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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.
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.
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.
Normally you can turn off all the lights
I can do it for the video card but some lights on the mobo are for status so that's not easily doable.
Just put it to sleep, I don't understand leaving the PC on 24/7
Does it keep on seeding in sleep mode then? Thought that it halted all processes.
I figured the types who seed a lot also are likely to have a little low power server to handle it instead of the high idle draw of a gaming PC.
But if a gaming PC was intended to be on 24/7, then putting RGB and screens in it and putting it where one sleeps seems like a backwards move lol. Might as well save the pile of money from that and make it a silent build with no lights.
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
Looks like they put a magsafe holder on it and threw an old phone on there
I know very little about these things (why do I need pretty lights in my computer? My GPU has a big, useless white light that I wish I could turn off) but one thing I THINK I know is that that's installed the wrong way around, no? Shouldn't the pump be on top? So that any air bubbles don't gather at whatever you're cooling?
My GPU has a big, useless white light that I wish I could turn off
Have you tried OpenRGB? It may not support your specific GPU but it's worth checking.
I have, it doesn't, but thank you.
Air bubbles rise in liquid, so the pump needs to be below the reservoir to avoid bubbles.
~~Wait, but that's what I'm asking. Why are bubbles at the pump not okay? Don't I want no air at all the other end for ideal cooling?~~
Edit: I misunderstood this entire setup. Disregard me, thank you for your efforts to explain stuff to sleep deprived me.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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