Personal Rig Update 2012 Part 4 - Final Disassembly and Pondering Paint Options Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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I've made a few more decisions oh sorry I guess I'll preface this by saying this
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will be another uh another small update
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about my personal rig upgrade that's going on here so one of the things that
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I've decided is that I am going
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to rep powder coat the internals of the
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case so I found a place uh locally that
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will strip off all the Old Powder Coating uh in a chemical bath they need
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it for a few days uh it's going to cost about 60 bucks they figure and then I'm
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going to send the internals back down to
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uh Mountain mods as well as the optical
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drive and especially the pieces that I
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missed last time like this one so that
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the whole inside will be uniform and black in instead of having some parts of
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it uh still left with the natural aluminum color hold on a
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second this is one of the reasons to buy a high-end Case by the way guys as you
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can see I've now stripped it down
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to just the unibody chassis or the
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unibody frame and uh you can pull out
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all of the drive cages uh there's actually more pieces over
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here the support braces for the back you
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can pull out the motherboard mounts the mid plate so all of these are going to
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be uh stripped down and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to do a bit of
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a a trial run build of the machine to see if there's any more cable management
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that I need to add for myself so uh one of the things that I mentioned before is
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I thought I might need a bigger Gap back here in order to run more cables up to
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the back of the motherboard tray so I might do that uh one of the other things
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I might do is build myself in some better options in terms of running water
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cooling through the mid plate because right now these holes don't really line
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up perfectly with uh with what I'm trying to do
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so uh that's one thing I'll consider I
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still haven't figured out a way to address the uh the problem with this
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this hole right here but also haven't really decided if I'm going to do that
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uh one of the things that I'll probably do is cut out a
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CPU um
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whatever they're called uh motherboard
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Trace CPU cutout here so that I can more easily swap out CPU coolers I mean the
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cooler I'm going to be using the Apple ghd there is uh is a fairly easy to
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mount one because there's no aftermarket back plate it just uses the stock LGA
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2011 back plate but I mean you never know what's going to happen in the
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future and I don't necessarily want to rep powder coat my case um every oh oh
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hey don't eat the screw hey come on
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come on come on there do you have it in your
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mouth there it is okay I don't necessarily want to rep powder coat the
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case every time I do a new build so that's uh that would be my reasoning for
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for just making sure I do everything right this time hopefully I don't have
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to do it next time
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um yeah the place the place that's stripping off the powder coating also
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does plating so I'm thinking about poten
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eventually depending on what the cost is going to be like um there's a couple
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there's a couple options so one option would
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be uh gold plating the copperhead blocks
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so that they can sit on top of the uh the copperhead RAM so I've got two of
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these but then I really not sure if I want to do that and then the other thing
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is that you can actually strip the nickel plating off this guy and then
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gold plate it instead but one of my concerns about that is they said that
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when you're stripping the nickel plating off it will actually attack the copper
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as well and so uh when they then plate
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the gold back on there might be some imperfections in the finish so am I
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better off with something that doesn't match but is finished perfectly or am I
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better off with something that matches but isn't finished perfectly I don't
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know so I think that's pretty much it
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for the update right now I still haven't really made a made a solid decision
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about what I want to do with the outer chassis uh whether I want to get it
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painted because this part is still pretty perfect but the side panels are
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in rough shape um there's a we use for
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the uh the Vesta special edition systems painting those uh they do a really good
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job and they're not that expensive so uh you could get some kind of automotive
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paint finish going on on here maybe some color change paint or something I
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haven't decided how crazy I want to go yet on this
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um okay actually I think we're we're pretty much wrapped up here here's one
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of the last pieces of the case so pretty much all the pieces of the case are down
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here now I'm just going to take these fans off and then uh this is not going
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into Mountain mod so it's only these middle pieces so I got to take these in
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get them stripped first including these which means I'm going to do these black
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wrinkles so they'll at least match the inside of the case and
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uh yeah every once in a while when I'm
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working on a build I um I find something that obviously I know how to do but
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um I I have no idea how I did this like
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look look at this so so this bracket the way it works is you got your metal
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pieces folded here here here here and here and uh I've used rubber noise
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isolating mounts to mount these fans in
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here but I don't know how I got these in
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here and how I'm going to get them out this is
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ridiculous so um the reason I even care is because I I'm
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going to get this black wrinkle powder coated as well just to match the uh the
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grills in the front they won't be the same kind of mesh but at least they'll
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be the same color but jeez well I'll figure it out anyway
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don't forget to subscribe and uh that's what a tj07 looks like with almost
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nothing left in it so there you go