I finished up the video card bottom plates tonight. Get ready for some more UV glowy goodness! :D
One of my 260 cards already has an aluminum bottom plate, but it has this factory decal on it.
...which was easily removed.
My other two cards do not have a bottom plate. But that's no problem, I just made two more from acrylic using the
existing one as a template.
The stock plate has raised mounting posts where it's screwed to the card, to clear certain parts on the pcb.
so I had to replicate that on the acrylic copies. I basically cut a bunch of squares from 1/8" acrylic and glued
them on the back of the plates after drilling the large diameter holes. Then I went back and drilled the smaller
holes through the squares.
Since I pretty much stripped these cards of all their identity, I wanted to put some of that back on, so I had Moddersmart
cut me a few EVGA logos out of 1/8" blue transparent acrylic. I could have just made all three plates out of the blue
acrylic and masked off the EVGA lettering, but I thought the raised logos would stand out a bit more, giving them a
more 3-dimensional look.
I laid the letters out on the plates, lining them up with pieces of tape as guides. After marking each piece's position,
I removed the paper backing on one side and glued them down.
Here are all the plates with the logos glued on and ready for paint. Notice I left the paper backing on the lettering.
Makes a perfect mask!
Primed, painted, pearled. lol
Time to take the masking off!
Me like, iz goood!
All the plates de-masked:
They looked so good, I got out the UV cathodes for some glowy pimpage...
Lights on:
Lights off:
Of course with the flash off, the camera lets in way more light than normal, causing an exaggerated effect, but it's still cool!
I was going to get a shot of the plates on the cards, but I ran out of time. I'll see if I can do that after work. 'Til then!