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?

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  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • drekly@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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

    • Elegast@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      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