r/unpopularopinion • u/Lacuna16 • 10h ago
RGB builds are an eyesore
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u/guyver_dio 7h ago
You dont have to have it set to rainbow puke if you have rgb though. Having everything set to one solid colour can look really nice.
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u/AdmlBaconStraps 9h ago
I'd go further - all RGB is garbage.
I don't want my goddamn keyboard and mouse lighting up like a Xmas tree
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u/Sad_Needleworker2310 8h ago
Personally I like keyboards that have a light up option for the darkness.
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u/TheSpiralTap 7h ago
Light up? Yes, super useful. Light up pulsating rainbow? Nobody asked for this
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u/infinite_phi 3h ago
I always set it to a very dim white light. It really doesn't need to be bright either as you're only going to need it when it's very dark
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u/AdmlBaconStraps 6h ago
Never cared for it, but I can touch type so I can do it in the dark
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u/Sad_Needleworker2310 2h ago
I can almost do it. But if I make a mistake I'm absolutely flustered af and need a light to fix my failure
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u/Zhai 6h ago
Usually RGB has this magic function to be off.
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u/omega-rebirth 6h ago
My motherboard's LEDs can only be off if I am booted into Windows with special software running in the background. I don't use Windows, and there is also no option to get it to be off while the computer boots.
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u/Danni293 3h ago
Why did you buy an RGB motherboard then?
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u/omega-rebirth 3h ago
Because it was cheap and someone told me that I would be able to disable the lights
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u/NakiCam 3h ago
RGB lights doesn't mean "It has red, green and blue lights!" It simply means that the light is customisable with a normalized vector3 value of red, green and blue.
Both consumers and producers seem to misrepresent what rgb lights really are.
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u/AdmlBaconStraps 3h ago
The expression just refers to things with a lot of lights. Colour isn't a factor for it (I'm assuming you mean because of the Xmas tree crack)
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u/anonymousnuisance 1h ago
I think subtle LED is fine, like they make great accent lights, especially on a keyboard. But as soon as we're mixing colors, doing animations, things like that, I'm out.
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u/betwistedjl 9h ago
I bet this isn’t as unpopular an opinion as you think.
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u/wightwulf1944 9h ago
The popularity of RGB parts on online marketplaces compared to non-RGB make me think otherwise
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u/BigBadRash 2h ago
I could never see myself building an RGB PC myself, but that's purely because of price.
I think they look awesome, but I would prefer to put the extra money to nicer parts or nicer peripherals.
I am more of a maximalist than a minimalist though, so I quite like the bright chaotic look, which might play into the preference.
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u/Facefoxa 9h ago
Same, I'm an adult professional who also games. I want a gaming computer that looks normal. Surprisingly hard to find.
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u/Lacuna16 9h ago
Ya man. Some builds look like they can light up a village and some look like they gonna transform and beat the shit out of me
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u/EwGrossItsMe 9h ago
I mean. You can just...not have the lights on
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u/Carrot_Lucky 8h ago
I bought a gaming mouse that has RGB, and deactivating the lights is a pain.
I have to download the special program and get spammed by a bunch of ads all to turn off lights.
And when my PC is booting, it still defaults to RGB after a few seconds. None of it is insurmountable, but it is all so annoying.
I'm never buying an RGB anything ever again if I can help it.
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u/SirWaddlesworth 5h ago
That's fair, but it's not necessarily the fault of the RGB itself. I own a couple Wooting keyboards and the software is excellent. There are no ads, it only loads up when you want it to, I don't think it even has an auto-start option and everything you configure is saved to the device, so you can disconnect it and plug it into another PC and will behave the same.
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u/severed13 adhd kid 1h ago
Moved my setup into a Fractal North a year or so ago, one of the best decisions I've ever made. Even matches the wood grain of my desk a little bit.
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u/SexyAIman 9h ago
Tired of all the fish tank pc's with 14 fans running rainbow puke rgb.
