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Doing a Black & Blue themed build suggestions for gpu and mobo?

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Hello LTT community I'm planning to do a themed build for the first time, blue and black to be particular. But I can't seem to find any blue or blue & black colored Gtx 970/60, just oceans and oceans of red & black ones.... might I be missing a particular model? All I found is Palit's Jetstream Gtx 950 although perfect for my theme, makes my upgrade from my Gtx 750 ti a bit redundant... Should I go the DIY route and just get a black one and spray paint the exterior blue? will it affect my warranty? For the Motherboard I'm looking LGA 1150 one around the 150$ price range with the same color theme, SLI would be nice but the cheaper the better. Any suggestions for the parts? My planned case btw is the Nzxt S340 "the case that doesn't suck" in case you're asking

 

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Don't get a 960 or 970.

Get a R9 285/380, R9 290 or R9 390 instead!

Lots of them are blue, especially sapphire ones!

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Don't get a 960 or 970.

Get a R9 285/380, R9 290 or R9 390 instead!

Lots of them are blue, especially sapphire ones!

there is literally 1 blue one (well there's gigabyte, but we don't speak of their AMD cards), and i don't think sapphire's made it for the 380 or 390

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The Evga cards are black

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there is literally 1 blue one (well there's gigabyte, but we don't speak of their AMD cards), and i don't think sapphire's made it for the 380 or 390

There is the Sapphire R9 380 Dual-X.

Also the R9 285 is exactly the same as a R9 380 and it has lots!

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Hello LTT community I'm planning to do a themed build for the first time, blue and black to be particular. But I can't seem to find any blue or blue & black colored Gtx 970/60, just oceans and oceans of red & black ones.... might I be missing a particular model? All I found is Palit's Jetstream Gtx 950 although perfect for my theme, makes my upgrade from my Gtx 750 ti a bit redundant... Should I go the DIY route and just get a black one and spray paint the exterior blue? will it affect my warranty? For the Motherboard I'm looking LGA 1150 one around the 150$ price range with the same color theme, SLI would be nice but the cheaper the better. Any suggestions for the parts? My planned case btw is the Nzxt S340 "the case that doesn't suck" in case you're asking

 

Thanks in advance.

 

EVGA has GTX 970 with blue accents.

 

Asrock and MSI have motherboards with blue and black color schemes. I believe Gigabyte also has a model or two. The least being ASRock Z97 Extreme3 .

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Don't get a 960 or 970.

Get a R9 285/380, R9 290 or R9 390 instead!

Lots of them are blue, especially sapphire ones!

R9 290/390 is a bit out of my budget and really hard to find in stores. But I'll try to find 280 and 270 ones

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R9 290/390 is a bit out of my budget and really hard to find in stores. But I'll try to find 280 and 270 ones

I have the Sapphire R9 280 Dual-X, very good cooler and a nice blue PCB.

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