rgb lighting What is Your Take on RGB Lighting?

[jronnquist]

The Asian junk-export shadow economy has been RGB-ing its ride-on cars and other rip-offs to death since long before the LED revolution. But how did it work its way into serious PC gaming? My personal opinion is that it looks - well - cheap. I just cringe every time I see all that red, green and blue. 

 

Now white is a different story. I have three white LED fans in my case, an AIO water block with the Corsair logo back-lit in white, and even bought two sticks of white (not LED) RAM to go alongside the the two black modules. Were these components full RGB, I would probably tinker with a few other single colour schemes, but white looks the best in my opinion. 

 

So I'm not against the idea of modding a PC for ego as well as frame rates. I just don't get the rainbow circus thing, which seems to be the more dominant approach by far. 

 

What say you?

[dfsgsfa]

personal pref, implied no extra cost

[TheBean]

If I was going to get a build with rgb, it would be a static color with low brightness just to create a theme for my build and not for rgb rainbow barf. 

[Enderman]

Except for people who use RGB for a static colour, I think it looks like crap.

Pick a colour scheme for your build and get/mod components that match.

[AlexTheGreatish]

Imo RGB is awesome because of the ease of customization.  Some people will want the rainbow vomit, but for those that don't they can choose a solid colour, have it switch between several, or turn the lights off.  Very few people will go to the trouble of painting or customizing their PC in a more permanent way, but with RGB almost anyone can have some easy personalization.

[jronnquist]

1 minute ago, Saksham said:

If I was going to get a build with rgb, it would be a static color with low brightness just to create a theme for my build and not for rgb rainbow barf. 

Rainbow barf! That's the phrase I was looking for. 

[PlayStation 2]

Don't care, my sexuality is no one else's business.

[IkeaGnome]

I have it. Didn't really go out of my way to get it, but I do have it all set to one color at a time and next time I'm home going to work on dimming it if I can. I'm not against it at all as long as it's not the color changing seizure experience people like. Just like anything else it can be done in a tasteful way. If I feel like having dark blue one day and dark green the next I can without swapping out parts to change a color scheme if that makes sense.

[jronnquist]

2 minutes ago, Voluspa said:

"...color changing seizure experience..." 

Ha ha ha ha.....HA HA HA HA!

[Techstorm970]

I love how customizable it is, and what games and other applications can do with it.

 

For example, if you allow it to, Civ VI can change your RGB lighting color while you're playing.  Most of the time, it matches the theme color of your civ.  It turned your lights red during war and (maybe) gold during a golden age.

 

The default rainbow barf is overwhelming and usually looks stupid imo.

[jronnquist]

2 minutes ago, Techstorm970 said:

For example, if you allow it to, Civ VI can change your RGB lighting color while you're playing.  Most of the time, it matches the theme color of your civ.  It turned your lights red during war and (maybe) gold during a golden age.

Now that I did not know. Interesting. 

[Aniallation]

 

A once forgotten fad is coming back but to PCs haha

[GDRRiley]

I hate it. I prefer a static color. I've had white lights with a mostly black build for 5 years now. my board doesn't seem to any white lights so I can't get a very good white out of it.

RGBW or RGBAA is better but not perfect.

[AshRiver]

rgb stands for really good build

 

Some people say rgb increase fps too.

[technovir]

I was initially against it, then I got a byski block with built in rgb at a good price and thought I might as well plug it in

Now I've gone full rgb

[NineEyeRon]

It is of no interest to me outside functional keyboard lighting, which I use to highlight keys that do certain things.

 

I have made keyboard lighting profiles for Skyrim, Kerbal Space Program and a few others. They help me quickly remember what keys to what, especially when games have lots of key binds like flight sims.

 

Everything else has its lights turned off or don’t have lights in the first place.