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hey what's going on everyone if you're interested in balling on a budget what I mean by that it's customizing a case customizing components in your PC build without breaking the bank then this video is for you I've got three hot tips ways for you to make your build look unique different from all the rest by painting by adding custom slave cables and by doing a few other things that you might not be comfortable with upfront but it will certainly make your build look different than any other out there you can take one of these to heart you can take all of them to heart and throw it in your next build I don't care but these are options that I've considered in the past and have done myself to make my builds look unique so if you're interested keep watching the first thing I want to cover is painting and I'm gonna bring this up first because it is probably one of the most daunting things you could possibly do with your components right painting things could potentially ruin the components especially we don't isolate the parts you want to pay properly and it's a pain to get this painted particularly off so I do recommend more Stoli and painters touch something along these lines paint plus primer is important so it's gonna look slightly glossy versus like a matte finish with most of the Plasti Dip south or unless you throw a plastic gloss on top of it which again is another paint job in and of itself so in the important thing about this paint that was it bonds to plastic and most of the stuff we'll be painting in here that are plastic or metal so this is kind of an all-purpose painting tool that we're going to use again though some people would swear by other brands other types of pain I've used this stuff a lot in the past and it's good for me so if you want to copy what I'm doing I don't think you have a problem as long as you're at least you know somewhat familiar with spray paint so I think in this build you can see it's pretty blacked out this is an r7 2700 bill with an MSI X 470 motherboard X 470 and we have a cable management bar that I think we'll want to paint and I think we're gonna paint the SSD trays here and maybe the tray that's behind this SSD from Samsung I think that that's really all we want to do here I want to go overkill make this whole case yellow we might paint something special up front with this front panel but I think for now the cable management bar is begging to be painted and we can remove it there are only two screws up top holding it and I think two screws down below and then when we paint that I think the yellow bar is gonna really stand out but I think it'll be just send out well because it's not gonna be overkill right the whole case isn't gonna be all on the inside just the bar and it's gonna be a nice touch I think so let's go ahead and take that out paint it and we'll see what it looks like now one thing you want to watch out for especially when you're painting components like this or just even pieces of simple plastic this is a cable shroud here from NZXT we want to get rid of stuff that we don't want painted so this right here is a little cable management clip there are two of them behind the shroud and we want these taken out before we paint because these are gonna be difficult to paint right there there's a lot of crevices in here a lot of creases that paints not really gonna reach very well so it's gonna look unevenly distributed so we can remove these by a simple Phillips screws here and here and then I will be good to go so again isolate what you want to paint don't try to paint around stuff that you can easily remove all right so the fourth coat of paint is drying I recommend four to five coats maybe more maybe less depending on how you know vigorous you're applying the paint and first place but four is good for me and I've pretty much covered everything including the side rails but you're not going to see to be honest but you know that the top part is very easy because it does have quite a large surface area but the sides are also important and you'll see the edges here kind of going all the way across you want to make sure you paint those as well so rotate this thing you can see I use a little piece of cardboard to prop it up just a little bit off the ground because sometimes the paint will stick to the edges and then we pull it up it'll tear some of the paint so this is just you know little things that I've learned over time to try to manage as you go but I think it looks really good the color is looking more like a baby yellow but this is actually gonna be for Lisa it's or temporary yellow theme build that I promised her until we get the custom loop around and she loves this color so that's really all I'm concerned about you can also see I used like an old Amazon boxed I kind of just turned it into my own little paint studio and I recommend trying to close off your painting process from the environment because if any dust does you know get onto the object while it's being painted you're gonna have a bad time trying to clean that up especially if you paint over it again you're gonna have little bubbles and ridges and it's not gonna look very smooth and clean like it would from the factory so again try to close off your environment I recommend doing this inside if you can although I know you don't think it with the paint smell inside you can take it outside but try your best to close it off because if like I said any dust or anything from outside touches the paint or the paint job but if you have any humidity outside especially live in the south it's gonna be a pain to deal with if you don't have you know ways to mitigate that I use a box even indoors it's nice to isolate your object of trying to paint and I think it turned out quite nice alright so while the remainder of our paint dries in this box right here I want to talk now about cables custom cables go a long way now you don't have to spend 200 or 300 bucks on a you know a custom sleeve kit like let's say from cable mod if you buy it you know a pro sleeve cable kit I can cost upwards of two to three hundred bucks if you want individually sleeve kits with the the you know the pro editions and the metal combs and what have you there are several different options you can choose from really expensive stuff down to the really cheap stuff that they sell just little extensions and I recommend if you're on a budget going with just extensions you can get extensions for fairly cheap I think it kit 24 