ROG Formula X Event Recap! NOT 56k friendly!!

[Brian@ASUS]

First off, I would like to thank our Platinum Sponsors: Intel and Nvidia, our sponsors: Antec, Coolermaster, Corsair, CPU, Kingston, Patriot, and Razer for the hardware, along with HIWA, Capcom, Madcatz, and Logitech for the side support! I want to thank all of the overclockers and case modders for spending time and coming out to the event.

So here is a recap of the event! Our goal for this event was to have fun. Bench on any platform and benchmark you want. Setting your own goals was key. If you were able to break into the top 10 global records or #1 hardware record, you received a bonus prize! Case modders were ranked top 3 and the other 4 were raffled a box of goodies.

The layout and power draw was not my original design, but we worked around the problem and in the end, still had a very successful event.

Be sure to watch the Live stream recordings in the formula x thread: http://www.asusrog.com/forums/showth...-ROG-FORMULA-X

Welcome to Formula X:

All of the vendors did an awesome job showing off their hottest products and tons of swag!


Vendors also had a chance to talk on stage on their latest technologies!


There was a good amount of traffic throughout the day. Coolermaster and Kingston really knew how to draw in the crowd!

[Brian@ASUS]

Now for the fun stuff! Lets show off the top 7 case mods at Formula X!

There were a ton of awesome case mods and a ton of prizes. PCjunkie came out #1 with his blue devil carbon case, #2 High lane drifter, and #3 Brimstone. Congrats to all!


Now for the top 20 overclockers at Formula X!

Huddle around everyone, time to go over the rules and get your hardware!



Chew Prepping cards, Splave giving andre a thumbs up, Gautum, Romdominance, zeneffect, posershadow, patch, pcjunkie all having fun benching and doing their thing.


Glad to see the Matrix getting love, andre and patch prepping, mason pouring LN2, Hondacity and Gomeler in action.


Romdominance giving a peptalk on overclocking to Fry's customers. A nice 4 way SLI rig on the Xpander, 69Goat, PCjunkie, V2-V3 working hard





Travis showing off his POT, Andre yang prepping his rig, and lots of Frankenstein engineering art going on.
Maximus IV Extreme-Z, Black edition, and some old school ROG matrix action!


Pots are cooling down, Gunslinger is ready to rock! Brian.Y is ready to break some records.


It was great to see different teams talking and working together to achieve awesomeness! Rarely do you see competition mingling and having fun. Andre, gunslinger, splave, romdominance, 69goat, and patch, prepping for the day.


69Goat, patch, Nemesis, posershadow, zeneffect, planet along with JJ and Gary from the ASUS crew.


Splave acting goofy, and Bryan.Y showing off a golden tray of goodies.


Cory pouring LN2 with Andre

[xeromist]

Nice! Hopefully we can have something like this again next year.

[Kipper]

Thanks for the pics Brian

[Brian@ASUS]

Capcom was kind enough to let us demo the new unreleased Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, and Madcatz let us use their SF4 fight sticks! We also demoed Dirt3. We decided to allow users to play games when under extreme cooling. we were seeing about 180FPS on dirt 3 on a single GTX580 DC2.



We also had a race to build contest for users that can put together a system the quickest and a Bios workshop from JJ. We teach you how to overclock!


The folks from Gigabyte decided to stop by and mingle with overclockers, case modders, and vendors. Don't mind if they need some inspiration from ASUS.

[Brian@ASUS]

Some random photos from the event




lastly, i would like to thank Logitech for supporting us with C910 cameras so that we can broadcast a live stream which can be viewed here: http://www.asusrog.com/forums/showth...-ROG-FORMULA-X

Note - its laggy because we streamed off of one 4g mifi from spring and it sucks! need to clearly look for a faster connection next time around.

[Brian@ASUS]

HWBOT records achieved at the event: still being updated with scores. 16 so far, and a few more pending

Gunslinger received 2x (top 10 and #1 Global Rank). 2x GPU (ASUS GTX580, ROG Rampage III Black Edition) for 3DMark05 and 2x GPU for 3DMark06
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184439_...0_45541_marks/
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184433_...0_58502_marks/

Gautam received 1x (top 10 and #1 Global Rank). 4x GPU(ASUS 5870) for 3DMark05
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184427

V2-V3 received 4x (#1 Hardware Record). (Rampage III Extreme, ASUS 5450) Sisoftsandra, 1x GPU 3Dmark11,
http://hwbot.org/submission/2185057_...80x_266330_fpu
http://hwbot.org/submission/2185249_...calculate=true
http://hwbot.org/submission/2185253_...ddr3_437_marks
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184431_...ddr3_130_marks

Deux received 2x (top 10 Global Rank and #1 hardware record). (Maximus IV Extreme) SuperPi, CPUz
http://hwbot.org/submission/2185044_...in_37sec_735ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184438_...5677_6551_mhz/

Brian.Y received 4x (top 10 and #1 Global Rank). (P5E3, ASUS GTX580, Rampage III BLack Edition) CPU-Z, 1x GPU 3Dmark Vantage, 1x GPU 3Dmark 06, 1x GPU 3DMark 05
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184469_...356_8213.3_mhz
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184143_...80_44642_marks
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184146_...80_58124_marks
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184146_...80_58124_marks

HondaCityreceived 1x (#1 Hardware Record) (ASUS 5450, Rampage III Extreme) 1x GPU 3Dmark 11
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184444_...ddr2_584_marks

Planet received 1x (top 10 Global Rank) (ASUS GTX570, Rampage III Extreme) 6x CPU PCmark7
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184421_...90x_6140_marks

Splave received 1x (#1 Hardware Record) (ASUS GTX9800GT, Rampage III Extreme) 6x CPU PCmark7
http://hwbot.org/submission/2184418_...t_402457_marks

[Six Foot Ginger]

great job whoever was taking pictures, any close ups of the sponsors booths and what they where showing?

[pcjunkie209]

heres my pics..............

PoserShadow looking all serious


Chew getting busy and ZenEffect having a smoke in the background

Chew's 4-way on LN2

some of the staff enjoying some game time

Brian hard at work keeping the gamers LN2 pots full


preping my RE3 for pot




myself




ZenEffect pouring LN2 straight on his 8800gts


Nemisis chillin out...

ZenEffect getting a refill


RomDominence and Splave workin hard



and some more random shots










Mods







and my mod- I forgot to grab a pic at event




Thanks again had a blast............

[Andre]

Nice job, Brian. It's really a good event.