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title: 'I Turned My Boring Room Into a CRAZY RGB Setup!'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=plYD7rD0zkA'
video_id: 'plYD7rD0zkA'
date: 2026-09-16
duration_sec: 907
channel: 'The Video Nerd'
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# I Turned My Boring Room Into a CRAZY RGB Setup!

> Source: [I Turned My Boring Room Into a CRAZY RGB Setup!](https://youtube.com/watch?v=plYD7rD0zkA)

## Summary

The video showcases a variety of RGB lighting products, from budget-friendly options to premium Govee gear, and demonstrates how to build a screen-reactive AI sync setup. The creator walks through each product's features, pricing, and practical applications, culminating in a live test with Apex Legends.

### Key Points

- **RGB Cabinet Lights** [01:06] — RGB cabinet lights cost around $33 with a 15% coupon on Amazon, and are great for creating mood lighting in display cabinets.
- **IKEA Variera Plugs** [01:33] — IKEA Variera plugs can hide unsightly holes in cabinets, costing about $1 for a bag.
- **LED Profiles for Diffused Lighting** [02:16] — LED profiles with diffusers create a clean, diffused LED line for walls or desk fronts, as used in a previous Christmas setup.
- **Govee Neon Rope** [03:08] — The Govee Neon Rope is a bendable, diffused LED strip that can be stuck on desk fronts or around corners, offering a sleek upgrade.
- **Astronaut Galaxy Projector** [04:31] — The Astronaut is a galaxy projector with a detachable head, projecting a galaxy onto walls or ceilings; it's a cool RGB gadget.
- **Govee Glide Hexagon Panels** [05:23] — Govee Glide Hexagon panels are large, clean panels with double-sided tape, available in standard and Pro versions; they produce a lot of light.
- **Govee AI Light Sync Box** [06:49] — The Govee AI Light Sync Box has 3 HDMI in, 1 HDMI out, and 2 USB-C ports, supporting up to 2 lights for real-time screen sync.
- **Budget LED Strip** [08:08] — A classic LED strip with a banana design is a budget-friendly, cliché but effective way to add RGB, working via USB or batteries.
- **Govee Lira Floor Lamp** [08:51] — The Govee Lira floor lamp costs around $150 and is the most premium-looking product in the setup, usable as a floor or wall light.
- **Galaxy Light Battery Life** [09:47] — The galaxy light lasted about 3.5 to 4 hours on fully charged batteries; plugging it into USB is recommended for reliability.
- **RGB Floodlight** [10:27] — An RGB floodlight costs around $30 and is one of the cheapest ways to create a full-room RGB atmosphere.
- **AI Sync Box Specs** [13:44] — The AI Light Sync Box supports 1440p at 144Hz, which covers most serious gamers, but not 4K high refresh rates.
- **AI Sync Testing** [14:10] — The AI sync setup makes gaming immersive, with lights reacting to specific on-screen events without needing a camera.

### Conclusion

The video provides a comprehensive overview of RGB lighting products, from budget-friendly options to premium Govee gear, and demonstrates how to build a screen-reactive AI sync setup for an immersive gaming experience.

