During the review of the BeQuiet Shadow Base 800 FX, I simply felt the need to install a white graphics card. Since no adequate model could be found in the short term and I had a rough idea of what the whole story should look like, we did it ourselves without further ado. And even if this is not the holy grail of knowledge today, we can all recover from yesterday’s rather heavy RDNA3 reading. With varnish to the lightness of being? Yes, but not through the nose please…
White graphics cards are rather rare and then often very expensive. When I unpacked and looked at the aforementioned case, I immediately had an ASRock “Steel Legend” graphics card in mind. But to buy such a card especially for a case review and then also at the called price, the vision wasn’t worth that much to me. With the KFA² RTX 3070 Ti SG and its transparent illuminated fans, I had a visually similar graphics card within reach, but it wasn’t white. When my father-in-law suggested simply painting the card white, I was skeptical at first. But why actually? After all, as a master painter and varnisher with over 30 years of professional experience, he would know what he was suggesting. We quickly hatched a plan and got started.
Preparation
First, of course, the card had to be completely disassembled, because I definitely didn’t want to do it like the often encountered Youtuber botch with paint noses and only roughly masked and then half-painted components. Either properly, or rather not at all. After I had removed the heat sink, the fan unit was also removed. That looks really complicated before loud PWM and RGB meanwhile under such a cover!
A good opportunity to wipe here immediately times properly dust, if everything is already dismantled. By the way, a good tip to make one or the other photo of such steps, during assembly I was actually briefly puzzled and only the previous photo had provided the solution to the mystery.
The master had explained to me that plastics often react a bit bitchy to paint and need an appropriate pre-treatment. In order to guarantee that everything was free of grease and that the surface was also somewhat attacked, the components to be painted were rubbed down with nitro thinner.
Then the components were painted with a plastic primer, which should allow a permanent bond between the surface and the paint. Father-in-law then somehow got lost in terms such as plasticizers, vapors and the like, which probably every expert has somehow heard before or could also explain. For me, it was all technical jargon and I was much more curious about the result. Whether the product shown is good or bad, I can’t judge, but it obviously served its purpose.
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