Help! To RGB or not to RGB

[iTodd98]

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/J3KfyX

This is the current build i was planning on but one of my friends pointed out my case has a glass side so would be cool too put in parts with RGB so switched out my Kingston HyperX Fury to the Corsair Vengance RGB I was wondering if you think RGB is worth it and if so what other parts would you swap out to maybe include RGB or upgrade? I also don't have any experience doing this so i got the motherboard based on a parametric filter if anyone can suggest a better one it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

[dcgreen2k]

If you have the money, and really want RGB, then why not? The performance will be the same as their respective non-RGB parts anyways.

[Daniel644]

RGB ALL THE THINGS, nothing cleaner then having all the components color matched in your build glowing out the side window.

[iTodd98]

4 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

If you have the money, and really want RGB, then why not? The performance will be the same as their respective non-RGB parts anyways.

Yeah the money won't be an issue as have been saving up for this for a while and in no rush so can save longer what would you recommend changing/upgrading?

[iTodd98]

1 minute ago, Daniel644 said:

RGB ALL THE THINGS, nothing cleaner then having all the components color matched in your build glowing out the side window.

 Im really bad at this whole part picking business any recommendations? 

[Jurrunio]

1. The case has red feet and MSI Gaming X is red, so having RGB or not doesnt matter too much imo. Standard white LED will do.

 

2. 16GB of RAM will do unless you do productivity work with it, say Blender work

 

3. 7700k is rendered a horrible buy because newer 8th gen and Ryzen slapped it so hard, no one should ever consider it. At this price you could get an 8700 with B360 mobo, once you factor in the money saved by buying less RAM

 

4. If you want a K sku for overclocking, make sure you use Z chipset motherboard. With Ryzen however, B and X chipset will do.

[Daniel644]

1 minute ago, iTodd98 said:

 Im really bad at this whole part picking business any recommendations? 

biggest recommendation is to find parts that all use the SAME RGB controller, like get an Asus board that supports Asus Aura as the Trident Z RGB RAM is Aura compatible then find a video card that is also Aura compatible, this allows you to control and link all RGB components together.

[dcgreen2k]

5 minutes ago, iTodd98 said:

Yeah the money won't be an issue as have been saving up for this for a while and in no rush so can save longer what would you recommend changing/upgrading?

The RAM doesn't have to be 3000MHz; you can go slower than that because it doesn't affect performance that much. You should also get a Core i5 8400 with a B360 motherboard, because the 7-series Intel CPUs are a bit pointless now that the 8-series is out with more cores.

[iTodd98]

12 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

1. The case has red feet and MSI Gaming X is red, so having RGB or not doesnt matter too much imo. Standard white LED will do.

 

2. 16GB of RAM will do unless you do productivity work with it, say Blender work

 

3. 7700k is rendered a horrible buy because newer 8th gen and Ryzen slapped it so hard, no one should ever consider it. At this price you could get an 8700 with B360 mobo, once you factor in the money saved by buying less RAM

 

4. If you want a K sku for overclocking, make sure you use Z chipset motherboard. With Ryzen however, B and X chipset will do.

This better? https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/2djmD2

[iTodd98]

11 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

The RAM doesn't have to be 3000MHz; you can go slower than that because it doesn't affect performance that much. You should also get a Core i5 8400 with a B360 motherboard, because the 7-series Intel CPUs are a bit pointless now that the 8-series is out with more cores.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/2djmD2 Hows that look?

[iTodd98]

12 minutes ago, Daniel644 said:

biggest recommendation is to find parts that all use the SAME RGB controller, like get an Asus board that supports Asus Aura as the Trident Z RGB RAM is Aura compatible then find a video card that is also Aura compatible, this allows you to control and link all RGB components together.

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ybnbLJ i think im along the right lines with this?

[Brett_Bst]

everyone knows rgb gives +10% performance boost

[Brett_Bst]

if your  orginal budget was around 2k I would go with this https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/FD4rvn

but that's me, gpu, ram and motherboard will all sink as well 

[TekRed]

16 minutes ago, iTodd98 said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ybnbLJ i think im along the right lines with this?

Msi uses mystic light, asus uses aura sync. I would recommend getting the ROG strix gts 1080 ti or evga so you can use one controller for all rgb. And honestly I'm not sure that motherboard supports rgb

[Daniel644]

24 minutes ago, iTodd98 said:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/ybnbLJ i think im along the right lines with this?

if your ultimate goal is red and black for the color scheme sure the Gaming X has red lenses over it's LED's so the RGB ram will allow you to set the ram to be red as well which will all match the case.

[iTodd98]

7 hours ago, Alexsolo said:

Looks great!

Thank you!

[iTodd98]

7 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

if your ultimate goal is red and black for the color scheme sure the Gaming X has red lenses over it's LED's so the RGB ram will allow you to set the ram to be red as well which will all match the case.

It was more that i wanted the colours to be changeable 

[Daniel644]

7 minutes ago, iTodd98 said:

It was more that i wanted the colours to be changeable 

then I would go for the Asus Strix version of the GPU it's a flat black with RGB LED's and would go with a case that is a solid color and not accented in red the Gaming X GPU and that case will make any other color other then red look out of place if you want changeable colors you want the only colors to be the ones from the lights and everything else to be black or grey.

[iTodd98]

Just now, Daniel644 said:

then I would go for the Asus Strix version of the GPU it's a flat black with RGB LED's and would go with a case that is a solid color and not accented in red the Gaming X GPU and that case will make any other color other then red look out of place if you want changeable colors you want the only colors to be the ones from the lights and everything else to be black or grey.

Ok thank you