## Transcript

I recently turned this boring white spitter setup into a crazy RGB setup and today I'm gonna talk about the cheap and expensive products that used to create all of this RGB and we'll also be building an AI sync setup that completely reacts to what's on your screen so all the
RGB will be reacting to your game. Now before I get into the first product a big thanks to the intro sponsor OWN. OWN.tv has a huge library of graphics packs that are of the highest quality and that are all completely animated.
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cabinet. If you go on Amazon and you search for RGB cabinet lights, you will find them right there. The price is around 33 bucks but there's a 15% coupon. But look at this, especially for such videos or such pictures, these lights create a great
atmosphere. By the way, I need to get rid of those holes. Look at this, you can completely get rid of them. However, you could use this right here which is IKEA Variera. I definitely completely butchered that name. But these make the cabinets look very clean.
I definitely need to do it everywhere. I think those plugs cost $1 for a whole bag. This here is the box that they came in. Now, I ordered them from Amazon.nl so they might not be completely the same. However, these also came with double sided tape for the back.
They came with a bunch of screws. I didn't use them. And here are all the remotes of all the lights. I obviously didn't need all of them. But I think this one will work and as you can see you can change the color of the lights as well. They are very bright if there is not too much light in the room.
It's more for a cozy chill bedroom gaming room. We have a few cabinets that are lighted with this with some stuff in them. Now the next product is really interesting. It's what you see behind me. And creating this type of look on the front of your desk is something that used to be pretty complicated.
Well not that complicated. But for example in the previous Christmas set up I built. I used Gozi light strips which is the same company that make this here but they are LED strips and in that video I used something called LED profiles and basically you put your LED strips inside and then there is a diffuser that goes on top and as a result if you install this on a wall or on the front of your desk then as a result you get one diffused LED line and that allows you to create some really interesting effects. It looks great in that video.
But now with this product you can just stick it on the front of your desk And I already did something like this but I wanna show you what it looks like By the way before I forget Gozi is sponsoring this video however as you can see I have so much stuff on them
I did send them an email asked for all this stuff that was not part of this video I just installed this whole studio and then he reached out for a sponsored video And I thought well I'm just gonna show people what I've built a few months before that And look at this this is such a convenient product
And before you say the other effect you showed me from the video was better So, I'm in the application right now and I'm gonna try to look for an interesting seam. Oh, look at that! It's already animating. This is Christmas. Well, that's a bit early.
There is lots of options with this. I could transform this whole studio, give it a different vibe. Okay, I finally found the theme I like. It's different kinds of blue going from left to right. The rope also bends very well in corners, so you can put it in a corner like that.
Or you can put it around the corner from a desk. And I mean, overall, I think this is a really, really sleek upgrade for any setup. It looks very clean in the dark and even with so much light going on here it very very visible So this is a great upgrade by the way that thing on the top is the exact same thing that also rope and maybe i need to animate
it because this is really interesting in the back that was actually the goal of this video to animate everything because all of this stuff is from govi i could think all of it i just did the same thing to the led strips on the back under the cabinets as you can see they are animating right now this
This is a star effect from the lightning effect. Oh, look at that. Okay, this is hard to look at. I think it's pretty clear there are options to sync everything together and make it less likely to make you get a headache.
Now, the next upgrade I want to show you isn't available on my main camera, but it's the Astronaut right there. Now, this does not that much to the setup in terms of RGB, but it's a really cool RGB gadget. Now, I've talked about this Astronaut before.
This head is detachable. And the reason for that is that this way you can aim the head however you want. And if I haven't mentioned it yet, this is a galaxy projector, so it means that you can put it on your nightstand for example and then aim it at the ceiling.
And then from the helmet right here there's a projector inside and it's gonna project the galaxy on your wall, on your ceiling, wherever you've pointed at. I did show on VFX in one of my cool gadgets videos so I'm gonna show some footage of that. But do be fair, the biggest reason I like this is just how cool it looks.
I mean look at this, you can put it somewhere, for example in your setup, aim it at you and I'm looking just pretty sure it looks like it's looking at me. This overall is a great gadget for putting your setup. I'm definitely gonna link it below, you've probably seen this already.
Now there's one extra product that Govee sent me for this video specifically. By the way, I'm pretty sure that there's gonna be a huge Prime Day discount. Prime Day should be coming like one or two days after publishing this video. And this is the Govee Glide Hexagon.
