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mike7
By mike7
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Personally, I wouldn't use regular spray paint. I would rather pay a bit more to get Plastidip so when I want to RMA it or want to change its color easily, I can just peel the Plastidup off.

I like the color scheme of Noctua fans. Deal with it. Forget about the bad memories of the past.


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Forget about the bad memories of the past, take the good ones along with you through the present, and look forwards to the good things that will come in the future.

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So I want to customyze my rig, and one of ideas is to spray paint mobo mosfset heaters and cpu cooler. Does anyone did that? And does it effects performance?

Well painting a heatsink isn't the sort of thing you do with just a $5 spray paint. I would suggest looking through the build logs page and looking for members who've dealt with modding and painting their heatsinks (which does void your warranty unless you have been getting sampled engineering products).

adding a thin/thick layer of painting onto a material composite which helps to dissipate thermal heat can in/significantly change the temps.

 

My advice would be get in contact with Paul Tan as he's by far one of my biggest inspirations for pc modding.

Please become a member of the Linus Tech Tips forum, keep writing smug remarks & let us love you. Peace out.


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My waranty is now over, as I remember. Im happy with my mobo, and do not want to change it yet, but I want to change the looks of my rig. And btw, Im not sure aboutplastidip. Since it creates kinda deep surface and plastic is a bad heat transfer specifications. Im thinki g of car paint, or just a regular paint from home depo.

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Thanks Virgule. You confirmed my consern about heat, and I even did not thought about shortage and stuff. Thanks.

Even if those two were not a problem, please explain how you're gonna paint a mobo with leaving all the connectors (PCIE, CPU socket, RAM dimms, SATA, ...) intact.

 

The answer is : you can't

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- Short circuiting

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he wanted to paint his heatsinks only. you cant shortcut a heatsink with itself...

also, most paint isn't conductive i tought (im not sure)

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build log: diagonalmod (RIP?)


i know i use many of these: ( ) and these: ... (i really do... (sry...) ) edit: and edits

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he wanted to paint his heatsinks only. you cant shortcut a heatsink with itself...

Thought he wanted to paint the PCB, VRMs, housings of connectors, ...

 

 

No he won't sc by painting a heatsink. However, it's pretty dumb since it diminishes the convection heat transfer of the heatsink.

 

It's like saying : "I tuned my car by locking my brakes halfway."

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Thought he wanted to paint the PCB, VRMs, housings of connectors, ...

 

 

No he won't sc by painting a heatsink. However, it's pretty dumb since it diminishes the convection heat transfer of the heatsink.

 

It's like saying : "I tuned my car by locking my brakes halfway."

That actually depends on the conductive properties of the paint. Not all paints are created equal.

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Even if those two were not a problem, please explain how you're gonna paint a mobo with leaving all the connectors (PCIE, CPU socket, RAM dimms, SATA, ...) intact.

The answer is : you can't

when you paint a mobo, you put the cpu shield in, tape over most connectors, and can just scape the paint out of pcie lanes by taking a card in and out a few times, same with ram slots
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