MSI and SteelSeries Partner in Lighting Up Your World - Sync RGB

[Raevenlord]

It would seem like companies MSI and SteelSeries are reaching a somewhat strategic partnership when it comes to lighting up your PC and peripherals of choice. As you are all well aware, most companies now offer products with RGB lighting, from motherboards to AIOs and RAM. We covered SteelSeries' own QcK Prism mouse mat some days ago, and you would think the folks at MSI were impressed by SteelSeries' RGB "savoir-faire."

MSI is allowing you to control LED lighting on only one of their motherboards for now - the Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon. This looks like a tentative partnership, for now, but could soon be expanded to more RGB-equipped MSI motherboards. SteelSeries' Engine 3 (SSE3) is the application, developed by SteelSeries, that will allow you to sync your motherboard's lighting with that of your other SteelSeries peripherals, ensuring a single "LED lighting language" across your desk space. The two main lighting features of SSE3 are PrismSync and GameSense. PrismSync controls all the lighting effects in the usual "choose your own color" metric, while GameSense dynamically adjusts lighting effects according to what's happening on your games of choice, like syncing colors to your in-game health or other metrics. This is yet another step towards the integration of LED lighting in our daily computing lives. At least now you can control all LED lighting from different manufacturers (well, just two manufacturers, really) through a single application. Exciting times.



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[Axaion]

Sweet baby spareribs

Am i the only one at the point where id pay slightly more to AVOID RBG's all over the place?

 

[Assimilator]

Sweet baby spareribs

Am i the only one at the point where id pay slightly more to AVOID RBG's all over the place?

No friend, no you are not. Some of us do miss the old days when the money we paid for hardware actually went towards features of the hardware.

 

[hckngrtfakt]

While I do somehow understand the appeal of the LED illumination on certain pieces of hardware, manufacturers need to understand this fad has long come and gone.
Yes, 15 years ago was awesome to have lights and gizmos inside computers, but is 2017, most
powerusers/gamers couldn't care less if there's an LED inside the case or on the keyboard.
I don't need lights on the mouse, just let me see the letters on the keyboard, make the light white, and be done with it, if I ever need lights inside the case, I'll put a light bulb in there.

 

[seronx]

Next big thing: CMYKs!!

 

[Dammeron]

I puked yesterday and it was in RGB - does that count?

 

[silentbogo]

 

[kn00tcn]

and you would think the folks at MSI were impressed by SteelSeries' RGB "savoir-faire."

MSI & steelseries have been partners for many years, most if not all of their gaming laptops use steelseries keyboards for example

Am i the only one at the point where id pay slightly more to AVOID RBG's all over the place?

push the off button? why would you pay more... it's an LED, turn it off or unplug it

 

[Prima.Vera]

You guys are complaining like there are no alternatives for the RGB prods. Guess what, 75% of the stuff is non-RGB and is even cheaper that the one with it.
So stop your bitching already, is getting annoying reading the same comments all over again every-time a new RGB product is posted on the forum. LOL

 

[erixx]

I am ashamed to say it but on the backside of my MSI Z270 Xpower there is "Steelseries" stamped, the manual talks about it and I have not, yet, bothered reading what is all about. Of course, well, RGB sync'ing.
A suspect a very basic and kiddy approach.

We just need a small interface between Windows Action Center and RGB and we can have lots of "Warnings!!" send to our keyboard color leds... like DasKeyboard but more simple...

 

[Axaion]

MSI & steelseries have been partners for many years, most if not all of their gaming laptops use steelseries keyboards for example


push the off button? why would you pay more... it's an LED, turn it off or unplug it

Not everything will let you turn it off with a button, or even software, take the Sound Blaster Z for example, insanely bright red LED.

You guys are complaining like there are no alternatives for the RGB prods. Guess what, 75% of the stuff is non-RGB and is even cheaper that the one with it.
So stop your bitching already, is getting annoying reading the same comments all over again every-time a new RGB product is posted on the forum. LOL

Most of the "high end" or good performance ratio products have LED's all over the place lately, personally i wouldent mind paying 10 bucks more to have the same product without any useless LEDs

Dont read the comments if they trigger you so much

 

[kn00tcn]

Not everything will let you turn it off with a button, or even software, take the Sound Blaster Z for example, insanely bright red LED.

how reachable is it physically? can covering it be good enough if there's nothing to unplug or smash? it's lit as soon as the computer turns on (before drivers), right?

i hope it's facing downward for an ambient case light at least, rather than seeing it by direct line of sight

 

[Vayra86]

I puked yesterday and it was in RGB - does that count?

Its only OK if its just G

For that R / B you need to see a doctor