Sometimes I wonder what the thought process behind the gaming aesthetic was. RGB (*if tunable) itself is fine and adds a nice opportunity for personalization, but are those tacky fonts, crystal-facet enclosures, and overall showiness just tasteless or do any gamers actually prefer that look?
I don’t like the aesthetic but a lot of my stuff is “gaming” branded for functionality reasons (eg high refresh rate monitor; mice with extra buttons; the mech kb I wanted happened to be gaming branded but I would’ve bought a keyboard with same specs and price that was not gaming branded). The gaming aesthetic is a bit weird when you think about it.
i want plain computers back.
They still sell Antec 🤷
#MakeBeigeGreatAgain
My case is all black, but almost everything these days ships with RGB if it’s a modern gaming part. I set them to the lowest brightness at a dark purple so it barely shows. Anything more than that is too distracting for me.
so uh i built my gaming pc in an old Lenovo Think tower. no tempered glass or RGB. i just want it to work idc how it looks
I’ve been a PC gamer for 32 years now. I do enjoy having a clear side panel. I’ve had one for 22 years. That way you can show off whatever you have inside. I don’t use RGB or any kind of lighting. I just think clear electronics are cool, you can see how they are made.
I think it is all childish, really. Like it is cool for 5 seconds but then you realize it’s something you can’t just deal with on a regular basis. I know everything that is advertised as ‘GAMING’ or ‘GAMER’ is just superfluous and scamming.
I’ve been okay with unassuming, basic-ass accessories and computers. As long as they do what I paid a lot of money for them to do.
I like being childish. I miss being childish. therefore my gaming everything will be childish. 😇
I think the industry still thinks their target audience is 12 year olds. It’s evident also in the aesthetic of the games they make. That being said I am seeing a slow change for the better. If only I could say the same about the prices…
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Gamer here, I do like my setup RGB matching the same color (Red)
But only because something has RGB does not mean I’ll buy it. RGB ≠ Quality
I was looking for something with a nicge natural wood finish. LED is dine but no blinking fading, just a solid line without any distraction.
I bought RGB crap once. It stayed on while the PC was in standby mode. Never again.
My gaming pc lives in a soundproof cupboard 5m away without a case because quietness is more important to me than any visual element, so any RGB thing gets avoided, or turned off.
I can appreciate a very colour coordinated and well put together “gaming” computer in a purely aesthetic sense. Some are genuinely pretty and I get that some folk take a lot of pleasure out of making something that looks beautiful and best of luck to them. But I’m not one of them.
How do you handle cooling?
Super quietness sounds great but having a CPU running at 1.000°C doesn’t
I drilled a 100mm diameter hole through to the outside of the house and have a 120mm pc fan blowing air directly out from the cupboard through that. Possibly not an option for everyone, but as a householder with power tools, it seemed like a good idea.
The PC itself is just a motherboard screwed to a flat shelf, with a bracket to hold the graphics card steady.
Works well most of the time, although in recent 30’c ambient temperature, it got up to around 37c in there when I was playing a modern game. My CPU is only 65w but I’ve got a new graphics card and that creates a lot more heat when it’s working hard.
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There’s a passive vent low down to let room-ambient air in (around the corner to avoid direct noise).
Heat rises, use physics where you can - one regret I have is not putting the outlet higher in the cupboard so it could be fully passive cooled.
I was debating doing something like this; install my build in the crawlspace below my desk. It’s just an exterior wall, so running a big enough channel through the wall would mess up the insulation. :(
That’s a sweet setup.
Thank you.
I hate it. I resent that I have to get an app to turn off the horrible lights in the computer and peripherals.
got a pc with a good deal. First thing I did was electrically cut off all unnecessary leds
We went from boring beige PC cases, that looked rather boring and were in dire need of some stylish upgrades, in the complete other direction and overshot the target by a mile. I find most modern PC stuff incredible ugly and impractical. Even just finding a tower that still has a 5.25" slot took effort, since most don’t even have them anymore. The whole idea of transparent windows on your case or putting your PC on the desk instead of below it, is complete nonsense, especially when you don’t even have room for swappable disk drives. The good old desktop PC at least went under your monitor, but modern PC cases don’t even do that.
I am kind of surprised, despite all those decades of PC gaming, we still don’t have gaming PCs as compact as a Playstation/Xbox. They do exist, e.g. the old Alienware Steam Machine was tiny, but they are far from common place and often either underpowered or overpriced.
I fucking hate RGB. Not only because it’s not well supported in Linux but because I sleep in the same room as my computer. I won’t buy components with RGB if I have the choice.
