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Plain solid black cases are everywhere, stop being lazy
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Submitted 11 months ago by l_b_i@yiffit.net to [deleted]
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jasep@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the answer is obvious: because that’s what sells and is popular. There are all black cases to be found though.
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
neo2478@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
So you also live inside the case?
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Both my desktop and my server are in Define R4s. Plenty of room, dead silent, and still good airflow for a silent case.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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!”
p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the case I use for my home server :)
troglodytis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re not.
You can.
Next question
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Nt…
Don’t know where your looking. Most are.funnystuff97@lemmy.world 11 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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!
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Plain solid black case” *laughs in yellowing beige.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Does it have a turbo button?
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Shit yes. And a key to turn it on.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
So long as its metal, keep on going. Plastic has an unfortunate habit of breaking when its old.
oDDmON@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
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.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
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.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, like… Yes you can?
ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 11 months ago
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 gamers actually use. That was just from a cursory look of 2 case manufacturers .
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Literally one minute, mostly for to mobile load times.
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.
Or do you just want to continue to yell at clouds?
NaoPb@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Solid casea are still available and ao are parts without LEDs.
glimse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why do case manufacturers make cases that sell well? I don’t understand!
sbexpert@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
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.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your mobo likely has a utility that can control a chunk of the lights. Usually GPUs do too.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
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” :(
vivadanang@lemm.ee 11 months ago
reminds me of the auto market - they can sell SUV’s for more… there are no more cheap handy pickups…
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I’m sure with a little late night cruise, you’ll have no trouble finding a cheap handy to pickup.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
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.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I switched all of the bright UV or white leds with regular ones (green and red).
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
uh, because it’s the future?
[scoffs]
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Southpark?
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I don’t really watch South Park, but if you think I’m that clever, I’ll take that as a compliment ;)
FireTower@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a minor thing in addition to what everyone else has pointed out but led parts helps with trouble shooting.
Fan not moving, but lit up? Your definitely getting power to it.
chalupapocalypse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Black box on the floor gang represent
I’m not looking at my PC, take that led money and upgrade your monitor
The curved ultra wide OLED from Alienware is pretty rad
XEAL@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Stupid fads, sometimes customers are to blame, other times companies (SUVs plague, touch screens on cars, smarphone screen notches and removed conectors…).
And even worse than RGB everywhere… glass panels. Yes, of course, put something heavy and fragile on my already heavy PC. And a glass panel is an accident waiting to happen.
This is the case I wanted for a build a decade ago: quickhard.com/…/Caja-ANTEC-NINE-HUNDRED-EU-Negra-…
I finally ended up with this one earlier this year: en.sharkoon.com/product/37933
No glass. No included or purchased fan for the build has leds. However, I have to admit that I recycled a couple of old transparent fans with blue leds (14mm and 12mm) that were the best ones I had lying around, and they are installed behind the frontal dush mesh… which is behind the front grill panel.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I hate how tempered glass is the premium standard. I’d rather have glass that is easier to break if I fuck up but doesn’t have a chance to spontaneously shatter.
I had a TV stand do that once, luckily I was the only one there when it happened. If it had happened two nights earlier, it would have sprayed glass shards all over my sleeping daughter. It was energetic enough that I found some pieces I missed on the other side of the room when I was moving out.
Tempered glass furniture looks great, I’ll admit, but never again.
Blackout@kbin.social 11 months ago
Cause we are all just a few days away from becoming catboys in stockings on Linux machines. Give in to the RGB side and join us meow
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
No. I’m already on mint, and I’m commenting from a furry instance. How much credit do I get?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
My current build is in a Define XL R2 (it doubles as a very lazily implemented NAS)
My gf’s build is in a Define C (tempered glass, because the metal side model was sold out when we were building it)
Inktvip@lemm.ee 11 months ago
We have a bunch of torrent compacts at work and they’re honestly great cases too. Also very good at keeping high end parts cool at a low noise level.
I’ve always been a fan of closed Fractal cases. They do no-non sense right.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And the build quality is just👌
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Because rgb is popular. There are a bunch of standard cases but case makers need tk cater to what most people want because case manufacturing doesnt have the greatest margins due to size and cost of shipping.
A lot of the margins come from fans and lighting.
Delphia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because more and more building Pcs is a hobby and hobbyists love to tinker and show off their work.
When you play with tech its easy to forget just how small a market we are. Once you get past the people who just use their phone, and the people who get by with a basic chromebook, then the people who just buy a gaming laptop, the ex lease workstation crowd, then the people who buy prebuilts, and now even the subset of gamers who just use a docked steam deck… we really are a hobbyist community.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 11 months ago
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.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
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.
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I also have a Fractal!
ryan@the.coolest.zone 11 months ago
It's the style right now. Personally, I'm hoping for a "retro beige case that can hold modern hardware" era
because I have terrible taste.bluGill@kbin.social 11 months ago
I want the SGI purple to come back. I've never seen another computer that was pretty and tasteful, from anyone.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Because some of us like the pretty lights, they’re cheap to include and the people that don’t like them can always turn them off
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Some fan LEDs are directly connected to the fan power, so you can’t always turn them off.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That’s true, but really the exception rather than the rule
rynzcycle@kbin.social 11 months ago
The blue leds make the whole setup run cooler. And if you want a really fast build, get an aerodynamic case with a racing stripe.
But seriously, hard agree. I want a big, easy to open easy to access, metal box. With handles if it's possible I'll be using it for gigs etc.
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lian Li make nice all black aluminum cases in a variety of sizes.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
They used to.
NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 11 months ago
Bro don’t you want your rig to looking a fucking SPACESHIP??
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:STSCPanel.jpg looks like a pretty nice setup. No excess LEDs in sight.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The Fractal Design 7 line has some all covered cases.
It’s just the trend de jure for computer case designs. I also have no desire to show off the parts inside my case and think the rainbow LEDs are a bit much. If I’m gonna throw a rave at home, I ain’t gonna light it with my GPU.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
When I put my new machine together not too long ago I actually went with the Define R5. The only part I couldn’t get away from LEDs completely was the MB. I don’t think I could find the solid Define7 at the time.
Legisign@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Quite agree. It is next to impossible to find solid cases any more, because only transparent ones are sold. The one manufacturer left still making solid cases seems to be Fractal Design.
kindenough@kbin.social 11 months ago
Very happy with my North. Black one with the mesh sidepanel.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
They were all that I could find that I would call a quality case. I went with the Define R5.
Cort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I always recommend the Corsair 200R. Just checked and they finally stopped selling it after a decade
PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just buy a rack mount case
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Red LEDs make your pc faster, blue ones make it run cooler and green ones save energy.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
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.
MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
kakes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
mittyta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, factorio bro!
But now I have understood factorio really mixed up red and blue
bstix@feddit.dk 11 months ago
No. Da red wuns go fasta.
FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 months ago
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).
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
No wonder you so rarely see yellow fans when you can easily download more RAM when needed.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cuz you’ve never seen a purple IP address
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
If they cycle through do you get all of that at the same time?
ShadowCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, that’s why RGB is recommended so much
rikudou@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Nah, it’s sequential.
don@lemm.ee 11 months ago
OP not knowing this means OP’s banned from having a pc. Sorry OP, them’s the rules.