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I think I overlooked those cases you linked because you can't see fans from the front. which the makes it so you may aswell just have a single RGB fan if you bother with it at all and an LED strip. Which might be the way to go honestly. The solid front makes sense if you intend to had a top mounted radiator for a full water loop. Do they actually offer decent cooling for a fully air cooled system? As for the RGB fans, I think it's just stupid that they opt for black fan blades. They want the light to spread among the area, so clear fans makes a TONNE more sense. Corsair did it and they're pretty much the go-to. Otherwise I'd probably have gone for the Thermaltakes by now =/ they are a lot cheaper and they appear to have decent colour options (and If I recall they have a feature where you browse through the spectrum and select). this is planned for hopefully 2 months time(gfs bday) so there's plenty of time to figure something out.

I assume you mean g4560? I can't find the g4556 anywhere. It depends on the titles you're running, but the combo should be fine without incurring much if any bottlenecking. Bottlenecking is only a concern because it means you're wasting the value of the restricted component. If you're looking at new GPUs you can't get much cheaper than a 1050ti (as the RX400 and 500 series are kinda selling out everywhere and gtx900 series appears to be mostly off the shelves where I live). So wasted value isn't much of a thing right now for you. the g4560 I expect would cost less overall unless you get the 2500k and all its surroundings 2nd hand. Which you might be able to find some guy selling mobo+ram + CPU + Fan as a package or something. Honestly if you're not in the biggest rush you could save up a little more money and go for a Ryzen 3 processor. It should be cheaper than an i3 and I doubt it'd bottleneck a 1050ti.

It depends mostly on your GPU. You can game on anything, it depends on your standards of what you want that gaming experience to be like, on like 2 or 3 scrapyard wars linus got Q6600's. Just make sure you're not cutting corners too much in one area (for example, CPU) or you may bottleneck your other components and be your own downfall. So a 2500k can game but it'd likely bottleneck a current generation GPU. I have used a 750TI semi recently and it pulled out decent FPS. But much lower than that I'd probably have some doubts with how enjoyable your gaming experience would be.

Yeah the Ryzen 5 build would win out for sure simply because it's more balanced. But consider this. The G4560 won't bottleneck a 1060 as hard as a 1070. Which then would allow an extra almost $200 in the budget. then you can simply do something like this: (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/YZ8Jd6) +8GB, an SSD for faster load times, and you can get a nicer 1060 like a Gigabyte G1 Gaming The ryzen would still destroy at cpu benchmarks but this would give a potentially better gaming experience by having faster loading times.

So my gf's computer is due for a new case as the current one is breaking. We discussed it over and what she wants is a windowed white tower (So far within budget we've found a couple options, NZXT phantom 240, inwin 503, Deepcool tesseract, but if you have suggestions to add to that, that'd be cool. We're looking in the under $100AU range). But here's the real problem: she wants RGB lighting, but with the intention of having it set to pink for a lot of the time, but if she tires of it she can always swap the colours around. Before I go into more detail, I'd like to state : I have never done anything RGB before, My immediate thought was the Corsair RGB fans, HD120 or SP120. But when I researched, pink didn't appear to be in their colour list. So I googled around for more RGB fans, and all I could find was like RGB "rings" on fans, as opposed to the blades being lit. In addition to that I'd want to know the deal with RGB controllers with Fans and LED's. So if we went with a corsair HD120 kit, it gives us a controller and a hub and some extensions which seem like you can just hook that onto a LED strip. is that only compatable with a corsair LED strip or could I put that onto a Deepcool one? (as I can get corsair for $35 and Deepcool for $19). Her current MoBo I don't think has RGB headers (Gigabyte H170 HD3). The ideal situation would be we can get the whole setup for under $200AU, I think the only compromise I can come up with is getting the NZXT phantom which I believe comes with white fans, chuck in a pair of deepcool LED strips (which do appear to have a pink option). but I'd really not have to settle and actually find some RGB fans that would do the trick. Preferably the whole rig being able to use the same controller or UI. TL;DR: Do you guys know of any RGB fans that can do pink? Any RGB fans aside from Corsair? Or can you get corsair fans to go pink? Thanks! Sorry for going overboard with the explanation, it's my first time looking into RGB and I just don't want to make any purchasing mistakes.

Okay thank you for elaborating. nice analogy.

Thanks for all the replies in such a short time, so it is the bad components parts. Are they literally old chips? like unsold ones that got re-purposed or something?

Apologies first off if this topic was already asked, I couldn't find a topic but my searching skills are lackluster, hence why I may not have managed to find the answer elsewhere to my question. Okay so this is pretty simple and I'm hoping somebody could shed some light for me. My understanding thus far is APU's are a CPU and GPU put together, they slide onto the motherboard share the same cooler, etc. I understand that much. But why is it I can devote a chunk of space on my cpu to being a gpu and suddenly the chip is SO much cheaper? I'm in Aus so these are the prices we have around here, these prices are from one of the most popular and competitive retailers. CPU's FX4300($145) to FX8370($290). APU's A6 7400($80) to A10 7860k ($155) So the most pricey APU is about as expensive as the bottom of the barrel CPU. So why are APU's so much cheaper than CPU's ? Is it that the GPU component is amazingly cheap? Is the cpu used just really low quality ? Something I don't understand? I'm trying to wrap my head around why an APU is so much cheaper than a CPU. Thanks! For the record this is primarily academic, I am not looking to buy right now, my computer was recently upgraded but with zen coming out and the fact I'm studying comp-sci at uni I feel I should go out of my way to understand things.