By Simon Crisp
Introduction and benchmarks
So, you want to stand out from the crowd and build an all-white PC? Well let’s see how far you can get.
Case, no problem. Many case manufacturers make them. PSU? Check. There’s a few of those around as well. Graphics card? Tick. Harder to find but there are one or two available. White motherboard?
Well, that’s much more of a problem, sir.
White motherboards are like the Holy Grail of the modding world. In fact, giving it some serious thought, we can only think of two board manufacturers that ever ventured into the expensive world of producing white PCBs: Sapphire and Soyo. Hold on, ancient Abit made one too, so that’s three.
And mentioning those last two long-forgotten names will give you an idea of how long ago it was.
Battle ready
All is not lost however because Asus has come to the rescue with a limited edition white version of its Z97 Sabertooth motherboard. The Sabertooth Mark S (which carried the codename Sabranco for a while) is an absolute stunner, too.
It may seem a little shallow to get excited about how a motherboard looks, but it must be said that even this cynical old hack cracked a …read more
Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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