Gadgetory

hey what's up everybody J here and months ago an Instagram when I was building skunk works version 3 or version 4 or whatever version we're on I don't even know maybe it's three point B who knows I showed that I did some custom work to my SLI bridges now if you remember in the past I was using the EVGA Pro bridge Pro SLI bridge this is the 3-way one but these light up but usually they light up and they're kind of boring just a white LED and I thought maybe I'd go ahead and do a how-to video showing you guys exactly how I change the LED colors in the pro bridges now I'm using the s2 or the virgin to bridge and these are even better candidates for this mod so don't go anywhere because this is how you can really make your system pop with color if you're using one of the EVGA SL EVGA EBG I you can do whatever EVGA silent series power supplies offer excellent silence and efficiency through their new EVGA Eco mode technology and also features a seven year warranty for worryfree gaming click the link in the description to learn more now the problem I had with the first version here of the pro sli bridge was the fact that the LEDs were backlit and I mean granted talking me backlit but what I mean is it's actual dots of LEDs behind this shining through so give you gives you a real onion onion ofor meiting so no matter how you went about it the EVGA didn't light up nice and solid well with the Prout bridge version to here they actually went with side lighting side LED lighting that will illuminate a white piece of plastic that makes it nice and uniform as you can see mine glows yellow because of this mod now obviously my pro bridge is not silver like everyone else's this I just simply disassembled the thing and painted the aluminum part a gray color that matches the gunmetal color that's in my case so if you want to know more about the spray-painting Paul's Hardware actually did a video recently we didn't collaborate this I'm just shouting him out because I thought it was a good video about how to print paint your SLI bridges granted his was the flexible ribbon bridge painting process is still pretty much the same so let's go ahead and turn around here let's this is blissing and show you exactly what you need to know to get this thing a nice custom color so here's the v1 and v2 side by side just so you guys can kind of see you know how much they've changed the v2 is actually really big especially with this metal piece here now as with all things to do the job properly you're going to need some tools I'm only going to be using this multi-tool and I again I have mentioned this I don't know how many times this is kind of like my go-to tool because it's got so many things inside of it so you've got your driver handle and then in here you've got also two multi bits this one's in there really tight that's what she said come on holy crap there we go so you've got two different sizes of Phillips and then you've got two different sizes of flat heads and then here you actually have a nut driver that's got two different sizes on here I believe it's got a 1/8 mil and a 10 mil so these are also very common like the small one here this is perfect for your like power supply screws or case screws and you've got a 10 mil which isn't really used anywhere in computers but anyway so really what you are going to need though is a flathead screwdriver and you're going to need a Phillips head screwdriver if you've got sort of a multi tool kit or something like this a little screwdriver kit this would also come in very handy so anyway those are the tools are gonna be using today now the method I'm using to turn the LEDs yellow in the EVGA Pro bridges is identical for both the disassembly process is a little bit different on the pro bridge version 1 these are Torx head screws right here so you need to make sure you have small Torx heads and that's where this kit came in handy is this kit right here on the top these are all torques on the pro bridge version 2 these are just Phillips heads so for the sake of this video we're gonna do the tutorial here on the v2 but the process and the way I'm changing LED color works on both so on the back of the pro bridge here you're just gonna loosen up both of these Phillips head screws careful not to lose them they are pretty tiny as I say that everything's just kind of falling around so we're gonna set those now the second you do that the aluminum piece and everything is just going to come apart as you can see those two screws are what's holding everything together now at this point this is where you can go ahead and paint this metal piece it's just aluminum and you can you know spray-paint it without even having to sand it I didn't because it's a really texture and kind of a satin material it's like a bead blasted aluminum paint is gonna stick to it really good so pick your favorite color paint you can make that match your system as well red black white blue whatever set that aside and then you'll see here on the probe red it's kind of separated now you want to be careful because if you look inside there you have actually got a small wire that's connected there so you're gonna want to very very carefully simply lift up on this wire it literally lifts up now I'm gonna try and do this again with an extreme close-up so you guys can see what I did but it doesn't it doesn't pull out it pulls up so showing this once again here with extreme close-up this is and my nasty fingers I've been working on my car don't don't judge me anyway there it is right there again just slightly pull up as you can see it just pops right out all right so this is what the pro bridge looks like without anything attached to it so you can go ahead and set this aside we're not gonna be doing anything to this what we need to do now is online you're not gonna see it simply because it's already been popped out but there's gonna be a couple of little like plastic weld on these four holes you can see right here there are four silver holes where there's gonna be prongs that stick through and then there's gonna be like dabs of plastic on there now what I did was I just took a tiny flathead or in my case an even smaller flathead from this kit and I just simply pried up on those plastic pieces to break those little tabs off and it's not going to damage anything it's just basically they stuck it through and then they put like a dab of plastic kind of a melted plastic on there and they will pop right off and then when you do that the rest of this thing will pretty much just come off on its own but you might have to take a small Phillips or flathead and kind of pry up on the sides here and trust me this looks kind of scary because it's bending but you're not going to hurt anything and then once you get all of the sides up this is the part that we are actually modifying here and as you can see you can kind of see how I did it already so this is the light panel that is inside of the pro