pin a pin EPS you know - eight pin VGA s or two 6-pin VJs but have you for around 100 to 150 bucks that's not too bad look if you're weighing aesthetics though you're gonna have to open your mind up to the fact that gonna be paying more for these extra you know beauty products if you will they're not gonna enhance the performance of your system in any way but they're gonna make it look so much better and unique at that so I wasn't planning on showing you all of these this is my little briefcase here of just extra cables that I have laying around it's just a few kits I do have most of them actually running in current pcs but I wanted to show you this one in particular this is actually from primo chill once the autofocus works out this is a very cheap cable extension and a good thing about extensions is that they work on any power supply right there Universal because all the extensions are universal so any ATX ITX modern you know motherboard this is gonna work with any modern power supply so this runs about 20 bucks you know this isn't expensive at all versus running a full sleeve 24 pin cable straight from a power supply with which the cables dedicated would cost you upwards of you know 40 50 bucks in some cases so cheap extension much cheaper you can tell that the quality is not quite there these are thinner cables so sleeving is just kind of pre done nothing handmade about it but it will get the job done so it'll look different from just the generic power supply cables leaving if it's sleeved at all and it's not going to break the bank now this kit that you're looking at was actually configured via cable mods configurator website these are pro series cables here and I had these runs specifically for the g3 series from EVGA EVGA for the most part uses the same pin out for all their power supplies but I'm gonna be using it with their p3 so you know the p3 their g3 850 unit for leases bill so these cables look much better in my opinion you can tell that the cables themselves like the gauge is you know these are much much lower Gate I guess I should say so they're thicker thicker cables thicker sleeving and then we have metal combs and these combs again these are being that they're metal they're not gonna break like the cheap plastic ones that you get on some of the lower end kits this kid does cost around 200 to 250 bucks for you know full-on like 24 pin to VGA eight pins to VGA six pins and an 8 pin EPS also just generic molex and SATA cables that aren't pro they don't have Pro for those yet but this whole kit cost around two hundred two and fifty bucks so it's gonna cost a lot more but you're getting quality with this and I can't wait to see what these look like when paired with that cable bar that we just painted from NZXT so just something I wanted to point out cable Maude is not a sponsor this video but I do appreciate their work quite a bit and I'm just telling you if you if you really favor the customization aspect of your build and custom sleeve cables are the way to go whether you go cheaper expensive it's gonna set your build apart from the rest now it's kind of a bonus customization option here before we get to our third major talking point I wanted to bring up these Noctua in ff12 fans so I have a couple of the 140 ml variants as well but what makes you special is that you can actually change the little rubber vibration mounts here on the corners of the fan so you can just remove them just like so and actually one fan kit comes with six different colors I believe so white green blue or red black and yellow and then you can see I have black on the other side here just because it's not gonna be seen as it gonna be pressed against the backside of the case so we have yellow up front and this of course fits with our yellow theme and if I want to swap these fans into another bill that let's say is running a blue theme then I can swap these little rubber vibration mounts off for the blue ones so very nice that you can change these I like what notch was done here like that the fan is black and not that weird brown tan color you learn to love it eventually because macho fans are very quiet but these chrome X fans here are just really good-looking I think and they're gonna be a little expensive but they're gonna sound great and again you're gonna get that customization option so let's jump into the fourth point here we have all of our kits behind us we have the custom sleeves power supply cables here further to the right we've course have the Noctua fans we just discussed we have and this right here from Arctic Arctic is the same company that makes the Arctic silver paste that you've I'm sure heard of before mx4 I believe is what it's called this is called the freezer 33 it's an eSports cooler and it has yellow fans and I really dig the all-black design here of the heatsink so we're gonna roll with this for the CPU cooler I'm gonna swap out from the stock cooler just because we're going for yellow theme here I don't want to throw an RGB cooler in there just because it's I'm not really looking for RGB I just want a yellow accents in general so that's where this is gonna come in handy and then we have the bar this is the NZXT bar I think it's safe to touch now I'm gonna be careful with it because sometimes you can but your fingerprints and paint it's not totally dry yet now this is a bit off yellow from the other components we're gonna have in the system it's more of a baby yellow like I said but it's gonna be a nice touch I think it's just gonna stand off on the rest of the black interior so let's go ahead and start assembling all this stuff back into the case and to see what our end result looks like all right so it is day two and I want to talk about our third tip and this is gonna be vertical graphics card mounting now there are several different ways to do this you could completely mod your case and set up your own kind of vertical mount you could use the Coolermaster vertical graphics card mount which requires you to cut into most cases we'll talk about that in a second or you could use cable mods vertical graphics curtain mount which shifts your card just a little further to the front which might impede some of your cards abilities to fit in your case all depends on your dimensions but that doesn't require case cutting so the cable mod bracket will be coming out again soon they had to make a couple revisions to finalise things it was sold for a while but they're fixing something is associated with a cable because it's difficult to get