to assemble is they're going to go on like this so what I'm doing with these ones 12 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:02,039 is I want to spray the bars that go 13 00:00:59,559 --> 00:01:07,200 inside here green so that I get a really cool green underglow effect underneath 14 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:12,200 them but then I'm doing kind of a razor themed build so this is going to be in 15 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:16,040 the h440 razor Edition so this silver is going to stand out like a bit of a sore 16 00:01:13,759 --> 00:01:20,479 thumb so I also want to paint these black now you don't want to use regular 17 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:25,520 paint on computer components because what'll happen is it'll be permanent so 18 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:29,400 that kind of sucks so instead we're going to be using plasy dip so I've got 19 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:33,360 three different colors here that I need so first first of all I've got black 20 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:36,640 I'll be using this to stealth the Dominator Platinum light uh not the 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:41,079 light bars rather just the tops of the Dominator platinums here and then I'll 22 00:01:38,479 --> 00:01:46,159 also be using this to paint the thermal armor on the Sabertooth z97 Mark 1 the 23 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:50,159 reason that I'm doing that is I couldn't find any board that even remotely 24 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:56,560 matched the color scheme we were going for Gigabyte doesn't do their black and green color scheme anymore since Z87 so 25 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,119 I figured okay well we'll do our best with it I'm going to pull off the 26 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:02,600 thermal armor I'm going to stealth it I'm going to put it make it completely 27 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:06,439 black then I'll put it back on and then once we install our RAM plug in our 28 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:10,319 eight pin plug in some graphics cards and cover up all this stuff it should 29 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:16,120 basically look like a completely stealth black board and then the last thing I 30 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:18,440 had originally intended to do a lot more 31 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:23,560 green in this build I actually picked up two cans of the blaze uh green stuff 32 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:30,000 here so I picked up a couple cans of those and then I I kind of realized that 33 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:32,519 razer's h440 or the mgx h440 whoever is 34 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,800 is um really doesn't have a lot of green it's mostly black with little green 35 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:42,000 accents so the last thing I'll be painting is just this top lattice on 36 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:45,040 both of our R9 290s so I've I've pulled this off the other one already and then 37 00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:49,720 I'm actually going to leave the rest of the card Black so we're just going to 38 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,599 have those two green accents inside the system along with the underglow on the 39 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:58,239 Rand and we're going to call that probably good enough so without further Ado here we go so to paint all the RAM 40 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,120 from every angle without needing to to touch it and potentially wreck it I made 41 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,519 myself a little thing out of a paint stir stick or two I guess two paint stir 42 00:03:04,239 --> 00:03:11,680 sticks so that I can space everything out and paint all this without uh 43 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:17,519 without going back and doing things over again so here we go always shake for a 44 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:22,280 minute and all that noise and let's see how this goes 45 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:38,519 okay coat number one done oh yeah you 46 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:42,720 should always this is just a general spray bom 47 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:46,200 kit hold it upside down wait till the paint stops coming out every time you're 48 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,319 done using it to keep the nozzle clean okay so to get the Sabertooth ready the 49 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:54,120 last thing you want to do is paint something while it's still attached to 50 00:03:51,239 --> 00:03:58,319 uh to PCB so I'm just going to remove the rear armor something that I didn't 51 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,920 realize before now is that the screws are actually all different on here so 52 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:07,480 I'm just going to kind of map them out for myself as I go all right so we're 53 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,239 going to pull off the thermal armor here 54 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,519 uh so I could probably mask off these silver things here but I'm just going to 55 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:16,519 do the whole thing black same thing with this ASUS logo cuz it's in like this 56 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:19,040 weird camo just going to we're just going to yeah we're going to Black that 57 00:04:17,799 --> 00:04:23,280 out all right now we're on to the graphics card so actually these 58 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:29,400 windforce uh Gigabyte cards come apart really easily all you got to do is undo 59 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:33,039 six screws from the back once again keeping keep very careful track of which 60 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:42,560 ones go where actually not that necessary here because what we're going to do is we are going to unplug this bad 61 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:43,520 boy then we're going to just pop this 62 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:52,639 baby off pop just like that there we go so 63 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:54,840 once that's done we can actually there 64 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:58,440 we go we can just put these back in so we don't lose them while we're in the 65 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:02,240 process now is a good opportunity since we're at this to replace the stock 66 00:05:00,039 --> 00:05:05,160 thermal compound I mean they put decent stuff on at the factory but you can 67 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:10,560 always put on something better something like ic7 diamond or something like that 68 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:14,600 or icy Diamond Seven's just the size of the tube there's the last one in 69 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:20,639 here there we go and 70 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,919 this please come off please come off 71 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:24,800 there we go this is the matching one for 72 00:05:23,919 --> 00:05:29,759 the other piece that we're going to paint so the blaze stuff doesn't go on 73 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:35,319 very well if you don't undercoat with something light so that's why I have 74 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:39,000 both a white can as well as a green can so we're going to have to do probably at 75 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:42,160 least three or four coats of white maybe maybe two maybe two maybe three and then 76 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:44,600 we're going to start in with the green stuff 77 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,759 here right I guess I uh I should have 78 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:53,680 mentioned one of the reasons we're using Plasti Dip instead of regular paint is 79 00:05:52,479 --> 00:05:59,400 that you can peel it off when you're done so this is going to be the toughest one just because I got to hit it from so 80 00:05:57,199 --> 00:06:02,560 many angles but light coats from every angle is going to be the 81 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:11,520 