Frosted tube P3 home theatre build

[Grinder]

Those would be nice touches. But I have to admit I like the optics of the fans/rad through the res.

[Bartacus]

Looks nice Bart, good job

Thank you sir! It could be a bit more white, so I think I may switch PSUs between rigs when "upgrade time" comes, and also grow some balls and frost the tube reservoir. I have a white 850W with white cables in my gaming rig that matches this perfectly.

[Grinder]

Looks nice Bart, good job

[Bartacus]

Nice looking rig Bart.
Frosted tubes look good.

Thanks buddy! Hope you've been doing well during the viral apocalypse!

[Hooded]

Nice looking rig Bart.
Frosted tubes look good.

[Danny79-Qc]

Haha yeah. I use higher grit pads instead of paper. Makes a more uniform job and the higher grit you go the softer. Leaves less marks too. I prefer to do it with petg because you can play more with different finish than acrylic but still did a decent job on tubes and block. Once I get more pads, it will be even better. Usually use between 800 and 1500 grit. You should try it.

[Bartacus]

Thanks Danny! I had limited materials, and put almost zero effort into it, LOL! I only had a few 400grit sanding discs laying around, so I used one of those with the spongy support disc. Not sure if I'd do the same thing on my reservoir, I'd want that to be a neater job.

[Danny79-Qc]

Yep good job. pretty easy to frost tubes. Here some I'm working on. Would be better but ran out of high grit sanding pads...Which material and grit did you use?

[Bartacus]

Decided to rebuild my all-AMD home theatre rig back into (err onto?) a Core P3, and for a twist I did some sanding on the 16mm acrylic tube. It came out surprisingly decent, unless you look real close!

System specs for those who care:

Ryzen 3700x 8 core
Asus Crosshair VII Hero X470 motherboard / EK Monoblock
32GB (4 x 8GB G.Skill 3600 CL16 RAM (technically it's 3200/CL14, but runs at 3600/CL16)
AMD Radeon VII GPU / EK Vector GPU block
1TB ADATA SX8200 NVME SSD
2 x 2TB Micron SATA SSDs in RAID0
Asus WiFi card
ThermalTake Core P3 White Edition
Corsair AX850 850W PSU

Singularity Computers D5 pump top / reservoir
Alphacool UT60 420mm radiator, white edition
Fractal Design Prisma AL-140 PWM RGB fans
Barrowch flow meter / temp sensor
Darkside 16mm hard tube fittings / 90 degree fittings, white
16mm acrylic tube, lazily hand frosted by me with a 400 grit sanding pad