News Antec announces Rainbow 120 RGB case fan

You forgot to mention that you need to be 12 or younger to buy the fan. Well, you don't NEED to be, but all the people that want this probably will be.

 

Am I the only one who has no desire whatsoever to have my PC lit up like the Blackpool illuminations? This new trend for LEDs with everything doesn't do anything at all for me.

Down with this sort of thing!

 

Pretty sure the early bit tech was full of builds lit up like xmas trees

 

It is possible to light up a pc tastefully these days and having everything matching your rooms ambient lighting helps.

 

Didn't know lighting in PCs was a new thing...

We have more options and abilities to be tasteful than ever before and people just moan. C'mon

 

What's wrong with choice?

Some people like their cases lit up some don't.

If you don't like lights don't buy them, pretty simple lol.

 

I'm sorry, did I say it was a new thing entirely? I said that the trend for having lighting on everything is new. I don't remember seeing many motherboards or GPUs with integrated RGB LED lighting before a year or so ago.

And I'm not moaning, I'm just saying that (IN MY OPINION - caveat required because this is the Internet) this stuff doesn't appeal to me. Like Gareth, my case doesn't even have a window If you, or anyone else, likes it then I'm delighted for you

 

LED fans have at least been around long enough so they fit inside the barrel, but look what is clinging to the underside of it...

Thermaltake with their RGB WC fittings and Creative with their RGB Speakers.

Yep, make your pc look "better" with leds on fittings that make the pc look significantly worse due to the required extra cables

 

Got the RGB fitttings going into a current build, must say I'm really not looking forward to the cabling. That said, the effect is fantastic with frosted tubing.

 

I bet if we go look back at some forum posts from 2003/4 we'll see plenty of acrylic cases desperately waiting for this fan to come along.

 

the thing with RGB is that it is so versatile, before, buying a motherboard for a show build basically depended on the colour and if not, how easily you could paint it or change the colour of the heatsinks to fit the build. With RGB lighting instead of coloured mobo's, GPU's Fans and anything else, it doesn't matter which you get.

I love RGB, not when it is all flashing and going crazy, but when it is set to 1 single colour to match the build.

 

Personally, I LIKE colored lighting. Static and monochrome. Animation is just too much for my elderly sensibilities. But programmable LED lights DO make it easy to dial in a consistent color scheme.
Don't even need a case window for a colored fan, though. I had a white-lit fan in a fully-opaque case several years ago. The glow off the back was actually pretty cool(and made it a lot easier to find connectors sometimes)

"All the things" TM Allie Brosh.

 

Ah, yes, the good ol' power light laser cannon. Hate those.

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Yes, I just agreed about too much light being horrible not two hours after admitting to installing lit fans. I am truly a paradox.

 

Does this mean "Christmas tree" fans are back in vogue?
...Oh, wait. Antec. Probably not.

 

New trend?! LED fans have been annoying the world for over 10 years!

 

I was thinking about this in the context of a pc lit up in red