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

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Post by fuzxi »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 have a problem with other people using them, but it's started this strange trend where everything has LEDs on it, and some stuff (mainly fans) makes it difficult to disable. My case came with four pre-installed fans, which was great until they turned on and blinded me with blazing blue light. And since my motherboard only has one 4-pin PWM port, I couldn't control the LEDs independent of the fans. They were either at full brightness at all times, or fluctuated based on the fan speed.

I ended up cutting the LED leads on all the fans. It wouldn't have been an issue in the first place if LED/RGB stuff was an optional add-on instead of the default.

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

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Post by OJFord »

kartoshechka wrote: post #80
TheCapn wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Painting walls and getting interior to your liking is somewhat different from setting up RGB lights on your hardware that sits inside an opaque (maybe with transparent sides) case, which itself placed usually out of sight. Same with peripherals (do you really stare at your keyboard while typing? If so, then I have bad news). Walls and interior set the tone of room, and while you may not to look at it directly, it is…

> RGB lights on your hardware that sits inside an opaque (maybe with transparent sides) case, which itself placed usually out of sight.

No but people that want this don't have opaque cases, and are the 'unusual' ones not placing it out of sight.

FWIW it doesn't appeal to me either, I don't think I have any RGB, but I do have RAM styled like fighter jets or something, purely because it was the cheapest match for my criteria at the time (Corsair 'Vengeance' I think).

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

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Post by whatusername »

fuzxi wrote: post #118
jhap wrote: post #72

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Do you have any other ideas you recommend? I thought this mirror idea was brilliant!

I've read that putting an LED strip (or other light source, I guess) behind a monitor reduces eye strain. Can't speak to its veracity, but it would at least reduce glare!

Bias Lighting is the term for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_lighting

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

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Post by aspaceman »

scrps wrote: post #73
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 normally never have any RGB components in my personal builds but I was asked to build my niece a gaming rig for Christmas, figuring a kid would probably like a bit more of a blinged out system I sprung for RGB fans, RAM, water-cooler, and PSU and set them all to a light pink (the case is mint green, her other favorite color) and I have to say it turned me around on RGB lighting. It looked super clean and minimal on…

Not positive this does it, but I learnt this trick from some greybeards. Hit the rocker switch on the PSU, then attempt to power on the computer. Caps will be discharged from the attempted boot. It might not be perfect though. Just something I picked up.

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

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Post by nom »

jaifraic wrote: post #108
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.

I ran moddingpower.de.

Man, this brings back memories... I remember talking to someone from casemodder.de on ICQ trying to partner with them but we got into some silly argument so it never happened.

Do you remember case-gallery, pc-max and the modding toplists? Its very fun to look those pages up on archive.org, those where the days :D

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

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Post by detaro »

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…

Yes, I remember those times! Somehow even the custom build communities have moved away from that. Do you have any thoughts on why? Just because nowadays more fun stuff is available as standard?

bit-tech.net is another site I remember (which is still around, but a lot less active in the modding sections than it was)

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

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Post by netizen-9748 »

tylermenezes wrote: post #67
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…

> 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

The party hats are a nice touch

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by fuzxi »

whatusername wrote: post #123
fuzxi wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read that putting an LED strip (or other light source, I guess) behind a monitor reduces eye strain. Can't speak to its veracity, but it would at least reduce glare!

Bias Lighting is the term for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_lighting

Cheers!
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