If your build has a bunch of different colors that look awful together—a blue motherboard, red RAM, and a yellow graphics card—bathing the entire thing in blue light for example can make it look a little less clown-like. Alternatively, white lights show off the build as it is. Thankfully, the above-right build has a clear color scheme and clean cable management, so white lights work well. More on those two topics later. You can get this light from a few different places.
LED fans obviously provide a little light, but not a ton—the light is more localized to the fan itself. These strips attach to the inside of your case via magnets or 3M tape, and shine light all throughout your system. I recommend attaching your strips to the top or bottom of the case, behind the ridges where the side panel attaches , as shown here:. You can also attach them to your side panel facing in, as show in this video.
Monochromatic builds can look fantastic. Case in point, this build from Reddit user Anotic :. Take the below build from Reddit user Scott Quentin Stedman. He carefully thought out his color scheme, only buying black and red parts, like these Corsair fans with colored rings , so everything matched.
And he did it all without colored LEDs. Not every part is available in every color, so if you prioritize functionality over aesthetics when you buy—which, frankly, is probably a good thing—you might end up with parts of all different colors. You can just give them a little paint job. Before you start, pick a color scheme for your build. So, you could go with a black base with red accents, like the build above, or a white base with blue accents.
The more colors you add, the harder it is to make things look sharp and clean, so stick to as few as possible. In my case, I had a build that was mostly black and grey, and I wanted to add a little more blue to it. This is bending the rules just a little, but since black and grey are both neutral tones, it ended up okay. The process was remarkably easy, though your mileage may vary depending on the parts you have.
First, detach the parts you want to paint. Motherboard heatsinks are usually attached with a few screws, as shown below. Video card shrouds may take a bit more unscrewing, so just be careful and remember where everything goes. The latter is a bit safer, but more work. If you go that route, be sure to replace the thermal pads with pads of equal thickness. I opted to mask off the PCB and it worked just fine. One or all of your motherboard heatsinks may also have thermal pads or thermal paste in between them and the board.
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How to download and install windows 7 gadgets? Click the scroll buttons to see all the gadgets. Then enable either Display as a link or Display as a menu. The former will open your Downloads folder in a new window; the latter will display the contents as a fly-out menu.
Like Vista, Windows 7 makes it easy to turn off unwanted features that might slow down the OS. To make changes, click Start , type Features , and then click Turn Windows features on or off. Wait a few seconds for the menu to appear; when it does, clear the checkbox for any feature you want to disable. One of the great things about Windows Vista is the way that search capabilities permeate the OS.
In Windows 7, click the type of search you want—Amazon, eBay, Flickr, or whatever—and then okay the addition in a few confirmation dialog boxes. Start typing in the search field and watch as results appear dynamically that is, as you type.
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