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so you really want to know how to get gypped on PC Hardware on a site like eBay doesn't take very much effort I bought a GTX 1080 cooler just the cooler and at first glance and I'm thinkin alright that's cool I mean I hope you have the PCB obviously I do it's sitting right here in this water block and I haven't been able to use the card because it's in a water block and I haven't custom cooled in quite a while so I decided to go back to stock I ended up ditching the old coolers I had actually they were EVGA coolers at the time but they use the reference PCB so I decided to just go for reference in this case problem with this cooler though I mean again from far away it looks fine but there are some imperfections cuts scratches all over the shroud that makes me wonder what the heck the previous owner did with this car so this here is the Shroud slash cooler pretty much everything is here except for the PCB which is exactly what I wanted cuz again I have the PCB just I ditch the cooler problem with this is for one you can see we've got some very ominous scratches that are kind of just all over it looks like he keyed this you know like we need Kia car he just like looks like he took a Phillips screwdriver and just slapped the thing over and over and over so that's a little distasteful they're scratches along the rest of the shroud it just doesn't look pretty I think I'm gonna have to take the support and paint this rad which I've done before it won't be an issue the only problem is getting paint off of the gtx 280 logo we want to keep that reflective and if we paint over that it's not gonna look as great also on this side this is your back plate right only there are several screws missing including one two three around the GPU we're missing two big screws on this side one and one and then over here and other screws missing another screws missing another screws missing and then another screw is missing so I actually have some leftover screws I was not too confident in the seller when I bought it so to be honest I kind of did this to myself but there are some context clues you can kind of pick up on if you notice the pictures are blurry for one that that's a dead giveaway that the sellers probably hiding something even the old camera phones nowadays have pretty decent cameras you can at least see some detail so if they're blurry asked for some retakes or at least get confidence into writing that the item is as described and in the condition in which it is described so what we're gonna do is swap this out I will probably end up painting this I don't know if I'll not do that in this video painting takes a while if you want to do it the right way but we will swap the cooler swap the card back into the cooler and then we'll run some tests we might even play around with thermal Chris Lisa carbon op pads again I might just put one of those in here and see how it fares so stay tuned for all that and yeah just ignore ignore these blemishes what on earth was he doing with this card all right so a quick switch to the phone I'm in the garage right now and you can see I've repainted everything yeah we lost the mirrored finish over the GTX logo I don't think it's too bad though the finish looks great I was just using where is it right over here not Clorox disinfecting wipes I was using just restoring a high-performance enamel I actually use this and another project you'll probably see in the future but this is good stuff and then I also painted the the back piece remember it was really scratched right back here and now that's completely gone funny enough the colors almost perfectly match you can see on the side here I really didn't paint that but it looks almost identical to what was freshly painted on top so that's pretty good and you see that's the black part we're going to keep that there now the last thing I'm doing something a little different might as well but don't have any black engine enamel so I'm actually gonna paint the back plates silver yeah just something new we'll try it out see how it looks all right and here is the finished product now I know it kind of looks the same on this side that's kind of the point I didn't want it to look much different obviously the mirror finish here over the GTX 1080 text is is gone I could probably try to chip that away but I'm really not too concerned about it most cards are gonna sit you know this way in the build anyway but it's actually clean finished and then again the paint I used was pretty close to the original finish over this silver part of the shroud so I'm I'm happy with it look there's still some scuffs and scratches on the glass you're not gonna really see them too much there you go there's a good good angle and there's a couple scuffs on the fan of course when the fan turns you can't really see that now the other thing I did I showed you guys a bit earlier is I painted this part of the card silver now if I decide I'm not a fan of this I can just go back and paint it black not a big deal but this was pretty scuffed up too so alright I just I figured I'd try the silver scheme and just see how I looked I not not the best finish I think I did a much better job on the on the shroud side so the paint job overall I started to run out of paint that's not an excuse actually it is but whatever war with it and so I think given the circumstances is okay but maybe I will repaint this black if I decide to like resell or something I actually bought this card I believe it was from Best Buy about a year and a half two years ago so it's still doing well but we do need to confirm the court actually works and that everything temp wise is in check so let's plug this into a system and make sure all right and you can see our score right there it's 15,000 136 now for those of you who were pretty keen on the subtle details of the PCB this is actually a gtx 1070 PCB with a 1080 quarter they're basically the exact same car there's small differences on the board but for the most part the you know that's why you can use the same cooler for both so you can see down here confirmed gtx 1070 we have the 9900 k in here so that's kind of where score is what it is so that was totally my bad to begin with i thought this was a 1080 i actually have two other 1080s here and these two i thought i bought a third one one of these i bought on ebay like 300 bucks and i thought i had two more boards i'm not sure where the other board is well yeah we'll figure out what them I would happen to that but anyway doesn't really matter I mean I'm gonna keep this for myself I guess I'll have to switch that shroud out to a 1070 shroud if I ever want to resell it but I thought that was a 1080 I'll have to do a good thing is we kind of work in it's air-cooled now and it looks pretty darn good in my opinion okay so well yeah that was a little embarrassing but we got the job done and we needed to get done in this video I hope you enjoyed it just something off the cuff I wanted to do a little project you got to see the painting at least the finished product and yeah we'll move on from here next video should be one that you'll really enjoy actually a budget oriented PC build it's gonna look really good I think given the amount of money we're gonna spend on the parts so stay tuned for that and more content here on science to do you guys like this video thumbs up you know what to do thumbs down for the obstacle eat the red subscribe button if you haven't already become a member too feeling especially fancy I do appreciate all of your support this is science to do thanks for watching and thanks for learning with us