Hello all,
It is finally time for a totally new build that I will outline when I have it put together and running along with my steam/media machine and sever build that will happen this winter break. So anyways while selecting parts for my build I completely by accident had a pretty surprising trend going on in my shopping cart. I had selected all red and black components(mobo, ram, and gpu) and a white DIYPC case. I think this is going to be an awesome color contrast/combo and I really want to accent it with some lighting as well. The case comes with blue led fans which will be going because I am tired of the over powering blue form my current setup, and more importantly I don't always want a flood of light coming from the case when I am doing school work and general interwebs stuff. I know I am going to run a small number of UV leds from the top of the case facing down that will be on a switch, but I want to do something a little more involved for these leds.
So here is what I would really like to do. Run a strip of red leds along the bottom or rear of my case that will be automatically triggered by a temperature change of preferably the GPU(maybe CPU.) I am hoping there is a way to control a switch from one of the mobo fan hubs so that I could just use speedfan or something to say at X temp turn on. The idea would be to flip a switch that would splice into a molex power line. What would be even cooler(haha?) would be to have the leds sort of ramp up IE 40C=25% 45C 55C=50% and so on. Now I know of a couple of people using CPU usage to change colors but CPU spikes would be pretty annoying and I dont want the lights on when I am using CAD or something. I saw a post on how to do this with an arduino which would be cool but Id rather not have to use a second system that would need to be hidden away.
So basically the point here is that since I am building a system with the best parts of the MSI gaining series, I think it would be awesome to have the case glow red whilst gaming. That may sound stupid to most of you and that is okay. Most would say just get an led usb controller and turn it on and off, but where is the fun and uniqueness in that? Still let me know if I am talking absolute nonsense here. I have two PCs that I can do testing on so that I do not destroy a new board.
Sorry for the long post
It is finally time for a totally new build that I will outline when I have it put together and running along with my steam/media machine and sever build that will happen this winter break. So anyways while selecting parts for my build I completely by accident had a pretty surprising trend going on in my shopping cart. I had selected all red and black components(mobo, ram, and gpu) and a white DIYPC case. I think this is going to be an awesome color contrast/combo and I really want to accent it with some lighting as well. The case comes with blue led fans which will be going because I am tired of the over powering blue form my current setup, and more importantly I don't always want a flood of light coming from the case when I am doing school work and general interwebs stuff. I know I am going to run a small number of UV leds from the top of the case facing down that will be on a switch, but I want to do something a little more involved for these leds.
So here is what I would really like to do. Run a strip of red leds along the bottom or rear of my case that will be automatically triggered by a temperature change of preferably the GPU(maybe CPU.) I am hoping there is a way to control a switch from one of the mobo fan hubs so that I could just use speedfan or something to say at X temp turn on. The idea would be to flip a switch that would splice into a molex power line. What would be even cooler(haha?) would be to have the leds sort of ramp up IE 40C=25% 45C 55C=50% and so on. Now I know of a couple of people using CPU usage to change colors but CPU spikes would be pretty annoying and I dont want the lights on when I am using CAD or something. I saw a post on how to do this with an arduino which would be cool but Id rather not have to use a second system that would need to be hidden away.
So basically the point here is that since I am building a system with the best parts of the MSI gaining series, I think it would be awesome to have the case glow red whilst gaming. That may sound stupid to most of you and that is okay. Most would say just get an led usb controller and turn it on and off, but where is the fun and uniqueness in that? Still let me know if I am talking absolute nonsense here. I have two PCs that I can do testing on so that I do not destroy a new board.
Sorry for the long post
. Then again Christmas is around the corner and at this point my only suggestions were more dress clothes and a nice kitchen knife set... so a gadget would be nice. 
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