How much do the looks of your pc play into buying parts?

[Air tree]

Just wondering.

 

In my case i'm still already into the looks and i haven't even built my pc yet :rolleyes:

[_ASSASSIN_]

I'd look first for performance then looks
typically speaking, better products will look better

[T.Vengeance]

Pfft you peasant, no side panel at all

 

I just gotta make sure I never throw a USB at my computer...AHEM...

[Dudenstein]

None, I buy based on price and performance 

[DeViLzzz]

There is enough variety out there that one can have both looks and performance for an affordable price and it has been that way for awhile now.

[Guest]

I buy based on price and looks, performance comes second. Though when you're talking an Intel Extreme CPU and all teh RAM..

[rmac52]

I'm not going to pick something with bad performance and good aesthetics over something with good performance and bad aesthetics.  That being said I will then spend time and money making it look good.  Its great when you can get good performance and aesthetics like with an ROG motherboard.  

[Sarcasm]

If it doesn't have a practical purpose, it goes out the window. If the board's VRM looks tits, why not? LEDs? GTFO.

 

Although for whatever reason, the DCII power LEDs look pretty good in the few times my case is open.

[CoolBeans]

I can usually fit how I want it to look into the budget without loosing performance so yea

[allthatremains94]

I'm fine with anything, as long as it doesn't look like a cow Frisbee. 

[The Syndicate]

I usually just do this in PCPartpicker

de-select brands I don't like/trust

select what I'm looking for

then from there choose the nicest one.

If they all look bad, I might pay more for less or pay less for more(less for more usually never happens)

[Kirihuna]

Luckily enough, most high performing parts still looks good (minus Noctua fans. Waiting on the Black fans to be released.....)

[Lord Pantaloons]

IT MATTERS!

[ShadowRaven]

I like a build that is totally stable but I don't mind a nice theme build once and a while like my Shadow Warrior build I am working on

[MbV93]

All about performance, especially with my always limited budget, don't care about the looks at all.

[Lil Chillbil]

Its all about performance man 

[Yoinkerman]

I have the money now, so looks factor in a good amount.  When I didn't, it was all about performance, looks be damned!

[ttam]

I pick the best performer that looks the best. Can make anything look good when it's done nice, has a good looking water cool setup and in a good looking case.

[zeros]

I buy based on price and looks, performance comes second. Though when you're talking an Intel Extreme CPU and all teh RAM..

Haha I agree, and feel/do the same . And when DDR4 hits the market even if I would never use over 32GB of RAM the enthusiast in me wont be able to resist for more . But the looks will come first .

[Guest]

Luckily enough, most high performing parts still looks good (minus Noctua fans. Waiting on the Black fans to be released.....)

Noctua Blacks are rumoured to only be for enterprise release. 

[Torg73]

Looks don't matter as the case does not have a window to look in the case. as my PC is at the side of the desk I don't really see it much anyway.

[0s4x]

Non-windowed R4 owner, couldn't give two craps about how it looks in there.

[LaoJr]

Water  cooling= performance on all dat shiet you got inside and the looks are amazing, I ain't talking about just the cpu I'm talkin about errthing 

[KamiKatze]

I am very OCD when it comes to the look of my PC, and i know OCD is a very overused term.

 

My rig's color scheme is red/black and i have put a lot of work into my PC after it was built. I also try to match brands, my Mobo and GPU both are In MSI's gaming style. I Removed the sticker from my Seasonic PSU because it was blue. I Spray painted the PCI covers of my Define R4 aswell as the Covers on my Graphics card and Wifi Card in A matching red. At the back of my rig there spings a corsair AF 140. I don't like the quality of the AF v140 but the look is so awesome! I redid my Cablemanagement entireley because it was not perfectly hidden. I switched my SATA cables for red ones. My CPU get's cooled by a bequiet, not your ordinary silvery looking headspreader, because a shine metal thing would destroy the look! I plan on using more bequiet fans in the future but i will spraypaint their anti-vibration lid for sure! Noctuas are plain ugly and will never touch my system. I swapped my WiFi antenna for a smaller one to keep the back sleek and tidy. I repalced the blue LED of the power button with a red one. I am planning to sleeve my cables sometime in the future. My peripherals are of course black with red LED backlighting.

 

So yeah, you could say i give much atention to detail and looks. Everybody can stick together computer parts but not everybody can create a little piece of art with it. If you have read my post this far then thank you and congrats, you have nothing to do!

 

PS: i have no pics yet!

[Lays]

I buy based on price and looks, performance comes second. Though when you're talking an Intel Extreme CPU and all teh RAM..

:3