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I would love the new Blade 14, it's got all the beauty of a Macbook with all the power of a gaming laptop. I run physics simulations on my dual core laptop, and a quad core with powerful GPU would do much better and would make an excellent addition to my mobile arsenal. (although, both would make excellent machines...)

So I painted my GTX 980 purple, and thought this was the kind of thing to share on the forum. I think it looks cool! I mostly followed the guide Linus had but I didn't have a paint booth, so I just used cardboard haha. I didn't break it!

found a semi-reliable source that it isnt conductive, but if no one comes with a more defenitvive "its okay" i'd just say dont risk it and get a tube of MX-4.

I remember a video some years ago benchmarking thermal pastes and excluding IC-Diamond for potential electrical conductivity. I know Arctic Ceramique is not electrically conductive, and have used it many times on gpus.

So I painted my GTX 980 purple, and thought this was the kind of thing to share on the forum. I think it looks cool! I mostly followed the guide Linus had but I didn't have a paint booth, so I just used cardboard haha. I didn't break it!

Dear christ that is beautiful... One day.... I'll get there haha

I am also very interested in this article as it would help me know how much i should push my future overclocks based on my cooling.

Both.  The idea would be the more voltage you push, the safer it will be to keep it at a lower temperature.
There's an article somewhere I'll see if I can find it, it explains completely how chip degradation works, it's super interesting actually.
The jist of the idea would be, 1.4V 24/7 at 50C would be safer vs 1.35v @ 70c.
If anyone can help me find the article, I think I remember it being on Tom's hardware.  It may of been a post somewhere, I wish I would of bookmarked it. -.-