cables routed through the back so I stay tuned for that but this one here is the cooler master bracket we're used for now because it's really all we have and it will get the job done but over here you can see that I've actually just assembled a founders edition gtx 1070 and I decided that I want to paint part of this so I'm not gonna paint the whole thing it would be just you know overkill yellow at this point but I'm gonna paint this part right here so this is typically black you can see it's black now but we're gonna paint this yellow and I think it'll look pretty cool when it's paired with the silver in here and we do again remember have just a tiny hint of silver in the cable mount cables so I think it's gonna look really good let's take this outside and start painting it now all right you can see this is starting to come along this one's more difficult because it has several little creases and bends to it it's not a simple you know flat piece like the cable bar was from the s340 so we're just gonna have to try to manage this one as best we can and hope that it is at least maybe like a 1 foot monitor 2 foot mod I don't recommend painting stuff like this unless you are confident that you have enough patience for it and that you're careful enough with it right not to touch the paint while it's drawing because once again you get finger prints in it and stuff like that then it's very difficult to fix so I think we'll do probably a couple more coats I'm gonna rotate this around and get the backside of it and make sure that the top is coated because the top is what we'll see the most and then hopefully we'll be able to finish this build off now while the graphics card finishes drawing I want to talk about this last part and that is vertical graphics card mounting and I'll have a video fully dedicated to this installation process I'm not gonna bother showing you every step that video is linked in the video description it'll show up in a cart up top I'm sure at some point throughout the video but we're gonna install this I'm going to show you what you need to cut and then we should be good to go reassembling the graphics card and then mounting this vertically by the way this cooler master kit does include as long as you're sure that you pick the right option when you go to buy this it does include a riser cable make sure you buy the one with the riser cable don't expect you guys to just have one of those laying around and their riser cable will actually fit perfectly with this bracket and that's exactly what you want to look forwards it'll really clean you know the flush finish and you shouldn't have any issues because their riser cables are actually pretty good all three of the ones they sent me worked out of the box not sure if they tested those beforehand but I haven't seen too many bad reviews coolermaster riser cables so so far so good let's go get this thing installed and then now we should be able to call this one finished hopefully it's been two days now so let's get started so what I'm gonna do first is line this bracket up beforehand kind like a test fit meant so we can see exactly where we need to cut so with this thing already all the way in there let's see we need to cut about here on this side and about here on this side to make way for our graphics cards rear i/o so this is the included riser cable from the cable market and you can see it just connects to the bracket like so there's a one hole on this side and then one hole over here and you can use the screws that are included in the kit to secure the riser cable to the bracket and there you go and installation from this point out is pretty straightforward all right and the last thing to do is to plug in the ape in supplemental VGA power cable and we should be good to go that cable by the way is all yellow so it should complement this kind of baby yellow I don't we gonna call this like partial shroud whatever and then I think that's it for the rest of the system where the cable managed at the rear so this system is basically ready to go as is and here you go this is a fully custom PC I would say I mean we've done everything we can to make this look our own I think if you put this next to something that you can just build straight up right now off of New Ager Amazon this would definitely catch people's eyes because they know that it took time right to get these colors coordinated to paint the stuff that you painted the custom sleeve cables the custom mounted fans I think everything in here looks really well coordinated especially if you're into a yellow themed bill now this is for Lisa so she wanted yellow and that's why it's yellow you might not like the color I totally get it you know this is a more or less a subjective thing but for her she likes it that's all I'm really worried about I do want to know what you guys think though about the process in general the three steps that I showed you guys you know if you're worried about of course cutting in your case you can scrap the vertical graphics card mount some people don't even like the way this looks and I get that the air flow issue though is pretty much solved here because the card is pushed far back enough against the motherboard that there's plenty of space between the fans on the card or in this case a single blower style fan and the tempered glass panel so it's not really being choked for air at all the only issue you really have to worry about is the riser cable being of good quality and this one from Coolermaster typically always is again though I do wanna hear what you guys have to say about this building a comment section below be sure to give this video a thumbs up we thought it was cool share it with your friends if you thought it was super cool share them at least one of the three tips I mean painting stuff isn't super easy and vertical graphics card mounting is a super easy but this is a price you pay for getting a built look unique right traditional pcs just look a little less now alright because a lot of people have custom built pcs but this is a truly custom build because we did paint we did cut into the case we vertically mounted a graphics card and we also have custom sleeved cables I think all three of those are going to set you up for an artistic build one that's definitely not gonna look like it came out of a cookie cutter you know what I'm trying to say there be sure to subscribe if you haven't already to catch us in the next video here on the channel this is science studio thanks for building with us