key so I locked the uh I locked the 82 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:15,400 vents open here before starting to paint just cuz I can't imagine why anyone 83 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:20,479 would ever close them anyway maybe someone can enlighten 84 00:06:17,639 --> 00:06:27,120 me that didn't end up being very light coats okay do as I say not as I 85 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:31,479 do here's just a quick in progress so I'm mostly done with the actual painting 86 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,639 I just need to put a few more coats of green on this because uh yeah with the 87 00:06:34,199 --> 00:06:39,759 black you couldn't see the green at all and with the white the green is very 88 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:44,520 very light lighter than I'd hoped based on how it looks when you really spray a 89 00:06:41,639 --> 00:06:49,080 lot of it on something versus that it's uh more of an acid green than uh than 90 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:55,960 sort of the darker green that I had kind of hoped for so yeah you can see these 91 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,960 coats are darkening 92 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:06,120 it all all right the RAM's pretty much good to go 93 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:10,919 though so now is as good a time as any to clean off that stock thermal Gunk uh 94 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:15,599 we're going to want isopropyl alcohol for this preferably 95 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:20,960 99% although I guess it's never been proven that 70% doesn't do a decent 96 00:07:18,599 --> 00:07:25,840 enough job they put a lot of thermal compound on these gpus so we're going to 97 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:29,599 have to take a few runs at it here oh so much more still 98 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:37,759 now while we are replacing the thermal compound on the GPU itself we're 99 00:07:35,639 --> 00:07:40,960 actually not going to replace any of the thermal pads for the memory or anything 100 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:46,960 if you try to put thermal compound in there instead of the pads that are there 101 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:49,240 then what will happen is your GPU core 102 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:53,039 will not make or rather all of those will not make correct contact your GPU 103 00:07:51,159 --> 00:07:58,319 core will prevent them from coming down enough in order to uh to cool themselves 104 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:02,280 so they will overheat so you want to use thermal pads right rather than thermal 105 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:06,039 compound there so we're just going to use some MX2 because that's what I 106 00:08:04,159 --> 00:08:09,440 happen to have lying around and then we're going to reapply this bad boy so 107 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:14,360 we apply a bit more on a GPU than we would on a CPU where we normally do a 108 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:18,319 uncooked grain of rice size thing we're going to want a bit more here just 109 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:24,120 because it's a bit bigger so we're going to do like a jumbo uncooked rice there 110 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:28,120 we go this is an incredibly important step in the reassembly process never 111 00:08:25,759 --> 00:08:31,039 forget to reconnect your fans because without fans 112 00:08:31,039 --> 00:08:39,000 um yeah no cooling will happen that will be terrible all right so we're just 113 00:08:36,279 --> 00:08:44,080 going to carefully realign that with the holes where everything came off of no 114 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:49,560 we're not very funny we need to put these back on first ha that was a good 115 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:52,120 one lus the whole point of this whole 116 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:57,399 exercise there we go all right so how's that going to look looks all right it's 117 00:08:53,959 --> 00:08:59,920 plasty dip I guess okay so now it's time 118 00:08:57,399 --> 00:09:04,399 for attempt number two lining everything up so 119 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:07,560 carefully this time with all the other pieces in 120 00:09:05,959 --> 00:09:12,800 place okay so just six screws to put it back 121 00:09:10,399 --> 00:09:15,880 together most of which I haven't misplaced just kidding I didn't misplace 122 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:21,200 any of them if I did that would be terrible uh don't do them up all the way at this point you want to make sure 123 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:24,279 you're applying pressure evenly as you put the cooler back on the card so we're 124 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:30,040 just doing them up a little bit then we're going to tighten everything up at the same time so now we're tightening an 125 00:09:27,079 --> 00:09:36,120 AC cross pattern get everything nice and tight on there 126 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:38,640 there we go all right so this For Better 127 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:45,480 or For Worse is what our graphics card looks like now we have a nice green 128 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:49,959 accent and uh I guess oh actually I didn't show you guys the reassembly 129 00:09:46,959 --> 00:09:52,440 process for this there's a safe place 130 00:09:49,959 --> 00:09:58,240 but here's the Sabertooth board nice and blacked out stealthed out and this is 131 00:09:55,560 --> 00:10:02,160 what the card will look like in it here we go except imagine of them okay well 132 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:07,160 there I guess you don't have to imagine it anymore that's what it'll look like 133 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:12,079 with both graphics cards installed with their green 134 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:14,360 accents not half bad now it's time to 135 00:10:12,079 --> 00:10:17,519 put the RAM together so we'll put this aside and get started on that I've been 136 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:23,480 doing this stuff long enough to basically have a phobia of uh losing 137 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:28,760 oneof a kind screws that are impossible to replace cuz man the number of hours 138 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:33,680 I've spent looking for that kind of a stuff that kind of stuff okay so each of 139 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:38,720 these is going to go back together with a pretty much identical 140 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:43,160 process I guess so this green bar is going to slot back in here where it used 141 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:47,480 to be white assuming it still fits come on okay yeah there we go all right so 142 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:54,600 that's what those are going to look like in there then the whole thing is going 143 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:56,639 to go back on top of the module and that 144 00:10:54,600 --> 00:11:01,680 paint finish actually matches pretty darn well ooh the these are going to 145 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:06,000 look good oh I'm pretty I'm pretty stoked on 146 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:10,440 these all right so the back pieces come through 147 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,360 and then we screw the front pieces in from the front pretty straightforward 148 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:20,279 okay here we are putting in the last screw and 149 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:24,639 that is what our finished modules look like that nice 150 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:31,639 green light bar and then that nice all black 151 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,560 stealthy looking finish so let's go 152 00:11:31,639 --> 00:11:40,639 ahead and install this in the last slot on the board and that's it that my 153 00:11:37,079 --> 00:11:42,760 friends is how you paint your computer 154 00:11:40,639 --> 00:11:46,040 components thank you for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if 155 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:48,839 you disliked it leave a comment let 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