RGB power supplies RGB sli bridges
RGB water cooling fittings i guess some
men really do just want to watch the world burn don't they
but if you're the type of person who wishes this RGB trend would just please
go away already the type of person who will keep wearing black until they
invent something that's darker well then you
you're in luck my nerdy nicktophile friend because today we are wiping the
RGB glee right off of a perfectly good
rainbow rig and replacing it with the blackest black you can get in a can
synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
at once check it out now at the link in the video description
for maximum satisfaction we thought we'd start out with a build that's not very
black at all for our case we chose the aptly named fantex eclipse p400 tempered
glass glacier white and for the internals well
if you remember our RGB build guide whose glory you can witness here
you'll recognize all the glowtastic components that were loaded
inside take them in now kids because after
today it's lights out
to achieve our goal we're using a product called black 2.0 the world's
flattest maddest black art material from stuart
semple out of the uk short of using carbon nanotubes this
stuff is the darkest black in a bottle and we've got lots of it
it's like a regular acrylic paint except
it uses a special base that allows it to hold way
more pigment than usual drying with a
super flat non-reflective finish so even
if some chipper rainbow thumper shows up
at your lan party with RGB strobe lights and a glowing fidget spinner in your
face your rig will actually be able to absorb
the fun finally a pc that's as soul sucking and
nihilistic as you are we blacked out the most egregious parts
of the machine first yes
your feeble skills are no match for the
power of the dark side
power
oh excuse me sorry
since we weren't using spray paint like we did in the plasti-dip pc video which
you can watch here we didn't have to do a whole lot of
masking this time around in order to protect sensitive components
instead we relied on laser-like focus
and a few rubber stoppers to avoid painting the motherboard headers slot
pins and card edges but who wants to paint an entire case using a tiny
filbert move over bob ross for this part
it's time to pull out the big guns
well relatively speaking we used a 7-inch roller to say night night to the
eclipse p400 i don't care how popular white is
back in black black back in black
yeah i can't do the ac dc thing forget it and you know what actually now that i
think of it why stop at desecrating just one
2017 pc hardware trend
and we're back this is this is a really weird video
anyway with the painting done and it actually only ended up taking one bottle
of black 2.0 so for how much of it we bought it's
sure lucky it isn't expensive uh we were ready to put it all back
together pro tip by the way if you paint
over the legend on your motherboard use the manual to figure out where your
power and reset leads go leaving only the answer to the question
on everyone's mind does it still work
theoretically it should be fine we did
test our black 2.0 on a sacrificial video card before beginning the project
and while putting heavy paint on fan blades
could debalance them or slow them down a little perhaps affecting the rig's
thermals our expectations were high
high until they were dashed because no
no it doesn't work anymore it actually did turn on for a little bit
but now it's as dead as you are inside in
retrospect we could have coated everything with a plasti-dip primer
since we know for sure that plasti-dip is non-conductive but i guess we just
flew too close to the sun on this one
at least we only killed the motherboard since that was the only actual pcb that
we painted so there's still a valuable lesson for our vamp friends out there
you should be able to use this product
to black out your RAM case
video cards you pretty much name it without impacting performance or
operation on the uh bright side even though it's dead it
pretty much looks just like it would have if it had worked and we hadn't worked it
so then enjoy this completely satisfying and
actually kind of goth footage of our finished product
i can't say enough good things about synergy it's a simple software download
that solves once and for all the problem of having two keyboards and two mice on
your desk whatever reason you have for running two computers at a time uh maybe
you want to test your code in multiple environments and you don't like vms or
maybe you've got a a work issued macbook but you prefer a pc at home
synergy will allow you to use the same keyboard and mouse seamlessly across
both of them you just drag and drop the mouse across the screen and it works in
Windows mac and even Linux and it isn't
even limited to just two systems you can have as many as i think we've tested
like five at a time they've got a basic and pro option with
a one-time payment and features include things like clipboard sharing between
computers dragging and dropping files between computers the ability to set up
hotkeys and more check out our link in the video description to get 50
off synergy today so thanks for watching guys if you
dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed and maybe consider
checking out where to buy the stuff we featured whether it's hardware or
painting products at the links in the video description also down there you'll
find our merch store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community forum which you should totally
join back in black no back in black
it's probably the closest so far