Colour Decision help

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smogsy

smogsy

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Most likely my last Thoughts before before i commit 100%

question is, White case or black?
your thoughts:D

so Would you do
White case
Black motherboard with white accents
white Cables

OR
Black case
Black motherboard with white accents
white Cables

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI GeForce TITAN Black Edition 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £655.99
1 x Intel 5930K 3.50GHz (Haswell-E) Socket LGA2011-V3 Processor - OEM (CM8064801548338) £429.95
1 x Asus X99-Deluxe Intel X99 (Socket 2011) DDR4 ATX Motherboard £295.99
1 x Crucial Ballistix Elite 16GB (4x4GB) DDR4 PC4-21300C15 2666MHz Quad Channel Kit £239.99
1 x Phanteks Enthoo Primo Full Tower Case - White Edition £199.99
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 1300W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £137.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £99.95
1 x Noctua NH-U14S Ultra-Quiet Slim CPU Cooler with NF-A15 Fan £62.99
1 x Samsung 120GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE120BW) £59.99
1 x Silverstone Cable Extension Value Bundle - White £10.80
- 1 x Silverstone 6-pin 25cm PCIe extension - White £4.26
- 1 x No Second VGA Cable Required £0.00
- 1 x No Molex to SATA Adapter Required £0.00
Total : £2,218.10 (includes shipping : £16.85).

 
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I was asking myself this same question for a hypothetical build.

Personally I was thinking white case but with a black interior, therefore a black PSU with white cables. Since this theoretical build would have white motherboard backlighting I wanted the black interior.

However, white interior would work fine with the black board, just make sure you get a white PSU. I'd still probably go white cables though.

Dunno if you'd need a 1300W PSU even with a hefty overclock and a 2nd Titan, but I'd be more inclined to go with the 1000W Platinum SuperFlower Leadex, plus you have teh choice of white and black versions.

Also I personally wouldn't use that Noctua cooler. I've always hated the Noctua brown and I just don't see the point in strapping lumps of metal to a CPU to cool it any more. Corsair Hydro H105 all the way. Looks a lot nicer, nice white LED logo, cools like a champ.
 
Fair enough on the PSU front, although I'd probably change those SSDs to a single 500GB EVO - only £20 more than the other 2 combined.

Your OS will only take a third of your 120GB (if that), yet if you have a lot of games you'll fill 250GB quite quickly. Plus, if you install and uninstall games on a semi-frequent basis, you're using up the write cycles of the SSD's Flash (although in the real world, the writeable life of NAND Flash isn't really an issue).

I have a 500GB Samsung 840 and only have half of my Steam library installed. Combined with my W7 Ultimate install and my full Office and Adobe suites I "only" have 115GB left. Yeah I need to uninstall some stuff but it shocked me just how quickly I filled things up.

Plus the EVO series works at its optimum levels at the 500GB mark (all the channels are filled and in use).


Oh, and unless you're planning some green accents in your build, I'd suggest modding your Titan's GeForece logo to white:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1431233/geforce-gtx-logo-colour-change-on-titan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyDxXhkh7EY


Enjoy the build, and post lots of pictures!
 
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