Fatal Interv1ew with Fatal1ty
My colleague, and CES roommate for two years running, Jason Jacobs has published a Fatal1ty CES 2008 Interview and Video on TechwareLabs.
“We recently asked Johnathan “fatal1ty” Wendell a few questions about gaming, his product line, and some funny events. We have his answers as well as a 6 minute video of our interview with Fatal1ty. “
Fatal1ty was very forthcoming with information about an upcoming project with DirectTV to start a championship gaming series that will be aired world wide. Hopefully they decide to include Canada in that worldwide rollout. Also he revealed to us another record he is trying to set; one for the most signups to a community site in a 48 hour period. This is being done in partnership with MadGamerNetwork, and will be an officially recorded Guinness World Record. You can signup from January 15th to the 17th.
Here’s the link to Jason’s article and interview. I encourage you to check it out as it has some cool stories from Fatal1ty, and hey I was the guy behind the camera. Oh and I’ll be taking on Fatal1ty in a one on one Quake 4 deathmatch, so I’ll hopefully have video of that disaster.
Shiny New Computer
Fresh off the FedEx truck is Alienware’s latest update to their Area-51 7500 series of performance systems. I’ve been waiting for this system since CES 2007. Unfortunately Alienware didn’t want to ship it out due to some driver immaturity and a squable between the parties responsible. Those issues have yet to be cleared up, but Alienware still decided to send the system. This rig is now sitting on my test bench, just waiting to be poked and prodded in the most interesting ways.
This latest iteration comes bundled with you choice of Windows Vista flavour, DX10 compatible video card, top of the line CPU, and a host of customizations you expect from a boutique OEM like Alienware. The system shipped out to me was spec’ed out with the following.
- Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz 8MB Cache 1066MHz FSB – Overclocked to 3.2GHz
- Windows® Vista Ultimate
- Alienware® P2 Chassis – Space Black
- AlienFX™ System Lighting – Astral Blue
- EVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
- 2GB Low Latency DDR2 Performance SDRAM at 800MHz – 2 x 1024MB
- Western Digital Raptor 150GB Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s 10,000 RPM Hard Drive (x2 in RAID0)
- NEC 18X Dual Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Burner w/ Nero Software
- EVGA NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8800 GTX 768MB PCIe Video Card
- Alienware® 700W Power Suppl
- Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio
- Logitech® G15 Gaming Keyboard
- Logitech® G5 Laser Gaming Mouse
- Free Alienware® T-Shirt – White
If you’re wondering why I’ve shown such a liberal use of “trademark” and “registered” symbols, well it wasn’t my fault. I stole these specs straight off the Alienware site when I priced out what I received using their online quote system.
If you’re wondering, the whole package you see above comes to $5,119.00 USD. Converted into loonies and toonies (the Canadian dollar for those not familiar with the local vernacular), that comes out to about $5,710 CDN depending on what day of the week it is (also known as the exchange rate).
Needless to say this system is sitting on my bench running as we speak…er….type. Once I clear up a few reviews for The Tech Zone, we’ll get down to some benchmarks. I’m also going to do some comparison screenshots to see how DX10 games look on DX10 hardware, verus my old DX9 SLI rig. Stay tuned.
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