WE BUILT THE ANTI-RGB PC!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,113 words · ~5 min read
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RGB power supplies RGB sli bridges
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RGB water cooling fittings i guess some
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men really do just want to watch the world burn don't they
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but if you're the type of person who wishes this RGB trend would just please
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go away already the type of person who will keep wearing black until they
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invent something that's darker well then you
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you're in luck my nerdy nicktophile friend because today we are wiping the
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RGB glee right off of a perfectly good
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rainbow rig and replacing it with the blackest black you can get in a can
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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 description
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for maximum satisfaction we thought we'd start out with a build that's not very
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black at all for our case we chose the aptly named fantex eclipse p400 tempered
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glass glacier white and for the internals well
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if you remember our RGB build guide whose glory you can witness here
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you'll recognize all the glowtastic components that were loaded
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inside take them in now kids because after
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today it's lights out
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to achieve our goal we're using a product called black 2.0 the world's
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flattest maddest black art material from stuart
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semple out of the uk short of using carbon nanotubes this
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stuff is the darkest black in a bottle and we've got lots of it
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it's like a regular acrylic paint except
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it uses a special base that allows it to hold way
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more pigment than usual drying with a
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super flat non-reflective finish so even
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if some chipper rainbow thumper shows up
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at your lan party with RGB strobe lights and a glowing fidget spinner in your
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face your rig will actually be able to absorb
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the fun finally a pc that's as soul sucking and
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nihilistic as you are we blacked out the most egregious parts
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of the machine first yes
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your feeble skills are no match for the
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power of the dark side
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power
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oh excuse me sorry
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since we weren't using spray paint like we did in the plasti-dip pc video which
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you can watch here we didn't have to do a whole lot of
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masking this time around in order to protect sensitive components
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instead we relied on laser-like focus
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and a few rubber stoppers to avoid painting the motherboard headers slot
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pins and card edges but who wants to paint an entire case using a tiny
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filbert move over bob ross for this part
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it's time to pull out the big guns
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well relatively speaking we used a 7-inch roller to say night night to the
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eclipse p400 i don't care how popular white is
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back in black black back in black
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yeah i can't do the ac dc thing forget it and you know what actually now that i
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think of it why stop at desecrating just one
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2017 pc hardware trend
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and we're back this is this is a really weird video
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anyway with the painting done and it actually only ended up taking one bottle
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of black 2.0 so for how much of it we bought it's
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sure lucky it isn't expensive uh we were ready to put it all back
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together pro tip by the way if you paint
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over the legend on your motherboard use the manual to figure out where your
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power and reset leads go leaving only the answer to the question
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on everyone's mind does it still work
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theoretically it should be fine we did
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test our black 2.0 on a sacrificial video card before beginning the project
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and while putting heavy paint on fan blades
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could debalance them or slow them down a little perhaps affecting the rig's
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thermals our expectations were high
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high until they were dashed because no
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no it doesn't work anymore it actually did turn on for a little bit
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but now it's as dead as you are inside in
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retrospect we could have coated everything with a plasti-dip primer
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since we know for sure that plasti-dip is non-conductive but i guess we just
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flew too close to the sun on this one
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at least we only killed the motherboard since that was the only actual pcb that
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we painted so there's still a valuable lesson for our vamp friends out there
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you should be able to use this product
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to black out your RAM case
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video cards you pretty much name it without impacting performance or
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operation on the uh bright side even though it's dead it
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pretty much looks just like it would have if it had worked and we hadn't worked it
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so then enjoy this completely satisfying and
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actually kind of goth footage of our finished product
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i can't say enough good things about synergy it's a simple software download
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that solves once and for all the problem of having two keyboards and two mice on
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your desk whatever reason you have for running two computers at a time uh maybe
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you want to test your code in multiple environments and you don't like vms or
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maybe you've got a a work issued macbook but you prefer a pc at home
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synergy will allow you to use the same keyboard and mouse seamlessly across
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both of them you just drag and drop the mouse across the screen and it works in
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Windows mac and even Linux and it isn't
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even limited to just two systems you can have as many as i think we've tested
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like five at a time they've got a basic and pro option with
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a one-time payment and features include things like clipboard sharing between
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computers dragging and dropping files between computers the ability to set up
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hotkeys and more check out our link in the video description to get 50
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off synergy today so thanks for watching guys if you
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dislike this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit the like button get subscribed and maybe consider
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checking out where to buy the stuff we featured whether it's hardware or
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painting products at the links in the video description also down there you'll
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find our merch store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community forum which you should totally
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join back in black no back in black
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it's probably the closest so far