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the flash voyager gtx USB 3 drive from corsair provides SSD like performance and fits comfortably in your pocket click now to learn more so welcome to something a little bit unusual i don't know how good the audio is going to be in here but it is what it is I'm in the middle of preparing for one of our ultimate build guides and this project kind of spiraled out of control and all of a sudden it turned from a regular build guide into like I'm painting stuff so I figured I might as well do a quick run-through of the procedure that we're going to be using to paint the stuff in this build so as you can see I've already gotten started on a couple of things so the RAM was the first thing that I got going on so I'm using corsair dominator Platinum's with the the light bars but not the windows so you can see the way that these are going to assemble is they're going to go on like this so what I'm doing with these ones is I want to spray the bars that go inside here green so that I get a really cool green underglow effect underneath them but then I'm doing kind of a razor themed build so this is going to be in the h4 40 razor Edition so this silver is going to stand out like a bit of a sore thumb so I also want to paint these black now you don't want to use regular paint on computer components because what will happen is it'll be permanent so that kind of sucks so instead we're going to be using Plasti Dip so I've got three different colors here that I need so first of all I've got black I'll be using this to stealth the Dominator platinum light not the light bars rather just the tops of the Dominator Platinum's here and then I'll also be using this to paint the thermal are more on the sabre-tooth z97 mark one the reason that I'm doing that is I couldn't find any board that even remotely matched the color scheme we're going for gigabyte doesn't do they're black and green color scheme anymore since the 87 so I figure okay well we'll do our best with it I'm going to pull off the thermal armor I'm going to else that I'm going to put it make it completely black then I'll put it back on and then once we install our ramp plug in our a pin plug in some graphics cards and cover up all this stuff it should basically look like completely spelled blackboard I'm normal last thing I had originally intended to do a lot more green in this build I actually picked up two cans of the blaze green stuff here so I pick up a couple cans of those and then I kind of realized that razors each for 40 or the NZXT case before whoever's it is really doesn't have a lot of green it's mostly black with little green accents so the last thing I'll be painting is just this top lattice on both of our r9 290 so I pulled this off the other one already and then I'm actually going to leave the rest of the card black so we're just going to have those two green accents inside the system along with the underglow on the ran we're going to call that probably good enough so without further ado here we go so to paint all the ram from every angle without needing to touch it and potentially wreck it I made myself a little thing out of a paint stirrer stick or two I guess to paint stir sticks so that I can space everything out and paint all this without like going back and doing things over again so here we go always shake for I mention all that noise and let's know this goes okay so number one done oh yeah you should always this is just a general spray bomb Kevin hold it upside down wait till the paint stopped coming out every time you're done using it to keep them those and clean okay so they get the sabre-tooth ready the last thing you want to do is paint something well it's still attached to the PCB so I'm just going to remove the rear armor something that I didn't realize before now is that the screws are actually all different here so I'm just going to kind of map them up for myself as I go alright so we're going to pull off the thermal armor here so I could probably mask off these silver things here but I'm just going to do the whole thing black same thing with this Asus logo because it's in like this weird camel I'm just gonna risk it oh yeah black that oh right now on to the graphics card so actually these windforce gigabyte cards come apart really easily all you got to do is undo six screws from the back once again keeping very careful track of which ones go where actually it's not that necessary here because what we're going to do is we are going to unplug this bad boy then we're going to just pop this baby off top just like that there we go so once that's done we can actually there you go I'm going to put these back in so we don't lose them while we're in the process now is a good opportunity since we're at this to replace the stock thermal compound I mean they put decent stuff on at the factory but you can always put on something better something like I see seven diamonds or something like that or I see nine eight seven just the size of the tube and the last one here there we go and this is come on please there we go this is the matching one for the other piece that we're going to paint so the blaze stuff doesn't go on very well if you don't to cope with something light so that's why I have both a white can as well as a green can so we're going to have to do it probably at least three or four coats of white maybe maybe two maybe two maybe three and then we're going to start in with the greens F here right I guess I I should have