If some stuff wouldn’t have been cheaper with lights than without my PC would be a black void.
My idiot butt got a custom pre-built just a couple weeks ago and the cooler pump has one of those screens as well. It is not working and I suspect a plug is set wrongly, but the pump works.
Fixing it would mean ripping apart the pristine cable management and I do not care about lighting as much.
Otherwise I am fully satisfied, but it niggles me a little bit to have paid 20-30 bucks more for a cooler feature that does not work.
Maybe one day when I need to rip up the cable management anyway, I will fix it.
I kinda liked the AIO water blocks with circle screens for simple animation loops. Can look pretty cool. Not into this scene personally at all, but I can appreciate it’s appealing to blinged out case enjoyers.
Like RGB lighting in general, those are things I only enjoy putting in other people’s computers.
BeBoxen had der blinkenlichten and we all thought it was so cool, but I can’t help but think we should have reflected on this obvious potential future and pulled back on it.
Soon - “play doom on your antec water cooler!”
Lit PC setups are nice and all until you try to go to sleep with them in the same room. I miss plain old PC cases that hide their components so I can seed overnight.
I picked up a Monsterlabo case, fully enclosed fanless, just vent at bottom ans top. No lights, no fans…best PC decision for a machine that stays on to run containers at night while main PC during day
You guys don‘t turn off you computer when going to sleep?
Thats what sleep mode is for.
Maybe I am oldschool or just german but I always shutdown the system and then also turn off the Steckdosenleiste (what is the english word? Power strip?)
Power is generally very cheap in the US, so the ~5 watt power draw is nothing. Rough calculation would be something like 50 cents per month.
Looks like they put a magsafe holder on it and threw an old phone on there
I can think of at least 2 uses for that and now I want it
Use 1: Bright ass temp in obvious LED glory
Use 2: graph of same data over the last x amount of y time unit
I repurposed my POST status LEDs to show CPU temp after the PC has booted, but I like the graph idea. I’d use it to show data from GPU-Z.
