The Avnet Tech Games competition for 2006!!!

[OC_newbie]

Here in Arizona Avnet and all the Maricopa Community Colleges are joining together to create the first Olympics-style academic competition in technology! Avnet Tech Game sponsors are as follows... Freescale semiconductor, Arizona Business Accelerator, CA, IBM, Spark, New Angle Media, Calence, Microsoft, Renesas, Avid, Analog Devices, Inter-Tel, ST, and even AMD! www.avnettechgames.com
I went to the Tech Games last Friday (March 3rd) and had a blast there, it was pretty cool at least 500 people were competing there in eight different events. I competed in two of them the AMD- Build the Fastest Computer and Build the Most Innovative/Fastest Computer. I didn't win the AMD build competition I came in 2nd place, but I did win the Innovative/Fastest Computer competition! I won a scholarship for school and made away with all kinds of computer hardware even got a AMD FX-57 for free and loads of other stuff... The computer I won with is in my sig below... The audience voted on looks and the Avnet officials ran three benchmarks and compared the scores. They ran Aquamrk3, 3DMark2005 and PassMark which I did pretty well on. Well it looks like my system was the star attraction there as I got an interview with FOX 10 news at Avent lol. Anyways it was a lot of fun and was pretty cool to meet all the other system builders there. Here's some pics of the event and my winning rig (the system with chrome sleeving and VapoChill LS in the case)...

[OC_newbie]

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[OC_newbie]

last two... oh yeah that's my TV...

[perkam]

Ummm....ok. Could you summarize what the "news" aspect of this story is ??

Perkam

[nn_step]

Ummm....ok. Could you summarize what the "news" aspect of this story is ??

Perkam

There is no news.. he is just boasting

[OmegaMerc]

That interior is so bad

edit: plus, this thread is so irrelevant.

[OC_newbie]

Ummm....ok. Could you summarize what the "news" aspect of this story is ??

Perkam

Oh sorry if this is the wrong place to post it, feel free to move it to the correct area, thanks!

[Magnj]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooob

[perkam]

Magnj that isn't appropriate

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Perkam

[OC_newbie]

Magnj that isn't appropriate

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Perkam

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Thanks for moving it perkam.

[OC_newbie]

So anybody here live in Arizona that want to go to the next Avnet Tech Games? It's gonna be twice as big next year I heard...

[OmegaMerc]

I wish like that would come to the east coast, last time I had to travel to california to attend a damn computer event, too expensive.

[OC_newbie]

I wish like that would come to the east coast, last time I had to travel to california to attend a damn computer event, too expensive.

Yeah I hear you man, we need more of these events around the country, I just got lucky one started here now...

[Stigggeh]

so you got a free FX57 as a prize.... thats a quality prize imo

[OC_newbie]

so you got a free FX57 as a prize.... thats a quality prize imo

Yeah also got 512MB of RAM, 7800 GT, MSI K8N NF4 mobo, new computer case, 250GB PATA HDD, DVD Rom, and a 600W PSU...Probably keep the HDD and sell the rest as I don't have a use for them. I wish there were more events like this, it was really cool to meet other people that have the same interest and passion in computers like I do.

[ocmyface]

...omg all that for free?

and did you win the AMD build the fasted computer contest with that pentium D in your profile?

[OC_newbie]

...omg all that for free?

and did you win the AMD build the fasted computer contest with that pentium D in your profile?

Yeah all that for free lol... Actually I won the Build the Most Innovative/Fastest Computer with the PC in my sig below... the AMD build the fastest was for only AMD's and we had to build the system right there with the parts they gave us.