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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 and 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 a soos now has RGB 50/50 headers which is the standard for RGB strips and little cables that come off with them so you can plug in RGB strips to them cool cable laud also has LED strips now ranging 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 gonna 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 ultra violet 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 before on LED strips with it is a a foam 3m solution which is actually really aggressively sticky which is great because it 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 strict pretty well and actually my favorite one is the magnetic one ah I love that that is super cool they put little magnetic blocks throughout the entire strip and it just sticks anywhere in your case the LED strips are actually in the case right now both of those are magnetic another thing that I want to mention is their 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 in a molex trip 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 because 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 molex 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 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 go to bed 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 cue 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 wonky 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 a Seuss boards that happens to have the ORA connector or the Ora 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 and B wires actually match up with the configuration that Asus 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 Linus 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 that I can have everything kind of breathe in and out we all know the breathing effect it looks really cool on a Seuss logos have been doing it forever in red strobing so basically this turns on and off it's not super fast but it just turns on and off color cycle which will go through all the available colors go and have this cool like gradual rainbow effect and then yeah music effect in 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 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 one or header two 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 phone and magnets are huge improvements in my opinion let me know what you guys think in the comments down below don't forget 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