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I will have the last of my water cooling parts here on Tuesday so i decided to start working on setting up my loop and coordinating the colors of everything together. I have decided I want to go with a blue black and white color theme, but other than what i have done so far, im not sure how much farther I should go.

Thus far I have painted the front and top mesh and all the slot covers white. In doing the slot covers I decided to also paint the high flow brackets for the video cards to match because the bare metal just didn't look right in there. Also white are the monsoon free center compressions fittings i will be using.

As for the blue, all of my tubing is blue primochill and im debating on adding a small amount of blue dye to make the reservoir blue as well. I also have 2 OCN badges that i have painted blue, an awesome part made by Dwood thumb.gif One will be on the front of the case, the other on the inside on the side of the hot swap bays. The ram heat sinks are blue as well.

Some of my cables are black sleeved and some are blue. Basically everything else is black.

My questions is, would you guys make any more stuff blue or white inside the case? i was thinking maybe the radiator and the hard drive bay mesh parts but im torn between it looking really good or maybe being a little much.

Also, does anyone have any info on how bad painting heat sinks hurts their performance. The last thing that really stands out when looking in the case is the olive drab green of the heat sinks on the sabertooth. I would love to change them to blue but i cant imagine covering them with paint would be very good.

Thanks all, i cant wait to hear what you come up with.

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post #2 of 5
I would just go for white or clear tubing.
White will give a good contrast with the black, plus match the front panel.
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well i already have the blue, but i might try the white next time. just depends on how this goes. this is my first attempt at water cooling. biggrin.gif
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I think the HDD trays would look good white, if you can see them through a window
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well i dont have a window as of yet. seeing what others have had to go through to put a window in the side of the cosmos 2, im going to wait until CM comes out with the windowed side panel and just buy one from them.
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