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I'm going to keep it real with you painting PC parts can be a tedious process if you're uncomfortable with component disassemblies I say that because as you'll see in this video the actual painting isn't all that complicated it's the disassemblies of each of the components that we're going to paint that can take some time in this video I'm going to show you how to paint your graphics card you vrm heat sinks and a few spare case components the video card will be disassembling is a g1 gaming edition graphics card from gigabyte it's probably one of those complicated video cards it's assemble you'll see that in the coming steps the vom heat sinks well or the vrm heat sinks and the few case components we'll be painting are the hard drive covers included with the P 400 that were originally black that will paint white so with that let's start disassembling depending on your motherboard you'll either need a pair of needle nose pliers or a Phillips screwdriver in my case I had to push the retention pins back through the motherboard to remove the heat spreader in your case you may only have to remove a few screws from the bottom of the board carefully remove the thermal pads on the bottoms of each and place them somewhere you won't lose them I also had to remove the retention pins from the spreaders but if you're held into place with screws you won't have to worry about this we're going to paint these heat sinks first but you can paint everything altogether if you so desire prepare a safe place to paint as always a sealed environment is preferable but I'm a baller on a budget so I crafted a makeshift paint studio out of an old new egg box your results may vary collect your VRM heatsinks lay them face up as the side you'll be seeing the most and grab ahold of your paint can I'm going to try good old engine enamel this time around for a slightly different finish although Plasti Dip would work just fine I can speak from experience if you're interested in that video go ahead and click the card up top according to the directions you'll want to spray approximately eight inches away from the target shake the can vigorously for a few minutes provide a few test Bray's to get familiar with how the cans spray will affect the paint itself and then begin by repetitively applying light films of paint across each heatsink you'll want to begin spraying while pointing away from the target and only stop spraying once you've completely crossed over to the other side this method will prevent overspray and ensure even layers of paint are being applied with each pass here's about what they should look like after one coat weight approximately 10 minutes for each coat to dry and then repeat the process once more and then once again paying special attention to any areas you may have missed during the first set of passes also never ever ever ever ever touch the target while it's drying any doubts don't touch the thing any finger prints or smears will be a pain to remove later on this entire process may require three or four coats so now let's move on to the graphics card and case components get ready for a bumpy ride remove the items you wish to paint in my case it was each of these hard drive covers now these will be difficult to paint at all these are included with the P 400 as well as the gigabyte graphics card this will be a pain to disassemble this card requires complete disassembly if we're to paint both the front shroud and back plate start by removing the six accessible screws on the back plate four of these secure the heatsink to the PCB and the other to secure the backplate to the rest of the car with these screws removed the entire top half of the card can be removed this may require a bit of force if the thermal grease is relatively unforgiving as was mine with the two sections now apart to disconnect the fan connector and both LED pins from the board needlenose pliers may again be necessary disconnect the heat seen from the front shroud by removing the two screws up top as well as the two towards the back the two pieces should now disconnect with ease now remove the nine screws three under each of the three fans being careful not to cut into or completely break individual blades this would be absolutely disastrous I don't advise painting fan blades as any added weight can offset ball bearings and increase overall drag remove the wind force logo by unfastening two screws up front simple as that and finally remove the screws securing the PCB to the backplate there should be five and total with that we've got the rest of our parts to paint our four hard drive covers the graphics card backplate as well as the front shroud let's take them outside the process again is straightforward after shaking the can for a minute or so hold it roughly eight inches from the target and conduct a brushstroke motions across them try your best to apply even coats and avoid overspray if at all possible be sure to allow ten minutes in between coats and a few hours for the final product to completely dry before reassembly speaking of which before we officially reassemble these things let's swap out our GPUs stock thermal paste with a better compound grab high concentration isopropyl alcohol and a lint free cloth dab a small amount of the solution onto the cloth and gently remove the stock thermal grease repeat this process a few times until both the copper pipes and the GPU itself are both shiny and dry you you take your third-party thermal glue in my case Arctic silver 5 you can never go wrong with Arctic silver 5 and apply a copious amount over the die now don't absolutely drown the chip of grease but be sure the entire die is ultimately covered with the compound you can verify this by placing the heatsink over the GPU and allowing the glue to spread itself over the die if it ends up completely covered by glue then you've applied enough the rest of these steps are literally the exact opposite of those after mention when it came to disassembling reconnect the backplate to the PCB attach the fans to the front shroud attach the front shroud to the heatsink reconnect the three headers one for the fans 2p LEDs to the PCB and finally Risa cure the card by reinserting the six screws on the back of the graphics card Wow what a beauty what a final product go ahead and Risa cure the hard drive covers to the tower chassis being careful not to remove any paint while turning the screws the graphics card should also be a straightforward installation I'm not gonna waste your time here close it up by reconnecting the power connectors reduce sag if at all possible and finally admire the final product I have a personal fetish for white because white takes on the color of anything else that you shine at it so in this case I have an RGB LED kit from deep cool running the top and side of this case and basically whatever color I set the computer to whatever collects of these LEDs - you can see that the computer as a whole takes on this color scheme thanks to the white accents it's nice to see all of that kind of culminate into a final product like you're seeing behind me be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you think that the steps were clear and concise and you liked the end result you have the video a thumbs down if you hate everything about life and click the subscribe button if you haven't already this is science to do thanks for learning with you