Gadgetory

a few of you seemed a bit worried when I posted a picture of my custom painted NZXT Kraken X 62 he saw a white radiator I said I painted it I guess you assumed I used acrylic or plastic tip or something I understand I mean that that's what most people would use to paint other components in the case but because the radiator is designed specifically to dissipate heat I used engine enamel which is most of the time it's a ceramic based engine enamel so it's going to be rated for up to 500 degrees Celsius of heat output on whatever surface its coated on as stuff is rated for engines that's why it's called engine enamel so it's perfectly safe to use in something like a computer now the painting process itself is very simple if you're up for the task I mean it's not going to take you longer than maybe an hour to to do this as long as you let the paint dry properly in between coats you let with a nice clean finish you also want to make sure that your radiator is not dirty covered with dust or dirt or anything like that before you paint because any particle that's on the radiator before you paint will be trapped underneath that coat permanently unless you try to dig it out in which case you'll end up with a really nasty scar on that finished product the painting process took me about 45 minutes I applied three solid coats and then just apply to light fourth coat over the areas where I thought it wasn't as as white as I want remember painting over a black surface so you want to make sure that you're applying thick enough coats to where you don't have splotches of kind of a semi gray area where that white isn't completely covering the the black color in the radiator something you want to make sure that you do before you begin painting of course is make sure that you mask off any areas that you don't want paint being applied that you don't want paint permanently sticking there's going to be very difficult to remove engine enamel after the fact I've I've had to use a they call a nail polish remover acetone things like that to remove this in the past it does work but only on super smooth metallic surfaces and something like this what do they call it braided cable here these braided pipes that run down to the water block gonna be a lot more difficult to remove engine enamel from that so what I did was take just some old masking tape I also took some some duct tape to cover the the area closest to the radiator try to get as far down that that tube as I could in order to minimize the amount of overspray onto onto that tube leading to the waterblock and I still ended up with a partially painted tube at the very base of where it connects to the radiator I expected that I did try to take a knife and just kind of scrape away that upper layer of engine enamel that stuck to it it looks decent so from about a foot or two away you can't really tell that I over sprayed this is just something that you can't really get away from because the tube is flexible so whenever you mask the tape off at that base that tubes can end up being pulled to one side of the other because the water block is attached to it so when that tube kind of leans one direction it's going to expose an area that was previously covered by tape and that's where the paint over sprays its I mean there's probably better ways to do it than how I did it I just I just wanted to get it out of the way quickly without creating a big mess also be sure that you're doing this in an area that's conducive to proper paint drying if you are in an area where it's fairly hot or humid you might want to do this inside in a closed-off masked area I don't have anything fancy like that nor the space frankly in this apartment so I did it on my balcony but it's November here and I live in the northern hemisphere which means winter is fastly approaching it's about time it's been fairly hot recently and it's kind of strange but uh yeah it's getting cool now so it was a decent climate for proper paint drawing and that's something you want to be wary of if it's fairly humid outside and then hot do the paint's not going to dry quick enough and at the same time you get a lot of water just moisture trapped underneath layers of paint I can prevent the paint from settling into that glossy finish which is what this is you can buy engine enamel in a matte finish or a gloss finish I wanted this to be glossy because it makes it look more italic and it blends in with the with the rest of the components in Heisenberg please be sure that whatever you're painting is dry by the way before you touch it because if you do touch it and it's not dried you're to end up with some ugly fingerprints to stamp into the paint and that's how it's going to dry from now on and don't waste your time trying to smooth that out that's just a lost cause at that point you might want to just either try to remove the paint all together and start from scratch or just keep applying coats until that fingerprint or fingerprints go away so make sure that it's dry I recommend anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes per coat I don't know what it says on here how long the wait but I don't I don't think you should expect to wait any longer than that if your climate is suitable for the painting but it's rather hard I would push that to maybe an hour just because the paint's going to drive it slower where it's more humid and just warmer in general and the finished product I'm honestly very happy with it there is one area of overspray I just I sprayed a little too much in one spot and the paint started to run down and then kind of blotch it up right there it's a bit thicker than the areas around it but for the most part everything's very smooth the finish applied nicely and I'm glad I went with the gloss instead of the mat for this radiator now if you're interested in temperatures here you go this also tell you how how efficient the X 62 is at cooling a CPU so our hottest core under i-264 for 10 minutes with it 5820k i7 o'clock to four point five gigahertz with seventy-two degrees Celsius and the line underneath that another look fairly similar that was after painting the X 60 to check that out one degree difference 73 is actually the same core - they got that one degree otter so that's it so from 72 to 73 degrees Celsius I'm saying that that's probably within the margin of error this is 100% safe to use on pretty much anything you can use on on any heat sink any radiator without cutting into your core temperatures too much without causing this thermals to increase by any substantial amount so yeah you can paint a radiator and be okay with it I am very happy with the X 62 in general as well it's a great cooler I haven't noticed to be honest a big difference between the x 60 ones ability to cool a CPU and this one they appear to be about the same and I'm not sure about the pumps inside of both or you know whether they changed anything like that and honestly the X 60 the first ncht kraken AIO was about the same as both of those two so ruin the improvements there aren't that substantial but there aren't many improvements to be made is this is about as good as you can get for a 280 millimeter AIO and you can find it I don't know when it's going to be available I'm pretty sure it's been released but it's hard to find them I will have a link to the Amazon and Newegg sites that are selling this particular unit here that's not painted in white but that you can get in black and paint whatever color you want if you wish in this video's description check those out and be sure to let me know if you have one way you think of it in the comments below if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up give it a thumbs down if you do feel the complete opposite or if you hate everything about life be sure to click the subscribe button if you haven't already stay tuned for other interesting stuff here on Salazar studio this is Salazar's studio thanks for learning with us