Now behind me, you can already see a very similar product and that's because this here is the Govee Glide Hexagon Pro. Just like with all of these products from Govee, we can choose another team and then just make it do that. Let's take something more student. Oh right, I definitely like that
thing that definitely fits the setup. I'm gonna make it blue again. Now the main difference between those right there and then these is that those are divided into three and then these are just one panel each. I'll take one panel out so you can take a look at it and get a feel for the
size. These are pretty big panels each. On the back there is double-sided tape to hang this on the wall and these are very clean panels. Now I did use the exact same panels in my Galaxy streaming setup. I will show you some footage of attaching the panels to the wall and I did also test a
bunch of themes in that video. I really really like these panels they are not that cheap. I'm not exactly sure what the price is. If it's Prime Day or maybe later this year Black Friday you can always score a deal on these. So if you're in time for Prime Day it might be the perfect
opportunity. Either these ones or the Pros both look amazing in any setup. They produce a lot of light, they look great in the background, they look great above a setup. I will put a few links to the Govee Prime Radio or normal links in the description.
Alright, next I wanna check out this Govee AI Light Sync Box, because I'm not entirely sure how this works. So we have this HDMI box, I'm not sure what else to call it. So this has a bunch of HDMI ports. So there are 3 HDMI in ports and then 1 HDMI out, and then 2 USB-C.
I think there's a maximum of 2 Govee lights that you can connect to this here to sync to your screen in real time, but I'm not sure, so that's what I wanted to check out. As you can see, See these are lights similar to those that you see behind me and they have to be connected
with a USB-C port, so I guess two gadgets can be connected to this, let's see what else they give you. Alright, so these are RGB strips and then two stands here for these lights here, I already installed them on those.
This could be a black RGB strip and it actually is, I've never seen this before to be honest. As you can see there's a strip part, then some cable, then another strip part and this is to place the strips around the back of your monitor. will be shining on the wall with the same colors that are on the screen and there one last box here of HDMI cables so the basic setup of this is going to be your gaming PC going into this box for your console Then this box is going to read all the color information
It's going to change your lights. And then the HDMI out is to go to your monitor so you can actually see what your PC is sending through this box. And we're going to use those lights in a second. But I also want to talk about some more affordable options in terms of RGB and making your setup
look better or your room. And you probably recognize this, but this is a great budget way to add some interesting stuff to your room. Is it cliche? Absolutely. Now, the great thing about this is that it not only works through USB, which is also a plus point.
You can just plug it into your PC, for example, and it always works. But you can also use batteries to power it. These are chargeable batteries. They are very cheap on Amazon. Okay, let's check what it looks like when we turn it on. Now, as I said, it definitely looks cliche because you see these things all over the place.
However, it's for a reason because look how cool this looks. You can also buy these in a lot of themes. There are some really cool astronaut designs with these. There's also the very typical huge LED banana. I'm gonna put it over here for now during the video.
And if you're a streamer or you make videos, as you can see right now, it will be blurred in the background. I will link a bunch of options in the description. Now, one of my favorite things is what you see behind me right there. It's the Govee Lira and it's an RGBIC floor lamp which is kind of premium.
I think the price is around $150. However, this is easily the most premium looking and premium feeling product that I have in the setup. And this can be used both showing towards you or standing on the wall behind you, for example,
or in a corner in the living room. Now, if you're wondering what type of LED light or LED bar, etc. is producing that light strip, you can look on the Govi Neon Rope. And there we go. We have two products here. So, this is the desk light that I have right here in the setup behind me.
and it's basically an LED strip with a bendable diffuser on top of it. It feels like white transparent rubber and the neon rope is the exact same thing and so the same type of bendable rubber LED strip construction.
That is the same thing that's inside the Govee Lira. Alright now before we go to the next gadget, look at this galaxy light. It is not shining that bright anymore and it's because I was testing how long it can last on the batteries and I think these are fully charged and the light has been on for
for around 3.5 to 4 hours. So while batteries are usable, I would definitely advise you to just plug this USB into your PC, you hang the light somewhere in your setup and then every time you turn on the PC this light turns on. That way you never have to worry about
power. Now, you saw it already, this is the next gadget I want to show. I'm not going to spend too much time on this because a lot of you guys know what this is. It's an RGB floodlight but there's a specific reason why I want to show this. Now, the reason I want
