Performance lighting and control method

An information handling system comprising:

• a plurality of components including a central processor and a graphics processing unit (GPU);
• a lighting coordinator to receive actively measured quantitative operational state values of an data load level, a transmitted data load, a processing level, a power draw, or a temperature level during operation of the information handling system;
• the lighting coordinator to associate the actively measured quantitative operational state values relative to a range of operational state values with ongoing lighting effect levels within a range of lighting effects available from an operational indicator lighting unit;
• the lighting coordinator to transmit control signals to the operational indicator lighting unit to generate the ongoing lighting effect levels within the range of lighting effects associated with the actively measured quantitative state values;
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• the operational indicator lighting unit to display the ongoing lighting effect levels in response to the control signals.

An information handling system comprising:

• a plurality of components including a central processor and a graphics processing unit (GPU);
• a lighting coordinator to receive actively measured quantitative operational state values of a GPU power draw, a GPU temperature, an indication of GPU throttling, a percentage GPU utilization, or an amount of utilization of the GPU during operation of the information handling system;
• the lighting coordinator to associate the actively measured quantitative operational state values relative to a range of operational state values with ongoing lighting effect levels within a range of lighting effects available from an operational indicator lighting unit;
• the lighting coordinator to transmit control signals to the operational indicator lighting unit to generate the ongoing lighting effect levels within the range of lighting effects associated with the actively measured quantitative state values;
• and
• the operational indicator lighting unit is to generate dynamic lighting effects in response to the control signals, thereby indicating a range of quantitative values of the actively measured quantitative operational state values.