Overclocked Orange

Artwork

Part of what makes Overclocked Orange a little different from most water-cooled PCs is the artwork. Thanks go to Solphorinc from the Chilled PC forums who kindly helped me out with this. I learned that orange doesn’t print to clear vinyl particularly well.

Luckily a company called Fast Signs in Kingston came up with the idea of reverse profile cutting my window logo on coloured vinyl, as opposed to printing on clear vinyl. I also had a large copy of the droog’s face printed in black vinyl for the case’s other side panel.

The orange vinyl was then placed on the acrylic window followed by black vinyl then frosted vinyl. This way, the graphic was a perfect match to the bright orange paintwork.


I also had some smaller transparent text stickers made for the front of the case and for an external hard disk drive caddy. The caddy was also powder coated orange to match the PC case. In addition, I spray-painted the motherboard heat sink shrouds and the PCI brackets orange too.


To tidy up the inside I braided all the power cables and spent a fair bit of time cable tidying throughout to minimise clutter and to improve airflow. It’s something I really wanted to get right and I'm glad I took my time.