 Oh wow, I can't believe I didn't cover that properly. Alright, so I never really intended to do this video, but I tweeted out about this a while ago and I kind of went, well I'm moving to X99 on my personal rig. I really like the Rampage 5 Extreme, I like that it has a PS2 port, it's just the best board I've ever used in terms of general stability and awesomeness, it's got a lot of great features, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, all that stuff, but it's red. I kind of went, okay, so I could use the WS board, which does not have Wi-Fi, it doesn't have a PS2 port, which for me is pretty handy, it doesn't even have USB 2 ports, which for me are still kind of a necessity due to driverlessness and all that kind of stuff, so I kind of went, okay guys, poll time, should I use the WS or should I paint the Rampage 5 Extreme blue? And it was basically unanimous, Linus, paint the motherboard blue, and I kind of went, well okay then. So I started things off by taking off the heatsinks from the back of the motherboard using my screwdriver, basically you've got to take off the self-bridge heatsink, the VRM heatsink on the back of the board, the little illuminated ROG heatsink, as well as the VRM heatsink that sits and covers the I.O. as well, with a little plate here, and so now that that's all done, this is pretty much it, we have stripped down the board and the plan, we're basically in uncharted waters here, I know that Paul Tan has done this before, I believe that Rich Soros has done something like this before, although you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, but painting motherboards is not something that's typically done, so there's a few different ways, I've seen people actually do it with nail polish, but there's a lot to do on here and we're not going to take that approach, so we have three different sizes of painter's green tape, we're going to mask off this board as best we can, we're actually going to paint over some of the sockets that we are actually planning to use, such as the PCI Express slots here, we're going to try not to get a ton of paint in them, but then we're going to try to remove the paint from the contacts in order to make them functional again, we may end up with a dead board, we may not, I have no idea how this is going to go down, so here we go. The memory slots, I kind of feel like the longer I put these off, the tougher it's going to be on me if I don't just kind of figure out a way to tackle it. So these ones have moving parts, and I'm thinking what I'll do is I'll leave them kind of loose, so I can try and fill in as much as I can, no, I think I'll leave them closed, because I can get good coverage on them closed, so that way I won't interfere with any of the moving bits. Let me test it again so they have more of a extra smile. If it wasn't for these caps, I wouldn't have any trouble with this. I mean, the same can be said for any of this. If it wasn't for this being covered in things that I don't want to paint... Alright, so the taping is now complete. It's not as perfect as I would have liked. Actually, I see one gap right now that I'll definitely have to close up somehow. But what I'm hoping is that we will get a good enough result that it kind of achieves what we were kind of trying to achieve. Okay, yes, I'm being very vague about the goals. Functional board and it looks like a blue board. That is what we are going for here. And if we can do that, then I will be pretty pleased. So here we go. I think I've got the coverage as good as it's going to get at this point. It's really not as good as I'd like. There's a lot of board components that are just so close to the slots that I can't really spray in there properly. So all that's really left to do at this point then is start peeling it away and kind of hope for the best here. I don't think I got a ton of overspray on places where I didn't want it, but I do know that there was some. So oh yeah, I can already... Oh wow. I can't believe I didn't cover that properly. All right, well, there's a bunch on this PCI Express slot right here at the back. Oh, that is a real shame. So we actually...wow, we did, we got a nice clean line on those SATA ports. That looks really good. That's probably one of the best finished parts of it. Now I've been told that in the biz, in the modding business, there's a term for something like this. I think they call it a 10 foot mod or something like that, where it looks pretty good as long as you stay about 10 feet away. I think that might be what we're looking at here. I think this is a 10 foot mod because it actually looks not bad as long as you don't get too close and look at it under a magnifying glass. All right, moment of truth. For the memory slots. Let's find out how we did. Not too shabby. It's actually not bad. We got to do something about that overspray, but we'll figure that out. So that's it for today. This ended up taking a lot longer than I was expecting and I don't have time to wrap things up and still get this video out today. 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