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Honestly you can just hide it under the desk, you'd be better off upgrading the hardware before thinking about aesthetics. I ended up hiding my case as well.

So I built my first PC a few days ago. It's going great and I ordered a new mouse and mechanical keyboard. It's a solid build with an i5 6600, 16gb of ddr4 ram, a GTX 760 (planning to upgrade to a 1060 soon), and a Samsung 850 evo. One thing that bothers me about it is the case. It's a Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus and to put it simply, it does not look good. Now there's already a few things I need to upgrade, including my headset and graphics card. I'm wondering if I should even bother with the case or just hide it under my desk. I'm obviously going to upgrade the other things first but should I eventually get a NZXT S340 or H440?

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Honestly you can just hide it under the desk, you'd be better off upgrading the hardware before thinking about aesthetics. I ended up hiding my case as well.

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| CPU: I7-4790k OC'D to 4.5Ghz | GPU: GTX 970 | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 | RAM: 2 x 8 GBS (stock 2133Mhz) OC'd | Case : NZXT Phantom 410 | Displays: Asus VG248QE 24" & VE228TR 21.5" | PSU: Corsair CP-9020077-UK 650W | CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H55 | Storage: ? Kingston 240 GB SSD + WD Blue 1TB  | Keyboard: Logitech 213 Prodigy | Mouse: Logitech G600 | Headphones: Sennheiser hd380 pro | Mic: MXL 550 | OS: Windows 10 Pro |

 

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2 minutes ago, Faster_Speeding said:

Honestly you can just hide it under the desk, you'd be better off upgrading the hardware before thinking about aesthetics. I ended up hiding my case as well.

why do that when u can get the nzxt s340 elite or the corsair carbide 

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2 minutes ago, gtx1060=value said:

why do that when u can get the nzxt s340 elite or the corsair carbide 

Slight laziness and putting money into upgrades that actually affect the performance and experience and not just the look of something you're not going to see anyway. And it's just delaying it anyway so you may end up getting one of those unless you do what I did and kind of forget.

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| CPU: I7-4790k OC'D to 4.5Ghz | GPU: GTX 970 | Motherboard: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 | RAM: 2 x 8 GBS (stock 2133Mhz) OC'd | Case : NZXT Phantom 410 | Displays: Asus VG248QE 24" & VE228TR 21.5" | PSU: Corsair CP-9020077-UK 650W | CPU Cooling: Corsair Hydro Series H55 | Storage: ? Kingston 240 GB SSD + WD Blue 1TB  | Keyboard: Logitech 213 Prodigy | Mouse: Logitech G600 | Headphones: Sennheiser hd380 pro | Mic: MXL 550 | OS: Windows 10 Pro |

 

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