Govee AI Gaming Sync Box Kit Review

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Govee’s latest offering to light up your game room is a take on its highly popular DreamView TV backlight set up, but instead of using a camera to create the backwash color, it’s using AI. Enter the Govee AI Gaming Sync box, which creates the backlight using AI and an HDMI pass-through. But how does it work in practice?

Upon opening the box for the first time I was actually surprised at the amount of kit that Govee sends along with its AI Gaming Sync box. The box itself isn’t too large and doesn’t take up a ton of space on the desktop, and the kit comes with much more to light up your desktop to your heart's content. Two long light bars sit on the desk flanking the monitor, while the almost five-foot-long light strip makes lighting the back of the monitor a breeze.

Unlike Govee’s DreamView product which has a real design to take over the living room, the company is angling this more for PC gamers. As such, the light strip is large enough to support monitors from 27 to 34 inches, though it could potentially work on smaller monitors if you really shoehorned it in. 

The box itself comes adorned with its own RGB that reacts with the rest of the lighting, as well as inputs for two USB-C connections from Govee products, three HDMI 2.0 In connections, and an HDMI 2.0 Out port. The device is powered using an external power brick and not through a USB connection to the PC.

I like that Govee doesn’t require you to already be in their ecosystem to get up and running here, providing three separate lighting solutions in the AI Gaming Sync box kit from the get-go. Naturally, that drives up the cost, but it puts you squarely in the powerful RGB lighting ecosystem that Govee has been building over the last few years. Thanks to that