What is ur opinion on rgb lighting?

[Bombastinator]

23 hours ago, TheDocH said:

It's great when done right. Otherwise no.

It effectively attempts to turn a computer into a sculpture, and sculpture can be good or bad. It has its points as a tool I guess. It was a tool available before the manufacturers went proprietary though.  

[Sarra]

Only use I have for it is to set all of my lighting colors to the same color. My RGB keyboard and mouse, for example, are set to static Red.

 

The entire rest of my setup, besides my monitors and power indicator LED's, are all lighting-free.

[small guy64]

100% unnecessary and dose not look the best. only good thing about is that one can change the color on the fly. 

UV neon is the way to go if you want lights inside your PC, and even that is 100% unnecessary.

[thrasher_565]

10 hours ago, Benji said:

LTT staff should read this, lol. If it accentuates, it can look decent. But the way they do it in all their videos with colour waves and it looks worse than a disco, it's just way too much. But a lot of people like that and every RGB build featured in a LTT video has this overdriven disco crap.

That's why I chose "It's okay". Can look good in a few cases, looks bad in a lot of cases.

its probably that way for a reason. linus knows haters are going to hate so he stokes the fire.

[Bombastinator]

3 minutes ago, thrasher_565 said:

its probably that way for a reason. linus knows haters are going to hate so he stokes the fire.

Also it’s a review.  One needs to see the max capacity. 

[thrasher_565]

ya my pc will be a light show when im done mhhaha

 

but people asking the same question about rgb is starting to make it less fun for me...

 

i got pwm 40mm rgb fans in so that probably sums it up.

[Guest]

I like the way it looks as long as it's not too distracting. I hate all the terrible software. 

[Spindel]

RGB is the computer worlds equivalent to the car worlds vape-bro mitsubishi eclipse covered in stickers from Firestone, Sparco, NOS etc.

[King of Memes]

8 hours ago, Kylan275 said:

I like the way it looks as long as it's not too distracting. I hate all the terrible software. 

yes, gigabyte vision is the worst. Asus Aura sync isn't the best, but it gets the job done. Corsair iCue is actually good, but it eats up ur pc.

[King of Memes]

1 minute ago, milkerfish said:

MSI's software is also god awful and has a chance to brick itself when you use OpenRGB

ok, ive never had any experience with their software

[thrasher_565]

1 hour ago, King of Memes said:

ok, ive never had any experience with their software

azrock software the rgb ram did show up but did not work then its was like nop and the icon disaperd. even installing the rgb ram software did nothing... it was so bad i used the built in case rgb controller instead.. oh and your thing that aio came with an rgb.argb controller well.. that was doa...

Edited March 14, 2021 by thrasher_565

[WhitetailAni]

Hardware-side:

As long as it's not too in-your-face about the RGB, and it looks nice in terms of form and it's not super expensive, I like it.

 

Software-side:
I shall only buy ASUS motherboards because everyone else's RGB software sucks.

Even though the X570 Taichi is a better fit for what I'd use than the X570-E - I can't stand ASRock Polychrome.

[TheDocH]

20 hours ago, SGT-AMD said:

What would happen if it was done left?

It would look like inverted colours mode.

[freeagent]

I have some on my ram, and on my VRM shroud.. its ok.. I cant see the shroud because LGMRT. The software is terrible. The first couple of times I used the Asus software, it ended up breaking the shroud light. It was only able to be fixed though uefi update where it updated the firmware. Would be nice to sync them up but not if I have to flash new firmware to the led controller every time lol.

 

I did used to think it was dumb though. Now its not bad. I don't see myself going full RGB though.. I enjoy my high performance fans too much to give up performance for pretty.

 

But that might change one day.. probably not though.. watch 2 months from now you will see me full rgb with strips fans everything lol

 

Probably not..

[KLF]

I prefer having RGB. 

 

My old desktop was built in CM HAF XB Evo case. All mesh, nice airflow. Walls of my office were white during the day and blue/red at nights when computer was on. Red leds from motherboard and blue Gigabyte Windforce logo on the GPU made sure of that I knew when computer was on. No way to turn them off, or even change color to something nicer. 

 

My current build is all RGB. I can set everything to match or even turn them off when I feel like it. 

[King of Memes]

8 hours ago, FakeKGB said:

Hardware-side:

As long as it's not too in-your-face about the RGB, and it looks nice in terms of form and it's not super expensive, I like it.

 

Software-side:
I shall only buy ASUS motherboards because everyone else's RGB software sucks.

Even though the X570 Taichi is a better fit for what I'd use than the X570-E - I can't stand ASRock Polychrome.

i agree, i have some rgb in my setup. i love setting it to warm colors like orange. I set it to rainbow once but i didnt like it.

[IkeaGnome]

My keyboard and mouse have it. They're usually on a dark warm purple. As for actual PC. This is too much for me. I tried to completely get rid of it, but it doesn't want to go away.

[flibberdipper]

I'll take it on my keyboard and that's about it. It's incredibly stupid on mice (especially wireless ones), and while it can look nice in PCs if done correctly, I'd still just prefer to have close to none, if not none. I'd rather just have a handful of status LEDs burning away on the inside of my PC. I really like my PCs to be somewhat understated or stealthy.

[Moonzy]

I'm ok with rgb, but please give me a physical toggle switch like bios switch so I can turn it off without downloading the softwares

 

Right now my mining rigs are way worse than unicorn puke because I'm lazy to get the software to turn them off. (Multiple brands means multiple softwares uggh)

[CT854]

Rainbow puke should be placed on a trebuchet and yeeted into the sun. Garish RGB gets a no from me. Unfortunately it seems like that's where the marketing for RGB seems to be focused.

