"White PCB" ASUS 790i Ultra mod

http://img.techpowerup.org/081225/paint.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/1858.jpg
A better pic

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/2.jpg
I made sure no dust was on the board

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/3.jpg
I just tapped up what I didn't want pained with electrical paint.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/4.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/5.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/6.jpg

Big pic
http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/7.jpg


Fist coat


http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/paint 790i 1.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081226/7.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/paint 790i 2.jpg

It does look kooL like this

2ed coat going to wait a bit more for the 3ed/

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/paint 790i 3.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/first white 790i.jpg

Tell me a white motherboard is not the :banana::banana::banana::banana:?

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/maybe.jpg
test look


Cammera phone damn bats died:shakes:

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/white 790i.jpg

Watercooling isn't hooked up as normal

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/white 790i works.png


I'm so happy right now:)

I have gliter paint!!! For caps and chips!

Also will update when camera is back up and running.

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Update: So you don't have to look into the thread

Have not tested. More to do.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/fi...ite%20790i.jpg
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Well I'm not turning it on been cleaning today....on here on and off LOL

Camera is dead so sorry bad cell phone pic.

Also I'm going to paint the block while it's off the board. Tonight I plan on doing that, and turning it on 2mrow.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081227/maybe.jpg

Just a what it would look like now.
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Update WORKS

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/white 790i.jpg

Watercooling isn't hooked up as normal

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/white 790i works.png
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an hour of testing turned down volts on cpu upped a tad on mem and went to 8 tras.
http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/test.jpg
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Update red sharpy

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/790i%20white.jpg
Find more shots here
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...&postcount=168
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White Night
http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/wh...ght%20790i.jpg
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UV light
http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/glow 3.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/790i glow 2.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/790i glow.png

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test look
http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/case%20out%20side.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/090101/ca...no%20cards.png
more pics LINK

I admire your balls, but IMHO it doesn't look at all good. By losing the contrast between the PCB colour and that of the components on the board, you lose something from the appearance.

Those are about to get colors, but I think it looks cool as hell as it is.

I'm going to paint my cards too. Thought about the blocks and was going to color them. Yet, I did look how they looked stock on this.
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Had to lower my PLL voltage. Might of saved during the wrong loop when tweaking ram...IDK I hate this chip I need to throw in the quad.

Also made my ram timing a little better. up the voltage there just a tad

Still running prime no issues.
8mins

It was set to high....:ROTF:

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I also have full coverage water blocks that I need to fix and install on the cards. The dang stands were to high and didn't touch the core....My luck all 3 of the blocks didn't. This is what DangerDen sent for me to do testing with. Also had one that leaked all over the board BAD(it did not boot for 2 weeks after cleaning it) only when the loop was turned off. SO when I tested it is was all good to go.
God I was pissed..(this is a retail board I paid for)....Didn't even send them an email.....

I would still shop there, and I just think I happened to get in on a bad batch of blocks.

Good job so far, at least it works :) By the way is that Windows Seven, hows that going for you?

I cant tell how I feel about the painted board, do try to get some well lit pics from a real camera, preferably daylight/sunlight lit pics so we can get a good look at it.

I'm glad it works good, I may paint my motherboard with this clear-neaon white spraypaint I've got. goes on clear, glow bright white under UV lighting....

I need to take pics with my good camera.went to get batteries tonight, and made it home with coke, cookies, this paint, and noooo which is why I went...the one with it installed is from my cell phone which sucks.....It looks really cool!!!!


I love 7. I was starting to like vista until I ran this. I don't think I will install it ever again. Me Vista is what the name should of been. Vista should be like this o/s.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/test.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/glitter glue.jpg

How far should I take it :rofl:

I'm thinking all over the board and not on the chips with the silver. Red on chips, and another on caps.:down::up::shrug:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=80058

P O S just did one in black. Gigabyte GA-m61p-S3(painted black)

I have my log there too.(if anyone wanted to read these)

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=79885

hey Damulta, we meet again dude, anyways, awesome log bro, i'll tell you again great job!!! :up:

I feel sorry for a lot of the chips, they're going to be insulated by the paint.

Careful with the glitter, some of it could be metal flakes.

Been feeling around they don't feel hot at all. True they are....Could this protect me from a water leak is what I want to know....

Yes I have thought about that also. I have sprayed a a peaice of paper with that pant and colored the glitter on there. To see what it would look like in UV. I guess I could go to there site and see what it is made of.

Cell phone makes this like crap I WILL TAKE OTHER PICS

It really looks good.....I need to go get AAs like now.

