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Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by wlesieutre »

kylegordon wrote: post #100
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

> desktop literally built into the desk top DIY Perks did that. Invisible PC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Perqf0dOGLk Invisible monitor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E0mNSMBmFQ

This is perfect!

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by 0xffff2 »

TheCapn wrote: post #51
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #44

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I agree wholeheartedly. This trend might have made sense back in the 90s when LAN parties were still enough of a thing that you could want to show off how fabulous you are with RGB RAM and whatnot, but today I feel like it is just needless complexity added to things for the sake of having something to putz with. Seriously, what value do people see in this stuff?

Its aesthetic. There's nothing more than that to worry about. If its not your jam, then don't get twisted knickers when someone else does. I'm actually a little appalled at people who carry your & OP's sentiment. Is it really that hard to see that people like visually pleasing things in their lives? Have you ever painted or reorganized a room and spent time picking out the colours & details? Is your wardrobe 20 copie…

I don't see anyone's knickers getting twisted, just people sharing their opinions.

I will say that I find it (very slightly) annoying when I can find the exact part I want with LEDs but can't find it without. Lighting seems to be default on for the vast majority of components, so its existence forces me to deal with figuring out how to turn it off whereas a non-LED component just does what I want.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by drewzero1 »

nom wrote: post #88

Anyone here who was into case modding back in the 2000s? I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago. We put windows in our boring grey computer cases and bought blue LEDs for 2 EUR a piece to light up the internals. As LEDs were so expensive we often opted to use CCFL tubes. We put electroluminescent wire everywhere, even into keyboards. We built our own fan controllers from scratch to fi…

I was too young to really get into case modding at the time, but I went to a Linux users group event at our local college around 2006. Up until that point I had only used Linux as a live CD on my dad's computer, so when I saw the rigs people were showing off my jaw dropped. They'd ditched the beige and black I was used to for silver, blue, purple etc. with lights glowing inside case windows.

The one that left the biggest impression on me had backlit tubes on either side of the case front with bubbles flowing up, and the owner was demonstrating the Compiz cube and wobbly windows. I was smitten!

Incidentally, I also got my first experience with Linux elitism when somebody asked me what my favorite editor was and I told him Abiword. He told me "Real men use emacs." Still a little embarrassed about that, but as a middle school kid I didn't have much need to know the difference between a word processor and an editor. In hindsight I'm sure they thought it was pretty cute/funny for a kid to visit a college event.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#104

Post by goodpoint »

chuckdries wrote: post #20

If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.

It's still tacky, tho.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#105

Post by goodpoint »

gpanders wrote: post #79
tylermenezes wrote: post #67

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> Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top" For 7 years my desktop has been literally just a motherboard sitting on a cut-up yoga mat on my bookshelf. [1] The SSDs are piled next to it. My work PC is zip-tied to a milk crate. Don't let people fool you, you can be pretty creative with your definition of "case". [1] https://i.imgur.com/NkEmS4N.png

That’s awesome. Are yoga mats dissipative? Is this like a poor man’s ESD mat (figuratively speaking, not trying to imply that you’re poor)?

> Are yoga mats dissipative?

Not at all, it's plastic!

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by semi »

swinglock wrote: post #90
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

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I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

Do you know if newer cases gotten better than P180, for sound isolation while keeping cool? That's still my case, but it's huge and I don't need that space anymore.

Be careful aiming for sound isolation, it can be counterproductive.

Generally speaking "sound isolation" means reducing where sound can escape from the case, and putting some noise absorbing foam where you can to dampen the noise.

The counterproductive part is that having a lot of airflow would be the opposite of "sound isolating" -- anywhere air flows freely sound does as well. So by definition a sound isolating case has poor airflow. Poor airflow could require you to run your fans at higher RPMs to compensate, which is then introducing more noise than you would have had with a more open case that could run low RPM fans.

Gamers Nexus did a good piece on this https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3391-airflow-vs-silent-ca...

(as he points out, there are still reasons to prefer sound isolating cases, it's just not as much of a clear win as it might sound at first)

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by eulers_secret »

nom wrote: post #88

Anyone here who was into case modding back in the 2000s? I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago. We put windows in our boring grey computer cases and bought blue LEDs for 2 EUR a piece to light up the internals. As LEDs were so expensive we often opted to use CCFL tubes. We put electroluminescent wire everywhere, even into keyboards. We built our own fan controllers from scratch to fi…

I was (and still am)!

I even currently run one of these: https://koolance.com/pc2-601bw-liquid-cooling-system-black - I've had to replace the pump this last week. It didn't die, but the plastic got brittle and cracked. I ran it, without flushes, adding tap water when low, for about 18 years. No corrosion, all liquid looked great! I modified the old Swiftech WB to mount to my 3930K, overclocked to 4.5GHz and am typing on that system right now! If you're curious, it tops out at about 75*C at ~150W CPU power usage.

I still have a CCFL (and my $5 blue LED to replace the power light), and have been thinking of incorporating it into my next build. I plan to build a sleeper system using a case from the 90's, but fully watercooled and upgraded (along with an ESP32-powered fan control/thermal monitoring system I'm coding up now - this is where the magic still is in 2021 IMO)

I also did cut a window into a PC with a dremel. Those cases are quite thick and hard to cut! I totally don't miss hauling that big PC case and a 17 (or 19?) inch CRT to a friends place to LAN. Was really fun, though.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by jaifraic »

nom wrote: post #88

Anyone here who was into case modding back in the 2000s? I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago. We put windows in our boring grey computer cases and bought blue LEDs for 2 EUR a piece to light up the internals. As LEDs were so expensive we often opted to use CCFL tubes. We put electroluminescent wire everywhere, even into keyboards. We built our own fan controllers from scratch to fi…

> I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago.

Was that casemodder.de by any chance?

I spent quite a lot of time there back in my teenage days.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#109

Post by savingGrace »

- My takeaway was the fact that I got to see someone using git lab instead of github. Maybe I tend to look at the completely wrong articles on HN... - I don't care for the RGB craze. However, I love the documentation on this project's README. Look at those finely tuned bullets and lists! It makes me want to dive into the code! Nice and tidy!

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

#110

Post by SulfurHexaFluri »

wlesieutre wrote: post #62
chuckdries wrote: post #20

If you're in this thread "I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it's fine but I don't get it", try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can't stand cycling rainbows or whatever.

I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

>AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors

Only for the ryzen 7 and the r9 _900 cpus. The low end ones come with a basic black cooler and the high end come with nothing.

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