 

I do, however, like thematic and carefully thought out RGB. It doesn't even have to be conservative - you can deck out your build with all the RGB it can support, and as long as it's tied together thoughtfully, that's fine in my book. The customizability that RGB gives you I think is a massive positive in the industry and I'll gladly pay the premium so I can have something that feels more personalized to me. In my book, it's half way between just slapping a cheap sticker on the tower and custom case mods that'll set me back far more than a few RGB fans.

 

But also... who cares? As long as it makes the owner of the rig happy... why does it matter? From what I've seen anecdotally, RGB scrooges come off as incredibly prescriptivist and absolute in their opinions. Hell, it's this prescriptivism that turns me off the RGB hate more than how supposedly juvenile and silly RGB fans (no pun intended, I mean advocates in this context) are.

[Sarra]

2 minutes ago, CT854 said:

Rainbow puke should be placed on a trebuchet and yeeted into the sun. Garish RGB gets a no from me. Unfortunately it seems like that's where the marketing for RGB seems to be focused.

 

I do, however, like thematic and carefully thought out RGB. It doesn't even have to be conservative - you can deck out your build with all the RGB it can support, and as long as it's tied together thoughtfully, that's fine in my book. The customizability that RGB gives you I think is a massive positive in the industry and I'll gladly pay the premium so I can have something that feels more personalized to me. In my book, it's half way between just slapping a cheap sticker on the tower and custom case mods that'll set me back far more than a few RGB fans.

 

But also... who cares? As long as it makes the owner of the rig happy... why does it matter? From what I've seen anecdotally, RGB scrooges come off as incredibly prescriptivist and absolute in their opinions. Hell, it's this prescriptivism that turns me off the RGB hate more than how supposedly juvenile and silly RGB fans (no pun intended, I mean advocates in this context) are.

They did an all white PC, and it actually looked pretty nice that way. It really softened up the lighting, and almost made it look pastel in some modes.

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, CT854 said:

Rainbow puke should be placed on a trebuchet and yeeted into the sun. Garish RGB gets a no from me. Unfortunately it seems like that's where the marketing for RGB seems to be focused.

 

I do, however, like thematic and carefully thought out RGB. It doesn't even have to be conservative - you can deck out your build with all the RGB it can support, and as long as it's tied together thoughtfully, that's fine in my book. The customizability that RGB gives you I think is a massive positive in the industry and I'll gladly pay the premium so I can have something that feels more personalized to me. In my book, it's half way between just slapping a cheap sticker on the tower and custom case mods that'll set me back far more than a few RGB fans.

 

But also... who cares? As long as it makes the owner of the rig happy... why does it matter? From what I've seen anecdotally, RGB scrooges come off as incredibly prescriptivist and absolute in their opinions. Hell, it's this prescriptivism that turns me off the RGB hate more than how supposedly juvenile and silly RGB fans (no pun intended, I mean advocates in this context) are.

 

5 minutes ago, CT854 said:

Rainbow puke should be placed on a trebuchet and yeeted into the sun. Garish RGB gets a no from me. Unfortunately it seems like that's where the marketing for RGB seems to be focused.

 

I do, however, like thematic and carefully thought out RGB. It doesn't even have to be conservative - you can deck out your build with all the RGB it can support, and as long as it's tied together thoughtfully, that's fine in my book. The customizability that RGB gives you I think is a massive positive in the industry and I'll gladly pay the premium so I can have something that feels more personalized to me. In my book, it's half way between just slapping a cheap sticker on the tower and custom case mods that'll set me back far more than a few RGB fans.

 

But also... who cares? As long as it makes the owner of the rig happy... why does it matter? From what I've seen anecdotally, RGB scrooges come off as incredibly prescriptivist and absolute in their opinions. Hell, it's this prescriptivism that turns me off the RGB hate more than how supposedly juvenile and silly RGB fans (no pun intended, I mean advocates in this context) are.

If rgb was free or even cheap and interconnectable I would agree with you the problem is adding rgb can double the price of a fan or more, and the companies used rgb not being in the atx standard to attempt to trap and control consumers with proprietary connectors that had absolutely no quality improvement over the original non proprietary ones.  This is one of the things shat was so irritating.  There actually WAS a standard created by the light bulb  companies and the computer manufacturers came in and actually deliberately ruined it.  Apple tends to more or less get away with that because when they break a standard they make the new thing significantly qualitatively better.  That did not happen with rgb. 

Edited March 15, 2021 by Bombastinator

[CT854]

1 minute ago, Bombastinator said:

If rgb was free or even cheap and interconnectable I would agree with you the problem is adding rgb can double the price of a fan or more, and the companies used rgb not being in the atx standard to attempt to trap and control consumers with proprietary connectors that had absolutely no quality improvement over the original non proprietary ones.  This is one of the things shat was so irritating.  There actually WAS a standard created by the light bulb  companies and the computer manufacturers came in AMD actually deliberately ruined it.

Your gripe is more with how RGB is sold and implemented by companies than the concept itself. I'm talking about how RGB is treated at the consumer end. You bring up good points about bad behavior by companies, but that's not what I'm addressing. My point is "why care what consumers do with their RGB?", not related to your point of "RGB is bad because companies behave badly when making, marketing, and selling the products."

[CT854]

10 minutes ago, Sarra said:

They did an all white PC, and it actually looked pretty nice that way. It really softened up the lighting, and almost made it look pastel in some modes.

I am impressed with how good RGB looks in a white build. Shame it'd clash too hard with my setup. One day...

[Sarra]

4 minutes ago, CT854 said:

I am impressed with how good RGB looks in a white build. Shame it'd clash too hard with my setup. One day...

lol Yeah. I bought an XBox controller. It died. Not going to waste my money on another XBox controller... So, PS5 dualsense controller. Except it would be the only white object in my entire room. It would clash with literally everything else...