Changing Colour of components

[Damin]

Hi Guys,
With this as my inspiration.
What I would like to know is does anyone have any ideas how the heat sinks on the Mobo and the GPU where made???
I was thinking of making my own but not exactly sure where to start...
Any ideas.
Cheers
D

 

[Off-The-Chart]

well the mobo parts was surely already there? and he just had it coated??

the gpu part looks like a stock cooler which is plastic which was also probably just painted.

remember a lot of these guys have access to CNC's and lathe's so it is easy for them to make their own.

 

[SilvRav]

yip...a lot of people also take 1000grid sandpapwr to the caps of the mobo and sands down all the labelleing and printing.
that is the cheap way. the right way to avoid any shorts is to use something like thinners or that is not re-active

the mobo heatisnk etc can be removed and was powerder coated/painted.

 

[Damin]

Uhmmm not sure I totally agree but... Let's say they did sand it down...
How do you think they changed the colour? Surely they cannot paint a heatsink, that will affect the heat retenssion... That makes me think it was annodized, but not sure if metal can be annodized yellow?

Going to do some research.

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[Asus Fan]

go google his work log, they be painted, not anod. Also good luck finding sum 1 to ano in South Africa that wont stuff it up

 

[Priory]

Howsit bud I read in the lian li PC-A05 owners club that some guys use Car thermal spray paint, i tried it and seems to work. have't actually check board temps though. Mine was for bit fun on my soon to be replaced board, so i would do bit research before doing it to a expensive board

 

[Damin]

go google his work log, they be painted, not anod. Also good luck finding sum 1 to ano in South Africa that wont stuff it up

Found the work log...
Sorry guys... it seems it was powder coated...

Howsit bud I read in the lian li PC-A05 owners club that some guys use Car thermal spray paint, i tried it and seems to work. have't actually check board temps though. Mine was for bit fun on my soon to be replaced board, so i would do bit research before doing it to a expensive board

Thanks I'll look into this as well.
I would like my heatsinks to be black... am rather going to anodize them... have a local guy that can do it.
Let see what the result is.
Cheers
D

 

[Off-The-Chart]

don't worry Damin...

I found myself also thinking that having something like powder coating done, would have weakened the heat dissipation because looking at powder coating, it kinda looks like a "barrier layer" which to me looked like it would keep the heat.

but if you check a lot of the logs on Bit-Tech ie, you always learn something from how the guys do testing. I think this is why I mentioned it being coated.

 

[Damin]

don't worry Damin...

I found myself also thinking that having something like powder coating done, would have weakened the heat dissipation because looking at powder coating, it kinda looks like a "barrier layer" which to me looked like it would keep the heat.

but if you check a lot of the logs on Bit-Tech ie, you always learn something from how the guys do testing. I think this is why I mentioned it being coated.

My question is how hot do those heat spreaders get?
Surely they do not get that hot


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[Squigly]

I monitor my temps when gaming and find the mobo seldom breaks 50 deg. most of the time it would be low 40's at full load. (similar case with benching)

 

[Pansyfaust]

I asked this question a while ago...in the before times....when the first show your rig comp was still months away...I wanted to colour my CPU heatsink black. Thanks for starting this thread damin, looks like you got a lot more info than I got . And what theme you going for anyways?

 

[Damin]

I asked this question a while ago...in the before times....when the first show your rig comp was still months away...I wanted to colour my CPU heatsink black. Thanks for starting this thread damin, looks like you got a lot more info than I got . And what theme you going for anyways?

LOL! No problem Pansyfaust.
As for my theme? don't really have one... just working to get my PC looking as sleek and simplistic as I can.
Colours so far are black and white... here is a link to my project log http://www.carbonite.co.za/f27/project-carbon-arc-31991/#post231065.
I am considering to anodise the blue heatspreaders on the MSI motherboard... but still looking at alternatives.

I have found a place in East London who will do the anodizing for really cheap but not sure if this is exactly what I want to do yet.
Will keep this post up to date either way.
Cheers
D