Painting computer parts

[Smothie]

Hello Everyone

To begin I wanna build a "Full white" PC inside a black case. The thing is I couldn't find a few parts which I want to be white so I was thinking about spraying them white. What you guys think about?

 

Computer Parts:

Be Quite! Silent Base 800

Asus Z97 Sabertooth Mark S Sabranco

Be Quite! Dark Rock Pro3

I7 4790K

Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980Ti

Seasonic P-1050XP3 1050W

HyperX Savage 32GB (4x8)

 

From the list to be sprayed white would be the video card, the cover of the RAM. The main problem is the cooling on the CPU because I'm not sure if that can be painted or not, plus I would wanna go with air cooling rather then water.

Any suggestions and tips is appreciated.

Thanks for reading. 

 

 

[The_Dillster]

I suggest you go watch Linus' video on him spray painting his motherboard and go from there, helped me alot

[JamesHeaney]

I don't think painting the fins on an air cooler would work well... Correct me if I am wrong, of course.

[Darth-Marius]

linus has painted a psu during the sub zero build log, and painting a saber tooth board should be easy, but dont paint a air cooler

[W-L]

-SNIP-

 

Most of the things you listed can be painted without issue the CPU heatsink though if you only paint the top cover/plate and not the fins it wouldn't affect cooling performance, try looking into Cryorig they have some very nice coolers.

 

For some of the things you want to paint I have a guide here that goes further indepth:

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/407754-modding-faq-common-mods/

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I don't think painting the fins on an air cooler would work well... Correct me if I am wrong, of course.

 

 

NCIX tried that and under load there was a ~10 degree difference.​

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[Enderman]

buy an AiO then paint that, will work and look much better than a painted heatsink

 

also galax sells white GPUs

 

 

 

I suggest you go watch Linus' video on him spray painting his motherboard and go from there, helped me alot

I dont think you read the post...

hes NOT painting the motherboard, the Mark S is already white

[DarkBlade2117]

 

NCIX tried that and under load there was a ~10 degree difference.​

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Spray paint would be better for the heatsink, since it is lighter and wouldn't fill in as much of the fins.

[Kalle Hänninen]

I would only dip the ends of finns in paint and not spray it carelessly.

[Smothie]

Thank you guys for everything. Helped me a lot.