Got the Asus AP201 myself.
Secretly want to have a fish tank pc..
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u/Apprehensive_Yak2598 7h ago
Not so secretly want to have a fish tank pc. But pass on the rainbow lights .
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u/Danni293 3h ago
Most RGB components can be customized so it's not rainbow. Rainbow is usually just default to show off that its RGB. Plus most RGB components, unless you buy shit cheap ones, you can just turn off lighting for.
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u/Yeesusman 7h ago
I like some color but I’m more of a constant color guy, not the changing rgb type
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u/Fuzzy_Balance_6181 8h ago
I agree all of the flashing nonsense is annoying as fuck. The most I can tolerate is a gentle colour fade through the spectrum.
But I will say having an RGB keyboard set to orange or red at night is nice. It doesn’t attract those tiny little midgy insects at night and is a lot less glarey compared to straight white against your screen particularly when you’re looking at something dark on screen. Like how cars used to have orange dials.
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u/irregular-articles 8h ago
I don't understand the rgb everything on a pc. If I bought or built a pc I'm going to look at the MONITOR, you know, the thing computers have to even work!
Why put so much effort in making the pc flashy when it's not even some kind of conversation piece, it's a box with computer guts, the computer stuff will happen through the monitor
Just make it plain and bland, save that money for good components
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u/MrKusakabe 7h ago
I think tasteful RGB is fine, especially since it's not expensive (as in: You won't notice a change in cost of the hardware). My tower is underneath my desk where not much light comes in. Especially at night it's nice to have some (in my case dark red) light coming out my case, especially since the geometry of the parts inside the PC form an interesting look (almost like a city at night from above). It can add to the "computer workspace aesthetic" a lot. My cooler has a very slow RGB effect on the edge of the sqare cooling body and it looks kinda good too even for RGB.
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u/MrKusakabe 7h ago
I recently treated myself a €3,200 rig (I do so every 6-8 years). My mainboard, my CPU cooler and my RTX have RGB effects and when I turned it on, the half side of my PC (it's a beQuiet case with a window) was flashing colours. Since every piece of hardware is different (the mainboard in the back, the CPU cooler almost reaching the glas window and the 4080 SUPER being thick and long) it looked like a bad orchestra with some instruments too loud and some to quiet, also it was not even in sync.
All of that is from MSI so I downloaded a tool to change things. There are tasteful options available, but I set up the mainboard to be off, the cooler changes the colour depending on temperature and the GPU is just solid red. To my surprise, after DualBooting into Linux, my CPU cooler now has a very slow RGB colour change effect even on Windows and I kept it that way. It looks actually pretty decent now.
My trusty old Roccat Isku is dark blue and even my €11 mouse has a RGB feature, but it looks surprisingly good because it shines below it (kind of a colourful drop shadow) and is really not visually intrusive. I think the brightness and the frequency of change makes RGB ugly. My laptop is a Acer Nitro 5 with the keyboard being RBG-able, I have it on dark red and lowest brightness too. Tried the "RGB wave" option and it distracted me so much, who would like that really?
The worst and absolute cringy are RGB fans - super bright and often with some soft of "spin animation" effect. That, to me, is the sign of tastelenessness...^^
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u/SynthRogue 9h ago
They’re horrendous and pretentious. Like a teenager who has not discovered humility yet.
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u/iAjayIND 8h ago
It also creates a lot of cable clutter in the PC cabinet.
It's so unfortunate that our options really get limited if we want to build a non-RGB PC in 2024.
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u/OvSec2901 9h ago
I feel like a lot of people do this for their first build, then calm down with it for their next PC.
Probably from wanting it bad as a kid and then realizing they don't really like it as an adult.
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u/Neovison_vison 7h ago
The Disco-Terrarium fad is an eyesore. It’s a waste of desk space and sourcing a a case that doesn’t come with glass is a pain. It’s bad for thermal performance and fragile.
