Do you feel at home with nature? This rustic gaming PC build might be for you. Using a custom Lian Li Dan A3 PC case, this particular build looks like it’s been plucked straight from the woods, with twig-like etchings to the chassis and a copper-themed colorway that sits perfectly among the soil and leaves.
This nature-themed PC build shows what you can do if you water cool your PC with a custom loop, enabling you to have full control over the tubing, fittings, and components. It’s an all AMD affair too, albeit using components that are a few years old now, with a Ryzen 5 5600X CPU and Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU, along with 32GB of G.Skill DDR4 RAM.
This particular rig grabbed our attention via a post on builds.gg, courtesy of Greek builder Dalainos, who looks to have built some truly incredible PCs over the years. Dalaionos’ build here starts with the Lian Li case which, in my opinion, is the showstopper.
The Mini-ITX Lian Li Dan A3 can be bought as a beautiful wooden PC case in its own right, but Dalainos has instead painted over a standard Dan A3’s front panels with black copper paint, which is then used to cover over parts of the black chassis, too.
Inside the case, alongside the twig etchings, the builder has attached custom copper grilles to the Arctic P12 fans, and brass-colored fittings to the gray hard tubing to complete the PC’s water-cooling loop. Meanwhile, the yellow coolant flowing through the full-cover waterblock on the motherboard adds another pop of color in the case.
I’m a big fan of this gaming PC build. The theme is gorgeously applied throughout, and while it won’t be beating any of the best gaming PC designs out there in terms of specs (the GPU doesn’t even support ray tracing), there’s plenty to celebrate in terms of design. I particularly like the scratched copper appearance, which you can even see on the memory heatsinks, as well as the radiators and waterblocks.
If you’ve been inspired to create your own gaming rig, check out our guide on how to build a gaming PC. It won’t help you build a PC for the woods, but it will help you pick your components, put them all together, and install Windows on it afterward.