show you this RGB floodlight is that this is one of the cheapest ways to create a whole RGB atmosphere in your room. I'm quickly gonna plug it out. And I'm gonna put it on this desk as a test. And now as you can see if
you're creating videos or you're streaming or just if you want a cozy vibe in your room this is one of the best ways. I think one of these lights cost around $30. I think I have one of the remotes here. Okay I hope the batteries still work let's try to make it work. There we go. So as I said you can
change it to the color of your branding or just to the color you want in your room an RGB floodlight is an amazing addition to any setup or any room. Alright and since we're walking in this room now these two lights are amazing as you can see they are very big it's not that you're paying a hundred
dollars for a tiny light that's somewhere in your setup I think the two of them together are around 70 dollars and I'm gonna turn them on you can also change the color of them that's much brighter than the rest by the way this screen is where we're gonna build the AI RGB light thinking setup
but we're gonna do that in a minute. So, I've used these lights in a previous video. This is basically white plastic that wrapped Actually maybe I can show you Alright that very interesting So basically this here is pieces of plastic attached together and then an RGB strip attached to it and this white matte plastic foil just diffuses
everything and it looks great in a set up I made some really cool b-roll of it in a previous video I will show it right now now this here is all the stuff from the Govee LightSync book so this is the most important thing I explained it before this PC here is gonna go in this LightSync book then it's gonna go to the
screens you're gonna see again. And so the light sink box is gonna send all the RGB to these here and then to these strips and these strips need to go on the back of this monitor. Gonna put it on this table very carefully. And so what we need to do
right now is stick these RGB strips on the back. You're gonna remove the stand to make things easier. And so this light strip comes in four parts. It also has adhesive tape on the back and you basically have to stick this around the edges of the
screen. It first creases between 27 inch and 32 inch. We are definitely gonna have enough light. By the way, these strips look very premium. There's a rubber gel coating on top of them. They also don't look like those thin, white, flimsy, cheap strips. Just like that, the screen
is finished. I'm really curious what this is going to look like, if this is going to be a lot of light on the wall. Okay, so I'm going to attach this stand to the monitor. The cable from the strip can be routed like this. And let's see how this is going to look. The USB-C cable from the strip
can go in the light sink box so then whatever is going from the pc to the box can be sent to the strip and then we can install these two bars we need to aim them at the wall by the way before i test this the last gadget i want to show you in the rgb cloud ceiling i'm going to show you what
it looks like when you turn it on now it looks even better if you turn off the light so i'm going to turn off this turn off this light as well and if we're going to sync the color of this floodlight to the clouds it's probably going to look great okay now to be fair showcase i'm going
turned it off, this is what it looks like on its own. Now these clouds are from AliExpress, it's from a setup I built and basically what arrives was cotton batting, then a glue gun to stick them to the wall, it also came with a foil to stick on the ceiling so that you can glue them
without actually destroying all your paint. However, after using the glue gun for a few minutes I decided to use my stapler gun and completely destroy my ceiling, but it was very effective. The cloud ceiling looks extremely satisfying, so this is a great addition to a
Alright, I'm quickly installing Apex because I want to test all the lights with Apex. Now something I was worried about is the refresh rate that this here supports. Because since the PC is going through this box to the screen, it means that the AI sync
box needs to support your resolution and your refresh rate. And I will put here on the screen what I supported. I was kinda relieved because 1440p 144Hz is what most serious gamers are gaming on.
4K high refresh rate isn't supported but I don't think a lot of people are using that. it can be a drawback however the majority of people will be able to use this here and Apex is almost finished so I'm just gonna skip to the testing. So I finished the AI RGB light sync box
setup and I have to be honest this makes gaming hell the type of experience and I'm not sure if it's the AI that's inside of this box but the lights are actually reacting to some really specific things that are happening on the screen. I know Gobi has released some other options in the
past to make your RGB react to what's happening on your screen however it always was with a camera hanging on top of your screen looking at what's happening and then making the lights react and i've never really liked the look of that because well there's a giant webcam hanging on top of your
screen and with this option that they've released right now you just can't see it at all well it's on your desk but it looks cool and your image is just going through the box and then getting displayed with the lights around the monitor i really like this way of doing it now if you're
interested in this virtual gaming setup one of my next videos is gonna go over all of this stuff if If you want to see more setup gadgets, that video will probably be interesting to you. And if you want to see all my setup videos, that playlist has all of them. Thanks a lot for watching and I hope that I will see you in one of my next videos.
Have a nice day.