One of my earliest memories is playing the original Sonic the Hedgehog game from the 1990s, and I still have a lot of love for the franchise. That’s why this Sonic gaming PC build is an absolute showstopper for me. It’s simply gorgeous, with clean lines and a stunning blue color scheme that leaves me genuinely wanting to see more.
This PC build manages to be bold and subtle in equal measure, using color sparingly but with a firm impact, helped by the pop of color in the water-cooling tubes. While the specs are a little dated compared to the best gaming PCs of today, there’s still plenty of power for 1080p gaming, with an AMD gaming CPU and Nvidia graphics card. Of course, the specs aren’t really what make this PC interesting anyway – just look at those tubing runs.
This particular build was showcased in a builds.gg post by Quantum Rig Designs, the same designers as this wonderfully clean all-white gaming PC. The builders here have taken an Ssupd Xhuttle PC case and applied their own custom paint job, adding a marble-esque blue effect to the case paneling.
The build itself uses an eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 7700X CPU, installed inside a Gigabyte Aorus Master motherboard. There’s a decent amount of Thermaltake Toughram XG DDR5 RAM, with a Gigabyte-manufactured Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti for gaming. It’s also good to see this build use a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD here, which is still one of the best gaming SSDs for value that you can buy.
However, it isn’t the specs that give this gaming PC the wow factor. Looking directly at the case, you can see the perfectly angled lines of the water cooling system. The pipes stretch cleanly from a Thermaltake radiator at the bottom to an Alphacool reservoir-pump combo at the front of the case, keeping both the GPU and CPU cool. To top it off, there’s even Sonic himself, resting on top of the GPU’s waterblock.
If you couldn’t tell already, I love this build. It’s clean, it’s simple, and it looks flawlessly constructed. A well executed color scheme inside a very clean build has turned this otherwise ordinary PC into an absolute triumph, at least from a design standpoint, and one that I wouldn’t hesitate to pick up myself – if it were for sale, that is.
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