After taking apart Arctic Blue, I had a problem to solve. I wanted to put the Ryzen 5 into Vermilion, which at the time had an i5 in it, but I had no nice red ATX AM4 motherboard to do it with. At the time, my fiancee was using a humble build based on a Ryzen 3 2200G in a Q300L mATX case, which was enough for the things she likes to do. Furthermore, there was an awesome modded case just sitting there.

Thus, the idea for two builds came about: a relatively powerful blue-themed build to go into her old case using the i5 and the GTX 1070 from the late Arctic Blue which would be called The Mule, and a somewhat budget-oriented build to go into the modded case using my fiancee's 2200G and a discrete GPU which was at the time undecided to be called Arctic White.

Her old PC had a red B350 mATX board, which went into Vermilion along with the Ryzen 5 (the small size actually freed up space and allowed the water cooling loop to be improved). Into the Q300L went a cheapo H310 board alongside the i5 and the GTX 1070, marking the genesis of The Mule. The Ryzen 3 thus went into the modified Rosewill case, and Arctic White was born.

Arctic White now had a problem, in that it was a case with a vertical GPU bracket, but no GPU. Embarking on a quest in the used marked, I eventually picked up a year-old Sapphire Nitro+ RX 570 for a measly CA$130. Put in some white fans and an LED strip, pulled off the useless ugly red heat spreaders from the RAM sticks, and the build was complete. Not bad at all.