I was setting up some new Dell servers when I noticed something interesting. The PowerEdge Servers we got use Ati Mobility Radeon chipsets!

The device manager shows the video chipset as “Radeon 7000 Series”.

Seems like a pretty smart idea, really. Servers don’t need a lot of horsepower in the display department, and having a mobile chipset helps keep power consumption and heat output down. Most important, however, is the fact that the display adapter has 16MB of dedicated video memory, so this server ought to be “Quake 3 Arena Ready” right out of the box!