Today, like it or not, almost all PC components and peripherals have RGB lighting; This lighting might look great on many desks, but the reality is that not everyone likes it, especially if you’re one of those people who has a PC in the room and leaves it on at night. So what can you do if you want turn off all RGB lights? In this article we tell you.
At first there were only mice and keyboards, and later lighting also included fans. The reality is that even many SSDs today already have RGB (or A-RGB, which is the same by the way) lighting, not to mention liquid-cooled AIO heatsinks or RAM, transforming your PC almost like a disco, especially if you don’t have everything running in sync.
Can you disable all RGB lighting on your PC?
The answer to this question is yes, but with certain conditions. First, you need to somehow synchronize all the lighting, mostly through software, although the hardware device obviously needs to be compatible with the software in question. Fortunately, most components are compatible with the motherboard’s RGB software, although in this case you’ll also need to make sure you have everything connected to it to be able to control it.
Of course, many users are fans of a specific brand, and if for example you own all (or most) of your CORSAIR-branded devices, you can use its unified software, iCUE, to power on, control, and of course power on. turns off all RGB lights on the PC. There are some components that this brand does not manufacture, such as the motherboard, but fortunately there are “addonswhich can be installed to also be able to configure it from the same software.
With all this, what we want to tell you is that if you want to be able to easily turn on and off all the RGB lighting in your PC, the ideal is that you have designed the lighting system from the start to be able to control everything from one place. This way you can even turn everything on and off with a single button (for example in iCUE you can create multiple profiles, you could have one with all the lighting on and another with everything off, so that by simply pressing the profile change button (or direct access), you can switch from one state to another).
On the other hand, if in your case all your hardware with RGB is not configurable from a single software, you always have other alternatives. For example, in our case, we have an ASUS Prime Z690-A mid-range motherboard whose built-in lighting does not work even with iCUE
In short, do you want to be able to turn off ALL the RGB lights on your PC? So you have several options:
- Design all lighting from the moment you choose the PC hardware so that everything is compatible with the same software.
- Using various software to control the different components, with the disadvantage that you won’t be able to unify everything and, for example, turn everything on and off with a single button.
- The last option is to not physically connect the lighting to devices that allow it, such as fans with an RGB connector (this, as you will already assume, is not possible in some components, such as memory RAM).