SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
My new computer keeps flashing rainbow (the gay color pattern). And it also makes funny noises.

How do I make it stick with just one color like a normal computer? How do I put a stop to this before it decides to transition to become a Playstation?
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+794|6654|United States of America
Should have some sort of controller. My ASUS board uses a thing called Aura to control that shit.
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
I hope you don't watch that while at school
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6076|eXtreme to the maX
The world is gay now, you're just going to have to live with it.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
Pochsy
Artifice of Eternity
+702|5513|Toronto
this aligns with my interests. I'll sub to your channel, mac
The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
uziq
Member
+492|3422
you shouldn't have cheaped out. put an aftermarket heatsink on there.

or were you really going to put a 3900X in an overclocking motherboard with the stock fan?

/popcorn
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

I thought the stock fans for AMD were supposed to be pretty good. Certainly not the pinnacle of air cooling, but still.
uziq
Member
+492|3422
they're not bad but they're far from 'pretty good'. and they come with a light show.
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

My "pretty good" may be skewed by how (utterly) bad stock coolers used to be, but to be fair to that scale something like a Noctua solution would be way above in "excellent" for air coolers.
Adams_BJ
Russian warship, go fuck yourself
+2,053|6592|Little Bentcock
What you will find is those noises come from varying voltage supply. It does seem to fluctuate wildly so it does indeed sound like moaning. Check your PSU.
uziq
Member
+492|3422
to get rid of the lightshow, AMD will either have a motherboard firmware program to control them, or you can do the right thing and go for a better air-cooling solution. a stock heatsink will produce much more noise (in terms of fan noise) than a high-end cooler that has to do a lot less 'work' for better results.

Last edited by uziq (2020-04-21 04:32:51)

SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

My "pretty good" may be skewed by how (utterly) bad stock coolers used to be, but to be fair to that scale something like a Noctua solution would be way above in "excellent" for air coolers.
Intel makes bad coolers. AMD has always made good stock coolers. If you never used AMD, you wouldn't know that.
https://images.anandtech.com/doci/10500/SCR_01_678x452.JPG
https://i.redd.it/k32pbde8ytz01.png
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
My i5 didnt even come with a cooler
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
You got cucked. I'm sorry to tell you.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Couldn't have used it anyway probably my case is mini-itx had to get a low profile noctua.
https://i.imgur.com/tMvdWFG.png
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

SuperJail Warden wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

My "pretty good" may be skewed by how (utterly) bad stock coolers used to be, but to be fair to that scale something like a Noctua solution would be way above in "excellent" for air coolers.
Intel makes bad coolers. AMD has always made good stock coolers. If you never used AMD, you wouldn't know that.
I've had Athlon/Athlon 64. The coolers were good enough for stuff like Delta Force and Battlefield 1942, and they've only gotten better.

I still I don't think they're "far from pretty good" like uzique countered. But my "pretty good" is not the top of my tier list in positive judgment.

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ivykbP7m7cE9YHayHZMukU-650-80.jpg.webp
Excellent.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I keep seeing that cooler get posted a lot. Why do people buy it I that color? Why do they even make it in that color?
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

AFAIK marketing. Because it looks like this and not anything like the billion black or clear fans out there up to their armpits in RGB lighting, it's instantly recognizable. Reputable brand, means business. Makes top tier recommended in parts articles year after year.

They do have other colors these days for people who just can't stand this one. Personally, computer Christmas lights look neat for a bit, but then I turn them off because of the distraction.
uziq
Member
+492|3422

SuperJail Warden wrote:

I keep seeing that cooler get posted a lot. Why do people buy it I that color? Why do they even make it in that color?
noctua are the industry-standard. austrian company who have been making fans and coolers for server farms and home PCs for decades. their performance is almost unrivalled in the market. they cost about 2-3x as much as regular fans, so you definitely have to pay for it.

they do a black and industrial range now as well. but yeah, their 'trademark' for ages was the sort of ... errm, brown. you either love it or you hate it, i guess.

i have a black noctua in my current machine. everything is blacked out. no lame RGB with the AMD cooler.
https://i.imgur.com/QksEROY.jpg

Last edited by uziq (2020-04-26 05:17:37)

unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

There's probably a time and a place for an LED light show shining out the back of your PC like a martian spacecraft crash landed in a termite-ridden barn, but it's probably not while I'm trying to type an email or play a video game. Or doing anything that involves having to look at stuff on a monitor that isn't related to tweaking LED settings.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689

Pochsy wrote:

this aligns with my interests. I'll sub to your channel, mac
This is my other youtube channel. It has 34 subscribers. I just rehosted some HBO clips and one from a movie because no on else did it yet.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWyQna … Cnj2kdob3A
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KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6602|949

You gained two subscribers by posting this.

R u a bot bro?
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
No I cannot math. I am common cored.
https://i.imgur.com/xsoGn9X.jpg
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

Did you ever become more supportive of your computer's gender identity?
jsnipy
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+3,276|6492|...

old thread but just in case, https://openrgb.org/

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