really nice color theme 
p.s. I also like the retro-style RBG lights on the wall 
Lmao Iām to lazy/cheap to get dimmable lights so I just kept up the Christmas decorations since it gave the perfect amount of light for my needs haha
You are still paying for all those extra parts and features. Also those are more points of failure in the system even when shut off depending on the circumstancesā¦hic!
often you donāt pay more. sometimes they can be cheaper than the non-rgb variantsā¦ i.e. ram for an equivalent model line at the same speed 
Then other things, such as graphic cards, itās virtually impossible to find any without some sort of rgb these days, or the non-rgb variants are relegated to the slowest budget model with the slowest clock speeds, etc. So yeah youāll save a few bucks but youāll get slower performance out of the box without as much overclocking headroom versus the models with.
Same goes with pc cases, many these days come with rgb fans and often without any price difference between similar cases without rgb fans.
No pictures, because itās a closed basic black case anyway. 
Not a fan of extra lights around, no matter the colors.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/DKkpmq
I had no idea what I was doing, but I built this in August, 2018. I added two Acer Predator g-Sync 1440p monitors in December, 2020. Proof that the clueless can, and will, build a PC that works. lol
And still, I donāt run WoW on max, because my eyes are VERY sensitive to jitter, apparently. 
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i remember all those things. i was working at CompUSA at the time, either in the parts department or the Tech Shop. When 3DFX bought STB so they could be their own manufacturer was when Voodoo really went down hill. I hated STB too, Diamond was the best quality and drivers IMO. But yeah ATI had their Rage cards, and nVidia had the TNT and TNT2 cards that were just better than anything 3Dfx was putting out, plus OpenGL was really shining and Glide was taking a back seat. 3Dfx died not long after that.
funny story, i had the Diamond Riva TNT2 Ultra with 32mb, and it had a built in overclocking utility with the drivers. 5 boost levels at 5mhz each. at 5, i could only play for like 15 minutes before the system would overheat and crash, no matter what. 4 i got about 30 minutesā¦ but at 3ā¦ i could run stableā¦ if i had the side of my case open and had a box fan up against it. which i did, cuz it was overclockedā¦ why wouldnt i do that!?
lol my systems during the 90s were āoverheating? whatās that?ā whatās a cooling fan?
lol none of my graphic cards i had during that era had a cooling fan, just a small passive heatsink, if anything at all. It wasnāt until my geforce 256 the first time iāve seen a graphics card with a cooling fan, a little pissant cooling fan nonetheless:
https://static1.gamespot.com/uploads/original/917/9176928/2634447-7696865250-Visio.jpg
my processor just had a heat sink back in those days lol, i dont think even my Athlon, the original one, even had a fan, it was a slot and had a plastic case around it!
my tnt2 ultra had a small fan like that one you got there too.
edit: now that im thinking about it, im pretty sure the Athlon had a fan built into that plastic shroudā¦ its been a long time and i used to drink a whole lot back thenā¦ sorry.
Bit old, but itās still chugging along. - https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bcyjsX
In case the link doesnāt work - GTX 970, i7-4790K, 16GB RAM. Only changes Iāve made in the past five years is a new PSU, move from 8GB to 16GB RAM and soon to be a 60% keyboard once all the fun stuff like the caps and switches come in. Really was hoping to get a GPU upgrade but being unemployed right now and the mess over card prices and stock it seems like Iāll be holding off for awhile. 
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System76 is offering systems with wood grain cases and no real RGB crazyness. Iām seriously oogling those right now and seeing how the graphic card thing works out before nabbing a Thelio system. However if you got the cash you could spec out a 64 core/128 thread system with 256GB of ECC memory and quad video card setup for around $45K. 
ā¦hic!