Adding LED lights to case

[VirtualDemon]

I'm new at building PCs, so excuse the noob question. What's the best way to add LED lighting to a case, how do you do it and what's the best product? Do people just use LED strips that you get in a big roll? Where do you plug them in?

[matto97]

I'm new at building PCs, so excuse the noob question. What's the best way to add LED lighting to a case, how do you do it and what's the best product? Do people just use LED strips that you get in a big roll? Where do you plug them in?

in to a tunip

But not 100% sure my self but i believe you can plug them in to fan headers right?

[skyress3000]

Usually people just get one color or maybe RGB LEDs on an adhesive strip and slap it in their case; the top and bottom work well because you can't see the LEDs themselves, just the light the emit. I've heard that BitFenix makes good LED strips (I think). If you want to get into some programming, but more fun, you can get an adafruit neopixel strip and a blinkstick (google 'em) and then you can program each RGB LED individually.

[ThatOneRussian]

If you dont have a big budget get this

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/RGB-LED-Strip-5M-300Led-3528-SMD-24Key-IR-Remote-Controller-12V-2A-Power-Adapter-Flexible/1849234838.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.12.uIy2a9&ws_ab_test=201556_2,201527_1_71_72_73_74_75,201560_4

and its pretty self explantory for this roll anyway

[Enderman]

no not the crappy giant 5m ebay rolls

buy proper PC led strips from darkside, bitfenix, nzxt hue, or something like that

plugs into sata or molex

[Imabigmac]

no not the crappy giant 5m ebay rolls

 

nzxt hue

I can say this because I have one. 

 

It works but you can do better, that said not sure what there is for RGB LED strips. 

[Enderman]

I can say this because I have one. 

 

It works but you can do better, that said not sure what there is for RGB LED strips. 

I had one too

it works great

manual controls work nicely, good lighting effects, nice even lighting, very bright

 

the only down side is that RGB white looks bad so I replaced it with some pure white bitfenix strips

[Constantin]

There are many vids on Youtube, this is how i put mine!

The best way is the 5 meters, you can cut every 3 leds and sold with some wires to make the corners or where ever you need.

Dont forget to put an on/off switch

[iamdarkbowser]

in to a tunip

But not 100% sure my self but i believe you can plug them in to fan headers right?

Yes the fan headers, mine is plugged into one that runs fans at 100% speed and no one whats that 24/7

Edit: I have no idea where I got them but I do know that they were free

[W-L]

I'm new at building PCs, so excuse the noob question. What's the best way to add LED lighting to a case, how do you do it and what's the best product? Do people just use LED strips that you get in a big roll? Where do you plug them in?

 

If you want RGB lights they work great but as said white is a dirty white since it mixes the three colors to produce it, the next best thing is to use RGBW LED's like theses, they wire up via a molex to dc barrel adapter which you can get seperately:

http://www.amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT-Waterproof-300leds-Flexible-Controller/dp/B00KVBXE0G/ref=pd_sim_60_8?ie=UTF8&refRID=0N9NTN73ZPPX9WVEFE4M

 

Adapter:

https://modguru.net/product/12dc-to-molex/

 

If you want predone strips though checkout Addon Customs and Modguru for LED kits.

[modguru]

Thanks @W-L for the linking

We sell a range of high quality handmade LED strips for a good price with plenty of effects. You can get both single colored or RGB ones. Here is a couple of builds with the LED strips in them: https://goo.gl/CyGZP2

You can check out the RGB controller here: https://modguru.net/product/rf-rgb-controller/

And the RGB strip right here: https://modguru.net/product/led-strip-rgb/ 

And also the single colored ones here: https://modguru.net/product/guru-led-strip-single-color/

 

Thanks

Martin