Despite how much I dislike working with hardware, I’m toying with the idea of building my own PC. A quick perusal through Newegg leaves me wondering why everything related to gaming PCs has to have RGB lights everywhere? How am I supposed to sleep at night when my computer’s acting like it’s at a rave?
The neat part about modern RGB is that it’s fully customizable- and you can turn it off. I set up OpenRGB profiles so that I can turn all the lights in my computer either off completely, or on to preset color schemes with one click of a button.
In reality RGB is just a super cheap feature to add that is a bit of a flashy upsell, which is why almost every gaming manufacturer adds it. You are under no obligation to use it.
Unless it’s made by gigabyte and the software is so bad it resets the LEDs on the motherboard on every boot to a horrible orange colour and the LCD screen on the GPU to a horrible anime bird.
I regret my purchases and no longer have a 3090 Xtreme
Yep. I didn’t choose to have rgb in my current build, but it’s also very simple to turn them off. Whereas 15 years ago I remember pulling the blindingly bright blue LED from the chassis fans just to be able to have my room dark. Lol
Fun story time: Here I am browsing Lemmy when I come across this post and think to myself, “Wow I just made the same post on Mastodon. I’ll need to post a link to my toot” only to realize that this was my toot.
The Fediverse really messes with my mind sometimes with how you can post to Lemmy communities from Mastodon.
Not everything is, but that’s often what you see advertised because it’s overpriced and fools people who don’t know better. There is a buildapc community here on lemmy.world full of people that love to help and answer questions. Also, pcpartpicker.com is a great resource for finding parts and has several tiers of builds with handpicked parts to fit your budget without having to do much research. I’ll also say that putting together a pc doesn’t take much technical know-how, and the only tool you typically need is a screwdriver.
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How am I supposed to sleep at night when my computer’s acting like it’s at a rave?
…Turn it off?
There are usually non-RGB options, and the for ones that do have RGB, it’s generally optional. They usually have their own software to manage their brand’s RGB settings, but there are also third-party apps that often manage many different systems.
Some people like it, so why not give them the option?
For what it’s worth, I would HIGHLY recommend not shopping on Newegg. A decade ago, they were the gold standard. Since then, they got bought out, and the new owners have gutted the customer support system.
Microcenter is what you’re looking for, whether you want to shop online or in-store. Although, if you don’t have a physical store near you, I dunno if you might have to pay more for shipping or anything.
@JakenVeina I looked at Microcenter but a lot of stuff seems to only be available in store and there isn’t one close by. The closest one is 3 hours away. I’m also hesitant to buy computer parts from Amazon so Newegg seems to be the only good option. I’ll probably also check B&H to see if they have everything.
Do what you gotta do, friend.
Just get a case with a solid sidepanel (one of the Fractal Design Define variants for example). Then your components can RGB all they want, you simply won’t see it.
@SpaceCadet I thought about that but I like the little window on the side. It makes it easier to see inside if I need to check on something. Just recently I needed to check and make sure nothing was using my bottom sata ports before ordering an m.2 SSD. With the side window, I could just take a peak inside without having to pull the panel off.
As some others have said, I’ll likely hunt for non-RGB stuff or just set it up to turn them off.
Perhaps you should also keep in mind that RGB doesn’t have to be unicorm vomit. You can set it to a solid neutral color as well, and it provides a bit of light so you can see what’s going on in your case.
Most thinga have RGB simply because its popular and it gives manufacturers some leeway for margin, as for the most part, margins for pc components are pretty bad
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Just build myself a brand new pc 2 months ago and it only has one part with rgb, the gpu and I leave turned off all the time.
If you look for the best performance per €/$ you will mostly get stuff without rgb.
More often than not you can disable RGB on some software or just by not plugging it in (my tower came with RGB fans that honestly were beautiful but I can’t stand the unicorn barf for long periods of time)
RGB case fans are ones I’ll never get because hooking them up with the extra wiring sounds annoying. I don’t mind the ones part of AIOs or motherboards though, since they don’t make the process of building more annoying.
Argh they’re horrible! I think mine weren’t even compatible with my motherboard specs so I wouldn’t be able to control them with software. I’d have to use a stupid controller.
Lian Li have some that can be daisy-chained so they will only have one wire to plug. That I think it’s cool. Mine is a rat’s nest that I keep hidden.
After many years of building my PCs, I’ve switched to pre built from Puget Sound Systems. Unknown to me, there was some RGB inside - but the case is a solid metal Fractal Design one. No tempered glass, no RGB, no problem!
As a person who doesn’t like rbg but love the current glass/high flow aesthetic, thankful it’s really easy to ensure the lights are turned off.
The only thing might be is that you’ll probably have to download a few pieces of company specific bloatware at least temporarily to turn it off.
Gaming aesthetic is usually aimed at a younger audience so you end up with a lightshow. Just get a windowless case and make sure your peripherals have the option to turn the RGB off.
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Wait until you see how much extra metal and plastic some new cases have to hide cables and components to make it look cool and pretty.
I bought a Corsair 5000D and pulled out like a small case’s worth of material out of it just to make it easier to work on. Should have bought a cheap bare bones case instead of this over engineered piece of crap lol.
All this RGB shit is so funny to me since I just shove all the parts in and never look at it until something breaks or I upgrade something, it’s like the early 2000s “DAEWOO BOUNCE look at my underglow lights and spinning rims on my Toyota Tercel supe’d up hoopty” nonsense. I get it, but it’s also so goddamn distracting.
But like others said, you can turn off RGB. The only thing I can think of that you may have to watch out for if you’re getting a big aftermarket cooler is RAM clearance since RGB RAM tends to be a bit bigger.
