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You can always decline to help! "Oh I've never used RGB so I can't help, sorry" is a pretty dang valid response. EDIT: Unless you're getting paid to do it lol

Like it can look nice sure, but it's a lot of extra work and it's taking up high value space (i.e. the desk) instead of like, being off in a display somewhere. If it's job is to be pretty n' shit.

Don't get me started on water cooling.

ahahahahaha water cooling. ahahahahahahahahahahah. ah. christ. if you won't get started I will.

water cooling is fuckin stupid in 99% of cases. unless you literally do not have room for a proper air cooler (ie, small form factor case), there is no fucking excuse or reason to use a water cooler. no, not even overclocking.

a premade AIO cooler will be on-par with or worse than a comparably priced (usually cheaper) air cooler, and a custom loop is a costly, expensive, and dangerous affair. both are high-risk and low reward. don't buy AIO coolers. custom loops are at least cool (both meanings).

do be aware though, that if you put a custom loop in your PC and you need a professional to service it: Good Fuckin' Luck Buddy.

I do think that the big ass triple fan AIOs can cool better than the best air coolers on the market, the problem is you should never be in a position where you NEED that much cooling. The latest generation of chips use Too Much Power and it's dumb that they're pushing that much power just to try and win benchmarks. Shameful.

That being said, full agree. Just the higher chance of a pump failure sucks, pump noise is a real thing, and the potential of a rare catastrophic failure taking out a grand of parts is a very big downside.

And when people build custom loops, they're so focused on it looking cool that they refuse to put in fill and drain lines! You can just do that! Plan your build the right way and you can do a complete line flush without opening your case! But nooooOOOOOoooo that doesn't look gamer enough. Gotta put all these hard lines in and put a DISTRO BLOCK IN THE FRONT OF THE CASE :angy-eggbug:

And yeah most people wouldn't know how to flush a loop nowadays anyway. They probably only see it when linus the clown does something like that which.... well that's how you kill hardware.

also like, if you go out of your way to buy rgb stuff to put in your computer it's also just, like, waste.

stuff that's produced just so it can be trash in your box

some trash is worthwhile and maybe it gives you enough ooh-ahh to make it worth it, but its a thing i don't see a lot of people thinking about, especially... the 3d printing enthusiast ecosocialists I know.

RGB things that you buy for the RGB instead of you're out of options have light pipes made for them out of harder to recycle plastics, not that people recycle monitors much. They require tracks for the lights and their power and their boards, it requires all sorts of stuff that a monitor otherwise just, doesn't have. or would have something useful in the place of. argh.

Oh the argument of computers being trash can go real deep. To be clear, I agree, but there's also a reason I am trying to make my current hardware last as long as possible. I'm going to do my best to make this case last longer than the last one, and that one just about made it past 10 years, whatever was left of it anyway. If I can get this motherboard to play nice with 16GB sticks I'll be set for another 4 years without a new board I'm sure.

What are your thoughts on tempered glass?

i mean relative to everything else I don't think it's a huge thing in the grand scheme, especially when people who dont get into computers get into like, cars or lighting bonfires or whatever.

but going out to like, purchase cold cathode lights or LED light strings or whatever to make one's case sparkly is just like, so much waste for the sake of a little bit of charm, and maybe that's worth it but i wish more people would like, weigh it even a little

that said at least LEDs now can be used for room lighting when you dont want your computer to look cool, so I have a lot less contempt for it than I do like, 2000-2017 case fads

my view on tempered glass is it's fine if it's removable, the issue with mixed plastics is it means it's more labor intensive for recycling if it makes it that far, and that often means it becomes trash

but like, there's much bigger fish, like funko pops

i just think its like 3d printing where people who buy one every week seem to not realize they're doing the thing they're yelling at other people about, I don't think they're actually that big of a problem in moderation. well. they are if you're ingesting them i guess

I've been looking at getting a new computer with 7800X3D, and because it's intended to run closer to TJMax, it requires a bit more intensive cooling. This means getting a watercooler.

I'm not objecting to that, BUT. All liquid coolers on the market have RGB lighting. I'm looking at you, Deepcool LS520.

You can always just run it in a lower TDP mode. They don't lose a lot of performance but run a hell of a lot cooler, and naturally use less electric too!

Doesn't the thing GN uses on their review rig, the one with the weird VRM fan on the CPU block, not have RGB?

Still remember the time someone DM'd me out of the blue and asked me about RGB options. When I told him I don't really do that stuff, he just went "*laughs in gamer* ok then" and I'm like huh? What about the inside of your computer being lit up like a Christmas tree makes anyone a gamer?

My computer today does have a glowy bit or two, but only because that's what hardware was available. It's all wasted anyway because the computer sits under the desk.

Also, cases not having 5¼" bays anymore. I insisted on having at least one of those, which limited my case options to one.