Have you ever found yourself walking through a bee auto show thinking:
"gee, if only I could plasti dip every part of my computer like these modern-day Picassos have done to their cars,
but will all my stuff even work anymore, and what about cooling?"
Well, if that's ever happened to you, we've got the answers.
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So, to bring our idea for the funkiest PC ever to fruition,
we decided early on that halfway wasn't going to be far enough.
We resolved to plasti dip our entire machine,
outside and in,
even critical system components, like the motherboard, video card and CPU heatsink.
Understandably, we were a little concerned that while plasti dip SEEMS to be a rubberized type of coating,
it is therefore hopefully completely non conductive. It's not a feature that they explicitly advertise,
so the chances that this kind of a treatment could kill the PC,
whether by gumming up the electrical contacts or causing a short, seemed pretty high.
Thankfully though, our friends over at the local electronics refurbishing and recycling
mega store "free geek" came to the rescue, hooking us up with a fairly respectable,
if several generations old machine, that if it survives will actually be able to rock
some pretty modern games, along with its new style.
So, the first thing we did, was to validate that free gigs donor hardware was in proper working order and
that the coolers were keeping our system cool enough to avoid any thermal throttling.
Then we rolled out to Canadian Tire and dropped 250 of ... wait... what?
$250????
Did you guys even try to contact plasti dip to see if they'd sponsor it?
*voice in the sky * We did.
And?
*voice in the sky * Why do you think we bought it?
Oh...
All right, then two hundred and fifty dollars.
So, to make sure then that the motherboard wasn't harmed any more than it was already going to be,
we borrowed some dust covers from an ASUS Sabertooth board to fill our PCI Express, sata,
RAM and I/O ports wherever possible and filled in the gaps with some tape.
Much taping later. We were ready to go to town with the hot pink which... oh, right...
We were ready to go to town, laying down the initial white coat that's required for optimal coverage,
no big deal, I mean, engineering is pretty much trial and error. That's what that means, right?
Moving on for the power supply. We couldn't just blast paint into it and hope for the best.
We wouldn't get very good coverage that way.
So, we needed to tape it off on the inside.
We took it apart making sure that we didn't get shocked by the very questionable PSU
that we picked out of the door stop bin at free geek and then...
To make our task easier, not less stupid, we hung what we could off of Sawhorses and got to painting.
Enjoy this psychedelic montage.
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So then, at this point, the internals were all done up, with a
"unicorn ate a rainbow, it didn't feel well and our [vomiting sound] PC's got in the line of fire" aesthetic
and the case's clean black canvas look was completed.
But one thing was still missing.
The side panel really needed a sweet design to put a cherry on top of this build.
We were originally thinking some sweet-ass flames and Ed made us a stencil to cut out,
but it was way too complicated and Ed has shockingly poor taste in flames.
So we decided instead that a cactus would be not only cooler,
but also and perhaps most importantly it would be much easier.
And wow! Goodness gracious!
That is possibly the funkiest most cosmic cactus that I have ever seen.
Time to slap everything together then and then ourselves... [he slaps himself]
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It ended up looking even more funktastic than we could have possibly hoped.
But does the machine still work?
I mean that is the point of this.
Can you do this at home? And it does... from a certain point of view.
We've got Windows installed and fired up AIDA64 to see how it was faring and oh....
Wow...
Just installing programs at around 20 percent load on our CPU,
landed us at 90 plus degrees Celsius on the processor and under full load,
we thermal throttled at a tropical 100 degrees Celsius
But I mean this is kind of what we were expecting.
We could have easily not painted the heatsink and it would probably have been fine
But that wasn't really the point of the build,
the point was to find out if plasti-dipping your computer hardware will kill it and the answer is: MAYBE.
Because our success doesn't guarantee yours
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