Plasti-diped a Motherboard

[snef]

Hi

I have nothing to today, why not painting a motherboard

bought 2 can of white plasti-dip and 3m masking tape

first

chose a motherboard

I have a spare motherboard on a shelf, a Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H, if I burn it, to bad, go to garbage


tape all connector, hint: use 3m tape, a way better (the Green one)




after one coat,


ok need to give a second coat now

more to come today

[gdesmo]

It's a lot of work taping that all up, I hope the paint does not trap the heat in some of the mosfets and transistors. Don't push it too hard and you might be ok, going to look great.

[snef]

I can remove dip on those
Just to noob to know witch one i need to remove

[bungwirez]

Go to town on this Snef. give it like three more coats nice and thick...
then there will be no mistake that it works perfectly well

[gdesmo]

Will insert image of mobo. 9 VRM's across the top, 5 to the left and the 2 mosfets beside those 5 and 2 below the cpu socket to the right a little. Have marked them with a white mark of some sort. Vrm's are important because they are the voltage regulators for your cpu and memory functions.

[snef]

Perfect, thanks, i will try to remove plasti-dip from vrm

[MRDcanadian]

always wanted to know if that was possible, looking forward to the result. so far it looks good.

[DazMode]

This is very interesting project. I was also thinking about painting some old mobo to see if it still would function or get issues with heat.

Also how much temps can plastidip handle? Some parts of mobo can be hot...

[snef]

ok

good news and bad news


first good news

wow I really like the results

some pics
















and yes, easy to remove if you put enough layer

I have coat, 2 first are thin and 2 last are thick


now bad news


loolll no bad news

IT WORK

Just finish installing Windows

@Gdesmo
I tried to remove on VRM but impossible, the paint is like doctor glove, need to cut with exacto but I don't want to take this chane

I will take a look on this and let the computer running for minimum 48 hour with a small thread running on it, around 30 - 35% cpu usage

now some pics









I will try to do a tutorial, its very simple

[GEARjmr]

Helluva job there snef, don't know if it helps but I use a dentists pick tool for small pickin'. maybe you could use one to remove the plasticoat from the parts you want to.

[gdesmo]

Looks good and am glad it is working well, keep your eye on the vrm's. I'm interested in knowing if the heat starts to bubble up the plasti-coat in those spots. Nice job, sure wish the manufacturers would give you all the same colour connectors on the board though.

[snef]

thanks


@Gdesmo

for now , I run it for more than hour now with 40% cpu usage

and the only thing hot to the touch is the big rectangle box, all vrm still cold to the touch, this is a H77 motherboard, no OC on it maybe they never run hot and that's why Gigabyte don't put any heatsink on it


and for bubble with heat, nit sure because a lot of car use this to paint the brake calipers and this I hot and don't see any issue
but just for sure I will do more research

[MRDcanadian]

WOW it looks awesome. Question you, would you think if some one wants’ that they can do some of the connector also? (Minus the top of it of course) also maybe if something was put on the pieces you didn't want it to stick to (possibly Vaseline?) thought the separation from the rest of the plastic may prove difficult still.

[Hooded]

Very cool. Nice bit of info.
Looking forward to final results

[bungwirez]

I will try to do a tutorial, its very simple

you mean this isn't the tutorial?