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there are plenty of things in the PC Enthusiast space that people love to

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argue about AMD versus NVIDIA AMD versus

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Intel AMD versus the 1980 US Olympic

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hockey team okay but seriously aside

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from these more practical concerns Aesthetics are just as important to many

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people with there being no real consensus as to what looks good after

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all what's tacky to one you proder might be Michelangelo's David to another so in

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the past few years many component manufacturers have decided hey why not

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just give people the ability to customize the look of their battle

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station on a whim by adding RGB lighting

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the RGB craze mostly started out on keyboards and mice but these days you

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can pick up motherboards CPU coolers and

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even RAM sticks that claim to offer Millions of colors but how does all of

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this work and what features should you be looking for if you're going to trick

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out your rig like The Griswalds Christmas tree well if you think back to

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kindergarten you might remember that the three primary colors that combine to

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form all the other colors are red yellow

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and blue but this is true only for pigments

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light works a little differently with the three primary colors of light being

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red green and blue hence the name

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RGB so when you fire up your favorite RGB device what's happening is that

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separate red green and blue LEDs are

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lighting up at different intensities to produce different colors as there

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currently isn't a single LED bulb that can cycle through different colors on

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its own so there are a couple of different ways that you can see this

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principle in action if you set your favorite RGB device to White you might

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be able to see all three colored LEDs

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lit up if you look closely enough this is the same reason that when you get a

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drop of water on your phone screen you can see a rainbow like effect on white

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spots neat huh but how do these devices

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adjust the brightness of each led to produce the color you want well usually

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RGB gadgets work with a technique called pulse width modulation or pwm which you

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can learn more about here although you might be more familiar with pwm as a way

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to control your fan speed in your computer the same concept can control

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colored LEDs so when you want to tell

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your Control software boom I want yellow

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it sends a signal to your device that tells both the red and green LEDs to

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light up and blue to sit down and shut up and PW w m also controls something

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called the duty cycle essentially how long the light is

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on during each refresh a shorter duty

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cycle means that specific color of LED

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will be dimmer so if you want your keyboard to be a highlight or yellow

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sort of color your green and red LEDs will have longer Duty Cycles while your

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blue LEDs will have very short Cycles or just be turned off completely but

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depending on its imp M mentation especially if the LEDs are refreshing

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too slowly using pwm control with equal

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parts of red green and blue to achieve white can result in a distracting

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rainbow effect similar to what some people experience when watching a single

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chip DLP projector to compat this some

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manufacturers are introducing rgbw

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strips that have entirely separate white

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LEDs but enough about the nuts and B bolts what should you actually look for

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when buying RGB gear well perhaps

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unsurprisingly this depends almost entirely on your personal preference as

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long as you buy something of good quality an important thing to research

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is what kinds of customization a certain RGB product offers as many manufacturers

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bundle software that can control RGB

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effects which may or may not be to your liking Hardware Solutions also exist

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such as NZXT Hue plus which serves as a

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central hub for your systems LED strips and the RGB headers on certain

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motherboards which provide similar functionality through software to take

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things a step further unified RGB ecosystems like ASUS Aura and Razer

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chroma are starting to become popular allowing you to sync up RGB effects on

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your lighting strips your motherboard your memory your fans or even supported

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peripherals and room lighting and

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considering that RGB LEDs can often be configured to change colors depending on

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important variables such as system temperatures your perfectly harmonious

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RGB setup can actually be functional as

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