I understand you too, but to me rig colour is better if it's static. The only time I get to see it is when I open side panel and when it's off. Many RGB products have slightly unpleasant silvery translucent plastic or some white cloudy plastic when they are off. They don't look nearly as good, when they are on. And to this day, I really hate the added complexity of wiring and controlling RGB. Seen to many stuff about software being poor and I'm illiterate, when it comes to connecting extra RGB cables. The only RGB thing I have is my mouse, which is rather old SS Rival 100. I'm fine with its software, but RGB quality is very disappointing. I couldn't set RGB to white, because white value in software is either very cold white or cyanish white in reality. Therefore I have to set a huge red bias to have something that is both slightly cyan and at one spot somewhat red. For many reasons if I wanted bling, I would just get single color fans and other things. They can also come with nicer plastic colors too. I still have two Akasa Vegas fans that are in bright green and those boasted having 12 LEDs in green. Rubber grommets and fan blades are green and look really nice. I mostly liked them and they looked amazing in through filtered mesh grille. There was a nice dark space with green stars effect going on (Cooler Master K280 case). The may problem with that was that they only came with 3 pin connector and if you change fan speed, lights also dim. At some point they start to flicker. And since they are 1200 rpm fans, they are way too audible than I would like by default, so now they are not in use anymore.
Or you do like people did in 00s, just don't match anything ever. Do you remember DFI LanParty boards? Those had at least 3 different colors at once. Gigabyte literally all RGB on their PCBs. Everyone just put things of random colors back then and nobody really cared. But if you bought some low end hardware it came in very dull uncolored brown or green PCB. I think that color matching is very overrated. Different colors make every component pop to eyes more and makes them more interesting to look at.
It's for those moments, when you open PC and just admire at stuff in it. And like I said, visibility matters, everything in same color is bad for visibility. My particular case is really awful at that and if you drop a black screw in it, it really becomes invisible. Even with light close to it, it's hard to see inside it and I basically showed all PSU cables under PSU shroud, despite my unit being modular, I still need to use almost all cable for my specific hardware. I eventually gave up trying to organize them under PSU shroud as they just blend with case very well.
I clearly mentioned 2003-2011 there, those were almost the same times as now, but community was far more enthusiastic. People were investigating GPU architectures at quite low level. I mean architectures like Tesla, R600, Fermi, Terrascle. I personally still read whitepapers if I can, does community do that? Nope. Not even when Turing launched with vastly different SMX layout, almost no one, except Greg did that. There was also one Anandtech article explaining it in depth and it only attracted few people. Nobody in more popular media every bothered to even mention some really simple and basic things about how it all works. Anything RTX was not well or fully explained by anyone more popular. LTT, GN, JayZ and etc. did a very piss poor job explaining how RTX worked in Turing 1.0
Here's that article:
www.anandtech.com
You will see what I meant after reading it. It's not just about nVidia, it's about everything. GPUs and CPUs. The community of deep learning of such things pretty much gone and has been dead for at least a decade.
Here's a random Polaris whitepaper:
I barely see that anymore. Beyond3D folks at their forum do a lot better in that aspect, despite that website being almost dead ever since 2011.
I have mixed feelings about GN. I don't really like that channel much. If you know nothing about tech, then perhaps he may look knowledgeable, but very rarely he actually is. GN is mostly just talking about many details, which some of them are meaningless and some that are meaningful. I personally still don't trust his reviews much in a way, that I don't feel like I get a proper view into things that matter to me. And even if he did an okay review, he takes so long to do that, that I lose my attention and just read a written reviews. I still often find that Anandtech, Guru3D, TPU, Tom's Hardware and some other random overclocker forums have decent reviews. Out of Youtubers, I think that only HWUB has decent GPU and motherboard reviews. I would never trust LTT or Jay at that. GN is neutral. For phone reviews I I avoid almost anyone on YT like plaque. I would never trust MKB or Lew, their reviews may not be shit, but their priorities and understanding of budget is straight up awful. GSMArena and some few other randos are fine at that. Still, my favourite phone review site is still NotebookCheck, because it's hardly a review site. They measure almost everything, offer minimal commentary and let you decide if something sucks or not. They are also the ones, who can offer a decent review of budget phone screens.
The only thing I see different now from 10 years ago is that everyone is far more willing to shill, sell out, be far more opinionated and more egoistic than acceptable, also while being very silent about details and inner workings or many things. That's the only thing that truly changed.
It seemingly isn't coming. You have GT 710, which is Fermi based GPU, but I wonder if something like GT 730 GDDR5 wouldn't be suitable for your needs. It has a Kepler core rather than Fermi and that's a huge upgrade. Not sure about output versions as nV took down their specs website.
I'd so love to test one!
