Why can’t I have a plain solid black case and no lighting? I don’t need to see inside and I think all the lights look terrible.
Red LEDs make your pc faster, blue ones make it run cooler and green ones save energy.
This is a comment I would have given gold to.
If you name a charity/good cause with a straight forward payment process, I’ll donate 10 bucks to them.
Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.
Edit: LibreOffice. Good call. Done.
Does this link work? It somehow doesn’t for me right now:
https://files.catbox.moe/4855ds.png
They choose libreoffice (which I use myself and so I added a bit more).
Yeah, you gotta leave em green while idling to save the environment, then when you fire up Fortnight, shift to red to get the Xtra fps per second
The way I learned it is that blue ones make it run faster, green ones save energy, and red ones give a 4% bonus to production.
Yeah, factorio bro!
But now I have understood factorio really mixed up red and blue
No. Da red wuns go fasta.
Purpla vor dat stealth rig
Ah yes, I recall reading about these features. The yellow ones increase your RAM, the purple ones cloak your IP address, and the black ones reduce your chances of hardware failures ('cuz a black LED never burns out).
the purple ones cloak your IP address
Cuz you’ve never seen a purple IP address
No wonder you so rarely see yellow fans when you can easily download more RAM when needed.
If they cycle through do you get all of that at the same time?
Yes, that’s why RGB is recommended so much
Nah, it’s sequential.
That’s why I run my LEDs in parallel.
The fabled paralleleds.
OP not knowing this means OP’s banned from having a pc. Sorry OP, them’s the rules.
I think the answer is obvious: because that’s what sells and is popular. There are all black cases to be found though such as this one for example.
And it’s an amazing case. Every other time I go to update my PCs, I do this little dance. I’ve done a back and forth between a Fractal case from this line and then some other case the next time I update and I always end up going back to the Fractals. They’re just very well designed and look great with plenty of airflow and fan mounting. I’m a big fan.
So you also live inside the case?
Of course! I technically have a rear view that looks out over a view but there are 3 others in here that stare at the ceiling all day. I feel bad for the guy on the lowest level staring at the wall.
Both my desktop and my server are in Define R4s. Plenty of room, dead silent, and still good airflow for a silent case.
10+ years and they’re still my favorite case, and I’d never want anything else.
Yeah. Computer fashion has been a thing since even before the blueberry imac and hello kitty purse macbook made computers status symbols. A current fashion trend is “RGBLEDs make gaming machines go brrrr!”
This is the case I use for my home server :)
Plain solid black cases are everywhere, stop being lazy
But i want to COMPLAIN
They’re not.
You can.
Next question
https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntk=all&sortby=match&N=4294964318+4294819501&myStore=true
Don’t know where your looking. Most are.This is literally the first case I see in the results: https://www.microcenter.com/product/504427/thermaltake-versa-h17-microatx-mini-tower-computer-case-black
yes, they have 3… out of more than 100 cases.
And you can’t have those?
You want a boring black case. There’s not much variation there.
You want a black case with a side replaced by something clear. Not much variation there.
The urge to LEDify every bloody thing has never made sense to me.
I get having a discreet, physical indicator of activity, but having a USB cable that can light up a wall in a dark room, from LEDs on both ends? Too goddamn common now.
…when if you wanted a non-beige case with a window and lights, you had to cut a hole in it, paint it, and install cold-cathode tubes in it yourself.
Cold-cathode tubes please. I was soldering my own connectors and finding MB pins to jack into in 2002.
Joking aside, I got a lot of 20 ancient PCs off a dude in the Thrifty Nickel. Took months tearing them up and going crazy with the LEDs and parts. Still have some!
Cold-cathode tubes please. I was soldering my own connectors and finding MB pins to jack into in 2002.
Cold-cathode tubes were popular starting in the '90s.
“Plain solid black case” *laughs in yellowing beige.
So long as its metal, keep on going. Plastic has an unfortunate habit of breaking when its old.
Does it have a turbo button?
Shit yes. And a key to turn it on.
Damn straight!
Uh. You can.
