How to get started with PC RGB lighting - A beginners guide

hey i have a question i understand the 5v and the 12 v rgb but some boards have a place to hook up a sata power as well does this need to be hooked up as well or just the power from the motherboard ?

I didn't realise this was such a rocky road. Buying an RGB fan and assuming it would simply work by plugging into my MB. How wrong I was. Appreciate your video, thanks!

Could I put this in a regular gaming computer,came with no lights

Very informative breakdown. Thanks!

My knowledge has now increase. I thanks.

Built a pc around 2002ish and the only color I had was blue on the case when it powered up. Already bought parts for a build now and I quickly realized I know nothing about rgb. Thank you for this video. I do have all different brand parts as I didn't realize any of this.

Super informative. Building my first pc, getting all excited about this lighting and realizing I didn’t know how it worked. Incredibly helpful to actually know what I’m looking at. Thanks.

Thank you sir.

For anyone getting into this, getting true cross compatible RGB can be painful if you mix and match manufacturers such as Corsair keyboard, Logitech mouse, Asus headset etc. You definitely don't want to run multiple RGB software programs to control it all. Look at 3rd party programs like SignalRGB or OpenRGB and see if your hardware is supported. Neither of those are perfect, but they are doing their best to enable true cross brand unified RGB control.

This was a great video! Thank you for making it. I have one piece of advice: reduce your usage of filler words. Some people say, "uhm", "uh", "right", etc. You say, "you know", a lot and it is distracting.

I would argue that a lot motherboards currently in gaming rigs don't have an argb header. Almost all B450's and Intel 8/9th gen only have the 12 volt rgb header . And all the motherboards prior to that (which are very common still) only have regular pwm fan headers. Despite how common these motherboards are there is practically no information about getting led fans functioning in them. I don't even know if there is such thing as an analog 12 volt rgb case fan.

Hate the corsair crap, spent a lot on the 4000x instead of the 4000d airflow like a moron just because it has the 3 integrated fans and when I finally got it the top fan doesn’t light up at all and the middle and bottom fans light up just a single green led on the middle fan on the right and a single red led on the bottom top of the fans 🤦‍♂️ I’ve been on support with corsair for almost 2 weeks now and they just closed my ticket with no resolution for me 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ so basically I paid 50 or more $ for the 4000x instead of the 4000d to not have to worry about the rgb and ended up with 3 broken fans on the 4000x 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ and no actual help or refund or replacements 🥹🥹🥹

super informative!

ASUS
Motherboard
PRIME
H310M-A R2.0

How do I connect the ARGB Fan light on this Motherboard,? Is it advisable I use the (SPDIF _OUT) to plug the lighting of the fan??

I have the NV-I120FWR3 fans from Raidmax

thanks for the info!!! deep learning lesson. have great afternoon!!!!

This is Michael. Very well done although too technical and not practical enough. You could solve that with a concise summary that deals with application of R GB parts Without Getting into all the pins and circuitry.
I've pretty much Decided on corsair for their fans, connection devices, And software. They solve a lot of problems for the user. I've had trouble with asus, And Razor, And none of them like to play nice with each other.

we all know the more RGB's you have the faster your PC will go ! you had go faster strips on your car same thing :P

Outstanding beginners guide, I now know where to start and now, I understand the basics. Thank you

RGB is the dumbest thing to ever happen to the PC they are making a killing off pretty lights that do nothing for your PC 20% of the cost of todays hardware is pretty lights just dumb sorry just dumb.

How do you control fan speed with aRGB 3 pin, 5V?