welcome to the RGB lighting guide or the current state of RGB Lighting in your
case or whatever you want to call it we've had RGB Lighting in headsets and
keyboards and mice and whatever for quite a while now but inside of the case
it's been slightly more tricky one of the very cool things that has happened
is ASUS now has RGB 50/50 headers which
is the standard for RGB strips and little cables that come off of them so
you can plug in RGB strips to them cool cable mod also has led strips now r ing
from RGB to UV to single color ones so
we're going to put the two together and see how it works
out first we're going to start off with cable mods wide beam LED strips so these
come in RGB the main feature of today single color whether that's like red
green blue white or single color but
ultraviolet so yeah that's pretty cool the idea behind wide beam is that it has
a wider spread of light than a conventional led up to 50% more which is
actually really solid if you want to have consistent smooth lighting
throughout your entire case another thing that I really like is the different ways that it can stick to your
case one of them is your standard kind of adhesive style but it's with a
different adhesive than I think we've seen before on LED strips which is a a
foam 3M solution which is actually really aggressively sticky which is
great because really sucks when your LED
strip in your case is like bowing out and falling off and just looks like junk
and this one should stick pretty well another one that will stick pretty well
and actually my favorite one is the magnetic
one voila I love that that is super cool
they put little magnetic blocks throughout the entire strip and then it
just sticks anywhere in your case the LED strips that are actually in the case
right now both of those are magnetic another thing that I wanted to mention
is that power whether you're just powering the IR LED box or if you're
powering an LED strip directly you're able to do that using SATA connectors
which is actually pretty cool because it would be a shame to plug in an a Molex
strip to your modular power supply just for some Led strips when you could run a
SATA connector that actually allows you to plug in another one afterwards which
is pretty sweet it's a pass through SATA cuz you don't need that much power for
these little guys um yeah saves you
Cable Management space uses a more modern connector that's nice mlex can go
away I don't need it anymore now they are fully chainable each end of the LED
strips having a female connector and then having these male male little
bridging connectors that come with your LEDs and if you want you can have them
IR LED controlled so you can use this little box which comes with the big
package for the RGB LED and here are
your female connectors so that you can Bridge them into your LED strips have
these going going in two different directions if you want and then the
third little cable that comes off of here is the LED receiver thingy for the
Box this allows you to use this controller which is great it has on and
off so you can turn your strips on or off if you want to like go to bed and don't want the light on or something you
can dim it or make it brighter you can change what color it's currently running
or what Hue of that color it currently is you change what mode it's in so flash
strobe fade or smooth all that stuff is
great but the usability of a controller to control the LED strips inside of your
computer is a little bit wonko and feels a little bit old and has been done for a
while so we're going to put all that kind of stuff away I'm happy that it's
able to be done but if you have one of these new spunky ASUS boards that
happens to have the aura connector or the aura header where you can plug in
50/50 LED strips like these guys I think
you're in luck in terms of plugging them into the board you can use a combination
of wires but you do need to use for the RGB connectors the wire that comes from
cable mod that's a custom cable that they have that makes sure that the RG
andb wires actually match up with the configuration that a has for instance if
you don't use the included cable from cable mod and try to set it on like
what's my CPU temperature it shows a chart from green to red and shows up as
purple if your CPU isn't that hot which is means nothing also if you set it to
music effect it looks absolutely crazy
if I set it to music effect right now and listen to the Christmas album from
lonus media group's awesome amazing Christmas band it still kind of looks
like it should probably be playing
dubstep but whatever at least the colors are somewhat accurate there's also a
static effect if I wanted everything to just look white which I think looks
great in this case there's a breathing effect just so I can have everything
kind of breathe in and out we all know the breathing effect it looks really
cool on Aus logos I've been doing it forever in red uh strobing so basically
it just turns on and off it's not super fast but it just turns on and off uh
color cycle which will go through all the available colors if you want to have
this cool like uh gradual rainbow effect
and then yeah music effect and CPU temperature like we mentioned earlier
also what you can do with this software is sync everything up if you want so you
can have it so that all of the LEDs in your whole rig so the one that's on your
motherboard and the both the headers that you might have branching off are
all synced doing the exact same effect or you can decide to individually
control the logo header 1 or header 2
thanks for watching this video hopefully you guys enjoyed the current state of
RGB lighting personally I think we've had some pretty good improvements having
headers on a motherboard and having software on your desktop just makes
sense in my opinion and the new mounting options of the foam and magnets are huge
improvements in my opinion let me know what you guys think in the comments down
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