It's red Red Sharpy FTW

Should I do caps with Black Sharpy FTW?

[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red1.jpg

[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red2.jpg

[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red3.jpg
[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red4.jpg


[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red6.jpg

[IMG]http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/red5.jpg

AA in the house!!!

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/790i white.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/1 card.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 010.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 013.jpg
Ohh missed a few

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 025.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 033.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 040.jpg

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/79...sharpy 044.jpg

Great Job Damulta!! :up: :up:

Thanks.

Just working on the case, and painted the caps black as best as I could for now.

It looks amazing to me. It just not feel like a real computer part, and that's the best part for me.

this is bloody insane!

you are a pure genius hahaha.

Nice job with the masking and final look. :up: I was going to say to use Dupli-Color, but the Krylon came out fine.

PS: You are a real geek when the protective film is still on the stock cooler for your video card. :p::rofl:

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

Thanks.

Just working on the case, and painted the caps black as best as I could for now.

It looks amazing to me. It just not feel like a real computer part, and that's the best part for me.

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hahaha, it does look amazing and its definetily a mod that not many people have done, at least I don't think so :up:

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

I must admit, its eXtreme.. its crazy. But sorry, it doesnt look good, I guess it would be nice, if it will be only PCB in white.. and that would be really difficult.. (or maybe not.. covering everything possible and removing paint from rest.. ).

wow!very cool project. your board reminds me of an old sapphire amd64 board which looks very similar :up:

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

Been feeling around they don't feel hot at all. True they are....Could this protect me from a water leak is what I want to know....

Yes I have thought about that also. I have sprayed a a peaice of paper with that pant and colored the glitter on there. To see what it would look like in UV. I guess I could go to there site and see what it is made of.

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It will protect from water a bit, but if there are gaps or holes in the paint then you are vulnerable. Still better than nothing.

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


White night!

Red on the LED no effect:)
http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/white night 790i.jpg

Going on

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/tray almost 790i.jpg

These two loops are going for a clean then a step into some paint.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/next paint list.jpg
One 1/2 one 3/8

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/830 790i ocz.jpg
830 is back on my desk!!! Yes this time I will install the right and not have ocz out the side.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081228/OMG THE TOWER.jpg

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

DAMN IT'S TALL

WAY TALL

Dude, i just noticed where you had your PC, I was looking at a thing there that said OCz :p:

Makes a perfect temp pc tray:)

Slots go right out the back and everything:)

sorry to go off topic,

i have to ask, how is the OCZ cryo-z?

i just read about it and it showed some nice results for the price, but how is it for 24/7? i have not found much on that.

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Makes a perfect temp pc tray:)

Slots go right out the back and everything:)

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hahaha thats awesome bro, glad its working out. who needs a nice benchstation, just look around your room lol.

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sorry to go off topic,

i have to ask, how is the OCZ cryo-z?

i just read about it and it showed some nice results for the price, but how is it for 24/7? i have not found much on that.

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thanks for asking, I am also much interested.

Niceeeee!

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Originally Posted by xdrift0rx

sorry to go off topic,

i have to ask, how is the OCZ cryo-z?

i just read about it and it showed some nice results for the price, but how is it for 24/7? i have not found much on that.

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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.

Reminds me of the old soyo dragon mobos.

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Reminds me of the old soyo dragon mobos.

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you're right, does look a lot like it :D

http://www.pchardware.co.uk/siteimag...kt400board.jpg

Awesome moding :clap::up:

Personally I don't like the white colour, but thats just me.

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/glow 3.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/790i glow 2.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/790i glow.png

White under UV. I like uv light it's not too bright and lets me see on my desk:)

:shocked::shocked: :up:

i hate to be the party pooper here but seriously what were you thinkin' mate :D

10/10 for effort but damn dude does that really look better toyou
particularly the white/hotpink highlights eek :D

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i hate to be the party pooper here but seriously what were you thinkin' mate :D

10/10 for effort but damn dude does that really look better toyou
particularly the white/hotpink highlights eek :D

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I love it:) the uv glow is just extra. I think it's going to jump put of the case:yepp:

hot pink is the UV, and it's a good thing I happen to like pink:up:

Cant wait to have it all installed paint is taking for ever to dry....a little cold out:)

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Originally Posted by DaMulta

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Tell me a white motherboard is not the :banana::banana::banana::banana:?

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Dont take this personally. I think it looks awful. And that red glitter glue on the chips... You might as well go ahead and pain on a big rainbow. I'm not trying to be a troll. Its just my opinion.

