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Vrzone.com Article: Nvidia Reality Tour Report Singapore Stop
Nvidia Reality Tour It was exceptionally crowded in Funan Digtalife Mall, one of Singapore's leading IT shopping mall on the 3rd and 4th December 2006. It was day one of the Nvidia Reality Tour in Singapore, part of a series of events that Nvidia held worldwide inline with the launch of the Geforce 8 series graphics cards and the Nforce 680i motherboard chipset.
Partners with significant market presence in the region participated in the event, displaying some of the latest hardware that you can find in the world today. Let's take a look at the stuff on display at their booths right now!
Asus' booth brought to you by Asus Singapore, absolutely rock solid and heart warming!
Biostar's booth brought to you by Kaira Technologies
Chaintech's booth brought to you by Passo Technologies, lined up with a lot of pretty boxes...
Eagle's booth brought to you by Epsco Computers, with a widescreen LCD playing HD content!
Gigabyte's booth brought to you by CDL Trading. Colorful lighted setup!
Inno3D's booth, with some kickass Liquid Nitrogen Benchmarking action! More to come in the later part of the article!
Leadtek's booth brought to you by Ban Leong Technologies
MSI's booth brought to you by Corbell Technology
XFX's booth lined up with classy looking XFX 8800GTX boxes, brought to you by Kaira Technology
Xpertvision's booth brought to you by Convergent Systems Opening Ceremony and BF2142 Mini Competitions The event was opened to the public at 12pm and Nvidia's regional Vice-President for Sales, Mr Lai Yit Loong, graced the event and officially opened the event at 2pm. Nvidia brought along many computers powered by the Geforce 8800GTX to let visitors feel the power of extreme gaming at high resolutions.
Extreme widescreen gaming, with Oblivion running at 2560x1600 on a couple of Geforce 8800GTX on SLI Mode, with an overclocked Core2Duo X6800 ensuring high-res gaming with absolutely without lag! Courtesy of Inno3D! 10 computers for gamers to pit it out in Battlefield 2142, one of the latest FPS strategy games with extreme graphics! Lots of graphic cards were given out during the course of the event whilst mini-BF2142 gaming competitions were held.
Mr Lai Yit Loong, Nvidia Vice President for Sales in the APAC region addressing the crowd
Preparing to launch the event with a bang...
BANG!!!
and the Nvidia Extreme gaming stations were presented to the public!!! ?
Pretty Coolermaster Stacker 830s fitted with Core 2 Duo X6800 and Geforce 8800GTXs!
Professional dancers were present to entertain the ever growing crowd...
Nvidia Regional Sales Engineer, Jeffrey was present to educate the public with the many advantages that the Geforce 8800GTX can bring in graphics computing. Extreme Benchmarking with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) Shamino, VR-Zone's resident overclocker, and also one of the most well-respected overclockers in the world graced the event and did extreme Liquid Nitrogen (LN2) benchmarking in public, with the intention to conquer the world record for Futuremark 's 3DMark06 , a synthetic benchmark that evaluates how your system will perform for gaming, now for some pics of the benchmarking before I bore anyone...
holy smoke...
and holy........ more smoke! Actually, that's LN2 evaporating in large amounts!
The master at work, with fully concentration.... ** goddamit, get stable and stop crashing! grrr... **
Capilliary Tube inserted into the Copper Container. Hmmmmm........
The inquisitive crowd wondering what these crazy guys are doing
Curiousity kills the cat..
After hours and hours of benchmarking, finally we achieved some nice scores!
The accomplices: yantronic, Eugene and Henree
The master cheering up after he managed to obtain the scores! and the instance of benchmark you see in the picture crashed the moment he took the picture = P
Woot! Some decent scores achieved finally!
The team taking a nice picture together after getting the world record!
23219! Team VR ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!! System Setup: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 4650MHz On the 2nd day, The team proceeded with their benchmarking on the stage!
Battlefield 2142 mini competition... As mentioned earlier, there was a Battlefield 2142 mini competition going on concurrently, and many of the gamers managed to beat the crowd and walked away with Nvidia graphic cards! In total, there were two rounds of the competition held and the winners for the respective rounds walked away with a Geforce 8800GTS! Let's take a look at the details...
The gamers hard at work.. And the winners!!
The Lucky Draws and more... On the 2nd day of the event, there was a mini competition held to see who could pump up Nvidia's air toy the fastest.
on your marks, get set...
Go!
and the lucky winner walks away with a 7600GS by Gigabyte! A lucky draw was also held, and once again, Nvidia is giving out lots and lots of graphic cards to the public! Many lucky winners walked away with graphic cards such as the 7600GS, 7600GT, 7900GS and last but not least, the luckiest got a 8800GTS!
Cynthia, Nvidia's regional PR Manager was present to draw the prizes!
The onlooking crowds! The people behind the scenes!
Michelle and Jaslyn, The Inno3D girls!
LG, an X3Mer and Visionary.
Stanley from MCP Computer, Bellen from Asus and Sam, our boss at VR-Zone!
LG, Rajesh from Kaira Technologies, Mr Lai, Visionary and Jeffrey!
Eva and Emcee
The Nvidia team and Stanley
Terence and the 3 ladies from Nvidia
Eugene aka Coolstyle from Corbell Technologies!
Elladan and Visionary at the Asus Booth
Xevon, Samantha and Henree from MCP Computer!
Eva, Regional Sales Manager and Mr Lai
The benchmarking team of Shamino, yantronic, Eugene and Henree!
The Inno3D girls and Jeffrey! and to wrap things up... To wrap things up after a day of hard work, the Reality Team had a sumptuous dinner together!
Shoutouts to Team Nvidia that consists of Eva, Cynthia, Venessa and Jeffrey, Team MCP consisting of Stanley, Samantha, Xevon and Henry, and Last but not least, Team VR consisting of Shamino, Visionary, Eugene, yantronic, Josh and Isidore for making all these happen!! |