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QuakeCon Pics (featuring Anand himself!)

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ai42

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Anand himself
Slick Dual Opteron Rig hardocp was showing off BTW this has an AGP slot, and is standard ATX form factor in case you were wondering why this is so special.

Yea so I got back from the QuakeCon thing last night. I shot off a few pics not nearly as many as I would like though. It was a lot of fun and the hardocp workshop was quite enjoyable. Anand came by and spoke about CPUs (he's a genius BTW). Talked a whole lot about the Athlon64 (Pentium what? I think there was like 1 question about the Prescott and like 30 about the Athlon64). September 23 should be the day we are wall waitting for, as there is a lot of stuff alluded to by Anand, Via Rep, and Nvidia rep that will be announced.

Got a bunch of Tshirts and mousepads and hats and pens and etc etc.
 
I'm guessing that is some sort of Nforce 3 revision I've been hearing about...

NVIDIA GeForce FX5900 Ultra GPU-based Leadtek Winfast A350 Ultra and 512 Megs of DDR 3200. And that's only 512 MBs not 1024 megs that everybody says we will need.

And QuakeCon's official site stated that they are using some hybrid engineering sample of the Athlon 64, not a Opteron. But I guess some systems vary.
 
I'm guessing that is some sort of Nforce 3 revision I've been hearing about...
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I'm fairly certain that Kyle Bennett said that it was a Via based board.

Also something kinda funny I was talking to this guy at the BYOC about. He was installing a mobo in the middle of the BYOC so I asked him why. He said that he came to QuakeCon with some ATI mobo running with the integrated graphics. He didn't like it because the integrated graphics suck. So he went out and bought a GFFX 5900 (through a special QuakeCon deal). He couldn't get the GFFX to work on the ATI board. He asked a Nvidia rep to come and look at his computer after 2 hours the nvidia rep gave up and GAVE him an Nforce 2 board.

I really like the stuff thats behind AnAnd
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Yea no kidding if your not familar with the hardocp workshops, Kyle Bennett (head cheese at hardocp) does these things and gives away tons of hardware. I've been to every one for the past 2 years and I have yet to win anything 🙁 He gave away some Nforce 2 shuttle barebones, lots of Corsiar and HyperX RAM, Several dozen mobos, power supplies, heatsyncs/fans, many graphics cards included about 4 or 5 5900 ultras. Just lots of really fun stuff.
 
Originally posted by: ai42
I'm guessing that is some sort of Nforce 3 revision I've been hearing about...
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I'm fairly certain that Kyle Bennett said that it was a Via based board.

Also something kinda funny I was talking to this guy at the BYOC about. He was installing a mobo in the middle of the BYOC so I asked him why. He said that he came to QuakeCon with some ATI mobo running with the integrated graphics. He didn't like it because the integrated graphics suck. So he went out and bought a GFFX 5900 (through a special QuakeCon deal). He couldn't get the GFFX to work on the ATI board. He asked a Nvidia rep to come and look at his computer after 2 hours the nvidia rep gave up and GAVE him an Nforce 2 board.
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good pr job from nvidia 🙂
 
I never heard of a board souly based from ATI. I heard of a nVidia nforce but that is it.
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linky
They are rather obscure boards and are quite performance lacking, I haven't run one, but I've heard they are about as good as a ECS K7S5A with like a Radeon 7000.
 
Originally posted by: ai42
I never heard of a board souly based from ATI. I heard of a nVidia nforce but that is it.
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linky
They are rather obscure boards and are quite performance lacking, I haven't run one, but I've heard they are about as good as a ECS K7S5A with like a Radeon 7000.
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heh...thats my setup exactly
 
Originally posted by: Regs
Anything with integrated graphics should not belong in a gaming convention of any kind lol.
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Not if they don't want to sell any games. The majority of computers still have onboard video, or now a very low end card like a 5200 etc... So if a game can only play well on a brand new $2000+ machine, then that game will probable not sell well.
 
Originally posted by: PipBoy
you'd think a millionaire could afford a tailor... his pants are way long 😉
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When you are rich you dress how you like. Have you seen Bill Gates' ugly sweaters?
 
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