If you like it, thats all that matters.

i think the white looks nice, but don't like the marker. should have masked off the other ics.

I really love it, perfect... Reminds me on Sapphire MBO's... Great work

Sorry dude, nice idea but it just does not look nice. Reminds me of that ugly Sapphire board that used I think it was the RS480 chipset.

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Dont take this personally. I think it looks awful. And that red glitter glue on the chips... You might as well go ahead and pain on a big rainbow. I'm not trying to be a troll. Its just my opinion.

If you like it, thats all that matters.

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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:


Also about painting over those chips. Could it not spread out the heat? Heat is going to work it's way out no matter what. I just didn't see masking them off if they didn't have a heatsink on them in the first place. I really don't think it's going to mess with them if so not bring down the system much.

So far it's a I like it or I don't :up:

There are a lot of motherboards I hate the looks of and everyone else loves. To each their own.:D


And ket your the first I know of that didn't like the looks of that white AMD board:ROTF:. Haven't seen you around in a while. I hope life has been treating you well.

Indeed life has been pretty good :up: cant wait for new years eve! An excuse to get pissed! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...t/7bf8c936.gif :D

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I love it:) the uv glow is just extra. I think it's going to jump put of the case:yepp:

hot pink is the UV, and it's a good thing I happen to like pink:up:

Cant wait to have it all installed paint is taking for ever to dry....a little cold out:)

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thats that then
i dont mind pink colour at all...i have lots of shirts and tshirts hehe but i just kinda look at all that different hardware and its just not matching up hehe

but if you like it thats all that matters

plus you may even have a bit more protection again water and stuff :)

btw i dont know if the Asus LAN chips get hot but on reference board they run real hot and i would uncover the spray on those things

maybe do a check

haha pretty cool!

Not my cup of tea but nice going anyway :)

Nice job DaMalta. Long time no see. :D

IMO, it looks O.K. But, it is the opinion in the eyes of the beholder.

Imagine if you tried RMA'ing that thing. :rofl:

I know that it would be pretty pointless, but I would still do it just for sh**'s and giggles. :)

It looks cool buddy :up: I always was a mod freak. Thanks for sharing your project:clap: Keep up the good work.

Not exactly what I would want my my mobo to look like, but damn dude.


+ respect for having the balls to paint your mobo. I never would of thought of doing that lol.

Waz up Cain same old Same a little(have something in the works LOL)

Under the ice I needs to make a vist over there one of these days....I wonder if I could get a controller that works there, and my OCZ lol....not so much lol yet still there


Also cleaning out the lines with some hot hot water(I have it turned turned up to burn yea lol water heater can't get any hotter:( )

Cell phone camera

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/2lol.jpg
:D

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/4lol.jpg

Hi Mr A/c Meanwell

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/5lol.jpg

Some soap for my babies

http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/6lol.jpg

#%!@% Yellow Rubber Ducky!!!!

I haz my Rad and Rez to play with, and they are much cooler to play with than YOU!!!+3

Sorry other pics are for special people!!!:pimp:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:



Going to install the motherboard on the tray as well as some other painting. I think I'm going to print a name for the board on a sticker!!!

Just have to come up with a name.


ASUS
White UV Knight Ultra 790i


My little helper is CRAZY ripping video cards apart also tonight!!!
http://img.techpowerup.org/081229/3mL.jpg
3mL[LIT]

Good to hear.

Still frying hardware, I presume? :D

Have not in a while all tho my 2 pumps are having one hot night!!! 3ed dump of the hot water tank on the rads lol. It out pours on them lol a lot of steam is just rolling off of them lol it's funny but it needed it.

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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Have not in a while all tho my 2 pumps are having one hot night!!! 3ed dump of the hot water tank on the rads lol. It out pours on them lol a lot of steam is just rolling off of them lol it's funny but it needed it.

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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2008 sucked for me too bro, but luckily I was able to come up with an i7 with my bonus from work, but as it is for you too, 2009 is already looking bright for me, hopefully nothing unexpected gets in my way!

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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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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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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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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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^^^ 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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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:

Just have to say. It's been running NON STOP OCED and NOT WATER COOLED on the chipset from the day I turned it back on which has been a while and a day now. I did install a SDD Drive, but that's it on the system with win 7 installed.


TOTAL STABLE STILL. I don't remember the last time it was off......:up: Painting motherboard:up: Yep

good to know Damulta. Glad it came out as expected :up: