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what's up guys Kyle here with awesomesauce Network welcome back to the channel I'm sorry I'm really sweaty right now and not too presentable although I'm usually not that presentable anyway but it's freaking hot in this house and I've been working in the garage all morning so that's kind of why I'm the way I am but that's besides the point today I'm going to be focusing on well let's say this first off this is the first video in a series of many videos on my custom water-cooled build that I am planning I'm currently in the really early stages right now so I'm just now starting to actually take action the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to do some custom modding now not a huge modder by any means I actually have like no modding experience so I'm slightly terrified that I'm going to just f everything up in this one run but I've done a lot of research online I even asked some help from guys like Bill oh and stuff like that and this is by no means a tutorial also so do as I say no don't even do as I say don't do anything that I'm doing even though I have looked into it extensively this is my first time doing it so this is not a tutorial this is just me documenting my experience with modding this particular kind of mod which is painting I'm going to be custom painting some stuff today which is the thermal armor on the Z I'm sorry the X 99 saber tooth board so here's the thermal armor that I've taken off of the motherboard right there it's in the defined s by the way which is the case I'm building this epic system in so my color scheme that I had in mind was to do a black grey and hot pink build I know you're probably like what hot pink who-who are you Linus but that's that's not the reason why I'm doing it as much as I love lies I'm actually doing it just just for myself I think that color scheme has not really been seen too much in the custom modding community and you know I'm kind of sick of seeing the red blue green black and white type stuff so I just thought I'd do something different so that being said I'm going to do some painting on this Thermal Armor it's very easy to mod I would think very easy to paint because it's removable obviously you like you can see but I'm going to keep the black in there like I said black is one of the theme colors so I'm going to keep that sexy black finish right there I'm not going to touch that I'm actually going to mask all of the black off it's just this upper region and this side region right here that I'll be spray-painting over I'm going to be spray-painting that in gray I think going pink with that is a little bit too bold and if you're worried that this is going to look like a piece of bubblegum when it's all done don't as far as the computer goes because the only thing that's really going to be pink in the system is the fluid and I've got the fluid right here it's from mayhem it's Mayhem's pastel perfect pink and I can take the cap off really quick hold on check this out yeah feet for the win alright so I'm gonna show you guys the color of this pink I'm going to bring it to the surface just a bit so you can see it making sure not to drip it all over my parents carpet or my grandparents carpet so there it is it's nice nice vibrant pink right there and I think that's going to match pretty well with the black and gray so I'm pretty excited about that I have done some test painting already that's when I was doing this morning in the garage and I actually painted a couple fans the other two were downstairs so I can't show them to you but this is the first one I faded I left the blade as is it was already gray was a full black fan but I painted the frame in gray now this isn't the gray that I'm gonna use but it is very similar I actually ran back to the hardware store because it wasn't the exact gray that I wanted this is a little bit darker than the shade that I was looking for but I think the paint job came out pretty nice the brand amusing is I think it's rust rust Oh something it's super popular you guys probably know it right away but and you know what I'm gonna put the cap on this before I knock it over and cry myself to sleep because I would do something like that the first thing I'm going to do today and into this video because I'm going to save the fans for a later video spray-painting all those today I'm just going to be focusing on the thermal armor for for the the x9 saber-tooth and the first step I need to do is mask off all the black stuff so I don't get any overspray and then I'm just gonna go to town and spray this bitch and it's going to look awesome hopefully I'm actually really scared that I'm gonna mess it up so yeah let's let's go ahead and mash this off and let's all right so here's the Thermal Armor all masked off with the painters tape that I had looking pretty good as you could probably tell from the time-lapse I was also using a straight razor with a brand new blade and a very small flat-head screwdriver just to help me get all the edges and cut away any unwanted tape so I get really smooth lines and it's looking pretty nice also you want to make sure that you wipe it down with a tack cloth before you start spray painting this just gets off all the dust little particles as well as finger oils that are on your subject before you start painting