How safe is UV for your PC?

So because its not 'right' for you, then its wrong if its right for them?

Please get over your 'if i don't like it, its tacky' ego and try to appreciate just because someone's taste isnt the same as your own, it doesnt make it 'wrong'.

Everyone has a right to create art in their own form, you seem to be trying to define what you like as art, and what others like as tacky, geeky or sad.

So in reality it appears to me that you have little respect for other peoples opinions or taste, why that is, is far beyond me.

Sorry if i seem to take this personally, but this isnt a RIGHT or WRONG debate.... there's no winning side, just a lack of respect for other peoples tastes imo.

The purpose = the person using/modding the PC enjoys to look at it, thats all the purpose it needs to serve.
 
I don't think UV's are unsafe, how close was the cable tie to the cathode tube? if it was touching it then maybe the cathode should have an inch distance between other objects maybe.

Squiffy's just here to argue with people, coz he's a geek.

I think this thread should be locked now? :rolleyes:
 
I've not said putting a load of neons, cathodes and lights into a case is wrong. I said it was geeky.


If someone was to handpaint an image of their choosing onto the case (similar to the green reaper case i saw a while back) then thats fantastic. Its something WORTH looking at and is so much better because its something you've put time and effort into and its something that nobody else has done or could do again because its your work.

The same can be said for the really amazing hand drilled job someone did on that panel with the 1000 or so 3mm holes. That looks smart and is functional at the same time.

However, theres also a whole load of cases with standard lights in them with glowing cables and lights here there and everywhere. That IS geeky.



Its like a group of boyracers, theres nothing wrong with their cars and its better them spending their money on something healthy rather than drugs etc... but their lowered, neon'd, sponsor-sticker-covered cars are no way near as nice as a standard shelby mustang or bugati etc.
 
krisboats said:
I've not said putting a load of neons, cathodes and lights into a case is wrong. I said it was geeky.


If someone was to handpaint an image of their choosing onto the case (similar to the green reaper case i saw a while back) then thats fantastic. Its something WORTH looking at and is so much better because its something you've put time and effort into and its something that nobody else has done or could do again because its your work.

The same can be said for the really amazing hand drilled job someone did on that panel with the 1000 or so 3mm holes. That looks smart and is functional at the same time.

However, theres also a whole load of cases with standard lights in them with glowing cables and lights here there and everywhere. That IS geeky.



Its like a group of boyracers, theres nothing wrong with their cars and its better them spending their money on something healthy rather than drugs etc... but their lowered, neon'd, sponsor-sticker-covered cars are no way near as nice as a standard shelby mustang or bugati etc.
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In your opinion yes.... i think you're missing the point.
 
Lol, I have been much amused by reading this thread :D Krisboats is right, having neons and UV reactive cables/sleeving is indeed geeky, but that doesnt mean theres anything wrong with it. It sure is cool to turn up to LAN with a really cool modded case that turns a few heads. My rig has recently lost a lot of appeal, recently did an entire system rebuild. Same case, but I no longer have my Lanparty motherboard with its UV reactive slots etc. I now have one of the new Abit IN9 32X MAX boards which are not UV reative at all. So I no longer have anything UV reactive as my UV cables and PSU sleeving are gone too. All I have now if a few blue LED fans and the LEDS on the back of the motherboard, so I just took the UV cathodes out. Might buy some new blue cathodes :p
 
Not really, seems like what you're trying to say is, if someone builds the mod then its classed as cool, but if they buy the parts its just tacky/geeky.

So anything half decent looking has to require hard graft by the user?...

If i'm off base, please explain.
 
t31os said:
Not really, seems like what you're trying to say is, if someone builds the mod then its classed as cool, but if they buy the parts its just tacky/geeky.

So anything half decent looking has to require hard graft by the user?...

If i'm off base, please explain.
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Not quite, i mean putting a whole load of lights and neons and glowing cables into a pc is geeky... similar to the kind of boyracer you see in mcdonalds car parks in a Nova with neon lights and sets of cigarette lighter plug in spotlights all over the interior of the car. No matter how much they spend on doing it up its still going to be a cheap car with loads of lights instead of a nice car with no lights, like an aston martin for example. The expensive car doesn't need the lights to be nice to look at, it pulls it off quite adequately without them.

An artisitc case mod done with an airbrush/paintbrush etc still isn't cool per'say... because art is completely opinionistic. But its a s***load more interesting and so much better to look at. It shows a uniqueness that isn't possible with lights and neons so brings it away from being your average 19 year olds case after they've just found a local computer shop with LED fans etc. In exactly the same way an expensive case looks a lot better without lights, they are generally more classy, better designed, sleeker and smarter looking than a cheap one with neon lights fitted as standard.

