Thursday, February 21, 2008

Stress Testing

Today, I was told to stress test a computer. And this was what I got to play around with:


The massive duct on the dual Xeon heatsinks was quite awesome. Topping that, there are two removable exhaust fans as well. Naturally, I removed them because they were FREAKING loud. Overall, the airflow design is pretty good. Even the power supply above and the FireGL card below get cooled.



Stress testing involved some OpenGL rendering and a few instances of Prime95. And some CS Source, which i don't have a picture of. It wasn't really anything spectacular, since the video card wasn't intended for games in the first place.




My co-worker, on the other hand, got to tinker around with a gaming-pc-turned-server machine. For some reason, there's an LCD display at the back. Maybe for troubleshooting?




I think i'll be getting back to playing CS. I am technically stress testing the computer, aren't I?