Maybe it's because I'm old...

[ZenMonkey]

I've been following case trends for the past year or so, and they're all moving to tons of RGB with tempered glass sides to show off everything, and it's forced me to think to myself "Am I the only person who doesn't care about color coordination, RGB features, and cable management?"

 

Just give me a solid box with enough space and good ventilation and I'm happy. I don't care how it looks, I only care how it performs. Now, I'll admit that at first I was cool with an RGB accent here or there, but it's become kind of ridiculous in my opinion.

[Beowulff83]

Agreed but maybe because i am getting old also

[Orochimario]

I personally love it but when it compromises on functionality thats when i draw the line personally  

[TVwazhere]

I personally dont care much about RGB, but Cable management and color coordination (everything goes with black) are somewhat important as a PC builder, mostly the cable management. But thats because I want to look into my PC. There are plenty of people who would take a closed off side panel and just shove thing in, so you're not alone.

[General Winter]

if it bothers you, you can just not wire the lighting; as long as it doesn't comprise the effective cooling and there isn't a cheap non-rgb case that is just as good, then just don't wiring the RGB, hell you can even remove em in some cases

[porina]

I'm old, but RGB everything! Yay! #midlifecrisis

 

On the other side, one of my top cases is a GameMax Silent one. Can't see anything through it sound damped panels, but you hardly know it was on apart from the occasional flicker of disk activity LED.

[3 Lions]

I like RGB but only a medium amount. It gives the PC a sense of personality specific to user and any manufacture that adds it to their part/case is only giving you a fun option to play around with, you aren't forced to have them on. 

[dizmo]

I'm old, but I still care about aesthetics.

The fact that you don't has nothing to do with you being old, it just has to do with where you put your priorities.

[ZenMonkey]

52 minutes ago, Orochimario said:

I personally love it but when it compromises on functionality thats when i draw the line personally  

 

I would accept no other answer given your avatar.

[Orochimario]

Just now, ZenMonkey said:

 

I would accept no other answer given your avatar.

lol

[ZenMonkey]

54 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

There are plenty of people who would take a closed off side panel and just shove thing in, so you're not alone.

 

I don't want to misrepresent myself. I try to route cables to get them mostly out of the way, but no custom sleeves or meticulous routing. Ketchup and mustard? Fine with me. Nobody will see it! Is there a stray cable here or there or a little messiness? That's okay with me if it's working fine!

[Brennan Price]

Don't get me wrong, I am a stickler for keeping a colour, theme or aesthetic going in a PC but I have to agree that RGB is getting out of hand. I only add pretty lights to my builds simply because I like to keep this theme going and I enjoy looking at the hardware. I would not buy any component based on its RGB-ness, I would rather buy it without thanks.

[geo3]

I'm part of the "RGB is literally cancer" crowd, so I feel ya'

 

Also I don't want to look inside my PC except when I need to change something so glass panels are also dumb IMO. I used to be into cable management because I belive it made things run cooler but Linus actually proved it made no difference so now I don't care.

 

My Ideal PC would be bolted to the underside of a desk or off in a closet somewhere so I never have to look at it or worry about it wasting space.

[Acquire]

I can understand not wanting RGB and tempered glass, but not caring about cable management or even basic color coordination?  I don't see what age has to do with those to.  I would hope that at any age you would appreciate and want something clean looking even if you don't want it to be flashy.

[geo3]

29 minutes ago, Acquire said:

I can understand not wanting RGB and tempered glass, but not caring about cable management or even basic color coordination?  I don't see what age has to do with those to.  I would hope that at any age you would appreciate and want something clean looking even if you don't want it to be flashy.

Cables are inside your case, if you don't have a glass panel why does it matter?

[Zusafek]

It all depends on where its placed. My gaming area is in the main part of the house, so both my wife and my computers are part of the main display within the house. Those have tempered glass, acrylic windows and tasteful RGB setups. My media center is in a simple black case with no lighting at all. My NAS storage is hidden next to my fire proof and water proof safe. 

 

So in my opinion it all depends on the circumstance. 

[Acquire]

52 minutes ago, geo3 said:

Cables are inside your case, if you don't have a glass panel why does it matter?

It's a matter of cleanliness.  Just because something is behind closed doors doesn't mean it should be a mess.   I've built in cases that had no windowed panels and still made sure there was good cable management otherwise it just feels like a sloppily put together build.  I've also found it's easier to maintain/upgrade a PC when the insides aren't a mess.  Some people don't care if things are a mess though.  I'll never understand these people.

[Howitz]

between a super beautiful tempered glass+rgb computer or a black box of the same performance, i'd pick the rgb one only if it was the same price, make it 0.01$ more and i pick the black box.

 

and that's my view on rgb.

[Bcat00]

I agree, never cared about RGB and the big fuss with it. The only main selling point that attracts me is the actual layout and the dampening foams lol.

[andrewmp6]

I'm 34 been a pc builder for years and i welcome tempered glass,I hated the acrylic windows pc cases used before.They scratched easy and was a dust magnet.And i do love the dust filters before them i had to clean my case out monthly now its just pull the filter clean it and done.Rgb has its good and bad to me,Lets just say your doing a color theme build and wanted yellow lights or fans.Well before rgb a lot of colors you had to kinda mod fan led lights and make your own led light strips.The color range on rgb stuff is welcome to me,But the effects are kinda killing rgb to me,Some people like that but i want a single color just on.I don't want my case looking like a honda civic off fast and furious.

[greaves1111]

Im old too. RGB can make a nice build pop, so I'm all for that

 

I'm interested in RGB RAM for some reason I can't quite explain. I feel like that's the exclamation point on a fully color coordinated build when you can't find a mobo that'll match. The computer I'm planning for 2018 will have RGB RAM and maybe strips around the inside of the case, but certainly not fans or under the outside of the case, and DEF not on my desk or computer chair lol, or my coaster (if you remember that prototype)

[ZenMonkey]

14 hours ago, Acquire said:

I can understand not wanting RGB and tempered glass, but not caring about cable management or even basic color coordination?  I don't see what age has to do with those to.  I would hope that at any age you would appreciate and want something clean looking even if you don't want it to be flashy.

 

Worrying about color coordination inside my case is like worrying about color coordinating my underwear. The only people who are going to see it won't care. Beyond that, I have a solid black case with a blue LED accent on the front and a blue NZXT puck. My headphones and mouse pad are red and black. My keyboard is black with white LEDs behind the keys. One monitor is black with red LED accents. My speakers have blue LEDs. You'd probably be apoplectic in my computer room, but it all runs like a champ and I didn't pay 10-20% extra for it, so I'm happy.

[geo3]

14 hours ago, Howitz said:

between a super beautiful tempered glass+rgb computer or a black box of the same performance, i'd pick the rgb one only if it was the same price, make it 0.01$ more and i pick the black box.

 

and that's my view on rgb.

RGB I'd just strip out, but for tempered glass I'd pay more to NOT have it.

[Howitz]

enough said.

[PCMasterGuy]

On 1/10/2018 at 10:54 PM, ZenMonkey said:

I've been following case trends for the past year or so, and they're all moving to tons of RGB with tempered glass sides to show off everything, and it's forced me to think to myself "Am I the only person who doesn't care about color coordination, RGB features, and cable management?"

 

Just give me a solid box with enough space and good ventilation and I'm happy. I don't care how it looks, I only care how it performs. Now, I'll admit that at first I was cool with an RGB accent here or there, but it's become kind of ridiculous in my opinion.

I'm building a non RGB, non Gamery looking PC in a CaseLabs mercury s5. only have couple white leds on ram/gpu. I'll be very happy with it.