See how these lights keep making an ordinarily nice object geeky in these examples? I kind of went with examples more than trying to define exactly what i mean, because i can't really express it in definitive words.
 
Cool thread, all I wanted to know if UV can damage your PC and 99% replies argue if i'm a geek or not :)

squiffy you are a computer nerd just by the fact that you're a member of this forum not mentioning that you have over 5000 posts to your name. Do you actually do anything else apart from sitting on your arse in front of the computer and reading this forum? If you don't like UV cathodes and don't use them then why did you even decided to read this thread?
I just hope you're not a teacher as you will not tolerate any other views that do not agree with yours. People have their own preferences and tastes, that's why you can buy products in different colours, shapes and sizes.
 
Day03 said:
Cool thread, all I wanted to know if UV can damage your PC and 99% replies argue if i'm a geek or not :)

squiffy you are a computer nerd just by the fact that you're a member of this forum not mentioning that you have over 5000 posts to your name. Do you actually do anything else apart from sitting on your arse in front of the computer and reading this forum? If you don't like UV cathodes and don't use them then why did you even decided to read this thread?
I just hope you're not a teacher as you will not tolerate any other views that do not agree with yours. People have their own preferences and tastes, that's why you can buy products in different colours, shapes and sizes.
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I'm glad you understood the point i was trying to make, that was really my goal. As long as you like the look, don't worry about anyone else. I personally like UV, i have reactive cables and a UV cathode and i prefer that to LED stuff, and thats my preference.

As i said before, there seems to people here that believe what they like is better then what anyone does..... and as i said before, its down to preference, stop trying to make one thing better then the other, there is no better or worse, its preference, plain and simple.

The UV question is answered now (and was done half a thread ago), so as long as the OP got the answer he needed i'll leave it at that.....

EDIT: And the proper meaning of geeky....
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geeky
 
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Show me some mods that serve a purpose (functional) and not a eyesore.
If I were to buy a Ferrari, and glue on leopard print fur on the bodywork, it wouldn't be tacky. So it's my preference I want it to look it that way. If you say it's tacky then that's just your opinion.
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:) (Hope Messiah Khan doesn't mind)

@ the OP, UV lights shouldn't damage anything considering how weak the output will be (5w maybe?)
 
Raikiri said:


:) (Hope Messiah Khan doesn't mind)

@ the OP, UV lights shouldn't damage anything considering how weak the output will be (5w maybe?)
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Isnt your speakers too close? Wont it damage components, due to magnetic radiation and some vibration?
 
That isn't mine, however most speakers will be magnetically shielded. Even if they're not I don't think they would cause any problems.
 
Amrit said:
Isnt your speakers too close? Wont it damage components, due to magnetic radiation and some vibration?
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Vibrations will eventually cause dry joints, although I doubt the PCB's inside the case will rattle about. Magnetic won't damage anything, it's not like you have a unshielded subwoofer driver right next to a hard drive.

Much nicer. :)

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Here we go GEEK alert!!!! UV light in standard unfiltered form Is White!!!! When it is filtered it will change colour, the colour we see normally from UV light is Purple, this is filtered at 315nm-400nm (circa) to give the purple glow. Prolonged exposure to it probably wont do you that much good. I work in UV light all day, as long as the filters are not broken your a safe bunny. IIRC the everyday cathodes you can buy are not a true uv, and they do not produce a lot of UV, UV light is measured in mircowatts per centimetre square and whats given off by one cold cathode is practically nothing, probably less then 20uw/cm2 at a distance of about 15". TBH i wouldnt even consider it being harmfull. I work with hand held spot that produce well over 2500uw/cm2 all day, as long as filters are good, no worries.


OOOOo here something for you, if you rig one up in your backwindow of your car, unfiltered mercury arc lamp, on a switch. When you get the annoying wont dipp headlights person behind you, flick on the unfiltered lamp, it will coagulate the jelly in their eyes making them temporarily blind!!! Now that would be an irresponsible thing to do. I dont condone anyone to do this, as if the lamp were to break you will be breathing in mercury vapours..... not nice!
 
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squiffy said:
Vibrations will eventually cause dry joints, although I doubt the PCB's inside the case will rattle about. Magnetic won't damage anything, it's not like you have a unshielded subwoofer driver right next to a hard drive.

Much nicer. :)
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