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.

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

...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.

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.

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

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?

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

uh, because it’s the future?

[scoffs]

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

you’re welcome

My current build is in a Define XL R2 (it doubles as a very lazily implemented NAS)

My gf’s build is in a Define C (tempered glass, because the metal side model was sold out when we were building it)

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/...

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.

Bro don’t you want your rig to look like a fucking SPACESHIP??

The blue leds make the whole setup run cooler. And if you want a really fast build, get an aerodynamic case with a racing stripe.

But seriously, hard agree. I want a big, easy to open easy to access, metal box. With handles if it's possible I'll be using it for gigs etc.

You can. As others have said it's just a trend.

There are parts made specifically for those like you (and me) who don't like unicorn barf all over their room. (My case has RGB fans. I just don't connect these pins tho)

My spouse / co-op partner and I have our co- battle station in our bedroom due to a tiny house so when we rebuilt our desktops we opted for totally opaque cases from BeQuiet and they are great!

Lian Li make nice all black aluminum cases in a variety of sizes.

I blame 50% William Gibson, and 50% Ridley Scott.

Just buy a rack mount case

Kids like it

If all computer hardware was a single solid colour and just worked, there would be fewer reasons to replace it or pay more for different models. It's like skins in an online game: if you give people a choice, some will pay more just because something looks different...some will buy yet another one because it, too looks different.

I bought a Thelio Mira from System 76 and I love the look.

Quite agree. It is next to impossible to find solid cases any more, because only transparent ones are sold. The one manufacturer left still making solid cases seems to be Fractal Design.