Colour Scheme Build

[Doomslayer]

Hey guys

Sorry if this is in the wrong area

I have a question about what i'm doing for my new build i'm going to be buying a corsair K70 keyboard (not gaming) but since my lighting in my case is going to be white if i brought the normal K70 keyboard do you guys think it will throw the colour scheme out, I don't really have the money for the gaming one

Thanks all

 

[Feronix]

I think they did a K95 with white backlight?

Or otherwise a CM Storm keyboard might be better for you.

Personally, I have a black and white (with a bit of green) build and a K70 with the red LEDs. During the day I don't need them so I usually turn the LEDs off anyway. The red backlight at night doesn't really bother me. I still kind of want green or white lights, but it's not really possible and also not really a priority for me.

 

[Doomslayer]

I think they did a K95 with white backlight?

Or otherwise a CM Storm keyboard might be better for you.

Personally, I have a black and white (with a bit of green) build and a K70 with the red LEDs. During the day I don't need them so I usually turn the LEDs off anyway. The red backlight at night doesn't really bother me. I still kind of want green or white lights, but it's not really possible and also not really a priority for me.

Yeah they did with the K95 but that keyboard was made more for RTS and i'm more of a FPS gamer, with the K70 i could do what you do and just don't use the LED backlight and have it more of a stealth keyboard, I have look at the CM Storm and to me i don't really like it, So you don't think it would rekt my colour scheme then.

Thanks for the advice

 

[JR23]

I don't really see that having different colour lighting is a big issue. Unless your rig has loads of painted and plastic details in weirdly contrasting colors it will look fine.

Can't really answer the OP because you didn't actually state a colour scheme which is probably why it only got one reply and you resorted to PM'ing me. (that's not a problem, threads get missed, but link me, do some leg work!) From the fact you have white lighting should I assume the entire rig will be black and white and totally colour neutral :mellow:

I think another important factor is if everything outside of your rig matches, how do all of your peripherals look together, how do they look on the desk etc. Lastly coordinating everything perfectly without making sacrifices on the exact function of the product, the budget and what brand you go with is basically impossible unless your very lucky. It generaly gets expensive very quickly to be obsessive about things, I know.

Is what i'm saying by that is if you want a white lit keyboard, you want mech switches, you want Corsair and it must come in at under £95 the K95 is a monumentally good compromise. It has 18 extra keys which you can just ignore, that's a tiny trade off compared with getting a £145 K70 RGB and waiting for it to ship with the sail logo.

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

I don't really see that having different colour lighting is a big issue. Unless your rig has loads of painted and plastic details in weirdly contrasting colors it will look fine.

Can't really answer the OP because you didn't actually state a colour scheme which is probably why it only got one reply and you resorted to PM'ing me. (that's not a problem, threads get missed, but link me, do some leg work!) From the fact you have white lighting should I assume the entire rig will be black and white and totally colour neutral :mellow:

I think another important factor is if everything outside of your rig matches, how do all of your peripherals look together, how do they look on the desk etc. Lastly coordinating everything perfectly without making sacrifices on the exact function of the product, the budget and what brand you go with is basically impossible unless your very lucky. It generaly gets expensive very quickly to be obsessive about things, I know.

Is what i'm saying by that is if you want a white lit keyboard, you want mech switches, you want Corsair and it must come in at under £95 the K95 is a monumentally good compromise. It has 18 extra keys which you can just ignore, that's a tiny trade off compared with getting a £145 K70 RGB and waiting for it to ship with the sail logo.

JR

Sorry JR i'm kinda a noob with forums i should know better tho
The case lighting will be white, I will learn to give people like you & others more details in what i'm asking next time. if you would like a link to my system that i have build i can give you a link

Thanks for the detail advice

 

[JR23]

It's ok dude, i'm no different to anybody else. The less information you give the less relevance the advice you get back will have, just like everyone on OC3D you need to help us to help you. Certainly pictures or specs will speak many words much faster than you can

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

It's ok dude, i'm no different to anybody else. The less information you give the less relevance the advice you get back will have, just like everyone on OC3D you need to help us to help you. Certainly pictures or specs will speak many words much faster than you can

JR

Yeah i will give you a link to PCPartPicker i don't have the build done yet but it will give you the idea in what i'm going for, still waiting on cable management parts to show up but once i get the build done i will do a build log for sure, i'm going to steal 1 thing from you that you did in your build is to cut the USB 2 & USB 3 cables and the front audio

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/k3DZGX

 

[JR23]

Yeah i will give you a link to PCPartPicker i don't have the build done yet but it will give you the idea in what i'm going for, still waiting on cable management parts to show up but once i get the build done i will do a build log for sure, i'm going to steal 1 thing from you that you did in your build is to cut the USB 2 & USB 3 cables and the front audio

http://au.pcpartpicker.com/p/k3DZGX

Don't forget reset, ain't nobody got time for that I also had both of the LED's wired together so there is no stupid flashy one for HDD activity.

The red lit K70 will look awesome with that setup, I like mine against a red accented white lit rig anyways. The ranger has lots of nice red lighting details too. Are you getting some sleeved cables?

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

Don't forget reset, ain't nobody got time for that I also had both of the LED's wired together so there is no stupid flashy one for HDD activity.

The red lit K70 will look awesome with that setup, I like mine against a red accented white lit rig anyways. The ranger has lots of nice red lighting details too. Are you getting some sleeved cables?

JR

Looks like i will be getting the normal K70 then, did you just cut the reset cable off too and maybe a stupid question but how did you do the wiring for the power and reset i know noob to answer you question about the sleeved cables i got these ones
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=24423&cPath=1347

Thanks again for your advice

 

[JR23]

Looks like i will be getting the normal K70 then, did you just cut the reset cable off too and maybe a stupid question but how did you do the wiring for the power and reset i know noob to answer you question about the sleeved cables i got these ones
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=24423&cPath=1347

Thanks again for your advice

Yeah the reset switch is just cut off. All that is left is the standard power switch and the two LED's are soldered together so that they are wired in parallel with just one pair of wires attached (sleeved together). They are then plugged into the respective +/- power_SW and power_LED pins on the motherboard. I just considered that the least amount of cables I could get away with and for me it doesn't compromise functionality. I don't understand what you do with a reset switch anyhow these days. That's just me being extreme.

Haz fun hiding all of your stock cables somewhere to plug the extensions into. It's pretty roomy in the back actually you should manage it, I was just curious, thought you may have gone for the Corsair set.

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

Yeah the reset switch is just cut off. All that is left is the standard power switch and the two LED's are soldered together so that they are wired in parallel with just one pair of wires attached (sleeved together). They are then plugged into the respective +/- power_SW and power_LED pins on the motherboard. I just considered that the least amount of cables I could get away with and for me it doesn't compromise functionality. I don't understand what you do with a reset switch anyhow these days. That's just me being extreme.

Haz fun hiding all of your stock cables somewhere to plug the extensions into. It's pretty roomy in the back actually you should manage it, I was just curious, thought you may have gone for the Corsair set.

JR

With the cable i didn't really wanted to go with one colour, i thought it would be to much of one colour that's why i went with the 2 colour option and plus money was the issue i had a budget and i had to keep in under at that time i think down the track i will end up getting the Corsair ones and also i got one of Phanteks PWM Fan Hub. I have something else planned for the case too

 

[Doomslayer]

Change of plans

I'm going to change the AIO to the Corsair H105 instead of using the X61 also changing the cables not really going to use the Cable Ext to much of a pain to cable manage.