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Only 2 monitors? Them be rookie numbers, need to get them up
3 is good
At a previous job I had, we were only given options for 1080p monitors. I ended up with a total of 5 and needed all of them.
I think I started on a single 640x480 CRT. Professionally. My actual first computer was 320x200. Now I’m on dual UHD + laptop screen.
Professionally similar; 1024x768 here (might have had an 800x600 laptop or thereabouts).
But when people today complain about how how anything less than 4k x 60fps on some game is unplayable, I remember playing Doom in 320x200 on a 14" monitor, and still having to shrink the screen into an even tinier window, so I could get 10fps.
I remember in high school when I started running my monitor in 1024x768 and felt like I was a legit professional programmer.
5 here
This checks out.
I’m not a SWE ( though kinda code monkey anyways) and it’s 2 monitors no rbg (just all black thinkpad, keyboard backlight disabled)
Stereotypes exists so that I can be the 5% that doesn’t fall into them.
Two monitors but a solid case side panel (in fact it’s a case that’s so old that at the time TG side panels were not common). If I could be at liberty to choose parts purely based on looks, I’d go with something black, minimalistic and with no RGB.
Huge fan of the non-TG Fractal Design R series cases for your use case. Pretty, but minimalistic. Airflow might be a bit of an issue given that they’re noise focused cases.
Flashing RGB light are legit the most annoying shit ever. I just have a black box for a case and my peripherals glow a dim solid color (so I can see them in the dark) if at all.
Nobody puts their RGB into flashing rainbow except for displays in shops.
Who only do it to show what kinds of colours you can choose.
It is so you can match the colour of every part to whatever you like. Without the manufacturer having to determine colours beforehand.
I largely mean flashing in general, it’s all just distracting to me. Also most people I know personally actually like the rainbow madness. Even if they try to match their keyboard and mouse, they’ll still often have a unicorn box. They also love putting their rainbow tower on top of the table, I really don’t get it. A friend’s uncle even has a case the height of a table, like bro… Is there no end to this?
Oh you sweet summer child.
gestures at my entire uni classroom, in which nearly all the people I know have RGB peripherals and computers at home
People absolutely “do”. Mostly because they cannot be bothered to change the default setting or because they are teenagers and actually like it
I do have 2 monitors. But I have an opaque side panel. Case closed. Pun intended.
Yeah I hate that it seems now you have to pay a premium to NOT have RGB
I stray away from it as much as possible
Can’t you just turn it off?
My RAM goes back to unicorn puke each time I turn my computer on.
With some proprietary crashware that runs only on Windows drivers and with 7 background services, yes.
OpenRGB is worth checking out if you haven’t already
Most GPU’s don’t even come without blinking lights anymore.
Potty mouth.
What’s the point of RGB lights on computers? Does it somehow increase performance or something?
Okay, I’ll bite:
Why are you putting a by-nc-sa 4.0 copyright disclaimer in your posts? Does that actually limit/grant anything?
Serious question, I don’t understand.
It’s just for AI training. Opensource AI = good and allowed, commercial, closed source AI = bad.
I could look into poisoning their training set, but am too lazy atm. Maybe another time. Spoilers might come in handy for that. Maybe a spoiler like below would come in handy for now?
Anti Commercial AI
Ah, I see. Thanks for taking the time to explain!
The spoiler could be handy if people keep asking you questions like I did.
If you have a small child you can distract it with the pretty lights while you are gaming. Or at least thats what I am told.
Don’t want them sticking their finger in the fans though 😄
Anti Commercial AI thingy
My case has RGB fans. Not because I wanted them, but because I wanted a PC between Covid lockdowns, had to pick from a small selection and RGB fans cost less than regular ones.
Interesting 🤔 More material has to be used for the LEDs, so I don’t understand why it’s cheaper.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
My LED ones were Corsair too, and non LED alternatives were lesser known brands.
If it’s Corsair then they probably want to incentivize you installing their malware.
When forced to have rgb components… I disabled them. If nothing else it’s yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.
How bright were those LEDs?
Speaking of heat, I ended up turning my stupid stinky rgb on to display the temperatures of various components. Blue to red the hotter it gets. RAM shows ram temp, water block shows cpu package, radiator fans for coolant/core max, gpu does gpu, etc. Actually pretty useful.
Yep, I have an fully enclosed case. Only RGB is my water cooling block on my cpu that I left the rgb header unplugged. Even though I would never see it, I am a person of principle, damn it!
I only have one monitor… It’s an ultra wide.
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how does it feel to be wrong!!!
I upvoted both of you :)
Did you iron out all your question marks?
Yes i like to keep tidy ty for noticing :>
RGB is overrated
I just had to uproot and move several states away with my life in a luggage and a backpack <.< No fitting the monitors in there :(
Still got my glowy keebs though ;P
Two headsets ago I bought a G933 from Logitech, mainly because it had an AUX input on the USB-dongle which I thought was pretty neat, but that one had big unnecessary RBG strips on the sides of the earpiece. The most ridiculous usage of RGB I had seen till date. But I programmed an interface between CSGO and the RGB on the headset to indicate my health so the people watching from behind us at a lan could see it.
Anyway, I’ve always preferred white LED’s and RGB can rarely replicate pure white.
don’t even have one of em glass windows on my pc and happy with it
But do you have a rainbow keyboard?
only caus I got it for free, I turn the lights off tho
I turned off the lights except for when I type. It’s super subtle. It’s practically the same! but I still identify as RGB all the way!
It’s a shame some of the better components have baby-sensory RGB lights tacked on. I’d have bought my parts plain if that was a convenient choice.
Oh also
mmmaaadddeee wwwiiittthhh mmmeeemmmaaatttiiiccc
Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.
Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.
I just made the switch from 3 24 inch monitor to a single 49 inch super ultrawide. It’s basically 3 monitors with no bezels. A lot of things are annoying though like full-screening videos/games but there are workarounds.
My biggest problem with 4k and ultra wide monitors is screen sharing (like on zoom/teams/WebEx etc).
Most people still have 1080p screens at best, so when someone with a 4k or ultra wide shares their screen, it’s really tough to see what’s going on.
My main display is a 4k TV, but if I have to share, I’m sharing a window, or one of my auxiliary (1080p) screens.
I’ve resorted to just sharing my laptop screen. You can also use picture by picture to get split displays which are easier to share.
Yeah I went from 1 32" 1440p and two 1080p side monitors to just a single 4k 43" and I’m saying that the time of multi monitor setups has come to an end.
34” 5k2k ultrawide as main monitor and a 27” 4k in portrait for documentation.
Have a 27" 1440 in portrait for a side monitor. Best decision I ever made with my monitor set up.
once you go two ultrawides you will enter a new realm of existence.
Side by side or stacked on top?
Stacked on top, and vertical orientation since we’re not doing Java here!
Side by side most of the time. I put them on arms so I can move them around and swivel them. It’s ridiculous having two 34" Ultrawides. But, I can. So I Do. I also run a 3rd 40" 4k display when I need it or want to sit further back.
Six vertical ultrawides is the only way.
Ooh, the thinest of bezels: none.