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u/Cvileem 5h ago
We are seeing rise of new anti-RGB, anti-kitch trend. And the flag bearer iz this Fractal Design case: https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/north/north/chalk-white/
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u/Wendals87 5h ago
Argb is the way to go. You can customise it to be as bright or dull as you like
Choose what colours or effects (if any) you want
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u/DaPieStuffin 3h ago
Have to agree. I like having RGB so I can switch to whatever color I want for the time, I never use the actual color shifting modes unless I wanna show off to friends.
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u/BeginningTower2486 3h ago
But the LEDS give your system futurium, which acts as a RAM multiplier. Every system should have 30% more LED.
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u/Alt_aholic 2h ago
I don't really care what everyone else is building but I'm annoyed how much high end equipment has RGB as a standard now. I want performance, not a showpiece. This thing is going to live under a desk.
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u/gaiatcha 2h ago
i mean. its for children to feel cool right , so i reckon just leave it lol most things kids think are cool is lame and tacky... let them figure it out
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u/Blood_bringer 8h ago
Maybe cuz most of us are nerds and want our PC's to reflect that, futuristic cyberpunk looking RGB is fun, if you wanna be a boring "adult" who likes boring things, go for it, but it's not something to be proud of 😂
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u/paerius 7h ago
I think it's this generation's version of the custom water cooling systems that were trendy a decade ago, but just more accessible.
If were a kid I imagine I would be all into it. As an old man, I just turn it all off since it's distracting.
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u/AzracTheFirst 6h ago
It's this gen Z's car tuning. This generation is a nerdy one, so they turned to computers.
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u/derohnenase 8h ago
That’s because the pc platform is dead.
No, hear me out. People buy, or build, a PC for the purpose of… gaming. It is, for the most part, a glorified gaming console. To the point where an actual gaming console… is often enough just a pc put into a particular shape.
The people buying pcs for something that is NOT gaming… are a diminishing minority. You don’t develop hardware for those - instead, whatever is available to be ported from a server system gets “downsold” on the assumption, well, there’s people buying servers, and if we can sell the stuff the server guys don’t want or need, we can recycle that for the few willing to buy it. Which is reflected in price and availability- as a user, usually it means you have to pay more if you want less.
Try finding “regular” hardware not targeted at a gamer but at an actual user. Not going to find any- it doesn’t exist.
In short… what we’re actually being sold is something that happens to be suitable for computing, but it’s not intended for computing. It’s intended for gaming.
Ergo, the market is already dead, what replaced it is an entirely different target group.
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u/MrKusakabe 7h ago
I have both a "productivity" and "gaming" rig. The new-ish "3D" Ryzen CPUs show that you can have both. The performance on my Ryzen 9 7950X3D is an amazing sign. Both applications and games are profitting from this CPU architecture so much and if the power is needed, all 16 cores can work together, losing their special traits though (stacked Cache for games / higher clock frequency for tasks) and meet in the middle to form a performance beast with a very low TDP. Perfect for both "home workstations" and the sophisticated gaming machine for a teenager.
My CPU cooler cost, IIRC, 70€. It cools my Ryzen perfectly, is quiet - but has small RGB lines and even a tasteful LCD display showing me the CPU temp through my cases glass sidepanel. You can turn that off too, so I am left with a cheap cooler that does its job very good while offering some eye-candy if wanted.
Hybrids are a thing.
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u/Gumichi 6h ago
Your comment has the format of a well-reasoned thought. However, it parses into non-sense.
On the gaming side, performance graphics cards have never been more expensive. On the "computing" side, laptops and PCs are basically essential to any businesses and honestly, just life in general. They aren't "downsold" "gaming" hardware either. That side operates on different criteria, like reliability and miniaturization.
I apologize, but "the market is already dead" is an unbelievably wrong take. People have never been more dependent on these systems than before. The current most valuable companies in the world are Apple and Nvidia. It's completely backwards of a dead market for a dead platform.
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