K404 Posted September 2, 2013 Posted September 2, 2013 A 5am start, some good and bad luck during the travel down, but eventually, I arrived. Pics: I took one look at the queue, thought "bunny this," made a phonecall, then loudly asked where the VIP check-in was. ~300 people: envious. MUCH better. Backstage. Quote
K404 Posted September 2, 2013 Author Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) Venue pics: Edited September 2, 2013 by K404 Quote
K404 Posted September 2, 2013 Author Posted September 2, 2013 Meanwhile, 1/4 mile away from the venue.... Quote
K404 Posted September 2, 2013 Author Posted September 2, 2013 (edited) Waiting to do a health and safety inspection with the Fire Brigade. If they aren't happy: no LN2 at all. Quote of the day? "Hey. Do you sell coffee?" "Sorry, no. Try Starbucks (points)" "I said coffee" There is a member of CP security guarding my demo computer Edited September 2, 2013 by K404 Quote
K404 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Posted September 3, 2013 Nah, everything is fine, but there was an 18-strong H+S team to view it and someone decided it must be really important Quote
Crew Leeghoofd Posted September 3, 2013 Crew Posted September 3, 2013 Where's El Borandi with his LN2 bottle ? Quote
K404 Posted September 4, 2013 Author Posted September 4, 2013 (edited) Ok..... it was yesterday, but here's how the workshops went: Session 1. An explanation to overclocking with air/water, with demo systems controlled by 8-Pack and myself. Borandi did the presentation and one of the content/stage managers said that it had been the presentation that had the fewest people leave during it so.... props to Borandi for sure My demo didn't go well. I lose power at my table, once that was fixed I had horrible thermal throttling. To start with, I thought I was setting the BIOS up wrong. Right at the end of the demo, I took the heatsink off to see that the paste had dried out (it was a new retail boxed chip....) and wasn't doing anything. I changed to a TRUE Copper and could show the audience that upgrading from the stock cooler could have massive benefits to temperatures, which I guess is an important thing to show them. The second our presentation finished, stage crew swarmed the workshop to prep it for the LN2. After the H+S check, we'd all agreed on changing the workshop layout so people could see, but were a "safe distance" away from the LN2....so about 18 people started moving things for us After dinner, we had the LN2 demo and the audience were WAY more up for it. Ian changed his presentation style to be a bit more "hype-y" and it worked really well. 8 and me struggled like HELL with the benching. 8 had the MHz but had some horrible throttling. He'll post and explain properly Before we even started, Production & stage management had to abandon a plan for me to be benching through a monitor splitter system so we could broadcast my desktop to the audience on screens. Also, someone set up a minicam over my thermometer (upside-down), but I have no idea if that was working (probably not....) 8 had the big presentation screen, so no problems for him there I lost all but 1 of my USB ports and all I had was a 1.1 hub......and I needed to install benchmarks....which took ~25 minutes :( During all this I had BSODs if I went over 4.8GHz!!!!!!!!! and I wanted to throw the whole lot out the nearest window. I kept going because that's better than giving up and eventually got a really pointless gold medal but after 2 hours of crap, I looked so happy that the audience who stuck around, decided it must be a really good score and applauded louder than the score deserved The Fire Brigade really held us back.... 8-Pack especially, then they got bored and told us we had to stop. So......audience happy, organisers happy, benchers: not happy, but....."job done" I swore on-mic, but I'm Glaswegian and I was happy. I finally met 8-Pack!! Big big big thanks to: 02 Arena London, Telefonia, London Fire Brigade, the 02 Angels, Antonio (the LEGEND,) Will (legend in the making,) Tobi (also a legend in the making,) Pepe (200% legend,) Paulo (enjoy the Haribo? ,) Sue, borandi and 8-Pack Edited September 4, 2013 by K404 Quote
Crew Leeghoofd Posted September 4, 2013 Crew Posted September 4, 2013 Great round up, now let's see some pictures ! Quote
K404 Posted September 4, 2013 Author Posted September 4, 2013 I forgot to give someone my camera. I will try to find some pictures. Quote
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