Lanshark gaming rig

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All rights reserved. Message Signaled-Based Interrupts. MSI tool. SmoothCreations delivers another thrilling custom computer. The LANShark is small, light, and fast. While it is plenty fast, its overclocking potential is limited by its cooling, however.

The aim towards durabilty may compromises its full speed, but the custom paint job totally makes up for it. What I thought was going to be a custom case review turned out to a full-on bad-ass PC system to review. As you can see in the first image above, the airbrushing even covers the power supply and other visible flat surfaces within the system.

Kudos to Smooth Creations for taking the theme and paint work that far! The Smooth Creations team masterfully cut out an "SC" logo in front of each fan. Sure, this doesn't offer much protection to prevent fingers or objects from entering the LANShark, but they look very cool.

When we turn the LANShark around, you can see that even the back of the system is airbrushed with skulls. Additionally, there are rather large slits cut out for ventilation. You probably noticed the lack of front ports, which is one of our few gripes about the LANShark Extreme.

Any time you want to plug something in, you'll have to use the ports in the back. We didn't notice any major problems with the paint or acrylic.

The only concern we had was when we were lifting and moving the system. It just makes sense to me to have them on the front instead of having to reach around to connect things… oh well…. I also ran a quick test of the cooling system on the CPU, I used two instances of Orthos Stress Prime to get load on the system, it gives us some decent temps at load.

Opening up the Task Manager and checking out the running processes we find a couple that I wonder why they are running…. All settings are set to Very High. I set it to Very High to push the system to see if it could handle it.