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

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Post by pugworthy »

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.

Agreed yea. I recently shifted mine to all a single color and like the look a lot more. It makes the open Thermaltake Core P3 case look quite striking.

In terms of the "why" for this kind of thing, I guess if I'm going to be staring at a computer screen and computer all day, I want it to look interesting. The P3 case is open with a large glass plate on the front (look it up), and I've got it mounted directly on my wall. It does nothing for my computer's performance, but it makes my time at the computer more pleasant.

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

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Post by wlesieutre »

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 like brushed metal fridge and was one of the first cases to care about sound isolation. No window panel, so nobody cares how much of a mess my wiring is, and I can buy the RAM that's on sale instead of the one with color coordinated heatspreaders.

But if other people are into that, power to them.

Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top" build and ditch the suspended computer mount completely, assuming I still even want to have a full desktop computer 10 years from now.

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

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Post by Schlaefer »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #60
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…

A lot of posters here say they just set it to a single color and leave it. Why the hell do they chose components with RGB LEDs integrated and software to control them [0] instead of just buying some stand alone LED lights in the color they want? > Have you ever painted or reorganized a room and spent time picking out the colours & details? Not really. I spent all of 5 minutes picking out paint colors for my house whe…

> A lot of posters here say they just set it to a single color and leave it. Why the hell do they chose components with RGB LEDs integrated and software to control them [0] instead of just buying some stand alone LED lights in the color they want?

Even if you only set it to one color (a perceived static aesthetic) it's nice to have choice for that one color: a) find exactly the color you want and b) alter it later if your taste changes.

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

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Post by zdragnar »

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…

Might be nice to have the fan color change with the cpu temp, but otherwise it always seems gaudy. I like things having function in addition to form.

Then again, I also gave up on desktops roughly 8 years ago. If it isn't my laptop it is a NUC or similar small form factor thing that can be mounted on the back of the monitor or otherwise hidden away.

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

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Post by skazazes »

fearface wrote: post #27
capableweb wrote: post #8

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> have to admit I don't fully get the "bling" thing for PCs Me neither. Today it's hard to find TVs that are just TVs and not smart TVs and similar thing is happening in the PC builders ecosystem. Built a new desktop computer recently, and had to spend more time searching for things that don't have RGB things in them, seems most components nowadays have some sort of RGB lights in them, even when it's completely not n…

My LG CX turns on in less than 2s and shows the picture from the HDMI input. The TV can’t access the internet. I use OpenRGB to disable all lights, or sometimes I’m in the Cyberpunk 2077 mood and make it yellow. I’m curious that people want to pay more to get less.

I would agree if the lighting settings were stored on device across the board. I went the route of not paying more for hardware without RGB and am regretting it 6 months later. Disabling the RGB on my GPU persists across OS re-installs as well as driver updates, but my RAM and motherboard's lights require their own program each constantly running in the background in order to NOT have a light show on at all times. Furthermore, when turning on the computer all of the lights are on in full rainbow until these programs launch and ultimately turn off the lights.

Because of the additional friction involved I do not agree with the just turn off rgb mentality many in the hobby push

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

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Post by rozab »

netizen-9748 wrote: post #30
Shared404 wrote: post #24

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This is the trick. If you get all of the lights set to the same color, plus maybe one that changes based on CPU temperature or something, and you make sure none of the colors clash, you can get a very nice/clean look.

For an added bonus, on keyboards such as the logitechs you may be able to have different colors for different key types for quick and easy reference

Some games like Factorio have nice contextual cues for certain key bindings. I'm sure there's extensions available for most editors to do the same thing.

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

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Post by tylermenezes »

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…

> 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

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

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Post by cjaybo »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #44
Andrex wrote: post #41

This hardware trend is stupid and I hate it. I accept all downvotes.

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?

> Seriously, what value do people see in this stuff?

Do you really not understand that people have different aesthetic preferences and priorities?

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

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Post by AHTERIX5000 »

mhh__ wrote: post #26

The vendor tools are so bad. I don't want to download a 500Meg program just to change my mouse DPI or make the keyboard light up

Indeed. I accidentally installed some kind of an utility suite for my motherboard and it instantly started 13 processes. I guess they had different teams working on different parts of the app and everyone just wrote another process? There were even multiple updaters for stuff made by one company.

The worst part was the new drivers being loaded. Searching driver names led me to multiple exploit POCs allowing all kinds of nastiness. Some of them were patched but overall I got the feeling that RGB etc driver quality is awful.

I wish HW manufactures would at least use static colours as a default choice.

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