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Have you ever thought something looked meh and when it arrived it looked amazing or have something look amazing in pictures and shit in real life?

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Have you ever thought something looked meh and when it arrived it looked amazing or have something look amazing in pictures and shit in real life?

My hyperx clouds looked meh in the picture but looked sexy as hell in person...same goes with my NZXT Phantom 410

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I think most anything looks worse in person. not saying bad just not as good. Photos especially advertising photos are always flattering and well planned out. 

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Yes. Noctua Fans the most.

 

(Ugly in picture GREAT in person)

are you sure? I've never seen one in person but they look ugly to me, I wouldn't change them though it's like a signature look.

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My Asus Z97ITX Motherboard. Looks kinda bad in person

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Yes. Noctua Fans the most.

 

(Ugly in picture GREAT in person)

i disagree Noctua look ugly in person also. But they are nice fans.

 

And some things look better in person Like cases and Motherboards but fans and Grapics cards not so much but they do smell better =) 

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are you sure? I've never seen one in person but they look ugly to me, I wouldn't change them though it's like a signature look.

 

I would say that they look really nice in person too, but always look ugly in photos.

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I always feel like cases and graphics cards are bigger than I thought, and CPUs and SSDs are always smaller than I thought...

 

I'm the exact same with cases and graphics cards, when my Noctis 450 arrived I was shocked at how large it is, although used to it now, and that's only a mid tower aha, I thought SSDs were about the right size though because I knew one had to fit into my slim laptop aha 

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I was really suprised how big the h100i was when I saw it in person for the first time but I'm used to it now

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Yes. Graphics cards just look meh to me on a screen, but in person they are beautiful.

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I always feel like cases and graphics cards are bigger than I thought, and CPUs and SSDs are always smaller than I thought...

this much this except I thought my gigabyte windforce fans were going to be huge no idea until I opened it for the first time

 

Have you ever thought something looked meh and when it arrived it looked amazing or have something look amazing in pictures and shit in real life?

well if its your first build then yes,  when my case arrived two days before it was supposed to I was like :o :wub: :D

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Yes. Noctua Fans the most.

 

(Ugly in picture GREAT in person)

 

Aye.

 

I speak as someone with an NH-D14. Crazy thing on pictures but...MAN is it not only a good heatsink, but looks kinda cool too.

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are you sure? I've never seen one in person but they look ugly to me, I wouldn't change them though it's like a signature look.

All I wish is my NH-U12P cpu cooler was black or like dark grey instead of uncolored really shiny metal.

 

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every gpu I ever owned looks bigger in person then what I ever see in videos or pictures. Then again I just have a bad sense of scale in general

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Yes. Noctua Fans the most.

 

(Ugly in picture GREAT in person)

 

If this is so, I'm getting some Noctua fans, cause the only reason I haven't is cause they're ugly.

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My buddy bought a GA-78LMT-USB3 and he was expecting a board that looked like the rev4.1 board on the retailer's website, when he got home he opened the box and found a rev 6.0 because the retailer never updated the info on the site.

 

What he was expecting vs what he got.

Expecting: rev. 4.1

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Received: rev. 6.0

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I never seen anyone so happy after getting the wrong piece of hardware.

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Imho, the better the product the more amazing it looks in real life than it did in pictures. I've had some shitty computers go the other way, but I wasn't particularly excited about them in the first place.

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It might not match your color scheme and it's mostly opinion based but they definitely look better than in pictures.

 

Well a can of spray paint can always do ugly parts justice

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