In fact, the vast majority of desktop computer cases in the world are plain black boxes (or grey, or beige, but black seems most popular among the major manufacturers like Dell and HP these days). That’s because the majority of PC’s in the world are actually boring business boxes squatting on untold numbers of office desks. Just, no one posts pictures of those online because no one gives a shit about the 4,897 identical low-spec computers some megacorporation bought and had delivered on a pallet.
The PC’s you’re seeing are gaming rigs, and gamers festoon their stuff with silly LED’s because it’s cool, or at least they think it’s cool, or possibly just because it’s a meme by now. Or, in some cases, the piece of enthusiast gear you want comes with RGB LED’s all over it anyway, whether you like it or not. But these are, by the raw numbers, the minority of the PC world.
You can absolutely build a gaming PC without the LED stuff, including buying a plain non-windowed case for it. I have a machine like that sitting on my desk right now, in fact.
If I could have gotten the boring cases that HP, Dell, and the others make, I would have. But other than system integrators, you can’t really find stand alone plane cases.
I mean, like… Yes you can?
The first 4 results there have mesh side panels…
And the next 20 below that do not.
If you aren’t willing to look past the first four results to find what you want, internet shopping may not be for you.
No, I’m saying you just say just search, and even those searches have to be manually sorted through. I’m simply pointing out even with filters you have to manually pick through the results to have a real filter. There are plenty below the top row that have open sides too.
And the next like 457 don’t. Your mouse has a scroll wheel on it, right?
Like these aren’t the “boring cases” you are referring to but they are black boxes with at least decent airflow since those boring HP,Dell, and other big system integrator use are pretty horrid for cpus/gpus gamers actually use. That was just from a cursory look of 2 case manufacturers .
Just filter out glass and LED in your search. There are plenty of plain black towers. They’re usually pretty cheap too, I think mine was $20.
Solid casea are still available and ao are parts without LEDs.
Literally one minute, mostly for to mobile load times.
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147334
They make plenty of parts that don’t have LEDs and even then most of them have the option to turn them off.
My entire system i built just a few years ago has no LEDs that are on but I still love the clear window into the system, let’s me know when to clean it.
Or do you just want to continue to yell at clouds?
Why do case manufacturers make cases that sell well? I don’t understand!
uh, because it’s the future?
[scoffs]
Southpark?
I don’t really watch South Park, but if you think I’m that clever, I’ll take that as a compliment ;)
if you think I’m that clever
Oh no, I didn’t. I though you might have watched the relevant special and made a reference.
And you should definitly watch South Park. Matt and Trey are geniuses. Trey was oscar niminated for “blame Canada”. They took LSD while wearing dresses when going to the oscar event. They are absolute legends. I’m really not into celebrities, but these guys are just amazing and there is a reason South Park has been on for 26 years.
I’m familiar with South Park and have been it in the past, it’s just that my comment wasn’t a reference to any episode.
My mistake. But they made an identical reference to your comment in the “post covid” special I think.
it’s an old joke
Because people got bored of plain white, black or beige boxes and then manufacturers noticed if they slap colored lights on their shit, they can get people to spend more money on them. So now everything has lights.
Used to be able to leave my PC running and go to sleep. Now I have to shut it down because it’s like a miniature sun in my room.
Your mobo likely has a utility that can control a chunk of the lights. Usually GPUs do too.
The stuff on the inside of the case, yes. The mouse and keyboard I have I can just change the color. There is no “off” :(
Well just unplug their usb cables. Easy fix.
reminds me of the auto market - they can sell SUV’s for more… there are no more cheap handy pickups…
I’m sure with a little late night cruise, you’ll have no trouble finding a cheap handy to pickup.
I have a sheet of paper that lives on top of my power light. Its soo bright, and its not even in my bedroom. I should throw a resistor inline there, I just can’t be bothered.
I switched all of the bright UV or white leds with regular ones (green and red).
I paid more for a black case without a window. I think the RGB trend is garish.
I do make an exception for tasteful red accent lighting.
I paid the extra $60 to not worry about cable management. Hiding your shame cost extra.
I also ruined the original by sticking a suction cup phone mount on it. It fused to the plastic window.
I paid way to much for a Nice solid case. It was just such a pain to find. I wound up with a Fractal Design Define R5.
