Gold heatsinks

You could alway take them off and electroplate them yourself. Plenty of how-to info out there... Or better yet, just take a dremel with a fine wire brush and remove the adonized gold color off of them yourself... perhaps even use a torch on them to burn the color off if needed... Do it the [H] way!
 
Supercharged_Z06 said:
You could alway take them off and electroplate them yourself. Plenty of how-to info out there... Or better yet, just take a dremel with a fine wire brush and remove the adonized gold color off of them yourself... perhaps even use a torch on them to burn the color off if needed... Do it the [H] way!
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:) That's definitely the [H] way.
 
You probably will not find any. MOSFETs tend to be custom in layout from mobo to mobo, so that means someone would have to make a set just for that mobo, which is not common anymore as most higher end boards already have HS on them, like yours that already do a good job. The chipset could be easy, a number of universal options on there that would probably work. You might even find some MOSFET coolers from other boards that will work, but you will need to measure contact areas and mounting hole distances and do LOTS of digging. Outside of that you have custom waterblocks with some heat transfer plates etc.

As said above, best option is probably find someone that does cheap nickel plating or the like and have them done. Cheap way would be a coat of paint, you only really need to cover the top and edges, you don't need to coat inside unless this is for some open case show rig, you will never be able to tell.
 
spray paint.

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chevy orange.
 
You'll still have gold capacitors though...

Any heatsink will work if you remove them from an old mobo. The question is... how would you attach them?
 
Think will find it tough removing all the gold anodizing inside the fins with a Dremel. Paint would seem to be the easiest option.
That said, I rather like the Gold color.

Master_shake_ said:
spray paint.

chevy orange.
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No, man. Pontiac metallic Blue! :p

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