Arctic Sapphire R9 290

I've been wanting to do this mod for some time now!  After seeing how much better these cards can look with a reasonable color I really thought it would help tie the rig together.  While the card was apart I also changed the VRM pads and thermal paste (mx-4).  I got really good thermal pads so my VRM temps have dropped by around 8-10c, the core around 3-5c.  Really happy with the performance results as well as the looks, I thought white would look good with the fractal case, plus the 3 colors I was considering were black, red, and white.  I found logs for the other 2 so I thought white would be good and I'm glad I did!  Here's the process behind my Arctic r9 290

starting with a picture of the card before hand 

the cooler/shroud separated 

the actual graphics card!

I took the stickers off the fans, since they had yellow accents.  Now they're all black

The painted shroud, without the metal accents back on

shroud put back together!

Cooler/shroud all pieced back together

Everything put back together!

Back in the case

Nice like the mod

That looks really good.

sweet mod!

Dude, I salute you, this is one awesome mod.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't go red to match the motherboard to be honest lol but either way good job i may try this with my Tri-X 290.

really dope. good job.

Thanks for all the compliments guys!  Kat, I thought about red but I decided against it.  The white had a bit more of a sleekness and stealth to it and right now that's the direction I'm trying to move my rig in, more of a sleek,  silent, understated overkill.  Someone has done red before too, and the result is really good, but not quite what I was looking for.

Nice subtle mod, good work!

I feel like you need some black and white stickers on the fans though to tie it all in