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remember when they just plugged into the motherboard and didn't need multiple external power connections?

The days of powering your computer with a potato are long behind us comrad

Can't speak for the most modern ones which I know are worse, but I was pretty surprised when I recently got a smart plug with power monitoring recently to find that my system with a 3080 (though, undervolted slightly), 16-core cpu, way too many peripherals, eight various drives, several small screens and dual monitors, only pulls 600-650W under full load.

I got the plugs to help me choose an appropriate UPS, and I don't need one as powerful as I'd thought I would.

RX 560 runs at 50w and can run old games at 1080p

I hope people are using that power for worthwhile things.

I don't mind RGB as long as it's easy to turn off and it stays off forever.

What I do mind is that my desktop turned on the RGB is off, but as soon as I shut it down it turns on. And guess what's at the perfect angle to get blasted with the light? My bed. I eventually found the SEPARATE TOGGLE FOR RGB IN S5 STATE, but guess what constantly gets turned back on with every bios update?

It really sucks, indeed. But I upvote the meme.

I'm in the same boat, wasted of time and money. I want a black box that is functional, not a night light with all the colors.

Preach. I don't even have a window on mine. I want my machine to blend into the room. All the showy stuff feels like you need to show off to justify the price.

As someone who keeps his pc on and has it in his bedroom they are a bane of my existence. All I need is my keyboard when I am using it.

Had one back when it was the hype, but its just annoying. Nowadays my case is a huge (enormous, but much space for cable management and airflow) black box. No panels, no light. Feels better

The only RGB I have is a tiny module in my mouse's scroll wheel, and that's it. I didnt realise the mouse had that module when I bought it and I was quite irritated because of that but I've grown to actually like it.

On another note, I'm using an old keyboard that's basically at death's door because it seems like it's literally IMPOSSIBLE to find a good keyboard without RGB in it. It's insane.

I bought a 1200w PSU in like 2011 and it's chugging along through multiple upgrades and two different builds. They forgot to put the quit in that one

PSUs are waaaaay more efficient when operating closer to their rated capacity. Pulling 200W through a 1kW power supply is like making a marathon runner breathe through a straw.

Is there another option?

Like if you don't have at least 1kW PSU what happens when you need more power

My server/homelab runs on a picopsu.

I look at number of connectors... Who cares about wattage, I just need a mass of cables to tuck into every spare bit of space... Fans hate me.

This would actually be really funny. I want my computer to glow like the sun

Also RGB doesn't use anywhere near 250w. Given that LED spotlights are usually around 25-75w, at 250w your PC would be too bright to look at. I have 9 RGB fans, along with a GPU and motherboard with RGB LEDs; the difference between RGB off and RGB on at full brightness is ~10w, measured from the wall.

Also never cheap out on the PSU. If your shit PSU dies, it might fry every component in your PC, if your good PSU dies, you can just replace it.

Ruth Gader Binsburg

Red Green Blue, got to have a ton of RGB lighting in their PC.