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lowfat · Oct 3, 2005

I am still waiting for my CPU to arrive to I thought I would paint my motherboard. Reason being for mostly safety with the water. I don't want to cook another CPU/motherboard because of a little spill.

I missed the one corner by the power/led/reset jumpers bare so that I could read what wires went where without referring to the manual. And i over taped by the IDE secondary connector, and the ATX connector, but hopefully shouldn't be able to see them when the cables are installed.

I'll probably be painting the CT-479 tonight

shellshock · Oct 3, 2005

looks sweet, but damn, i would have wait till the warrenty runs out. oh well, its fun livin life on the edge

LOL

anyways, looks sweet, way better than that boring green, or red, or yellow, or whatever it is, rofl

lowfat · Oct 3, 2005

I bought it used. it has no warranty at all.

moho · Oct 3, 2005

exactly what type of paint did you use?

shellshock · Oct 3, 2005

oh, lol

EDIT: ^^-----wow, now that is what you call spamming, LMAO

Nexus Realized · Oct 3, 2005

Nice job, I've never seen anything like that

moho said:
exactly what type of paint did you use?

Zulu-1 · Oct 3, 2005

i believe you can use any kind of paint, you just have to check to see if it's conductive 1st...

kayson · Oct 3, 2005

Zulu-1 said:
i believe you can use any kind of paint, you just have to check to see if it's conductive 1st...

Yeah. Conductive paint would really kill your mobo. Although that would be interesting. Every piece on the mobo would be connected to every other one. Sounds like something for the hardware destruction thread.

lowfat · Oct 3, 2005

I used Kylon fusion, it isn't conductive. And it was something i had earlier for painting a case.

subtotal · Oct 3, 2005

good job, it looks very nice, in fact i may do that myself soon (if i can bear not having a pc that long...). however i have seen this done before, once with UV-reactive paint and another time with gold. here is a good example of this, but i quite like the effect black has...

btw did you primer it 1st?

moho · Oct 3, 2005

chrome would look sooooooo

or copper with a xp-90C! or even RAINBOW OLOL!

lowfat · Oct 3, 2005

Ya i was going to do Gold to match the ram, but since I already had this paint, I didn't feel like spending more money.

ThePCGuy · Oct 4, 2005

I guess for sealing up the board that'd help, but I guess I can't personally get over the fact that it's a permanent solution. I think it looks nice, I love black PCBs, but I could not do that myself. Good luck.

- Jim

Susquehannock · Oct 5, 2005

Thought about doing something similar a while back. But I really like the metal
flake look of these "Golden Flame" boards so decided against it.

lowfat said:
I used Kylon fusion, it isn't conductive. And it was something i had earlier for painting a case.

Krylon Fusion might be a good idea since it's formulated to bond with plastics.
Why do people also use it for painting their metal case? Seems like a waste to me.

Doc_Skurlock · Oct 5, 2005

Not seeing any pictures and when I found the links and browsed to em, says site not found.

Mr.Guvernment · Oct 5, 2005

Wouldnt the paint act as an insulator on various parts and potentially cause over heating - i beleive this is why most people have never done this - i know that is what stopped me...

Albaholic · Oct 5, 2005

the pix dont show for me either

Son1990 · Oct 5, 2005

I can see pics...dont u think it would have been smarter to cover caps as well...

Susquehannock · Oct 5, 2005

Mr.Guvernment said:
Wouldnt the paint act as an insulator on various parts and potentially cause over heating - i beleive this is why most people have never done this - i know that is what stopped me...

Same here. I wanted my system to run cool as possible.

Actually I have seen a couple projects like this. The general consensus was that
only the PCB itself should be painted, and that parts like capacitors & mosfets etc
should be left bare. Makes sense really.

Not dissing your mod lowfat - quite the opposite. The black is a nice contrast
with the black & blue headers IMO. Would look good in a UV reactive system.

Captain Slug · Oct 5, 2005

Well if anyone else wants to do this without insulating just use label paper to cover the capacitors, MOSFETS, assorted chips, connectors, sockets, headers, etc. then use barbeque paint which has a much higher temperature tolerance (which would prevent your board from leech weird smells for the first month of use).

I've never done it simply because I just hate working with paint.

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