Here’s the final few minutes of the Atomic Live 2008 Cosplay competition, shot as a last second thought as there was some pretty good, and funny, work on show. The winner on the day was a very nice Altair from Assassin’s Creed, and the runner up? I don’t know if this joke has been busted out at a cosplay comp before, but it cracked me up. Todd, a geeky kinda guy, was dressed very much as himself with the costume entitled “A Girl On The Internet”. Nice. More »
Atomic Live 2008 happened on Saturday, and I managed to get along for the afternoon side of the event. The crowd was pretty thick, and word from the Atomic team was the crowd had turned up from the moment doors opened. Seemed a good day was being had by all and sundry and the mix of serious gaming, from WGT to Timezone’s Tekken 6 State Finals, with hardcore computing made for a very tody combo deal — nice to meet a few folks there on the day as well! That’s me there with David Hollingworth, Editor of Atomic MPC. He’s the one without the beard. More »
Quick reminder. Atomic Live 2008. World GameMaster Tournament Australian Finals. Cosplay. Tournaments. Etc. Saturday. Sydney Olympic Park. Check it out. More »
New details for those keen to get in on the NSW State Finals for Timezone’s Tekken 6 tournament. Timezone has hooked up with the Atomic Live expo at Olympic Park, so all NSW entrants are being granted entry into the State Final for a massive elimination showdown at that event. Registration has been extended to October 17 plus they will accept wildcard entrants on the day. Everyone who enters the State Final and stays to watch the presentations for 1st to 8th will receive a Powercard with 30 games of Tekken 6 pre-loaded. All the fresh details plus the updated prize pool after the bounce. More »
Shout out for the gang at Atomic MPC and their big event this weekend, Atomic Live 2008. If you’ve never been, it’s a giant geekfest with everything from cosplay to overclocking and a healthy dose of serious gaming action. The big news for you lot is hands on access to Far Cry 2 plus a Guitar Hero 2 tournament. And the WGT finals will be taking place at the same time if you’re eager to watch the Aussie elite duke it out for the right to represent.
So that’s Saturday, October 18, at the Badgery Pavillion, Sydney Olympic Park. You can pre-register over at the official site and get in the running for some sweet prizes like a 22-inch LCD. Plus there are usually plenty of giveaways from exhibitors at random intervals throughout the day. At an entry price of FREE it’s tough to beat. If I can get away from new baby duties for a few hours I’ll definitely be there too.
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Against the back wall of the Badgery Pavilion sat a row of PC systems, their components bared to the ravages of the outside world. Their only goal in life: To hit ludicrous speeds at stupidly cold temperatures.
Arguably Australia’s top overclocker, Kayl, was fighting the good fight against the laws of physics and electro-migration. His system was comprised of a GeForce 8800 GTS and an Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700.
Attached to the 8800 was a custom-made copper tube, which Kayl would, from time to time, top up with dry ice as it sublimed into overclocking hell. According to Kayl, the video card’s GPU sat most of the time at -70 degrees Celsius. Tweaking the clocks, he managed to get the core speed to 780MHz and the memory to 1.92GHz – about 40% and 30% over stock, respectively.
As for the CPU, well… that’s Kayl’s speciality. Using his own, hand-made cascade cooling unit, he managed to get 4.76GHz out of the QX6700 at -100 degree Celsius, which equates to a 55% overclock. According to Kayl, 4.9GHz is possible on liquid nitrogen.
A few pictures of Kayl after the jump. More »
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.
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