The PC thread

[ReaperKK]

So I swore I'd never be one of those people who cared about LED lighting, but yet, here we are. Does anybody know of a fan controller, soft or hardware, that'll adjust the colors based on CPU temp? My MSI mobo does have such a feature, but just barely. It's basically only 3 colours for cool, warm, and hot. And in the real world a CPU goes from 40-70 almost instantly, so basically the thing just turns red if you're using the CPU. I'm looking for something a bit more sophistamocated. Sure seems like somebody would have created such a thing by now.

On the bright side my EVGA graphics card does this very well utilizing GPU temp.

You can go the open source route and use OpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/

[El Barto]

You can go the open source route and use OpenRGB: https://openrgb.org/

I'd already downloaded that and dismissed it when I couldn't find what I was looking for. Seems it actually can do what I want, though a plugin might be required. It also looks like I can add increments, which would be great. Thanks.

[ReaperKK]

I haven't messed around with OpenRGB since I formatted but it can be a bit cumbersome to set up.

[El Barto]

I haven't messed around with OpenRGB since I formatted but it can be a bit cumbersome to set up.

That it is. I spent a while monkeying around with it last night, and while it can do exactly what I was looking for (which was really cool with ten steps from cool to hot, BTW), it's clunky and inconsistent. I think it probably has more to do with my MSI controller, as they're notoriously hard to get along with, but the software itself isn't hugely stable, either.

[nobloodyname]

Zydar, did you get it sorted in the end? We need an update!

[faizoff]

Zydar, did you get it sorted in the end? We need an update!

Yes we need an update!


On another somewhat mellow note, the site I've always relied on for its thorough and detailed reviews and analysis Anandtech.com is closing today.

I started casually using the site around 2003-4 and religiously since 2005. It was inevitable but still sad to see it happen. At least the site will there indefinitely.

[Zydar]

Zydar, did you get it sorted in the end? We need an update!

Oh, I missed this! Sorry guys. 

I contacted their support and they wanted me to return the components to them so they could check them for problems, they thought it was the motherboard that was the issue. 

I sent it back but I wrote that I just wanted the money back instead of getting new components (I suck at building PCs anyway, and this whole episode just confirmed it) so I got the money back and just bought a new desktop PC instead that I put some more RAM into and a 2nd SSD disk. Lesson learned for the future, I guess. I just don't have the knowledge and patience for building PCs. 

[faizoff]

No worries, you did everything right btw, it's just bad luck that you got a dud board. I can see that experience putting you off.

[nobloodyname]

Great outcome for Zydar, terrible outcome for the rest of us! We're never going to know what was wrong

[cramx3]

Oh, I missed this! Sorry guys.

I contacted their support and they wanted me to return the components to them so they could check them for problems, they thought it was the motherboard that was the issue.

I sent it back but I wrote that I just wanted the money back instead of getting new components (I suck at building PCs anyway, and this whole episode just confirmed it) so I got the money back and just bought a new desktop PC instead that I put some more RAM into and a 2nd SSD disk. Lesson learned for the future, I guess. I just don't have the knowledge and patience for building PCs. Those HDDs are now just in "cold storage" as I'll call it (on my side desk with the rest of my PC parts and gear).

Sucks you had a bad experience, sadly, this is a legit experience from building, but I don't think this is anything to blame on yourself.  Hope you enjoy the new PC though.

I finally stuck my 8TB SSD into my PC and removed two of my 4TB HDD (I merged the data from those to the SSD) to clean up my PC a bit more with my data issues.