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Colouring intel heatsink?

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A friend of mine is building a PC soon, and his colour scheme is red. He will be getting an i5-4460, which doesn't need any fancy cooling, just the stock heatsink. As you probably know, the intel heatsink has a blue top, and some rather disgusting multicolour cables. So I was thinking of covering the top part with maybe a metallic red sticker? But I have no ideas for colouring the cables. What do you guys think? Should I just leave it as is?

Thanks.

Forgot to mention, he doesn't want to spend any more than he has to.

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A friend of mine is building a PC soon, and his colour scheme is red. He will be getting an i5-4460, which doesn't need any fancy cooling, just the stock heatsink. As you probably know, the intel heatsink has a blue top, and some rather disgusting multicolour cables. So I was thinking of covering the top part with maybe a metallic red sticker? But I have no ideas for colouring the cables. What do you guys think? Should I just leave it as is?

Thanks.

Forgot to mention, he doesn't want to spend any more than he has to.

just paint the whole fan assembly red exempt for the aluminum heatsink.
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Maybe try to spray pain them, really tricky tho... or wrap them in some kind of tape or sitck them inside a ruber tube like heatshrink or something

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just paint the whole fan assembly red exempt for the aluminum heatsink.

Maybe try to spray pain them, really tricky tho... or wrap them in some kind of tape or sitck them inside a ruber tube like heatshrink or something

Thanks for the suggestions! I will show him this thread.

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I would remove the sticker and paint everything apart from the cables and the heatsink

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You can take off the fan, it's attached via pins on four sides, just pry them off and it'll come off. Then just paint the heatsink the color you want.

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i woundnt to paint the heatsink, just the plastic

I wouldn't recommend that, you may end up getting paint inside the fan's motor and ruin the cooler.

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