These are great lights for your PC or just anywhere in your setup. The look great and at PLE right now you can get the 1m cables in red, green, blue, or white for $5 or the red in 2m for $10. Its very cheap in general for lights, I would expect to pay at least $10 for a meter strip normally. These are reduced below half price and they are in stock everywhere. Get it while it lasts.
Red leds make your cpu go 10% faster
It has only been a thing for at least 20+ years now.
Even the worst glass and RGB monstrosities look better than the home cut windows and cold cathodes that were 'cool' when I was a kid.
Review for these in 2010. That's some old school stuff… I guess nobody buys these now since they not individually addressable and they also add a lot of cable clutter to your build.
Yeah that's about when I purchased the blue one for an old PC. A significant amount of LEDs died a year or so after purchase and the brightness of the remaining ones probably halved or worse; wouldn't recommend these. PC lighting has come quite a long way since then in terms of LED lifespan.
The adhesive strips provided to affix the cable to your case are also garbage.
Visited tweaktown for the review, got bombarded with ads for $250 dental implant in India. How bizarre. And before anyone tells me Google is spying on my conversation, no one in my family has needed dental procedures and definitely no one needs an implant in India.
Wow these are ugly
Best I can offer is $2. Do we have a deal?
$2.5. Best I can do. Be a man. Do the right thing.
I got these back in 2014. Have solid build quality and feel, but the LED's failed sometime in the last two years.
If the LEDs can't let go of the heat, they die prematurely. Important with strip lights anywhere, to stick them to a heat-conductive surface that will absorb the heat. Very important to remove zinc/oil and other chemicals from the production process when sticking to a computer cabinet/case/component. A solid wipe with pure alcohol is best.
Then the adhesive sticks them for longer, and can allow maximum heat transfer to the metal, allowing the LEDs to stay cool.
Same happened to the blue set I got around 2010. About half the LEDs died after a little over a year and the remainder just became noticeably dimmer, so I stopped using it.
I can't believe this is still a thing :).