I saw this in the paper this morning and thought I'd post the article over here. Interesting to see that the press is finaly starting to do more then paint us out to be freaks of nature that could snap and kill people at a moments notice.
Anyway here is an intro....
For the rest of the story click here:
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/4768807.htm
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Hot rod gaming
HARD-CORE PLAYERS BUILD SOUPED-UP PCS TO CONQUER BLEEDING-EDGE GAMES
By Dean Takahashi
Mercury News
Falcon Northwest is one of a handful of computer makers that creates specialty gaming machines, such as this CPU, for prices from $2,000 to $6, 000.
At any given time, Loyd Case has five to eight networked personal computers in his basement so that he can host Friday Night Follies, his name for a circle of friends who gather to play networked multiplayer PC games. The gang puts the machines through real-life stress tests with the most demanding games and helps Case perform his day job as a section editor and writer for ExtremeTech, a Ziff-Davis Web site for hard-core PC enthusiasts.
About 99 percent of the population doesn't need the kind of systems that Case assembles. But millions of hard-core PC game fans -- those who resist the siren song of the newest video game consoles -- know that PC games are the most sophisticated consumer applications out there and require every bit of muscle from the latest microprocessors and graphics hardware.
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2002-12-19, 09:11 PM
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