If we’re building PCs here, i wanna hear your opinions on (A)RGB LEDs. 5V, 12V, single color, addressable. MFing Lights.
What’s your preferred amount? Just a few LED fans? Or some RGB RAM sticks? Maybe just on your CPU cooler? Or a single solitary LED strip?
Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you need more. Maybe your build isn’t complete unless everything is glowing and synced. LED strip, LED fans, CPU cooler, GPU, the works. Why can’t a PC be functional and fun to look at?
Or maybe you want no LEDs at all. Maybe you’re a Noctua fan. Maybe you cringe at the idea of PC components that light up more than absolutely necessary.
So let’s hear it. How much lighting is enough? Is there such a thing as enough, or too much for you?
Zero. Zero RGB is enough.
I don’t need my bedroom lit up at night like an amusement park because the PC hardware makers think all gamers need Extryme Lighting.
My motherboard’s power LED is too much.
It’s partially because of my use case (My gaming PC occupies a very obvious position in living/hosting/social room and is also the central device that feeds the two TVs there) and partially my personality, but LED lighting is fun and i go out of my way to pick components that have it if the price hike is reasonable.
Syncing all the lights together into a pattern i choose is fun.
How much lighting is enough?
Definitive answer: As much or as little as the person building the PC wants.
For me the correct answer is zero.
For someone else the correct answer is All The Lights!!!
Both (and everywhere in between) are correct.
It’s your PC you are building, so do what you want.
I think this is the correct answer. Everyone should be able to find components that fit their use case. If that means no window panel, no lights, just business? That’s great.
If that means a pink, red, white, or blue case with lights like a 4th of July show? that’s fine too.
Thank you for your reasonable answer.
People building PCs like they’re going to be parading them around on city streets for people’s fucking approval. Stop with the RGB bullshit.
Any lights is too many lights, they are pointless and obnoxious IMO. I fucking hate how my current laptop has one of those stupid fucking rgb backlit keyboards which lights up to full brightness when the computer goes into standby but isn’t closed.
The sooner manufacturers stop making this trash the better.
I’m glad they make LED parts for me and non LED parts for you. I’m personally very happy that so many components offer customizable lighting these days. At least for my desktop haha
Windowless case. LEDs are irrelevant :)
Zero decorative elements. Hate them. One for power and one for disk acttivity. I turn the rest off whenever I can, or if possible, physically remove them.
Though RGB on the keyboard is enabled during Christmas, when I string the lights up on the Christmas tree.
That’s fascinating. I figured Lemmy users would basically self select as the exact kind of people who dislike decorative elements and these comments suggest i was mostly right.
Why is keyboard RGB only ok during Christmas?
I’m not here to convince anyone how cool LEDs are but i do like hearing other opinions.
Zero. It seems like the rabid focus on aesthetics has lead to unbreathable (but good looking) PC cases that make it harder to cool components and ultimately worsen performance indirectly. And I am still irritated that the RGB on my current PC cant be turned off via software or via the motherboard (yay known bugs that were never fixed!) which made it so I had to completely shut the PC off in my room in order to sleep until I found out where the manual RGB toggle was.
I just want the computer to work. Without any problems. Without extra debugging. Removing lights keeps it simple. Keeps the component simple. Keeps the heat down. Less things to fail.
The more the the better! Last Christmas I built gaming PCs with my kids. They have glass cases with lighted fans and video cards, and want more.
So Christmas is coming up ……. What would be a couple good mini projects to add fun lighting?
Depends on the [pc] case?
Some people have the need to spy/ stan on what their computer’s internals is doing all the time. and I do get how fun that could be. The nsa/ kgb/ mi6/ ccp does that all the time. So why not lights? Interrogation lights sounds cool too.
but if the pc case isn’t for that kind of thing, maybe no lights or the minimum you get from any discounted hardware is reasonable enough.
I only have it on my keyboard. I don’t need it in the PC itself, and Id rather have it somewhere a bit more visible, as I don’t put the unit on top of my desk, but in the tower cubby of my desk.
All these old dudes yelling get off my lawn with these ARGBs need to remember the usual suspects at circuit city and tiger direct sold a shit ton of molex cold cathodes to y’all back in the day.
i’m a no rgb at all person, if it were easier i would even desolder the ones on my raspberry pi fan but it’s all a hunk of plastic
