Why do zoomers care so much about what their pc looks like inside? This is what computers used to look like and only gays cared about shit like "cable management" or color design.
Why do zoomers care so much about what their pc looks like inside?
Why do zoomers care so much about what their pc looks like inside? This is what computers used to look like and only gays cared about shit like "cable management" or color design.
They started caring when marketers found a new way they can market their desktops to the last remaining shred of the home computer market, gamers, because they're sure as frick not selling RGB rice to corporate customers.
It's fun and looks interesting unless you're poor, not everyone likes living in boring ugly shitholes anon.
pretty much this tbh
I was function over form for the longest time. Eventually you hit an upper limit on hardware and start buying shit for the aesthetic
however some morons base their purchases on looks first
that's all it is.
>LOLPOOR
This is the fricking standard IQfy excuse for everything. How in the living frick does "poor" have any relevance to not giving a shit how your fricking computer looks? You can still buy your insane $600000 video cards and $3000 CPUs and 2.7 exabyte SSDs for $8.7 trillion dollars and still not worry about fricking pretty colors and fricking useless cable management.
>but MAH AIRFLOW
Get more fans, poorgay. See how that works?
not him but fans trigger my tisms
>i don't give a shit if something looks nice
yup, 99% chance you're fat and ugly
projection
post body
Touched a nerve? Funny how much I don’t give a frick about what they say cause I’m not poor.
Sure thing pajeet
'cause cannot buy a good new fancy car anon.
We used to DIY case mod and install CCFLs etc in the late 90's and early 00's. Just because you didn't, doesn't mean it wasn't a thing, you probably just weren't born yet.
The difference is that back then it was seen as tacky and unnecessary
Zoomers on the other hand sperg out when they see a green PCB and think more about look than practicality or durability
Manufacturers cant innovate with anything anymore except muh plastic shields and LEDs
Except green non server motherboards are usually bottom of the barrel trash. Same with GPUs. You spend 200+ bucks on this shit it may as well look nice too.
Green looks nice.
Workstation and laptop boards also aren't black most of the time
/thread
I still install CCFLs.
They are cheap still and I like the desaturated colors.
The almost laser like color purity of LEDs gets nauseating, I used to like them because they where so vibrant but for something decorative I find things like neon signs, blacklights or just anything gas based to be more tolerable.
My boomer dad loves modern LEDs but he has a hard time seeing color anymore
Hope you use extra filtering capacitors or DC to DC converters since those things shit on your power quality.
Millenials started the modern trend. Do not pretend that everyone didn't just stuff their excess cables into the 5.25" bays, liked the G3 iMac, or that Beige was the aesthetic of the day.
Oldgays cared about looks you fricking poser, they just had fewer colour-matching components and had to put up with more jank since the DIY side of the industry didn't have as much money flowing through it as it does now.
> "cared about looks"
> show this abomination
> for absolute meme gains and increased fire hazard
you're just a brainlet.
t. has been into computers before your father was born
>spaces after meme arrows
what site is this from?
>pcie motherboard
>oldgays
I've just used those pipe fittings and they are fricking useless.
Now how will I make my meth with this useless junk?
A8N SLI
ati X850 (?)
corsair XMS2
fatal1ty sound card
what cpu?
Gamers went from people who play games to people who buy cosmetics, and the actual look of the hardware is just an expansion of that.
The same reason gearheads put chrome all over their engines, dummy. Get better bait.
If you buy a desktop PC today and are a normalgay then you buy it for gaming
If you bought a desktop PC in the 1990s and 2000s it was usually not for gaming
Today normalgays all use disposable laptops, the DIY desktop market is basically dead except for overpriced gaymer shit that morons buy
I used to cable tie my IDE and SATA cables out of the airflow path because my P4 thermal throttled. Made cleaning easier too. The difference now is cases are manufactured with cable tidy locations, were living the dream. PCB's and components are also fun to look at, not personally into the RGB craze though.
PC's are unironically tacky, I don't care how much you spend on it. if your tower is anything but a non-transparent box hidden on a shelf or under the desk it's tacky. Glass sides are tacky. Lights, not just RGB but "tasteful"' lighting is tacky. Tower on the desk for no reason other than it is visible, tacky. The ideal tower setup is one that is out of sight.
i'm a fricking boomer and we always cared. we may have had to dremel our own side panel windows and install CCFLs but it was always the same shit
pic related, rounded IDE cables
Black person I'm still a well bit off 30 and I build guitars now.
Hobbyist diy is beyond generations and OP is a homosexual.
This is considered niche hobbying no matter the age now.
In the past it was actually for kids though, that was decades before I even existed (e.g. Bill Gates started microsoft with that shit in a garage).
