Painting a motherboard

[abdul94]

Hey! 

 

So i recently bought a MSI Tomahawk z390 board which is grey and now thinking of doing a white build so was wondering how difficult it is to actually just paint (plasti dip like linus's vid) the heat sinks etc (obviously removing them all and painting!). 

I still have time and could return the board and just get another i suppose unless its not difficult at all? 

 

If you'd recommend jsut buying a white board any recommendations around the £140 mark? 

 

Thanks! 

[Blatcher2]

20 minutes ago, abdul94 said:

Hey! 

 

So i recently bought a MSI Tomahawk z390 board which is grey and now thinking of doing a white build so was wondering how difficult it is to actually just paint (plasti dip like linus's vid) the heat sinks etc (obviously removing them all and painting!). 

I still have time and could return the board and just get another i suppose unless its not difficult at all? 

 

If you'd recommend jsut buying a white board any recommendations around the £140 mark? 

 

Thanks! 

Plenty of guides online on how to do this. Be careful not to use any conductive paint or primers. Thick plasti dip will also affect thermal transfer so don't go overboard! Be sure to fill us in on how it goes 

[abdul94]

8 minutes ago, Blatcher2 said:

Plenty of guides online on how to do this. Be careful not to use any conductive paint or primers. Thick plasti dip will also affect thermal transfer so don't go overboard! Be sure to fill us in on how it goes 

yeah thats the plan like linus did really.

Thanks for the response  Once i eventually do it ill try making a post about it! 

Just want the grey parts to be white haha 

[abdul94]

6 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Simple.
If you don't want to paint the board build a mainboard "armor" with acryl.

that sounds more difficult!

 

[kelvinhall05]

I would return it and get a white board. No point to having a potentially bad paint job or maybe even a dead motherboard when you can just buy a white one brand new.

[W-L]

17 hours ago, abdul94 said:

Hey! 

 

So i recently bought a MSI Tomahawk z390 board which is grey and now thinking of doing a white build so was wondering how difficult it is to actually just paint (plasti dip like linus's vid) the heat sinks etc (obviously removing them all and painting!). 

I still have time and could return the board and just get another i suppose unless its not difficult at all? 

 

If you'd recommend jsut buying a white board any recommendations around the £140 mark? 

 

Thanks! 

Here I have an overview of using plasti-dip, what you will find is if you have mask lines that you will need to make cuts along the edge to get a proper tear line as to not peel up surrounding plasti-dip. 

 

 

[abdul94]

1 hour ago, W-L said:

Here I have an overview of using plasti-dip, what you will find is if you have mask lines that you will need to make cuts along the edge to get a proper tear line as to not peel up surrounding plasti-dip. 

 

 

Thank you for this!

I'll review it later. Masive help.