bridge so this led wire lights up an LED that's on the side right here and it's recessed let's see if I can actually show you that now this LED right here is actually recessed as you can see so it's kind of even with the plastic which is gonna make this thing side lit and it's gonna make the entire panel illuminate that's how we're getting nice even color now the other piece we have in here is this little plastic kind of a shield which is what makes the EVGA logo flush right here and this thing will just pop out once you get all those but we don't need to do anything with this in fact we're gonna just go ahead and leave this inside the pro bridge and as you can see here I have got these different layers of film now these are just amber pieces of flash film now if you guys know anything about photography you'll know that you can buy these these layers of film that actually go on top of your flash so that you could add color or warmth or color correction to your flash it's that way you don't actually you know get that harsh white light that you get with a flash on a camera now you can find these at any camera store Samy's camera online they just come in sheets of plastic and they're designed literally to be taped over the top of your flesh and you can get them in blue red amber green magenta pretty much any color of the rainbow obviously I chose amber here now the more layers of this stuff that you use the more intense the color is going to be so because we want to change a white light which is very pure I'm using four layers of this and all I did was take them and cut them to size so that they fit in between those black prongs so I'll go ahead and sit those in there they are not glued because this mod is completely reversible you can change the color later so as long as you make it so that they fit in between those prongs and then completely cover the EVGA logo then you're not going to have any you know non-uniform color so that's how I made it yellow there's nothing modified to the bridge there's nothing modified to the light panel the only modified was the color of the bridge it's metal support it so and that's it so then you go ahead and reverse the order of which we took it apart to put it back together now because you broke off those plastic tabs here you're probably thinking how the heck is this thing gonna stay in place well the prongs are still slightly bigger than the actual light bar itself so those will literally just snap back down in there if you listen I can actually get them to to line up you want to be careful you don't want to break it there so those just snap back in there and as you can see there was no there wasn't even really a reason for them to glue those down it won't be technical about it it's can only go in one way because the way that the holes are keyed and then basically you just put the thing back together now let's go ahead and talk about how to put the plug back in here now like we already talked about the plug is not it doesn't snap in or it doesn't slide in it snaps in so all you're gonna do is you're gonna take the plastic piece here and this this part gets a little bit funky because you have the plastic part hanging on here you could technically do this before snapping it in and then reassemble everything this is just the way I'm doing it so you're gonna take this you're gonna line it up flat with the prongs it is keyed and you're simply gonna push down on it that's it that's all you got to do there are little tabs on there that will keep you from doing it the wrong way but once you line it up and you push it down there it's not going anywhere so now the only thing left to do is line it all back up put the screws down make sure when you put this thing down that that wires not pinched on anything it should kind of slide up and go right in between the SLI solder points there so line it up take those little terminals there for the holes inside the metal piece push it in it's only gonna go one way by the way so if you'd have it upside down it's not gonna work flip it over slides right in take your screws and retighten that's it this whole mod should take five minutes at the most the part that will take longer is probably cutting your plastic pieces down to size and getting these stupid little screws to realign up I don't have a magnetic screwdriver head here because you know when you're working with pcs you don't want magnets so I don't use I'm losing my man card here because I can't get it in the hole how in the hell did I ever end up with two daughters geez so that's it pretty easy huh I bet at some point during this video someone was thinking to themselves well I don't have the e BGA and it's a EB GI EVGA Pro bridge so why does this matter well to be honest this technique will work with any sort of LED backlighting that's gotta shine through hole I don't know if that's actually the official term for it but if it's backlighting that light light shines through like a cutout similar to either this bridge here right this is just a cutout that light shines through the pro bridge - for anything else in your system that you can easily disassembled and get some film in there between the actual light source and the part that shines the light through if you can get film in there then you can change the LED colors of anything so technically this mod works on any sort of LED structure that's built that way all right you guys have requested this video I went ahead and did it hope this helps you guys send me your pictures of what you guys do with this technique on your system send them to at J's two cents on Twitter or at J's two cents for Facebook fan page and I'd love to see what you guys do to get creative with the flash film if you guys want to know but where to buy the flash film Samy's camera online carries it B&H photo online carries it heck I got mine off Amazon for like four bucks so you guys can do that in fact you can use the amazon link down below if you guys want to help support the channel I'm never gonna be opposed to that but anyway regardless of where you guys get it make sure you show me your pictures of what you guys do because I think custom LED color is really how you can really make your system start to pop and be your own and get some color in there so anyway that's all for today guys thanks for your continued support so many amazing people out there following and supporting this channel and that's what keeps me going and wanting to do these things for you guys not to mention it's fun it's fun to see what you know 375 thousand people are doing to their systems or want to do to their systems so anyway guys I'm gonna get on out of here thanks for watching and I will see you in the next video oh yeah and if you want more tutorials make sure you comment down below on what it is you want me to show you how to do and let's make a baby because obviously as I showed you guys I have a terrible time getting it in the hole