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?

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • NaClKnight@reddthat.comOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      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

  • detalferous@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.