Hello everyone. For my next build I plan on using the ASUS ROG Strix Z490-I Gaming motherboard. It's an ITX board, with a couple of nice big heatsinks. I'm planning on either re-anodizing, or powder-coating, the heatsinks to a silver color as it will match the exterior of my case better.
One of the heatsinks has this (I'm assuming plastic, as I haven't received the board yet) piece over top of a heatsink, with another reflective "one-way" piece of plastic under it as well (similar to NVidia 20x0 line of GPU's with the lettering) and this is what one of the D-RGB lighting pieces on the board uses. Obviously, to re-anodize or powder-coat this portion of the heatsink structure on the board, I need to remove it and it's LED control board from the metal. Thing is, I'm not entirely sure what the best approach to this is. I'd like to maybe make my own custom plate to put over the reflective portion as well, but that's a whole 'nother topic. I'm mostly looking for ideas on how to safely separate this part from the heatsink. I'm going to assume a heat-gun and maybe some floss/fishing line so I don't bend anything to where it's basically no good. Any ideas?
I'd like to make the motherboard a bit more minimal in regards to the branding, as there really won't but much visible branding inside the build once it's all assembled. Here's the board for reference, you can see the portion I'm speaking of just below the CPU socket.
One of the heatsinks has this (I'm assuming plastic, as I haven't received the board yet) piece over top of a heatsink, with another reflective "one-way" piece of plastic under it as well (similar to NVidia 20x0 line of GPU's with the lettering) and this is what one of the D-RGB lighting pieces on the board uses. Obviously, to re-anodize or powder-coat this portion of the heatsink structure on the board, I need to remove it and it's LED control board from the metal. Thing is, I'm not entirely sure what the best approach to this is. I'd like to maybe make my own custom plate to put over the reflective portion as well, but that's a whole 'nother topic. I'm mostly looking for ideas on how to safely separate this part from the heatsink. I'm going to assume a heat-gun and maybe some floss/fishing line so I don't bend anything to where it's basically no good. Any ideas?
I'd like to make the motherboard a bit more minimal in regards to the branding, as there really won't but much visible branding inside the build once it's all assembled. Here's the board for reference, you can see the portion I'm speaking of just below the CPU socket.