Acrylic Cover Peices

[Dw136]

Hello, 

 

I'm just getting into the modding scene and I'm in the process of creating a white / arctic themed case. I don't really like the plain black metal back-plate on my FE 1080 or the white Cooler master logo on my CPU AIO. I'm planning on making a white acrylic cover piece and stencilling a gamer tag and some other designs on it. 

 

My one concern is about thermals of the card. The normal black back-plate gets quite hot in operation. I'd like some advice on how to mount the decorative plate onto the existing back plate. I was thinking using 3m foil tape and some metal washer spacers which then are glued to the back of the decorative back-plate. 

 

So it would be Stock Black Back Plate - 3M Foil tape - Metal Spacing Washers - super glue - acrylic. 

 

Suggestions from those that have done this or something before?

 

 

Additionally, does anyone know if it's worth trying to sleeve my PSU cables on my semi-moduler Cooler Master PSU or try to get as much as I can for it and buy a fully modular Corsair PSU and some cable mod cables? (It's a small case so I don't really have the room to hide extension cables). 

[W-L]

49 minutes ago, Dw136 said:

Hello, 

I'm just getting into the modding scene and I'm in the process of creating a white / arctic themed case. I don't really like the plain black metal back-plate on my FE 1080 or the white Cooler master logo on my CPU AIO. I'm planning on making a white acrylic cover piece and stencilling a gamer tag and some other designs on it. 

My one concern is about thermals of the card. The normal black back-plate gets quite hot in operation. I'd like some advice on how to mount the decorative plate onto the existing back plate. I was thinking using 3m foil tape and some metal washer spacers which then are glued to the back of the decorative back-plate. 

So it would be Stock Black Back Plate - 3M Foil tape - Metal Spacing Washers - super glue - acrylic. 

Suggestions from those that have done this or something before?

Additionally, does anyone know if it's worth trying to sleeve my PSU cables on my semi-moduler Cooler Master PSU or try to get as much as I can for it and buy a fully modular Corsair PSU and some cable mod cables? (It's a small case so I don't really have the room to hide extension cables). 

An acrylic backplate won't be an issue as for mounting a simple option would be to use double sided mounting tape as it's only decorative. 

 

As for sleeved cables I usually recommend to get sleeved cables let it be full replacement cables or extensions due to the time and effort it takes to sleeve one's own cables. Unless you plan on doing a lot of custom sleeving and work it's better to get a kit.