mentioned one of the reasons we're using Plasti Dip instead of regular paint is that you can peel it off when you're done so this is going to be the toughest one just because I got to hit it from so many angles but light coats from every angle is going to be the key so I locked the lock to the vents open here before starting to paint just because I can't imagine why anyone would ever close them anyway maybe someone can enlighten me that doesn't end up being very light coat okay do as I say not as I do here's just a quick in progress so I'm mostly done with the actual painting I just need to put a few more coats of green on this because yeah with the black you couldn't see the green at all and with the white the green is very very light lighter than I'd hoped based on how it looks when you really spray a lot of it on something versus that it's a more of an acid green than sort of the darker green that I'd kind of hoped for so yeah you can see these coats are darkening it alright the RAM is pretty much good to go though so now's as good a time as any to clean off that stock thermal gunk we're going to one isopropyl alcohol for this preferably 99% I guess it's never been proven that 70% do a decent enough job they put a lot of thermal compound on these GPUs so we're going to have to take a few runs out of here no so much more still now while we are replacing the thermal compound on the GPU itself we're actually not going to replace any of the thermal pads for the memory or anything if you try to put thermal compound in there instead of the pads that are there then what will happen is your DP u cor will not make or rather than all of those will not make correct contact your GPU core will prevent them from coming down enough in order to cool themselves so they will overheat so you want to use thermal pads rather than thermal compound there so we're just going to use some mx2 because that's what I happen to have lying around and then we're going to reapply this bad-boy so we apply a bit more on a GPU than we would on a CPU where we normally do a uncooked grain of rice sized thing we're going to want a bit more here just because it's a bit bigger we're going to do like a jumbo uncooked rice there we go this is an incredibly important step in the reassembly process never forget to reconnect your fans because without fans um yeah no cooling will happen that would be terrible alright so we're just going to carefully realign that with the holes where everything came off of no we're not ha ha ha very funny we need to put these back on first haha that was a good one - the whole point of this whole exercise there we go all right how's that gonna look no looks all right it's Plasti Dip I guess ok so now it's time for attempt number two lining everything up so carefully this time with all the other pieces in place okay so just six screws to put it back together most of which I haven't misplaced just kidding I didn't misplace any of them if I did that would be Turban I don't do them up all the way at this point you want to make sure you're applying pressure evenly as you put the cooler back on the card so we're just doing them up a little bit then we're going to tighten everything up at the same time so now we're tightening a cross pattern get everything nice and tight on there there we go alright so this for better or for worse is what our graphics card looks like now we have a nice green accent and I guess Oh actually I didn't show you guys the reassembly process for this there's a safe place but here's the sabre-tooth board nice and blacked out stealth doubt and this is what the card will look like in it here we go except imagine two of them okay well there I guess you don't have to imagine it any more that's what it'll look like with both graphics cards installed with their green accents not half bad now it's time to put the RAM together so we'll put this aside and get started on that I've been doing this stuff long enough to basically have a phobia of losing one of a kind' screws that are impossible to replace cuz man the number of hours I've spent looking for that kind of a stuff that kind of stuff okay so each of these is going to go back together with a pretty much identical process I guess so this green bar is going to slot back in here where it used to be white assuming it still fits come on okay there we go alright so that's what those are going to look like in there then the whole thing is going to go back on top of the module and that paint finish actually matches pretty darn well ooh these are going to look good oh I'm pretty I'm pretty stoked on these all right so the back pieces come through and then we screw the front pieces in from the front pretty straightforward okay here we are putting in the last screw and that is what our finished modules look like that nice green light bar and then that nice all-black stealthy looking finish so let's go ahead and install this in the last slot on the board and that's it that my friends is how you paint your computer components thank you for watching like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment let me know how do you your computer components are do you think painting computer components is stupid we'd love to hear from you either way check out the support us link in the video description you can buy a cool t-shirt not like this one like the ones I normally wear you can give us a monthly contribution or you can change your amazon 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