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- Jul 7, 2013
So, normally I wouldn't have much trouble with this, but the color scheme he chose is giving me a bit of a hard time. He wants to go with black (or a darker gray, perhaps gunmetal, would also be acceptable he said), orange, and red. He wants this to be a Ryzen system if at all possible, based around a 1600 upgraded to a 3600 when it comes out, and that's where I'm having a bit of trouble. He would like the motherboard to be primarily orange, as it's the largest component in the build and therefore has the most real estate for coloring, and I haven't really been able to find an orange Ryzen board. I mostly dug around PCPartPicker and Google for a few hours today, and have come up short. He also wants the GPU to be at least 1070 equivalent, and is willing to buy a used 10-series if that's what it takes.
He's willing to spray paint, but would like to do as little of that as possible due to being fairly unfamiliar with it, so he wants to get as close to his ideal color scheme as possible before busting out the face mask and painter's tape. The color arrangement he gave me is a red case with orange accents (he's accepted that this will pretty much have to be custom painted after we pick an adequate case, if you guys can recommend something roomy with a window and plenty of fan mounts and ventilation I'd appreciate it), an orange motherboard with black accents, an orange and red or red and orange GPU, and either orange and black or red and black RAM. Picky, I know. I told him I would do my best to get something drawn up for him but I'm honestly coming up short on the motherboard and RAM.
So if you guys have suggestions for the parts, I'd appreciate it. It's looking to me like he might have to custom paint everything or go Intel, but I figured I'd ask here as a last ditch effort before giving him a concrete answer.
He's willing to spray paint, but would like to do as little of that as possible due to being fairly unfamiliar with it, so he wants to get as close to his ideal color scheme as possible before busting out the face mask and painter's tape. The color arrangement he gave me is a red case with orange accents (he's accepted that this will pretty much have to be custom painted after we pick an adequate case, if you guys can recommend something roomy with a window and plenty of fan mounts and ventilation I'd appreciate it), an orange motherboard with black accents, an orange and red or red and orange GPU, and either orange and black or red and black RAM. Picky, I know. I told him I would do my best to get something drawn up for him but I'm honestly coming up short on the motherboard and RAM.
So if you guys have suggestions for the parts, I'd appreciate it. It's looking to me like he might have to custom paint everything or go Intel, but I figured I'd ask here as a last ditch effort before giving him a concrete answer.
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Spray paint what? That sounds like a horrible idea. If he is going to spray paint anything, have him build a little wooden platform for the computer to sit on and spray paint that. There are all sorts of chemicals inside paint to make it durable and to make it stick. Who knows how they would react chemically with the electronics devices? Plus the paint would coat things that need direct access to air for cooling. 