because once you paint over that stuff it's pretty much on there for good so pro tip right there actually amateur tip that the pros use because I am an amateur but the pros also do it this is the paint I'm using it's a EXO rust professional primer and yeah it's pretty good I actually did another test spray on this fan this is a different fan than the one I showed you you can see here I spray-painted the blades this time let me go ahead and turn the aperture up so you can actually see there it is so that's the the finish that I'm going for that's that's the coat that would be doing for the thermal armor I could have used one or two more coats but I just kind of wanted to get a feel for the color but the quality of the paint is really good and hopefully with a steady hand I can achieve the same results oh and one more thing I should mention this hanging contraption I have here with a cat5 cable very professional definitely don't do this by any means I mean unless you want to attach to a light fixture studio light with a sandbag for sure to weigh it down obviously you could do this if you wanted to but just make sure that the cat5 cable or whatever string or cable that you're using you don't mind getting a bunch of paint on or you can mask it off I guess you could do it that way too also I'm using just some little bits of wire to hang it routing it through the little holes where the motherboard screws go that seems to hang it up pretty nice without interfering with the object so on that no loose gentleman cross your fingers for me say a prayer and let's get spray painting alright guys so this is the day after that I spray-painted this thing it's not completely dry it's been a good 16 hours but the can says wait 24 hours until it's fully dry of course it says it's a safe to handle and whatnot so I actually put it back on to the saber-tooth x99 so I can kind of get a feel for what it looks like and I'm actually really happy with the results as you can see it came out pretty smooth Thermal Armor still retains a lot of detail I'm not sure if you can tell from the camera but you can still see the texture on that this part of the plastic piece as well as all the the text is very legible as well so I'm really happy I did probably do a few more coats than I should have and I think that made the the gray come out a little bit darker than I would have liked the reason why I did so many coats was just simply because there were so many nooks and crannies in the thermal armor that weren't getting coated evenly so had I only done like two or three coats you would have definitely seen some patches here where the color the original color would be showing underneath and I didn't really want that so at the sacrifice of a cleaner look I I made the gray a little bit darker but I think it's gonna work out alright I actually put some of the mayhem pastel perfect pink liquid in this little vial here so you can kind of get a better idea of what it looks like especially next to the next to the other colors so this is kind of going to be the color scheme guys it's gonna be liquid go in all through all the tubes with black and grey as far as like the beige color on the sabre-tooth x99 I was a bit concerned about that at first but I'm not so much anymore because I realized that most of this is going to be covered up once all the components are installed anyway but overall pretty happy with it if i zoom out a little bit here you can kind of get an idea i've started installing the radiators just for for placement and just trying to see where my runs are going to be i'm you can see I've got a 360 up here and I've got a 240 at the front I think I'm only gonna be doing push for both of these I couldn't really get away with push pull up top here because the the RAM is going to be designed enough Ram clearance therefore push pull here and I probably could do push pull here because as you can see I have the front panel of the define us taken off the amount two fans here and I could mount two fans here but it's just gonna make routing the the tubing from this port to the reservoir a bit more difficult or it's gonna look you know messy or untidy so just you know I'm a beginner here I'm a total noob guys when it comes to custom water cooling so I'm just gonna keep things simple and from there I can maybe upgrade later on down the road if I if I am so inclined but yeah there's the pump reservoir combo pumps at the bottom we've got the nice 204 millimeter I believe is the length of that tube which I think fills up the case pretty nicely so yeah this is pretty cool stuff I also have my um water block here I can just put that there don't worry I have the socket cover on I know I probably almost gave someone a heart attack there but that's what its gonna kind of look like obviously it's gonna really come together once everything's all installed but I think that's pretty much gonna do it for now guys let me know what you guys think of this paint job like I said it's my first time so go go easy on me but personally speaking I'm pretty happy with how it turned out so thank y'all for watching hope you guys enjoyed it please subscribe to the channel if you haven't already be making more videos especially about this water cooling video coming really soon water boiling build coming really soon and I'll catch you guys in the next one