Gadgetory

oh wow I can't believe I didn't cover that properly all right so I've never really intended to do this video but I tweeted out about this a while ago and I kind of went well I'm moving to x99 on my personal rig I really like the rampage v extreme I like that it has a ps2 port it's just the best board I've ever used in terms of general stability and and awesomeness got a lot of great features blah blah blah blah blah all that stuff it's red I kind of went okay so I could use the WS board which does not have Wi-Fi it doesn't have a ps2 port which for me is pretty handy it doesn't even have USB 2 ports which for me are still kind of a necessity they do two driverless nests and all that kind of stuff so I kind of went okay guys pull time should I use the WS or should I paint the rampage 5 Xtreme blue and it was basically unanimous linus paint the motherboard blue and I kind of went well okay then so I started things off by taking off the heatsinks from the back of the motherboard using my screwdriver basically you got to take off the Southbridge heatsink the the vrm heatsink on the back of the board the little illuminated rog heatsink as well as the the vrm heatsink thats it says and covers the i/o as well with a little plate here and so now that that's all done this is pretty much it we have stripped down the board and the plan this word we're basically we're basically in like uncharted uncharted waters here I know that Paul Tann has done this before I believe that our rich cero's has done something like this before although you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong but painting motherboards is not something that's typically done so there's a few different ways I've seen people actually do it with with nail polish but there's a lot to do on here and we're not going to take that approach so we have three different sizes of painters green tape we're going to mask off this board as best we can we are actually going to paint over some of the sockets that we are actually planning to use such as the PCI Express slots here going to try not to get a ton of paint in them but then we're going to try to remove the paint from the contacts in order to make them functional again we may end up with a dead board we may not I have no idea how this is going to go down so here we go ah the memory slots I kind of feel like the longer I put these off the tougher it's going to be on me if I don't just kind of figure out a way to tackle it so these ones have moving parts and I'm thinking what I'll do is I'll leave them kind of loose so I can try and fill in as much as I can no I think I'll leave them closed because I can get good coverage on them close and that way I won't interfere with any of the moving removing this if it wasn't for these caps I wouldn't have any trouble with this I mean the same can be said for any of this if it wasn't for this being covered in things that I don't want to paint alright so the taping is now complete it's not as perfect as I would have liked actually I see one gap right now that I'll definitely have to close up somehow but what I'm hoping is that we will get a good enough result that it kind of achieves what we were kind of trying to achieve okay yes I'm being very vague about the goals functional board and it looks like a blue board that is what we are going for here and if we can do that and I will be I'll be pretty pleased so here we go I think I've got the coverage as good as it's going to get at this point it's it's really not as good as I'd like there's a there's a lot of board components that are just so close to the slots that I can't I can't really spray in there properly so all that's really left to do at this point then is start peeling it away and and kind of hope for the best here I don't think I got a ton of overspray on places where I I didn't want it but I do know that there was some so oh yeah I can already oh wow I can't believe I didn't cover that properly all right well there's a bunch on this PCI Express slot right here at the back all that is a real shame so we actually Wow we did we got a nice clean line on those SATA ports that looks really good that's probably one of the one of the best finished parts of it now I've been told that in in the bays in the modding business there's a term for something like this I think they call it a ten-foot mod or something like that where it looks pretty good as long as you stay about ten feet away I think that might be what we're looking at here I think this is a 10 foot mod because it actually looks not bad as long as you as long as you don't get too close and look look at it under a magnifying glass all right moment of truth memory slots let's find out how we did not too shabby it's actually not bad we've got to do something about that overspray but well we'll figure that out so that's it for today this ended up taking a lot longer than I was expecting and I don't have time to wrap things up and still get this video out today so 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