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Sometimes I wonder what the thought process behind the gaming aesthetic was. RGB (*if tunable) itself is fine and adds a nice opportunity for personalization, but are those tacky fonts, crystal-facet enclosures, and overall showiness just tasteless or do any gamers actually prefer that look?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My gaming pc lives in a soundproof cupboard 5m away without a case because quietness is more important to me than any visual element, so any RGB thing gets avoided, or turned off.

I can appreciate a very colour coordinated and well put together "gaming" computer in a purely aesthetic sense. Some are genuinely pretty and I get that some folk take a lot of pleasure out of making something that looks beautiful and best of luck to them. But I'm not one of them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was debating doing something like this; install my build in the crawlspace below my desk. It's just an exterior wall, so running a big enough channel through the wall would mess up the insulation. :(

That's a sweet setup.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do you handle cooling?

Super quietness sounds great but having a CPU running at 1.000ยฐC doesn't

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I drilled a 100mm diameter hole through to the outside of the house and have a 120mm pc fan blowing air directly out from the cupboard through that. Possibly not an option for everyone, but as a householder with power tools, it seemed like a good idea.

The PC itself is just a motherboard screwed to a flat shelf, with a bracket to hold the graphics card steady.

Works well most of the time, although in recent 30'c ambient temperature, it got up to around 37c in there when I was playing a modern game. My CPU is only 65w but I've got a new graphics card and that creates a lot more heat when it's working hard.