<story><title>Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc</title><url>https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chuckdries</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re in this thread &amp;quot;I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it&amp;#x27;s fine but I don&amp;#x27;t get it&amp;quot;, try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can&amp;#x27;t stand cycling rainbows or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scrps</author><text>I normally never have any RGB components in my personal builds but I was asked to build my niece a gaming rig for Christmas, figuring a kid would probably like a bit more of a blinged out system I sprung for RGB fans, RAM, water-cooler, and PSU and set them all to a light pink (the case is mint green, her other favorite color) and I have to say it turned me around on RGB lighting. It looked super clean and minimal once I tuned the brightness and color.&lt;p&gt;The only downsides I encountered were color matching among different components, it was a bit tedious. The other was the control software (gigabyte fusion 2.0) was very touchy, at one point I had to do a hard reset and wait for the caps to drain before I could get the LEDs functional again.&lt;p&gt;Edit: typo</text></comment>
<story><title>Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc</title><url>https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chuckdries</author><text>If you&amp;#x27;re in this thread &amp;quot;I built a PC, all my stuff has RGB, it&amp;#x27;s fine but I don&amp;#x27;t get it&amp;quot;, try setting them all to the same color - you might be surprised how nice it looks. I set everything to white, but my roommate has a nice shade of purple he uses for everything. My real golden rule is absolutely no motion. Can&amp;#x27;t stand cycling rainbows or whatever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wlesieutre</author><text>I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it&amp;#x27;s under my desk where I can&amp;#x27;t see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on.&lt;p&gt;AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware.&lt;p&gt;Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked like brushed metal fridge and was one of the first cases to care about sound isolation. No window panel, so nobody cares how much of a mess my wiring is, and I can buy the RAM that&amp;#x27;s on sale instead of the one with color coordinated heatspreaders.&lt;p&gt;But if other people are into that, power to them.&lt;p&gt;Someday I&amp;#x27;d like to do a &amp;quot;desktop literally built into the desk top&amp;quot; build and ditch the suspended computer mount completely, assuming I still even want to have a full desktop computer 10 years from now.</text></comment>