Do you use hardware and peripherals with RGB lighting, and if so, how much software is really necessary to be able to control it? Can you easily operate all of your RGB components with just one tool, or is it a mixture of software used for this purpose?
Do you use components with RGB lighting?
Asus Aura, ASRock Polychrome, Gigabyte RGB Fusion and MSI Mystic Light, all motherboard manufacturers offer their own RGB software, which can usually control at least at least graphics cards from their own company, but what about mostly-lit RAM modules, fans, and hardware Peripheral devices like keyboards and mice – or graphics cards from other manufacturers like EVGA, Sapphire, or PowerColor? But do you use RGB lighting components at all?
Anyone who has dealt with the subject closely and uses RGB lighting components will quickly find themselves faced with many RGB applications large and small. In many cases, it is best to centrally control the lighting of the entire computer.
What RGB instrument are you using?
In addition to motherboard manufacturers Asus, ASRock, Gigabyte, MSI and Biostar, peripheral manufacturers also have their own RGB widgets, some of which can also control and configure other components.
Currently the most popular applications, some of which also have ComputerBase in their download area, are:
What RGB tool does the main work for you and controls a large part of the components?
In many cases, a single tool is not enough to control the motherboard, graphics card, RAM, fan and peripherals and to synchronize colors with each other. Be honest, how many RGB software do you need to tame RGB lighting for your computer system?
How many RGB instruments do you use?
One application may be enough
The author himself has the following RGB components and only needs one tool in terms of hardware. On the other hand, peripherals do not require any RGB software thanks to the internal memory.
The Asus graphics card and the main memory from G.Skill can be controlled via the Asus Armory Crate and their colors can be synchronized without any problems.
Logitech peripherals are not recognized and must be configured once using the Logitech G Hub. The tool can then be uninstalled, because the mouse and keyboard have their own internal memory.
Editors understand that the composition model, which also uses quite a few RGB components, is just the tip of the iceberg. In Linux, for example, the author has to switch to OpenRGB v0.7 because Asus Armory Crate isn’t available there.
OpenRGB (formerly OpenAuraSDK) is a free multi-vendor RGB lighting control software. The goal of the project is to use reverse engineering to make hardware manufacturers’ often overburdened software, which is limited to Windows, unnecessary.
But even OpenRGB is still far from being able to easily control any device and any peripheral under Windows or any of the many Linux distributions. In most cases, users cannot avoid a mixture of tools.
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