No Stupid Questions

Red LEDs make your pc faster, blue ones make it run cooler and green ones save energy.

I think the answer is obvious: because that's what sells and is popular. There are all black cases to be found though such as this one for example.

Plain solid black cases are everywhere, stop being lazy

They're not.

You can.

Next question

The urge to LEDify every bloody thing has never made sense to me.

I get having a discreet, physical indicator of activity, but having a USB cable that can light up a wall in a dark room, from LEDs on both ends? Too goddamn common now.

...when if you wanted a non-beige case with a window and lights, you had to cut a hole in it, paint it, and install cold-cathode tubes in it yourself.

"Plain solid black case" *laughs in yellowing beige.

Uh. You can.

In fact, the vast majority of desktop computer cases in the world are plain black boxes (or grey, or beige, but black seems most popular among the major manufacturers like Dell and HP these days). That's because the majority of PC's in the world are actually boring business boxes squatting on untold numbers of office desks. Just, no one posts pictures of those online because no one gives a shit about the 4,897 identical low-spec computers some megacorporation bought and had delivered on a pallet.

The PC's you're seeing are gaming rigs, and gamers festoon their stuff with silly LED's because it's cool, or at least they think it's cool, or possibly just because it's a meme by now. Or, in some cases, the piece of enthusiast gear you want comes with RGB LED's all over it anyway, whether you like it or not. But these are, by the raw numbers, the minority of the PC world.

You can absolutely build a gaming PC without the LED stuff, including buying a plain non-windowed case for it. I have a machine like that sitting on my desk right now, in fact.

Just filter out glass and LED in your search. There are plenty of plain black towers. They're usually pretty cheap too, I think mine was $20.

Literally one minute, mostly for to mobile load times.

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811147334

They make plenty of parts that don't have LEDs and even then most of them have the option to turn them off.

My entire system i built just a few years ago has no LEDs that are on but I still love the clear window into the system, let's me know when to clean it.

Or do you just want to continue to yell at clouds?

Solid casea are still available and ao are parts without LEDs.

Why do case manufacturers make cases that sell well? I don't understand!

uh, because it’s the future?

[scoffs]

Because people got bored of plain white, black or beige boxes and then manufacturers noticed if they slap colored lights on their shit, they can get people to spend more money on them. So now everything has lights.

Used to be able to leave my PC running and go to sleep. Now I have to shut it down because it's like a miniature sun in my room.

Because more and more building Pcs is a hobby and hobbyists love to tinker and show off their work.

When you play with tech its easy to forget just how small a market we are. Once you get past the people who just use their phone, and the people who get by with a basic chromebook, then the people who just buy a gaming laptop, the ex lease workstation crowd, then the people who buy prebuilts, and now even the subset of gamers who just use a docked steam deck... we really are a hobbyist community.

It's a minor thing in addition to what everyone else has pointed out but led parts helps with trouble shooting.

Fan not moving, but lit up? Your definitely getting power to it.

Black box on the floor gang represent

I'm not looking at my PC, take that led money and upgrade your monitor

The curved ultra wide OLED from Alienware is pretty rad

I paid more for a black case without a window. I think the RGB trend is garish.

I do make an exception for tasteful red accent lighting.

Because rgb is popular. There are a bunch of standard cases but case makers need tk cater to what most people want because case manufacturing doesnt have the greatest margins due to size and cost of shipping.

A lot of the margins come from fans and lighting.

It's the style right now. Personally, I'm hoping for a "retro beige case that can hold modern hardware" era ~~because I have terrible taste~~.

Because some of us like the pretty lights, they’re cheap to include and the people that don’t like them can always turn them off

Cause we are all just a few days away from becoming catboys in stockings on Linux machines. Give in to the RGB side and join us meow

The Fractal Design 7 line has some all covered cases.

It's just the trend de jure for computer case designs. I also have no desire to show off the parts inside my case and think the rainbow LEDs are a bit much. If I'm gonna throw a rave at home, I ain't gonna light it with my GPU.

Stupid fads, sometimes customers are to blame, other times companies (SUVs plague, touch screens on cars, smarphone screen notches and removed conectors...).

And even worse than RGB everywhere... glass panels. Yes, of course, put something heavy and fragile on my already heavy PC. And a glass panel is an accident waiting to happen.

This is the case I wanted for a build a decade ago: https://www.quickhard.com/fotos/Caja-ANTEC-NINE-HUNDRED-EU-Negra-foto3.jpg

I finally ended up with this one earlier this year: https://en.sharkoon.com/product/37933

No glass. No included or purchased fan for the build has leds. However, I have to admit that I recycled a couple of old transparent fans with blue leds (14mm and 12mm) that were the best ones I had lying around, and they are installed behind the frontal dust mesh... which is behind the front grill panel.