"White PCB" ASUS 790i Ultra mod

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

It's cool.

Everyone has their own opinion. I didn't use the glitter glue. I used a marker for the red. Were do you see shinny glitter at:p:

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I just saw the glitter glue sticks in one of your first posts and thought maybe you used them to paint your chips. :shrug:

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

I did this mod because I have no i7..no moneies..no CES again...have tickets....BUT next year is looking better already!

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I thought u did it because you liked the way it looked? lol

Well yea I do....I'm glad I do this isn't a cheap motherboard to replace.

It's both I wanted to do this, BUT if I had new cards and a new cpu to play with...be the last on my mind.
I'm having fun that's what's important.

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

God I need windex/asap after this post lol can't see it with the screen on.....

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off topic..

Windex+LCD = FAIL & yellowish pictures. :(
I learned this hard way a few years ago on my iMac G5, the ammonia in windex messes up your picture over time, and makes it turn yellowish.

get this: http://www.simplygoodstuff.com/microfiber_mitten.html
most computer stores have them these days, I got one that came with a sager notebook.. works wonders.

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Originally Posted by Chruschef

off topic..

Windex+LCD = FAIL & yellowish pictures. :(
I learned this hard way a few years ago on my iMac G5, the ammonia in windex messes up your picture over time, and makes it turn yellowish.

get this: http://www.simplygoodstuff.com/microfiber_mitten.html
most computer stores have them these days, I got one that came with a sager notebook.. works wonders.

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I find that spraying a light mist of Windex on a microfiber cloth cleans anything off, but doesn't leave behind all that streaking.

Whoa!!! You have MEGABALL$!! I personally would have got neon green or hot pink, but that's just me :) There are some cool spray paints out there, like crazy chrome, and those that look anodized and such. Lots could be done with this type idea me thinks:up:

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Originally Posted by jarman

surely paint etc on vregs, caps, resistors is gonna cause them to heat up significantly. Possibly lowering ur overclocks and reducing component life?

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%100 agree,krylon fusion is meant for plastic,metal,wood etc to LOCK IN and LOCK OUT light,heat,moisture etc...

looks wise thats pretty cool tho man.i will give u that.ati did it to one of there mobos--white\red(u get the idea from them?,lol).anywat stevil and jarman are right i think ,u locked in heat on caps,vregs,hell everything!lol?who knows how it will last in a few months..but looks pretty cool man,get a few blacklight uv bulbs in there man.would look cool, purple glow on your white pcb :D

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

Ok I havent used it in a while so lets wait for temp talk. I myself have seen good results I would say....I have ran it for weeks at a time.

The one thing that makes me mad at it is. It does not always turn on. It gets to -35c or what ever when it turns on the PC. Instead it shuts down and I have to wait till it gets to -8c to flip it back on. It can do this over and over for an hour before it stays on....I asked fugger about how to remove that and he said remove the controller...I have no idea I opened it up and nope I could kill it too fast. I need to find some picks on what to do. I just want to flip a switch and it comes on.

At other times it starts just fine and could do so every day. Then you hit that day and you almost pass out waiting on it to just run...


When around 1.9v on a quad or even 2.0v the read out on the phase will say around -62 which is a lie but it's working very very hard I can feel the heat dump. The QX stays frozen(no temp reads coming from the chip) but I was going for 5Ghz never done that before. Then the man I asked(king)said I had my pll way over kill. I should of been doing less with it than more more and more.




So I hit 4.8Ghz with a QX9650. I can bench at 4.6 if I can remember right. But like I said about that damn pll.


If it wasn't for that I don't know what bug it is having I would love it. I almost have to leave it on if I don't want to get mad at it the following day.



Also my water setup makes more noise than it does. It's more low tone so it just really does not bug you.

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do you have any idea where i could find one of these things? i cant seem to find them anywhere on the net...

thanks btw :)

Find someone who has one or a store that still has one. As far as I know they only made one batch sold it out and whats out there is out there.

The end of the thread about these in the phase section of this site has a few stores listed in the end of the thread.

http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/case out side.png

blurry burly :( I only likt this kind of blurry personally link nsfw maybe......

http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/blury no flash.png

UV on meanwell:)
http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/case uv no cards.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/board in case.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/case cards uv.png


Much Much more too do..... two water loops more painting and other stuff!

^^^ awesome work, its finally paying off heh? :up:

your painted mobo reminded me of sahppire's introduction boards back in 939 days lol

http://www.hothardware.com/articleim...ig_board_1.jpg

^^^ very similar indeed. But Damultas is better lol.

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Originally Posted by Chicken Patty

^^^ very similar indeed. But Damultas is better lol.

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I don't know know about that lol

Updated first post with updates. Yea I think the case is coming along well....The board looks fantastic in it!!!!!



The other guy that painted his, is also painting his heatsinks and seeing drops in his temps. They went down instead of up!!! So maybe this could make the board last longer lol who knows but to have temp drops after painting?

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

Yea I hate leaks....you can do a lot to prvent them but they can happen....


White night!

Red on the LED no effect:)

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Damn, its much more handsome with the lights.

Kudos for the balls to paint it though! :up:

I only have one question....

Why?

Why not? The board glows!

Didn't have much time at all to work on it in the past week.....

http://img.techpowerup.org/090104/cu...20case%202.jpg

Well have been painting other parts......

Well sure why not but what if you need to RMA the board? LOL

That was one ugly mod. Feel sorry for the guy. I am sure he will never ever do that again.

I don't find it that bad at all, a nice change for sure. Simps is on his negative streak again.

at first i thought it was ah..but once it came together very nice..i definitely have been debating this for a while on my ip35pro board..its blue and i want it black....i might go do it now.. ::looks at board:: BRB

Haha, nice work on this mod! Not my cup of tea, but I still admire your idea! It's certainly different! I just hope that heat can still escape well from the components (I don't really understand all the details of that temperature module that you had a picture of, but I hope the temps are ok!!).

nice idea, very creative.....i would have taped off the caps and microchips and VRMs/MOSFETS though to keep there ablility to radiate heat off better though....prolly wouldn't matter but thats just me

I'm going to do this with my 965P-DS3P when I do my next mod.

You really got some balls man. :shocked: You built sugar factory for urself quite well. Board has a brand new view now. Congrats. mate. :up: