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Articles: Editorial

E3 Expo 2005: Hardware Innovation Behind the Gaming Fun (page 2)

Category: Editorial

by Anna Filatova

[ 05/19/2005 | 09:18 PM ]

ABIT: Hardcore Gamers Choose Fatal1ty

As you remember from my last year’s E3 report, there was a Fatal1ty shoot-out event held at the ABIT booth. This time there was the entire Fatal1ty booth dedicated to gaming, where you could try yourself against the eternal winner, Jonathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, or against other hardcore gamers.

On the first day of E3 there was a Counter Strike tournament held there. Despite everybody’s expectations, the team 3D won only the second prize, while the victory was taken by less known but very promising team Complexity. Today there was a WarCraft tournament. The winners of both tournaments will go to ACON 5 to compete against the best of the best. Good luck, guys!

ABIT, was certainly there, although it was pretty hard to spot the ABIT guys in this noisy crowd. :) Of course, they were showing their successful fatal1ty product like including the ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 mainboard that won the Editor’s Choice award on our site not so long ago (for details see our review called ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 mainboard on NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Chipset: Built to Kill).

On the mainboard side I would also like to mention that beginning with the i955X series, ABIT will be equipping their boards with fanless cooling solutions. The new nForce4 mainboards will also be available in modifications with no fan, but a heatpipe instead. So, hardcore gamers will still have the opportunity to go for a noisier Fatal1ty series, while those users who value quietness, will definitely decide on a fanless board.