Atomic's second Power to the PC Tour, and final wrapup.
On the 22rd of September of 2009, Atomic brought you the first Power to the PC Tour - probably the first one in the whole of Australia. We thought it was so good we did it all over again just last week on the 1st of October, heading to Monash University in Caulfield and bringing with us all the pieces of a very Atomic event.
Again a huge shout out to the sponsors of the event that helped put on such a successful night, bringing tech and knowledge to the crowd with exclusive info and a zesty passion.
First off the rank was MSI's Albert Su, taking us through MSI's fancy mobo overclocking tech as well as their graphics card heatsinks. He brought along some P55 motherboards to ogle, and also brought MSI's 4890 Cyclone card.
Intel was represented by Technology Manager Graham Tucker, who wandered through the aisles of transistors within a processor and cast his considerable knowledge to all those avid Atomicans listening in the audience. Making reappearance was the 300mm wafer of Nehalem dies, worth a pretty penny to those who have the means to chop the chips and sell them.
Kingston's products and technologies were explained by Marites Bairstow, and she delved into the reasoning behind the Intel/Kingston SSD partnership as well as why RAM has such impressive heatsinks. She also brought along some cool kits to look at, SSD kits and other goodies.
Samsung's Assistant Product Manager Eddy Jung stepped in at the last minute to guide Atomicans through 3D monitor tech and some very cool developments with refresh rates up to 240Hz in the coming years - and he even brought a monitor/3D goggle pairing to give away!
2K Games again gave us exclusive prerelease code for Borderlands on PC, letting Melbourne-based Atomicans get their chance to blast away in the funky cel-shaded universe. This is still long before release; if you weren't at the Tour, there's no way you'd have gotten to play it for quite some time!
The gaming rigs we had to play on were brought by Team Immunity, their beefy rigs more than enough to chew through Borderlands and spit out slightly crumpled frames to hefty CRT monitors.
As always, pictures speak a thousand words - so jump into the gallery of pics to see what went down at Power to the PC Melbourne!
Issue: 109 | February, 2010