[ziml77]

It's not a waste from an aesthetic perspective. Some people treat their builds like a functional art piece and don't want that giant hunk of metal in the middle of their case. A water cooled setup moves the bulk of the cooler to the edge of the case.

[LargoLasskhyfv]

For some that may be the case, for others not. For me it would probably a distraction. Taste varies :-)

What I would understand were if it had some function, like varying the colors and slowly pulsing, or brightness according to temperature and various loads, split into where it's making sense.

I don't know, something measured via eBPF piped into https://openrgb.org/ ?

Does this exist? Am I so out of the loop that I'm unaware of it? The only thing I've seen so far was changing color according to fan speed. Otherwise only decoupled cycling of color-patterns.

Anyway, I prefer black/grey/silver and otherwise featureless monoliths for now ;->

edit: something like that seems to exist https://gitlab.com/OpenRGBDevelopers/OpenRGBHardwareSyncPlug...

OTOH hardware support seems to be wonky, because all proprietary, has to be reverse engineered, may sometimes brick your device, or isn't exposed at all under Linux (AMD-GPU).

Well... thanks, but NO.

(What about security btw.?)