Well I am thinking in advance to my next rig... a s939 Nforce 4 w/ and AMD3500+.

I was thinking I want to go silver this time, silver case with a window and some white CC's in it. But now I am thinking that the components won't really look silver (they wont match the light, like how blue CC's make all components look blue) because the white light will just reveal each component's real color. So I am wondering: how do you guys all deal with that? What do you do when one of your components (say the Mobo, im looking at the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI which is blue) doesn't match the color you are going for? This will also be a problem I presume with the video card and the sound card, so please help me! Thanks!

A guy named Kayinstorm took a Sharpie and colored in his entire motherboard:
http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread.php?t=17787

Kage has the best all silver mod I've ever seen. He could probably give you some pointers.

I just only shop for stuff that matches. I had a red PCB on my FX5200, so when I went motherboard shopping, I bought a MSI K7N2-L with red PCB. Then when I was upgrading video cards, I got a 9800SE with red PCB. I think multiple colors is okay, unless its like purple and red, which is what I had at one point. Just ask a female for color advice. I kept my MX400 with green PCB in a Soyo KT400 Ultra Dragon, which is silver.

Yeah I am mainly shooting for silver and black, but I guess that I can go ahead with the blue PCB. This is really the board that I want because of features, and I will probably end up with an MX1k for it, which is blue, so I guess that the 3 colors should tie in well. thanks!

I've actually been considering a related issue lately... that is, spraying a thin sealant over a motherboard and cards. Why? An extra layer of protection in watercooled systems. The trick would be to seal the motherboard with the cards attached; for unused expansion slots get plastic plugs or covers and put them in before you seal. Then when you need to add something, removed the cover or plug, put the new expansion in, and spray sealant over it. This obviously won't let you run the system with a lake in the case, but it could save your mobo if your watercooling sprung a leak by giving you time to turn things off. The problem is most sealants are themally insulating as well as electrically, dammit. A thermally conducting and electricall insulating sealant is something of an electronics holy grail. But in a water cooled system, as long as the heat producing components are all hooked up to water cooling gear before being sealed, it should work fine. Also, it sucks that the best sort of coating to use for this, Parylene, wouldn't allow you to romove or replace the plugs and just spray the coating on. Parylene coating is quite a process, I haven't heard of a "ghetto method" using it yet.