Case colors VS External Drive Faceplate Colors...Is it a Problem?

[donfm]

This is probably the lowest tech question you will ever read here. I am thinking of buying the Antec 1080G Performance Plus case. It is a Gray Silver metallic finish. Every external drive faceplate I've ever seen basically comes in Beige. What do all you guys do just live with that ugly combination of beige and silver?. I can't see painting the faceplates since that would be a real pain. The Antec does have a door which would hide everything as a last resort I guess.

 

[Walruslord]

I just use the door on the front of my antec to hide the fact that I am the owner of some ugly ass beige drives. It doesn't keep me from getting laid or anything like that......

 

[BG4533]

You can paint them or live with them generally. Depending on your drives, you may be able to find black face plates. They still wouldnt match though, and will just cost extra money.

 

[donfm]

Thanks Walruslord....I wouldn't want it to keep you from geting laid!...LOL

By painting the faceplates doesn't it cover the silkscreens? Jeez there has got to be a better way. I personally don't even want the frigging cheap plastic door on the Antec case but the case looks awful when it is removed. Guess there's no perfect solutiuon to this problem. It just seems stupid for people to spend all this extra money on fancy case mods with lights and such when the external faceplates themselves make the case look like crap.

 

[Xentropy]

Well, actually, the people that spend that much on case mods also spend the time or money to mod the faceplates to match. Who needs silkscreens? (Though some people actually go as far as to use a fine tip brush and paint the labels back on, even.)

I actually prefer black cases to silver since it's easier by far to find black faceplates. I got a black faceplate for my Audigy 2 internal drive and a black DVD-ROM and it looks GREAT in my PC-31. If I had a digital camera I'd post a pic.