Black or White PC?

[cewolf12]

I am building a pc in early 2019 and I'm not sure whether I want a black or white pc. I will have all black hardware and I'm looking at the NZXT H500. I want to put a Hue 2 and some Aer RGB fans in it, but I'm not sure whether I should get the black or white variant. (I have black peripherals)

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

I love the look of the White PC , have built my last 2 White Themed.

 

[WildCard999]

I went with the White H500 with some black/white on the motherboard/memory, then put in white Riing LED's.

https://pcpartpicker.com/b/Mkmqqs

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Prefer black myself, not least because there's more choices available in that colour if you include peripherals -- basically it's a matter of personal preference rather than letting others decide for you.

If you're referring only to the case and internals, well my input is pretty irrelevant -- lol

 

[xxxlun4icexxx]

I think white p.c. builds look the best. Only problem you'll run into is now with RGB being the craze you'll have a little bit of trouble finding "white themed" parts aside from the case/memory. Usually parts are gray/black with RGB lighting. Black/gray parts still look good in a white case though.

 

[photonboy]

ZEBRA FTW!

I like white cases frankly, but what I do not like is large, clear windows... I do however like TINTED, smaller windows or tinted fuller windows but with good clean insides like the bottom PSU shield that cleans up the entire bottom part.

H500: https://www.nzxt.com/products/h500-matte-white

Damn, that's nice actually. Without a drive bay and with the window not going to the bottom that looks pretty clean. Good review here (note the HDD's are hidden on the bottom but it supports up to 3x3.5" and 3x2.5" though it says "2+1" so I'm not clear what that means... at least 2x3.5" and 2x2.5" though... and of course you can use an M.2 2280 SSD which I'd probably do such as a Crucial MX500 500GB version or whatever... some mobo's have support for up to 3x M.2 SSD's though some SATA connections get disabled)
https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3309-nzxt-h500-case-review-thermals-noise-vs-s340

The ONLY other case I liked was the Phanteks Eclipse P400S... I like both the black with some white and mainly white versions.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Q9vZxr/phanteks-eclipse-p400s-tempered-glass-atx-mid-tower-case-ph-ec416pstg_bw
or
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gmJkcf/phanteks-eclipse-p400s-tempered-glass-atx-mid-tower-case-ph-ec416pstg_wt

If the H500 BLACK verson had some white highlights similar to the above mainly black P400S I'd probably prefer it... but my top choice of ALL the BW cases I've found is the NZXT H500 white variant.

 

[photonboy]

Update:
FYI, when I googled the Phanteks Eclipse P400S I discovered that recent models change the side window completely. Why they didn't change the name baffles me.

Older versions have a much smaller window and newer versions are just a full piece of tempered glass with no border.

Anyway, I don't think the cooling is as good compared to the H500 (probably too much front intake restriction) so for me the H500 is currenlty the only white/black case I would even consider.