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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
middle of preparing for one of our ultimate build guides and this project
kind of spiraled out of control and all of a sudden it turned from a regular
building guide into like I'm painting stuff so I figured I might as well do a
quick run through of the procedure that we're going to be using to paint the
stuff in this build so as you can see I've already gotten started on a couple
of things so the RAM was the first thing that I got going on so I'm using Corsair
Dominator platinums with the uh the light bars but not the Windows so you
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
is I want to spray the bars that go
inside here green so that I get a really cool green underglow effect underneath
them but then I'm doing kind of a razor themed build so this is going to be in
the h440 razor Edition so this silver is going to stand out like a bit of a sore
thumb so I also want to paint these black now you don't want to use regular
paint on computer components because what'll happen is it'll be permanent so
that kind of sucks so instead we're going to be using plasy dip so I've got
three different colors here that I need so first first of all I've got black
I'll be using this to stealth the Dominator Platinum light uh not the
light bars rather just the tops of the Dominator platinums here and then I'll
also be using this to paint the thermal armor on the Sabertooth z97 Mark 1 the
reason that I'm doing that is I couldn't find any board that even remotely
matched the color scheme we were going for Gigabyte doesn't do their black and green color scheme anymore since Z87 so
I figured okay well we'll do our best with it I'm going to pull off the
thermal armor I'm going to stealth it I'm going to put it make it completely
black then I'll put it back on and then once we install our RAM plug in our
eight pin plug in some graphics cards and cover up all this stuff it should
basically look like a completely stealth black board and then the last thing I
had originally intended to do a lot more
green in this build I actually picked up two cans of the blaze uh green stuff
here so I picked up a couple cans of those and then I I kind of realized that
razer's h440 or the mgx h440 whoever is
is um really doesn't have a lot of green it's mostly black with little green
accents so the last thing I'll be painting is just this top lattice on
both of our R9 290s so I've I've pulled this off the other one already and then
I'm actually going to leave the rest of the card Black so we're just going to
have those two green accents inside the system along with the underglow on the
Rand and we're going to call that probably good enough so without further Ado here we go so to paint all the RAM
from every angle without needing to to touch it and potentially wreck it I made
myself a little thing out of a paint stir stick or two I guess two paint stir
sticks so that I can space everything out and paint all this without uh
without going back and doing things over again so here we go always shake for a
minute and all that noise and let's see how this goes
okay coat number one done oh yeah you
should always this is just a general spray bom
kit hold it upside down wait till the paint stops coming out every time you're
done using it to keep the nozzle clean okay so to get the Sabertooth ready the
last thing you want to do is paint something while it's still attached to
uh to PCB so I'm just going to remove the rear armor something that I didn't
realize before now is that the screws are actually all different on here so
I'm just going to kind of map them out for myself as I go all right so we're
going to pull off the thermal armor here
uh so I could probably mask off these silver things here but I'm just going to
do the whole thing black same thing with this ASUS logo cuz it's in like this
weird camo just going to we're just going to yeah we're going to Black that
out all right now we're on to the graphics card so actually these
windforce uh Gigabyte cards come apart really easily all you got to do is undo
six screws from the back once again keeping keep very careful track of which
ones go where actually not that necessary here because what we're going to do is we are going to unplug this bad
boy then we're going to just pop this
baby off pop just like that there we go so
once that's done we can actually there
we go we can just put these back in so we don't lose them while we're in the
process now is a good opportunity since we're at this to replace the stock
thermal compound I mean they put decent stuff on at the factory but you can
always put on something better something like ic7 diamond or something like that
or icy Diamond Seven's just the size of the tube there's the last one in
here there we go and
this please come off please come off
there we go this is the matching one for
the other piece that we're going to paint so the blaze stuff doesn't go on
very well if you don't undercoat with something light so that's why I have
both a white can as well as a green can so we're going to have to do probably at
least three or four coats of white maybe maybe two maybe two maybe three and then
we're going to start in with the green stuff
here right I guess I uh I should have
mentioned one of the reasons we're using Plasti Dip instead of regular paint is
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
many angles but light coats from every angle is going to be the
key so I locked the uh I locked the
vents open here before starting to paint just cuz I can't imagine why anyone
would ever close them anyway maybe someone can enlighten
me that didn't end up being very light coats okay do as I say not as I
do here's just a quick in progress so I'm mostly done with the actual painting
I just need to put a few more coats of green on this because uh yeah with the
black you couldn't see the green at all and with the white the green is very
very light lighter than I'd hoped based on how it looks when you really spray a
lot of it on something versus that it's uh more of an acid green than uh than
sort of the darker green that I had kind of hoped for so yeah you can see these
coats are darkening
it all all right the RAM's pretty much good to go
though so now is as good a time as any to clean off that stock thermal Gunk uh
we're going to want isopropyl alcohol for this preferably
99% although I guess it's never been proven that 70% doesn't do a decent
enough job they put a lot of thermal compound on these gpus so we're going to
have to take a few runs at it here oh so much more still
now while we are replacing the thermal compound on the GPU itself we're
actually not going to replace any of the thermal pads for the memory or anything
if you try to put thermal compound in there instead of the pads that are there
then what will happen is your GPU core
will not make or rather all of those will not make correct contact your GPU
core will prevent them from coming down enough in order to uh to cool themselves
so they will overheat so you want to use thermal pads right rather than thermal
compound there so we're just going to use some MX2 because that's what I
happen to have lying around and then we're going to reapply this bad boy so
we apply a bit more on a GPU than we would on a CPU where we normally do a
uncooked grain of rice size thing we're going to want a bit more here just
because it's a bit bigger so we're going to do like a jumbo uncooked rice there
we go this is an incredibly important step in the reassembly process never
forget to reconnect your fans because without fans
um yeah no cooling will happen that will be terrible all right so we're just
going to carefully realign that with the holes where everything came off of no
we're not very funny we need to put these back on first ha that was a good
one lus the whole point of this whole
exercise there we go all right so how's that going to look looks all right it's
plasty dip I guess okay so now it's time
for attempt number two lining everything up so
carefully this time with all the other pieces in
place okay so just six screws to put it back
together most of which I haven't misplaced just kidding I didn't misplace
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
you're applying pressure evenly as you put the cooler back on the card so we're
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
AC cross pattern get everything nice and tight on there
there we go all right so this For Better
or For Worse is what our graphics card looks like now we have a nice green
accent and uh I guess oh actually I didn't show you guys the reassembly
process for this there's a safe place
but here's the Sabertooth board nice and blacked out stealthed out and this is
what the card will look like in it here we go except imagine of them okay well
there I guess you don't have to imagine it anymore that's what it'll look like
with both graphics cards installed with their green
accents not half bad now it's time to
put the RAM together so we'll put this aside and get started on that I've been
doing this stuff long enough to basically have a phobia of uh losing
oneof a kind screws that are impossible to replace cuz man the number of hours
I've spent looking for that kind of a stuff that kind of stuff okay so each of
these is going to go back together with a pretty much identical
process I guess so this green bar is going to slot back in here where it used
to be white assuming it still fits come on okay yeah there we go all right so
that's what those are going to look like in there then the whole thing is going
to go back on top of the module and that
paint finish actually matches pretty darn well ooh the these are going to
look good oh I'm pretty I'm pretty stoked on
these all right so the back pieces come through
and then we screw the front pieces in from the front pretty straightforward
okay here we are putting in the last screw and
that is what our finished modules look like that nice
green light bar and then that nice all black
stealthy looking finish so let's go
ahead and install this in the last slot on the board and that's it that my
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