One of the glorious things about being a PC owner is the fact that the only limits to what you do with your gaming machine are your imagination and size of your bank balance. Some may desire to turn the simple box into an explosion of light and colour, whereas others may hark for something more refined and understated. One Reddit user is very much in the latter camp and decided to create a wooden tribute to the king of brown, Noctua.
I spotted this Reddit post a couple of days ago and it generated some mixed feelings amongst the team. A user going by the name moto_zima had put together a gaming PC, using a heavily modified Hyte Y60 case. That chassis is normally favoured by fans of RGB lighting, thanks to the way its glass panels 'wrap' around the front and side. We've described it as a «techy terrarium.»
However, this particular build also involved a lot of Noctua fans in their traditional colour scheme of beige and brown. Even the graphics card matches the theme, as it's the Asus X Noctua RTX 3070. Perhaps feeling this isn't quite in keeping with the general style of the Hyte case, the modder decided to give it an even more natural look. Enter stage left: a wood grain finish over all the metal parts and the complete removal of every glass panel.
They've all been replaced by a metal cage, furnished with a matching brown paint. The result is a rather open case, which may lead you to think that the user will be experiencing temperature and dust problems. Noctua fans can shift a decent amount of air so that shouldn't really be an issue.
I have to say that I quite like how the whole thing looks, though I have reservations of how well the graphics card fits within the cage. It certainly gives off an air of refined antique
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