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What do you use to paint your gpu cooler or ram covers and ect? 

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And PSU! I want to know, too. I won't like having a black PSU in my white NZXT phantom when I get it.

 

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Plastidip (or any variant). Although it is an insulator so if anything gets hot without being painted, then it's just going to overheat when you paint it.

Plastidip peels off fairly easily though if you want to get rid of it.

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well you one one of two ways , one you can get them treated , so have the old paint removed and take them bare , then apply 1pak paint ( more recommended) or even 2 pak . or have them treated and them spray paint them ( wont look as clean but cheap and can be done in your own home.

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For plastic, I really like to use Vinyl dye - I used it to dye the thermal armour on my Z77 Sabertooth white. For metal, just the standard primers and paints should work as long as the surface has been prepared properly.

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PSU? You'll have to disassemble it and paint all that metallic casing... otherwise if you put the whole PSU in plastidip you'll ruin it and it'll overheat

You do realise that Plastidip comes in a spray can right?

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PSU? You'll have to disassemble it and paint all that metallic casing... otherwise if you put the whole PSU in plastidip you'll ruin it and it'll overheat

Yes, I'm aware lol.

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oh didn't know xD... I only bought those expensive buckets... I submerge (get thick as f**k but hey, it works)... no time to apply spray :P

Wow.... The thermal insulation from a layer that thick would be unreal.

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oh didn't know xD... I only bought those expensive buckets... I submerge (get thick as f**k but hey, it works)... no time to apply spray :P

it really sounds like that's the way to do it, doesn't it? Plasti DIP  :D

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Like all the others have said - plasti dip. I have used this many times and I wouldn't use anything else to paint pc components

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Like all the others have said - plasti dip. I have used this many times and I wouldn't use anything else to paint pc components

Does plastidip go on thin and preserve details like Vinyl dye?

 

 

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