A newb noob's ITX build

wow, now that's how you wreck the look for a gfx, I feel for you, have you thought about yellow vinyl wrap or black vinyl to cover it over and make a pattern will the indented parts of the graphic card ?

btw how did you get your 380t case so early :( still waiting on mine
 
What did you use to paint it with? it looks all bubbly and thick.

Personally I would buy some paint stripper (Nitromors) and leave it in a small tub soaking for a while before completely starting it again.
 
The part where it looks bubbly and thick is where I had to buff out all the tiny fingerprints. But ya, some places were my fault- the glossy finish paint I used pooled up in the lowered areas relative to the raised lettering and stripes.

I can take care of it for sure, but this is how she wants it for now anyway.
 
It looks to me like that was a reaction you got there.

I usually use acid etch primer on aluminium it saves the bubbling.

Gotta say though, it's definitely cute in a kid's picture on the fridge kinda way :)
 
I had used a caustic bath on the shroud and then applied a primer coat immediately, fairly certain it was just the paint accumulating but I could be wrong- the paint used didn't need any primer coat.

The way I see it is- this is definitely a personal build for a total newcomer to PCs and the shroud now makes it all the more so. If I can use this to get her introduced to watercooling as well it would be great (Especially with the much larger, fully watercooled builds going on in the other thread).
 
Interesting to find another build using my board.

Why is the z97n not the best itx board in your eyes (before you had your problems) and what problems did you have with it?

I chose mine deliberately as the best for my needs when taking price into consideration and I've read that the boards had some problems with the wifi disconnecting but not much else.
 
McGraw said:
Interesting to find another build using my board.

Why is the z97n not the best itx board in your eyes (before you had your problems) and what problems did you have with it?

I chose mine deliberately as the best for my needs when taking price into consideration and I've read that the boards had some problems with the wifi disconnecting but not much else.
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The bios mostly, it gave me a 50/50 shot of any overclocking actually working and not resulting in the Windows OS load failing. Then if it happened, I had another 50/50 shot of peripherals working in the bios to get me back to default state. This happened even with a PS/2 KB as well.
 
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