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Why Robin Makes Batman Better It is! Look at it. While you sit there and process words, and surf internets, and play games, it just sits there, red light pulsing, whooaaaammmm, whooaaammmm. It knows it was created by man, and does not care. It will rebel. It will rise up, infiltrate our ranks, and rain death upon us all (mostly with its quad-core CPU, 8GB of DDRIII RAM, 3-way NVIDIA GTX280 SLI and 4TB HDD). No mention of price in the press release, but we’ll put $5 on it being “not cheap”.
What’s inside the box: ASUS’s first ever stab at a dedicated gaming PC. Features a Core 2 Extreme CPU. Support for up to 8GB of DDR3 memory. 3-card SLI Nvidia support. A HDD up to 4 terabytes. Liquid cooling.
What’s outside the box: What the baby would look like if Megatron and a Cylon (the robot kind, not the attractive lady kind) ever knocked boots. Truly frightening. No word on price, but…yeah, it won’t be cheap. Eyes-on ASUS’ first gaming desktop: ARES CG6150 [Engadget, via Gizmodo AU]
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In the background (or foreground, depending on who you talk to) of Atomic Live 2007 was the ASUS World GameMaster Tournament. If you’re not familiar with ASUS in the competitive gaming scene, don’t worry, you shouldn’t be. Along with Gigabyte and Foxconn, ASUS is one of the largest manufacturers of PC components in the world. It makes everything from video cards to laptops, so it was more than prepared to put together a competitive PC LAN, regardless of how unusual it might be for a Taiwanese component business to have its own gaming tournament, rather than just sponsoring an established one.
For Atomic Live, WGT consisted of two games, Quake 4 for singles and Counter-Strike: Source for teams. Junglist and Bajo from the ABC’s Good Game used their extensive knowledge of all things gaming, and general suave coolness, to commentate the games and host the regular prizes draws between matches.
The finals started at about 6PM, and were incredibly tense to watch. The Quake 4 final came right down to the wire, the game tied at 4-4 during the closing moments, until “Zeal0r” managed to score a few quick frags to take the win.
For the CS: Source comp, team “Advantage” took home the prize, proving that it did indeed have some sort of leg up in the proceedings, even if it was just mad skillz.
Hit the jump for the pictures.
(Special thanks to Lambo, the fantastic bloke who oversaw WGT, for the providing me with the names of the winners.)
That’s right folks, Atomic is holding the second of its quasi-yearly tech and gaming events at Olympic Park this Saturday. Specifically the Badgery Pavilion.
What can you expect at Live? Hardware vendors such as Gigabyte, ASUS, AMD and more will be showing their wares, along with Ubisoft, who will have PCs equipped with GRAW 2 out in force.
Live is also host to ASUS World GameMaster Tournament (hope I got that right, the name is in the habit of changing), and you’ll get to meet science fiend Dr Karl Kruszelnicki (also hard to spell) and the guys from the ABC’s Good Game (not so hard to spell).
There is, of course, loads more going on at this tricksy event, so head on over to the Atomic website for more info.
Atomic Live 2007 [Official site]
