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I also don’t get the point. Why would you want to look inside your PC or even have lots of coloured lights in it to look at?

I think the insides of a PC look more interesting than a flat piece of sheet metal. Adding addressable LEDs make that even more true.

Visually, I don't care particularly much one way or the other, but on a 6-12 layer PCB, there's plenty of opportunity to closely couple and shield fast-changing signals, so I wouldn't expect surrounding in a Faraday cage would be needed (and certainly I've never noticed an issue from the computers near my RF receivers).

Neither is very visible under your desk, except for possibly the front of the case.

I went out of my way to avoid extra lights, which sadly wasn’t possible for the GPU. I had to figure out how to turn those off in software.

It is a form of costly signalling.

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