The window in the side to "show off all the neat lights" is only meant for letting the EM radiation out to fry brains of the american children
t. chinaman
proper grounded computer (with no GPU) will have less EMF than your monitor or TV
Beats me, but why do you think you not caring about it is interesting or worthy of shitting up the catalog with a useless thread?
kinda annoying that the only way to get a brand new case now without a window is either buy those cheap thin metal pieces of shit that sit in the $20-$60 price range or go Mini-ITX because at least in that department most manufacturers decided that they care more about ventilation holes over muh glass shit, though some still exist
Otherwise hang onto your old case or buy used
It's annoying for me too, I don't want to look inside of my PC.
I laugh every time I see a picture of someone's shattered tempered glass side panel though so there is a fun part to it at least
people still buy cheap PSU's without modular cables, and leave the wires hanging around like that, only difference is there are no clusterfrick IDE cables.
That's actually how my PC looks like and I'm a zoomer.
Also most boomers had dell PC's (or whatever prebuilt all the boomer bought), and those PC's had cable management, not because it looked good, because the OEM was saving money by having a barebones cheap PSU without having unnecessary outputs, only powering what came with the PC (and if you wanted to upgrade, you would need a new PSU).
So, you want to normalize messy cable management? I don't know why your shitting on zoomers so much for having basic etiquette when it comes to their thousand dollar PC builds.
YOU'RE the gay and moronic for having messy cables, it's 2022 not 1999, good airflow is a necessity for the longevity of GPUs and hardware.
Zoomers don't have good cable management, newer cases just let them shove the spaghetti on the other side where you can't see it.
I blame transparent cases.
I just want a frick huge huge tall beige case.
Muh PC looks so cool on stream tho bro
Because how your PC looks actually affects its performance.
It holds for RAM too
i use ripjaws but i need to replace my water cooling pipes every few weeks because my ram tears through them so fast
Ballistic tracer looked so cash back then.
Wonder if there is any other company doing bare LEDs on RAM
RGB RAM always tends to have a diffuser.
This thread is so fricking moronic. Human beings innately like things to be aesthetically pleasing. It's why we dye our clothes. It's why we paint our walls. And yes, it's why we have gaming PC cases with RGB PSUs. A home pc isn't a piece of industrial machinery to sit in a warehouse, it's something that sits in your living space with you. When we have something in our living space full of nice looking things we also want it to look nice as well.
Now go have a nice day you pedantic elitist whining fricksock.
>Picrel: Ancient ass hardware that, holy shit, isn't a featureless stainless steel box. Did zoomers travel back to 1986 to make this?
You say that but a full metal case is way more aesthetically pleasing and yet you can pretty much only buy garbage looking glass cases or garish eye rape LED shit these days.
Unless your decoration style is "cyberpunk brothel" you are shit out of luck when it comes to aesthetics these days.
>Unless your decoration style is "cyberpunk brothel" you are shit out of luck when it comes to aesthetics these days.
I present the "Makerbot from 2009" aesthetic.
Fabricate a solid side panel at your own peril
>no grounding
>no rf shielding
Sorry but I dont want a radio station in my house
I think there's a big difference between neon gamer PCs and bare sheet metal warehouse builds like OP posted. People have never not wanted their home PCs to look nice. What people think of as a nice looking PC has definitely changed but his whole "Back in the good old days of 2004 we didn't care what our PCs looked like!" post is bullshit. Even the first mainframe systems weren't just featureless metal slabs. They had colors and accents and logos. People like aesthetically pleasing things.
Not a zoomer but i did have a pc case with a window, i love to look at the components and stuff do the complexity of them, I cant help but wonder what kind of machine put that cap or resister in that part of the pcb, I love looking at the pcbs as a matter of fact, they look like little cities... computers are humanity's biggest achievement.
I eventually got bored of looking at that crappy israelitetell board so i bought a gigabyte mobo with leds that tell you whats working and one of those post displays.
>putting a car speaker in your case
How loud were those beeps?
You made me realize that with some clever wiring you could set the motherboard speaker to fire a car horn, and I'm laughing very hard.
It was kind of annoying finding a good case with no side window when I built a PC recently. I settled on pic related and think it looks pretty nice.
> Go on PC part picker
> Go to cases
> Check "side window" to "none"
> Choose from many options
Wow, so difficult
Because PC makers realized they can charge more for “RGB” and there are drooling fools that pay for it. So they made the case glass to make the LED light show more visible too and threw a bunch of LEDs everywhere. It costs little to nothing to add LEDs to the board or case, but that will bump the price some 40%. It’s about finding ways to get morons to pay more. They managed to convince them that the PC is not just a computer, it’s a big hunky box full of unnecessary fans and useless blinking LEDs that sits on top of your desks, takes up half of it, and serves as a decoration piece of sorts. I cringe every time I see one of these on pcpartpicker.
Because those PCs were a fricking nightmare to work with.
> IDE cables that had to be terminated in a specific way for primary/secondary
> Cases with jagged edged that sliced your finger
> 3+ expansion cards in an average PC
> Molex cables and cable extensions everywhere
> Cable ties for "management"
Ironically cable management is now much less important since we basically don't use cables any more except a few for power. Cables exist mostly outside of the case now.