Club Overclocker - The Original Overclocker's Club!

Monday marked the first official day of the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. If you were staying at the Las Vegas Hilton, getting to the convention center is a snap. But if you're like us and traveling from another hotel on the strip, getting anywhere on time is nearly impossible in Las Vegas traffic. Thanks to Michael behind the wheel of our trusty rental, we were able to weave in and out of traffic, bypass the local fuzz, avoid the occasional intoxicated pedestrian, and still arrive early. Getting into the exhibition a few moments before the show was made possible with our red Press Badge and side door reserved for unloading. Getting to the south hall took us through the central hall - and we still don't have a CLUE what's in there.... We were in a hurry to get to the South Hall which is generally where most of the PC gear is located. As we made it though to the South Hall it was obvious arriving early had its advantages...no crowds...

On Monday Intel announced 16 new processors, however we got caught up in their WiMAX display! Intel had a HUGE chunk of real estate with all sorts of things on display, but the common theme from Intel at this time was WiMAX. You can learn more about WiMAX here.

WiMAX is a really exciting technology innovation taking the industry by storm. If you've been following the IT world at all, you know how HUGE this movement could be. At the Intel booth were a couple Indy cars setup on WiMAX broadcasting back to separate location. The inputs from the Indy cars were actually controlling the movement of RC cars at a miniature track. In turn the RC cars broadcasted video back to the Intel booth in the LVCC. Pretty impressive and a fairly gutsy move by Intel to prove just how fast this technology is. Microsoft and HP also had a huge chunk of real estate showing off the expected devices and technology.

As we quickly moved though the halls looking for something that caught our eyes we found D-BOX. D-BOX was there showing off their simulators that really drew in the crowds. Of course every gamer in the world wants one, but with an unofficial price tag of around 15k. Not exactly affordable, but this is obviously a device for the gamer who has and wants everything.

If you're a gamer who wants it all, Cooler Master has just the thing. Cooler Master was at CES showing off their latest products which included their Cosmos cases dressed up in custom CSX paintjobs that were nothing short of amazing! But again, high end products like these come with a high end price tag. The CSX cases run about $900, but if you want to be unique, the CSX cases are probably the best available.

Sometimes to find the best deals you need to look past the big booths and look for the hidden ones, such as the Zotac booth which featured their video card and motherboard lineup. One of the cards that caught our eye was the Zotac GeForce 8800GT. Although this card isn't an all new release, it does give us overclockers a promising video card capable of ripping out impressive frame rates in even the most demanding games. We hope to see more from Zotac in the coming year.

Although Crucial didn't have any big announcements since their Solid State Drives announcement on January 2nd, however they did have their new Ballistix Tracer in sweet new red heatspreaders out on display. We haven't received the "official" specs on these yet, but we expect to see a sample in our mailbox real soon.

With thousands of booths and displays spread all over Las Vegas, and just a few days to cover it all, it is simply impossible to see everything. Just keep checking back as we post more in the days to come!

Our good friend Grant Lai from Kingwin invited us to stop by his booth at the LVCC this year. Grant showed us their latest and greatest in cooling, external storage, and of course their awesome Mach 1 power supplies that will just blow your socks off. The Kingwin ABT1000 is their latest offering to the computer enthusiast and we can't wait to try it out ourselves! With a massive 150mm cooling fan, LED lighted modular connectors with aircraft quality cables, this power supply is destined to be in high demand for 2008.