White Z87 Mpower mod

[EFD307]

So i ended up buying a white power supply (pc power&cooling silencer mkiii 1200w) because it was on sale for a great price. sine then i have decided i wanted to do a black and white themed build. I ust ordered the z87 mpower and will be using the 780 lightning when it is available to purchase. but while i wait i decided to photoshop the board to see what it would look like with white accents instead of yellow, here are the results. before and after. the shop is crude but i think it works well enough to get the idea across. let me know what you guys think, good or bad idea? also how long should i wait before i paint the board, i want to make sure that it is operational before i paint it because from what i heard painting aboard voids warranties. I think the painting of the chipset accent will be the easiest as you can just un screw it, the yellow window i can paint and put back and i have a friend who does very fine airbrushing, he does car pinstripes but i should be able to have him hit the VRM heat sink and the audio boost letters, using some tape and patience i think this could come out quite well.

 

 

[FireFox]

That looks pretty nice but I thought you made the whole board white, that could be quite something.

[Denned]

I wanted to do the same with my z77 mpower. Since it's such a small stripe, it (for me) would be a pain in the ass to paint properly.

However in the z87 mpower I think you can take the yellow part off and just spray paint it without having to cover up everything

[Gugos]

i think that just a little accent of colour is really nice, all black & white is really really.. flat, ara you not gonna have a single coloured stuff in your case to match it?

[EFD307]

i think that just a little accent of colour is really nice, all black & white is really really.. flat, ara you not gonna have a single coloured stuff in your case to match it?

i have multi colored lighting strips, so i can get almost any color from those.

[ShadowRaven]

First of all this should be in moddiing section of the forum where this type of expert advice is and yes there could be warranty issues

 

 

i have multi colored lighting strips, so i can get almost any color from those.

 

 

[Gugos]

i have multi colored lighting strips, so i can get almost any color from those.

well in this case no matter what colour you choose for your motherboard, the lights will cover it anyway, probably white is a better choice because it cause less colour distortion

[EFD307]

First of all this should be in moddiing section of the forum where this type of expert advice is and yes there could be warranty issues

 

 

just got that changed

 

[EFD307]

I had a question regarding taking off the heat sinks, once i take them off to paint them, do i have to change the thermal pads or whatever, thats what they look like for the VRM heatsink. ill post some pictures.

this one looks like its just a bit of thermal paste.

But under this heat sink there looks like some kind of thermal pad, would i have to buy more of that? it also looks like the stuff they put on GPU's when installing a water block. same thing? i think it would be safer to take the heatsink off then to try and airbrush it attached.
 

[MalcolmSex]

keep in mind dude that the line separating the audio hardware from the rest of the board lights up yellow when turned on

edit: as does the MSI logo on the southbridge (although you may be able to change that)

[Levis95l]

Please post a pic when you're done, I want to see if I could do this too. I'm thinking of copper colored heatsinks.

[FireFox]

Please post a pic when you're done, I want to see if I could do this too. I'm thinking of copper colored heatsinks.

 

Easy mate, this thread died out 2 months ago

[CyberneticTitan]

Please post a pic when you're done, I want to see if I could do this too. I'm thinking of copper colored heatsinks.

 

 

Here is my build with a white phantom: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41908-build-phantom/

 

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