Can You PLASTIDIP a WHOLE PC?? Will it STILL WORK??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,012 words · ~5 min read
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have you ever found yourself walking through a B Auto Show thinking gee if
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only I could plasty dip every part of my
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computer like these modernday picassos
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have done to their cars but would all my stuff even work anymore and what about
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cooling well if that's ever happened to
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you we've got the answers
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Synergy allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers
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at once check it out now at the link in the video
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description so to bring our idea for the
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funkiest PC ever to fruition we decided
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early on that halfway wasn't going to be
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far enough we resolved to plasty dip our
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entire fire machine outside and in even
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critical system components like the motherboard video card and CPU heat sink
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understandably we were a little concerned that while Plasti Dip seems to
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be a rubberized type of coating and is
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therefore hopefully completely non-conductive it's not a feature that
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they explicitly advertise so the chances
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that this kind of a treatment could kill the PC whether by gumming up the
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electrical contacts or causing a short
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seemed pretty high thankfully though our
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friends over at the local electronics refurbishing and recycling Mega Store
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free geek came to the rescue hooking us up with a fairly respectable if several
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Generations old machine that if it survives will actually be able to rock
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some pretty modern games along with its new style so the first thing we did was
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to validate that free geek's donor Hardware was in proper working order and
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that the coolers were keeping our system cool enough to avoid any thermal
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throttling then we rolled out to Canadian Tire and dropped
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250 of wait what
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$250 did you guys even try to contact Plasti Dip to see if they'd sponsor it
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we did and why do you think we bought it
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oh all right then $250 so to make sure then that the
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motherboard wasn't harmed any more than it was already going to be we borrowed
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some dust covers from an ASUS Sabertooth board to fill our PCI Express SATA RAM
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and IO ports wherever possible and filled in the gaps with some tape much
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taping later we were ready to go to town with the hot pink which oh right we were
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ready to go to town laying down found the initial white coat that's required
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for optimal coverage no big deal I mean
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engineering is pretty much trial and error that's what that means right
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moving on for the power supply we couldn't just blast paid into it and
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hope for the best we wouldn't get very good coverage that way so we needed to
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tape it off on the inside we took it apart making sure that we didn't get
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shocked by the very questionable PSU
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that we picked out of the door stop B at freeek and then to make our task easier
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not less stupid we hung what we could off of saw horses and got to painting
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enjoy this psychedelic montage
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so then at this point the internals were all done up with a unicorn Ada rainbow
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didn't sit well and our PC got in the line of fire aesthetic and the case's
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clean black canvas look was completed
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but one thing was still missing the side panel really needed a sweet design to
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put a cherry on top of this build we were originally thinking some sweet ass
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flames and Ed made us a stencil to cut out but it was way too complicated and
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Ed has shockingly poor taste in Flames so we decided instead that a cactus
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would be not only cooler but also and perhaps most importantly it would be
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much easier and wow goodness gracious
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that is possibly the funkiest most Cosmic cactus that I have ever seen time
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to slap everything together then and then ourselves
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it ended up looking even more Funtastic than we could have possibly hoped but
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does the machine still work I mean that
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is the point of this can you do this at home and it does from a certain point of
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view we got Windows installed and fired
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up Ida 64 to see how it was Fairing and
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oh wow just installing programs at
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around 20% load on our CPU landed us at
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90 plus de C on the processor and Under
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full load we thermal throttled at a
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tropical 100° C but I mean this is kind
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of what we were expecting we could have easily not painted the
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heat sink and it would probably have been fine but that wasn't really the
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point of the build the point was to find out if plasti dipping your computer
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hardware will kill it and the answer is
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maybe because our success doesn't
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guarantee
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yours Synergy is an easy software
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download that solves once and for all
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the problem of having two keyboards and
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two mice on your desk if you have multiple PCS because it lets you share
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one Mouse and one keyboard between two or more computers seamlessly so you'll
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no longer confuse which one goes with
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which and they even allow Advanced features like clipboard sharing between
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the computers being able to drag and drop files between the computers the
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ability to set up hotkeys and support for multiple operating systems Windows
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Mac even Linux they've got basic and pro
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options and you can use our Link in the video description to get 50% off Synergy
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