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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.