Been sometime since I blogged & I have good reasons to be away. Our college fest was happening and we had LAN gaming, a friend of ours knew a guy at AMD who wanted to setup a gaming arena in our college. This was some jaw dropping stuff from AMD+ATI.
The guy came in with 10 machines, CPUs smoking red with insides totally pimped out. I have never seen a processor heat sink of that size; headphones worth 4,000/- each. Prizes were such that anyone’s jaws would drop on hearing. The whole thing sponsored by AMD – the prizes; the equipment transportation, everything (my college loves such sponsors). Add to all this a 42″ LCD with huge speakers for spectators and losers to see.
The game was CoD4, something I have not even bothered finding anything about simply because my computer’s not worth it. With somewhere around 3GB RAM in each machine running XP, I sat with the 4k headphones on my head and played CoD4 for the first time (played CoD2 before). The game was pretty much on highest graphic settings and 8 players at one time with NO LAG at all!
NOTE: I did not get a lot of details as I had to manage a lot of stuff, but I will be meeting the guy from AMD sometime soon and will get you the exact details of the comp configs.
The graphics were stunning, if there is a game I am a fan of, it’s gotta be Call of Duty 4. The sounds; the graphics; the effects & most of all the weapons. Super stuff! Screw Counter Strike. Counter Strike vs CoD4 is like NFS II SE vs NFS Most Wanted. I’m so tired that I am not able to think of words to describe the event. being event head we had the ability to play as much we wanted to whenever we got time, off-course when AMD came, we left everything else in the hands of the ever-supportive juniors and were in the completely air-conditioned CoD4 hall – that’s what it is now known as – The CoD4 hall.
Check out some images here.
The prizes for the CoD4 competition were:
1st – ATI 3850 (worth ~12k ~8k)
2nd -2×3450 (total worth ~6k)
On display were 4870s; 4850s; 38xx series and the new economy cards – 3450, which sound really promising.
PS: Looks like AMD is going on a massive publicity drive here in India as after talking to the guys from AMD (Country Manager & Senior Sales Manager) they have bigger plans, oh & BTW I have already booked these guys for our next college event after 3 months.
UPDATE: The configurations of the machines that came:
- AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ operating at 3GHz
- Special 5 Copper heat pipe CPU Cooler
- AMD 780G Chipset ATX motherboard
- ATI Radeon HD3870 512MB DDR4 special over clock edition graphics card.
- 2GB DDR2 HyperX Memory operating at 800MHz
- 250GB HDD operating at 7200RPM
- 20X DVD RW with Light Scribe
- 500 watts PSU with shielded cables.
- Gaming Chassis with magic mask.
- 19″ LCD Monitor
- Steel Series Keyboard, Headphones and Mouse Pad
- Microsoft Mouse
September 27th, 2008 at 2:37 am
awesome but gfx cards are overpriced !
detail of whole rig will be appreciated.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Superb stuff! I hope they manage to get something like this for our fest too.
September 27th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Dude! That sure is an awesome experience! I once went to my buddy’s office (who does all these graphics things, not maya things, the engine stuff)
And he had a super awesome rig there and I got to play CoD 4! The thing looks really awesome! That sure is true~ I love the whole CoD series, they are awesome
And man..our college will be having a fest on December.. maybe they will sponsor for us too??
But I dont know anyone from AMD in HYD
September 27th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
@T They are cheaper than Nvidia counterparts.
@Pathik Will get you his number.
@Reetesh Will ask him if there is something similar in Hyd.
September 27th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Ah cool! Thanx will be waiting for it!
Btw..I think you got the 4850 mixed up with 3850.. coz it doesnt cost that much :S and 4850 is around 10K
September 27th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Ooooh. You made the macboy in me cringe a bit. CoD4 would have been especially awesome.
I one day wish to play, even if for only 5 minutes, Crysis on 1920*1200 with max settings. I hope one day this is possible. Please, oh God of games, make this possible!
Its nice to see AMD taking some action. Can’t let Intel dominate the market the way they are right now.
Nice post btw. honestly*
September 28th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Oh ya…
COD$ is indeed a great game..
but i still cant to get over with my loves for CS,CS:CZ,CS:S
I mean i love both,COD4 and CS!
September 28th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Nice. Wish we had something similar while I was in college.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Updated with the config of the machines.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Ah, thats a grreat rig! Could have had better monitor and mouse though.
I wonder what they did with those computers after the competition, maybe AMD has their own gaming center in their offices where employees play em.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:24 am
hey man gr8…. i am from NIT,silchar… we r also planning to have an event of this kind… can u please give me the contacts details of the sponsors…
November 29th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Hey Abhishek, I spoke to those guys but they are currently only in Bombay.
November 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Ah, that means they are not there in Hyderabad either? I was waiting for a reply from you.. the event is coming up soon.
Oh well, I will settle with old PCs and …. NFS MW or something else then :S
December 26th, 2008 at 2:37 am
That’s a nice write Manan. Keep up the good work !
December 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I love cod 4 modern warfare than cod 5 .. hav u played it manan??
December 30th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Hi, Sid. No I have not played CoD 5 however I have got reviews from my friends that it comes no where close to CoD 4 becuase the developing studio was different & the next edition in the CoD series is going to be developed by the studios that made CoD 4, hence there is hope.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
That comment reminds me of all the disputes that Infinity ward and treyarch had
The game is pretty good, the campaign is great.. the only thing is that its a return to WW and many people dont like those old guns
You should definitely give WaW a whirl if you get the chance.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I will play it if I get a chance to, but that was what some of my hardcore gamer friends say about the game.
December 30th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
“Comes no where close to” is a huge overstatement, thats what I meant. It makes WaW sound like a failed MoH iteration, but its not. And thats what I was saying