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Highend gaming machine (black/green themed)
I've build a gaming pc for someone a few years ago and he's in need of an upgrade. He had a tight budget at that time so the PSU isn't up for any heavy upgrades, the case isn't capable of cooling the stuff he has in mind to get it upgraded with. Basically I'd need to replace everything in it apart from the storage.
So he gave me a budget of 2000-2500 euro's to build a completely new rig.
The theme is black with green accents (his wish, not mine). After some messaging back and forth, we've come up with this so far
Case, looks and power supply
NZXT H440 New Edition (black/green)
3x Corsair AF140 (painting the white rings green, other idea's welcome)
NZXT Kraken X61 watercooler with RGB colour on the pumphousing/cpu block
Coolermaster V750 for power (to much, but I want it anyway in case of future upgrades)
1 set of black/green Cablemod cables compatible with Coolermaster's V-series
As for the main hardware
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB solidstate drive
Still to decide on harddrive for bulk storage
Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4 with RGB LED's
Core i7 7700K
MSI Z270 SLI motherboard
This totals out at 1295 euro's
I'm still looking for a graphics card that fits the theme. I'm not keen on taking it apart and painting the cooler or whatever. A green themed card is hard to find, same problem with motherboard (there's a Gigabyte G1 Sniper something board, but its an older generation). So decided on going all black for both, no LED's on them to make the green on other parts stand out. I prefer Nvidia, I don't really care for a motherboard but I'm an MSI fan.
Any ideas are welcome